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| Get Inspired! 4 Olympians to Watch in Beijing |
| Published: July 25, 2008, 6:58 am |
| Tags: Success Stories |
| With the Beijing Olympics right around the corner, there is the usual hype, controversy and politics that have become synonymous with the games. And while there will be some compelling stories, showdowns and drama - there will be a select few athletes for whom the road to Beijing was that much more challenging. Hopefully these stories will |
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| What is a Calorie? |
| Published: July 25, 2008, 6:47 am |
| Tags: Science |
| If you have any interest in dieting (and presumably you do, if you're reading this), you've almost certainly come across the word "calorie". Maybe you have an idea what it means - in particular, you probably have the impression that too many calories aren't good. But what exactly is a calorie, and how do calories relate to healthy eating and your |
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| My latest attempt at losing weight…to be aired in public! |
| Published: July 25, 2008, 6:25 am |
| Tags: Health And Fitness, Weightloss |
| My name is Juan, I'm a 39 year old male and live in London, England…Like many people I want to lose weight, tried to lose and yes you've guessed it failed to lose weight! That's failed to lose weight on more than one occasion!! Even so I'm not giving up and remain just as determined….so I going to document |
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| Vinyl Record Bowls |
| Published: July 24, 2008, 7:57 am |
| Walking through an small art fair recently we came across a booth selling vinyl records deformed into bowls. They proudly kept a long list of classic rock albums they had desecrated to create those bowls. What kind of world do we live in where one takes great music and turns it into a vessel to hold dog food? I reacquired a phonograph player a |
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| Foods: Functional, Franken or Fraudulent? |
| Published: July 24, 2008, 6:53 am |
| Tags: Food |
| If someone from 50 years ago were to travel through time to the present day, they wouldn't recognize most of the foods in our modern-day grocery stores. We've been busy tweaking our foods to comply with the whims, trends and science of the moment and in the process, we didn't notice the deterioration of our collective health. With much of our |
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| Human-Powered Floating Gym |
| Published: July 23, 2008, 6:07 pm |
| Tags: Exercise |
| How many have ever wondered at all the wasted energy in a gym? People pounding away on treadmills and stationery bikes. "All of this energy is summarily dissipated and ultimately exhausted for the sake of a single individual's wellbeing" says Mitchell Joachim - eco-designer. Joachim has the answer: A Human-Powered River Gymnasium. Continue |
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| A Nonconstructive argument about the election |
| Published: July 23, 2008, 12:26 pm |
| I have heard several times in the media the following nonconstructive proof that Obama will win the election. They, of course, do not call it a nonconstructive proof. Since politics is far less predictable and rigorous than math I do not really buy the argument, but its of some interest to me that there is a nonconstructive argument in politics. |
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| Why Do We Waste So Much Food? |
| Published: July 23, 2008, 6:30 am |
| Tags: Food |
| Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister of the UK, gave a speech during the G8 summit to exhort Britons to stop wasting food. In a time of global food shortages and dramatic price increases on staples such as bread and rice, Brown said that "It is right to remind people that about 8 [$16] a week is wasted in our food consumption." Are you buying |
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| Open Math Problems easy to state to layperson |
| Published: July 22, 2008, 11:55 am |
| What open math problem is the easiest to explain to the layperson? Fermat's Last Theorem and the 4-color problem used to be the gold standard. How about now? Here are some candidates: Goldbach's Conjecture Is every even number (except 2) the sum of two primes? PRO: If the layperson knows what primes are then this is easy to explain. PRO: Give |
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| Giveaway: 90 Days Free Gym Membership |
| Published: July 22, 2008, 6:12 am |
| Tags: Site News |
| After watching the fascinating discussion about Weight Watchers vs Gym membership, it seems like a good time to run this giveaway. 24 Hour Fitness are giving away a gift certificate to a Diet Blog reader. It's part of the 12millionlives inspirational site / promotion. Here are the details:Continue reading... |
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| The 7 Hamburgers of the Apocalypse |
| Published: July 21, 2008, 9:45 pm |
| Tags: Fast Food |
| Hamburgers, next to apple pie and statins they're the ambassadors of American cuisine--for better or for worse--and these harbingers of heart disease might be the baddest of all. Here are 7 over the top hamburgers that are guaranteed to clog your arteries by just looking that them:Continue reading... |
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| The One Who Walked Away |
| Published: July 21, 2008, 8:01 am |
| I caught a rare sighting of Noam Nisan at the GAMES congress. Many of you young complexity theorists may not have ever met Noam or even cite many of his papers anymore. But his research lies at the heart of most of today's complexity research. Using hard functions for psuedorandom generators started with Nisan who also had breakthroughs in |
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| Easy Ways to Eat More Greens |
| Published: July 21, 2008, 6:20 am |
| Tags: Science |
| I loved the topic in the New York Times WellBlog... "Lying About Your Vegetables". Another study has been published to show that people inflate the amount of veggies they consume each day. The blogger asks readers to "fess up" if they lie about their daily veggie intake. The post inspired me to tell you about an easy way to plan to get your |
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| Non-Dieting Weight Loss: A Simple 6-Step Primer |
| Published: July 21, 2008, 6:00 am |
| Tags: Health |
| Restrictive dieting often backfires. Maybe it's better to take a long-term, sustainable, holistic approach to healthy weight management.Continue reading... |
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| GAMES and Computer Science |
| Published: July 18, 2008, 7:36 am |
| About 30 computer scientists attended the recent GAMES (Game Theory Congress), a tiny fraction of the participants but a noticeable force including several theory heavyweights from a variety of backgrounds: Joe Halpern (Logic), Silvio Micali (Cryptography), Noam Nisan (Complexity) and Éva Tardos (Algorithms). There we also a few AI |
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