Today was one of the election days in Texas. As a primer for the reader who is unfamiliar with the political set up in America, the scene is dominated by two main political parties: the Republican and the Democratic parties. And before the main elections, each party holds primary elections to install the main candidate […]
The story in the Atlantic. When extinction is spoken about, it’s almost exclusively in terms of land based vertebrates, usually mammals, which form a tiny portion of the biodiversity of the planet. And even that attention is heavily skewed towards “charismatic megafauna” – animals that are cute and big enough to be visible. But it’s […]
View this post on Instagram One of the problems with “fitness” as an industry: its ties with supplements. And people can’t be bothered to learn the science. #healthisrelative #improveonyourterms #growth #learning #mistakesareok #trainugly #nomiracles #noshortcuts A post shared by Doc Ricky (@doc.ric.ky) on Dec 15, 2017 at 9:19am PST Most people obsessed with BCAAs don’t […]
Vaccination Exemptions in the USA The United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC) publishes a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, and in it they track the vaccination rates in different states for children enrolled in kindergarten, and an interesting table is the report on the rate of exemptions from vaccinations, as well as the reason […]
This article has moved to a new location. Wilson, the sporting goods company, posted an ad on Instagram declaring DURING A MATCH, VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS ON AVERAGE JUMP 300 TIMES. The ad is accompanied by an illustration that depicts female beach volleyball players, which implies that this number applies to beach volleyball specifically. This number appears […]