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• Dead actor’s dad loses faith in British justice

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, Dec 14 (ANI): The father of actor Mark Blanco, who died under mysterious circumstances after a tiff with rocker Pete Doherty at a bash, says has lost faith in Britain.Toni Blanco feels “betrayed” by the failure of British police to investigate how his 30-year-old son died.Blanco senior has spoken publicly ...
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• Runner’s knee - what causes it?

  
  iHealthBulletin News — Authority: 133
  Med.UNC.edu - From professional athletes to weekend warriors, the condition known as “runner’s knee” is a painful and potentially debilitating injury suffered by millions of people – although until now, it has been unclear just what causes it.But new research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel ...
  1 week ago

• Sports Science Gym Bag - 12-8-09

  
  Sports Are 80 Percent Mental — Authority: 99
  Wow, what are the odds that I lead off this weeks Gym Bag with a Tiger Woods story?  Dont worry, this article has no mention of Escalades, golddiggers or mothers-in-law.  Plus, plenty of other great stuff from the sports science world. The Tiger Woods Effect  Success is intimidating. When we compete ...
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• The Ideal Lover Can Never Be The Great Boyfriend

  
  Roissy in DC — Authority: 492
  Men are burdened with a duality. We feel impelled to commit to a chaste woman but we will happily sleep around with raging sluts. Women, too, are creatures of duality. They relish the emotional connection with the great boyfriend who dotes on them and pampers them but they succumb helplessly to their raw sexuality ...
  2 weeks ago

• Effects of ear-canal pressurization on middle-ear bone- and air-conduction responses

  
  COMD News — Authority: 155
  In extremely loud noise environments, it is important to not only protect one’s hearing against noise transmitted through the air-conduction (AC) pathway, but also through the bone-conduction (BC) pathways. Much of the energy transmitted through the BC pathways is concentrated in the mid-frequency range around ...
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• The Tiger Woods Effect

  
  Roissy in DC — Authority: 492
  It’s been said that when Tiger Woods is dominating on the fairway his opponents lose their composure and begin piling up the bogies. An analogy could be made to relationships. The greater the dating market value disparity between two people the more likely the partner with less power will lose composure at the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Stride length & Stress Fractures

  
  Running Barefoot — Authority: 129
  This peer-reviewed article just came off the press from a respected journal in exercise science. The abstract link is listed below:Effects of stride length and running mileage on a probabilistic stress fracture modelThe results indicate that an increased stride length will increase the probability of a tibial stress ...
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• What is Shin Splints?

  
  Health Choices — Authority: 150
  Medial tibial stress syndrome is a common overuse injury in the leg of runners or athletes who run a lot, especially on the road or other hard surfaces. Previously it used to be called ‘shin splints’, named after a common condition of the shin of horses.  The condition is an inflammation of the soft tissue ...
  2 weeks ago

• Fundamentals of Biomechanics by Duane Knudson

  
  Free Your Mind All Free Download — Authority: 164
  Fundamentals of Biomechanics by Duane Knudson | Publisher: Springer | 2007 | ISBN: 0387493115 | 356 pages | PDF | Fundamentals of Biomechanics, 2nd edition, presents a clear, conceptual approach to understanding biomechanics within the context of the qualitative analysis of human movement. The philosophy is to blend ...
  3 weeks ago

• Happy Birthday Lady Raine!

  
  Roissy in DC — Authority: 492
  Each year brings new wisdom and maturity. Everyone wish Lady Raine a very VERY happy birthday. She’s earned it! Posted in Biomechanics is God, The Id Monster
  3 weeks ago

• So Long, Colostomy Bag: British Man Gets Remote-Controlled Sphincter

  
  Discoblog — Authority: 583
  Briton Ged Galvin survived that vicious car wreck that nearly took his life. Unfortunately, the accident crushed some of his organs and left him needing a colostomy bag to go to the bathroom. That was until his doctors created his cyborg sphincter . Yes, you read that correctly. Doctors removed muscle from above ...
  3 weeks ago

• Scientist Smackdown: Are a Sprinter’s Prostethic Legs an Unfair Advantage?

  
  80beats — Authority: 637
  If  you read this blog last week, you might have seen us cover a study suggesting that South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius ought to be allowed to compete in the same track and field events as everyone else because his prosthetic legs confer no advantage over a sprinter with biological legs. But if you saw a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Basic Orthopaedic Biomechanics and Mechano-Biology, 3rd ed. by Van C Mow

  
  Free Your Mind All Free Download — Authority: 164
  Basic Orthopaedic Biomechanics and Mechano-Biology, 3rd ed | Publisher:Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | Pages:736 | 2004-12-01| ISBN:0781739330 | CHM | 57 MB Completely revised and updated, the Third Edition of this classic text reflects the latest advances in research on orthopaedic biomechanics and the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sympatico Column: Ames’ Win and Foley’s Role

  
  Robert Thompson's Going for the Green — Authority: 129
  My latest column examines the role of Sean Foley in Stephen Ames’ win at Disney on the weekend. Given that many think I’ve been pretty hard on Foley — though I’m not sure that’s actually true — I’ll say I really enjoyed my hour-long conversation with him. I’ll post some of that conversation at a [...]
  4 weeks ago

• Hope

  
  Roissy in DC — Authority: 492
  For those readers who are unfamiliar with the sordid cast of characters that haunt the velvet-draped corridors of the Chateau Roissy, Hope is (was?) a regular commenter whose claim to fame was an insistent effrontery to all things game and all practitioners of same. A glorious being of elevated goodness, she would ...
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• More on Mary Wanless

  
  EQUINE Ink — Authority: 128
  I just found another local blogger who also audited the Mary Wanless clinic.  Cool to get another opinion and discover what stood out to her.Lee Cullen, who writes Confession of a Struggling Dressage Rider, wrote:Yesterday, I audited the Mary Wanless clinic at Larkspur Farm in Littleton, Massachusetts.So…what did I ...
  4 weeks ago

• Breathe In: Gear

  
  Breathe Magazine — Authority: 512
  Five more reasons to look forward to snow days.Related posts: Football season and comfy “gear” Fall is a season that requires brisk hikes through brightly... Hitting the slopes Can’t afford Aspen? Join the club. You don’t have to... It’s All Downhill: A training guide to your best ski season ...
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• Crazy Fish Heads

  
  Deep Sea News — Authority: 418
  Epibulus insidiator, the slingjaw wrass, “possesses the most extreme jaw protrusion ever measured in fishes.” Individuals can protrude their jaw up to half the body length to capture carbs, shrimps, and small fishes.   This occurs through multiple structural novelties, as the video above can attest to, involving ...
  4 weeks ago

• Forget heels down. Think knees down!

  
  EQUINE Ink — Authority: 128
  On Friday I audited a Mary Wanless clinic. I’ve read her books and have taken a few lessons with someone who trains with her. Hearing her explain her theories and work with the riders made it all much clearer. For those readers not familiar with Wanless, she specializes in rider biomechanics, helping riders find the ...
  4 weeks ago

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