Lift Until You Can’t Anymore
A new approach to weight lifting:
"Rather than grunting and straining to lift heavy weights, you can grab something much lighter but you have to lift it until you can’t lift it anymore," says Stuart Phillips, associate professor of kinesiology at McMaster University. "We’re convinced that growing muscle means stimulating your muscle to make new muscle proteins, a process in the body that over time accumulates into bigger muscles."
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Posted: August 17th, 2010
at 2:36pm by Koookiecrumbles
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Antarctica : Whisky Diaries
It may not seem like the most dynamic of museum exhibits: visitors stare through a glass pane at an inert, soggy wooden crate with a bit of straw poking out the top.
But the crate, which attracted TV crews when it went on display in Christchurch, New Zealand on July 21, is packed with an adventurous history a and perhaps a dozen bottles of a much-coveted Scotch whisky.
The crate belonged to famed polar explorer Ernest Shackleton. It's one of three crates of whisky and two of brandy that were discoveredAentombed in ice under a small wooden hut he built a century ago in Antarctica during an attempt at the South Pole. The crates were first spotted in 2006, but conservators were only able to bring the special tools needed to painstakingly free them in February.
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Posted: August 15th, 2010
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Torkel Dohmers Commuter Bicycle
Posted: August 15th, 2010
at 8:41am by Koookiecrumbles
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Research in the Wild: Making Research Work in Industry
How to do research in academia is well established.A You get grants to fund your group, attract students, publish papers, and pump out PhDs.A Depending on who you ask and how cynical they have become, the goals are some combination of impacting the field, educating students, and personal aggrandizement.
Research in industry is less established.A How to organize is not clear.A The purpose is not even well understood.A The business strategy behind forming a research group sometimes seems to be little more than a variant of the underpants gnomes’ plan.A Phase 1: Hire PhDs.A Phase 2: ?A Phase 3: Profit!
Generally, researchers in industry are supposed to yield some combination of long-term innovation, improving the sophistication of technology and product beyond simple and obvious solutions, and helping to attract talented and enthusiastic developers.
Posted: August 14th, 2010
at 8:55pm by Koookiecrumbles
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Audi TTS : A Car That Drives Itself
In September a driverless Audi TTS will speed to the top ofAColorado’s Pikes PeakAat just under 100 kilometers per hourathat’s right, no driver. It is an early step toward a robo-car that can drive itself, perhaps better than you can.
The World Health Organization projects traffic fatalities to be the third leading cause of mortality worldwide by 2020. And drivers themselves are responsible for 73 percent of these deaths. So automakers are looking at ways they could make cars safer by taking driving out of human hands. Self-driving cars could offer other benefits:ATNO, an international research firm based in the Netherlands, says that they could reduce the time lost to traffic jams by up to 50 percent, and reduce CO2 emissions and fuel consumption by 5 percent.
The Pikes Peak run is a joint project of the Stanford University Dynamic Design Laboratory, the Electronics Research LabA(ERL) for the Volkswagen Group (which owns Audi), and software-maker Oracle Corp. The rough, part-gravel road to the top of Pikes Peak is the route of the annual International Hill Climb rally, an annual auto and motorcycle race. The TTS run will demonstrate whether the car can take curves as fast as a human driverawithout driving off a cliff.
Grammar Vigilantes Fined
Misplacing an apostrophe isn’t a federal offense, but fixing one is — at least when it involves a historic sign inside a national landmark. ABenjamin Herson, 28, of Virginia Beach and Jeff Deck, 28, of Somerville, Mass., learned that lesson the hard way. Federal officials in Arizona charged the self-described "grammar vigilantes" with defacing a nearly 70-year-old hand-painted sign in a watchtower along the Grand Canyon’s South Rim. AThe two men, Dartmouth College graduates whose friendship was forged in a creative writing class, pleaded guilty this month to one misdemeanor count of conspiracy to vandalize government property. In their plea, they acknowledged using error-correcting fluid and a marker to conceal a misplaced apostrophe, insert a new one and add a comma. AThey added an apostrophe in "women's" and added a comma in a list, both in the first paragraph of the sign’s text (see large photo). The location of the concealed apostrophe is unclear.
Posted: August 14th, 2010
at 8:42pm by Koookiecrumbles
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