Inspired again to train for 2012-13 running season. (Taken with instagram)
What is it with kitchen appliances and running shoes? Nike exists courtesy of the late track and field coach Bill Bowerman and his waffle maker. Now, thanks to a toaster oven, 29-year-old Golden Harper has created a shoe that Runner’s World magazine has named the “Best Debut of…
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The first time I ever treated myself to an ice bath was at the end of the Big Sur Marathon. I had run my best marathon yet and my legs were shot from the hilly course. Just beyond the finish line, kiddie pools filled with icy water dotted the lawn; I slowly lowered myself into one and was…
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CrossFit, once a quietly growing fitness trend, has officially hit the mainstream. While some consider it a cult among fitness enthusiasts, I would describe CrossFit as a strength and conditioning approach that incorporates functional fitness, gymnastics, Olympic lifting, explosive…
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a new statistical tool presented yesterday that rapidly and effectively mines data for relationships and ranks the strongest ones, without any preconceived notion of what that relationship might be.
The computer program they built cannot answer the question of whether one thing caused another, but by finding the strongest correlations, it can help scientists generate new hypotheses and questions to explore.
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“If computers of the kind I have advocated become the computers of the future, then computing may someday be organized as a public utility just as the telephone system is a public utility… The computer utility could become the basis of a new and important industry.”
John McCarthy (speaking at the MIT Centennial in 1961).
