by Tom | Oct 19, 2012 | Reading, Science
Brilliant discussion of human athleticism: we evolved for long distance endurance, which is why we can occasionally beat horses in a race and couldn’t even outrun a sheep. I had no idea about the musculoskeletal adaptations in the head to help gaze fixation...
by Tom | Oct 18, 2012 | View
Two fabulous bits of marching bands. First at rehearsal: seriously tight. Second an extraordinary half-time display with all of your favourite video game characters.
by Tom | Oct 18, 2012 | Science, Tech
Data Wrangler for all of the data geeks out there. Really neat pro-active cleaning and management of messy data sets.
by Tom | Oct 18, 2012 | Personal, Reading
Some intriguing thoughts on causing offence and being offended. Ultra-orthodox Jewish men who shun contact with women they are not married to are being offered “modesty glasses” which blur their view in such a way that they do not fall over and yet they...
by Tom | Oct 18, 2012 | Reading
it is forbidden for him to say that the UCI, McQuaid and Verbruggen “have concealed cases of doping, received money for doing so, have accepted money from Lance Armstrong to conceal a doping case, have protected certain racing cyclists, concealed cases of doping,...
