Once a Week Episode #165
1. BIKEPACKING ACROSS ICELAND WITH CHRIS BURKARD. JUSTIN HOUSMAN
"After 43 trips to Iceland, adventure photographer Chris Burkard still hadn’t seen it all. He’d seen bits and pieces, sure, but what about the center of this fascinating place? What about that deeper understanding that comes only from gradually moving across an entire land, at a slow and steady speed? Bikepacking, Burkard decided. That’s how best to see a craggy, volcanic, foul-weathered island in the North Atlantic.
So, this summer, Burkard and a small group headed to the far eastern end of Iceland, planning to ride to the far western side. They’d load up bikes, ride when they could, walk when they must, bathe in hot springs wherever they found them. There is no cross-country bikepacking route, so they made their own."
https://www.adventure-journal.com/2020/09/chris-burkards-wild-thru-ride-across-iceland
2. HOW SCIENCE FICTION CAN HELP CHART YOUR COMPANY'S PATH FORWARD. ROGER SPITZ & LIDIA ZUIN
"At the beginning of the quarantine, professor Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay from the University of Oslo published a video on Facebook in which he argued that science fiction fans are rarely surprised by anything, since they have already seen or experienced a scenario as a fictional narrative. It is true that science fiction, horror, and fantasy explore scenarios like the end of the world, alien invasions, and machine uprisings. But despite all the movies, games, and books about pandemics, were we really ready for Covid-19?"
3. "BLACK MIRROR" PLOTS RANKED BY HOW LIKELY THEY ARE TO HAPPEN. HARRISON BROCKLEHURST
"From the 'outrageous but give it another 50 years' to the 'highly likely' to the 'already – allegedly! happened.'"
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkdyen/black-mirror-plots-ranked-by-how-likely-they-are-to-happen
4. TIME TRAVELLER. MERRIAM-WEBSTER
I got lost in this for a couple of hours this weekend. If you were wondering when terms like humblebrag, Internet-of-Things, twerking or identity politics were first introduced to our lexicon you may be surprised.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/
5. JUST FOR INSPIRATION AND WELL SANITY. WE APPROVE. CHRIS PETERSON AND SPENCER COX
Chris Peterson and Spencer Cox are in the final days of campaigning against each other to be the next Governor of Utah.