Counter-cyclical forces

In the 1930s eugenics got a deservedly bad name when the Nazis tried to fiddle with evolution to create a super race. Navigating the streets of New York is an example of a less statist approach, more egalitarian in concept, where in effect Darwin rules. Cycling in Manhattan has never been for the faint-hearted. Static obstacles like gaping potholes and the huge, sharp-edged steel sheets that all the cable companies use to cover these perennial holes in the road are bad enough. Indeed the holes