Tag Archives: sports
brains are somethin’ else
Forget lessons. You can get better at putting just by using a famous person’s golf club. Ok, not even. A golf club that you are *told* belonged to a famous person. I wrote about it for ScienceNOW today. Confidence is … Continue reading
training in the mountains
A lot of endurance athletes have some kind of training regimen that includes being at high altitudes. When you’re at high altitudes, there’s not very much oxygen. That stimulates your body to make extra red blood cells and otherwise adapt … Continue reading
best sport ever
Oh, man. I can’t believe it took me until now to think to look for sumo videos on youtube. Yeah, that’s right, sumo. I lived in Japan for two years in the late 1990s and spent a substantial part of … Continue reading
running fast
The world championships in track & field were in Berlin last week. I kept forgetting to watch them on TV, so what I saw – the grand total – was the men’s high jump final, about five minutes of men’s … Continue reading
ship of noise
Sunday’s post is about the sounds on the ship – each picture links to an associated sound. Chris suggested it because, well, we were stuck. There was no sampling on Sunday. The ship steamed northwest all day to escape a … Continue reading