Everything you know about stretching is probably wrong. So say many sports researchers.
When Duane Knudson, a professor of kinesiology at California State University, Chico, looks around campus at athletes warming up before practice, he sees one dangerous mistake after another. “They’re stretching, touching their toes. . . . ” He sighs. “It’s discouraging.” [...]
I was initially excited about the new MacBook and MacBook Pro models from Apple. Then I noticed that the new MacBook doesn’t include a Firewire port. This is a bit of a big deal for me. My Panasonic video camera requires Firewire to download videos to the computer. I like using my MacBook to download [...]
Who thought it would be a good idea to let a brutal, repressive regime host the Olympics? As the Olympics kick off, we should all take a close look at what passes for “security” in the Chinese world:
The Beijing government, for starters, has denied visas to businessmen, backpackers, and middle-aged tourists holding Olympics [...]
Above: A Chinese propaganda poster from 1986. No wonder Communism has appealed to so many. I would’ve called this The Communists party, but its painter named it Youthful dance steps. Oh well.
Say what you want about China’s Communist leaders, but they get results, and they get them quickly. From the latest [...]
Above: That is not Tony Snow. Not Depicted: Fan blowing her hair.
Below: Who cares? Not Depicted: Fan blowing their hair.
So, by now you’ve undoubtedly noticed (yeah, like fun you have) that radio and television veteran Tony Snow is no longer supplying the U.S. with its daily news from the White House. Mr. Snow vacated [...]
In a recent entry (Sunday’s “Alan Greenspan’s life is for sale. We don’t know where.”) I noted that Mr. Greenspan’s autobiography The Age of Turbulence, now on sale, has received rather odd publicity: some newspapers are running whole articles about the book’s declaration that the U.S. is mainly in Iraq due to oil-related reasons, [...]
I’m disappointed in Life Promotions, the organization that organizes the Lifest Festival each summer in Oshkosh, WI. (Full disclosure: I attended Lifest 2007 with my sister.)
Last year and this year, Lifest hosted the “Air Glory” ride at the festival. Air Glory is a bungee-jump type of ride, available for $25 a ride to festival attendees. [...]
The Weekly Standard: Fact or Fiction
The New Republic runs a piece in this week’s issue titled “Shock Troops” (sub. req.) and authored by Scott Thomas — described by the magazine as a “pseudonym for a soldier currently serving in Baghdad.” “Thomas” is the author of two previous dispatches from Iraq for the New [...]
Odds are, if you only watch the mainstream media, you don’t really understand what we’re doing with the Iraq Surge strategy. Such military geniuses as Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have already declared it to be a failure. But is it?
General Petraeus’s right hand man, Dave Kilcullen, explains the strategy.
I know some people [...]
As I type out these words, Economist.com (my very favorite news magazine) has up an article concerning the root causes of suicide as a social phenomenon, which includes this statement: “Suicide rates have been rising in India, especially among the young, and over a third of those who kill themselves are under 30 years old.”
Let’s [...]