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All Rise Or A Standing Ovation
The health benefits of a standing desk
I’m an active person. I usually workout an average of 1.4 hours per day, four to six days a week. However, I am not getting any younger. I’m always interested in steps I can take to maximize and maintain my health for as long as possible. In the past, I had read articles about…
My First Burning Man: Confessions Of A Conservative From Washington
Burning man
One sculpture was the three-story “Embrace” – two upper torsos and heads facing each other. They took two years to create. Three weeks to assemble in the middle of nowhere. Maybe an hour to burn on Friday morning. This is hard work. Indeed, there is entirely too much work…
Nutrition - Fat, Protein And Carbohydrates
Calculating an athlete's energy needs
Personal energy requirement = basic energy requirements extra energy requirementsBasic energy requirements (BER) includes your basal metabolic rate (BMR) and general daily activitiesFor every Kg of body weight 1.3 Calories is required every hour. (An athlete weighing 50Kg would…
Nutritional Tips
Seven things not to do after eating
Seven things not to do after eating Do not smoke - Experiments from experts proves that smoking a cigarette after meal is comparable to smoking 10 cigarettes (chances of cancer is higher) Do not eat fruits immediately - Immediately eating fruits after meals will cause stomach…
Shantaram (gregory David Roberts)
Indians know how to shout with their eyes
Long years after that day, the Afghan guerrillas I came to know as friends, on a mountain near the siege of Kandahar, talked for hours about Indian films and their favourite Bollywood movie stars. Indian actors are the greatest in the world, one of them said once, because…
The Case For Working Less
Keynes: less work as the ultimate solution
Arguments for shorter work time have a long history. Keynes, for example, gave support to a reduction in working time as a way of achieving full employment. In a letter to the poet TS Eliot in 1945, Keynes suggested that “less work” represented the “ultimate solution” to…
The Functional Art: An Introduction To Information Graphics And Visualization
Importance of presenting data clearly
Here’s the lesson I learned from this exercise: In just three or four hours of work, I completed a personal project that allowed me to see the evidence supporting Matt Ridley’s discussion on the evolution of fertility. His hypotheses seem to have some basis after all. But if…