“ Think about it this way: Your body is a responsive, adaptive machine that has evolved for survival. If you’re running on a regular basis, your body senses this excessive energy expenditure, and adjusts to compensate. Remember, no matter which way we hope the body works, its endgame is always survival. If you waste energy running, your body will react by slowing your metabolism to conserve energy. Decreasing energy output is biologically savvy for your body. Your body wants to survive longer while you do what it views as a stressful, useless activity. Decreasing T3 production increases efficiency and adjusts your metabolism to preserve energy immediately.

Why Women Should Not Run

Interesting article on the detrimental effects (especially to women) of cardio and the fitness industry sustained myths relating to fat loss through cardio.

posted : Thursday, April 18th, 2013

posted : Monday, April 15th, 2013

reblogged from : WIL WHEATON dot TUMBLR

inothernews:

DEEP CUT  The Kennecott Copper Bingham Canyon Mine in Utah sits quiet after a landslide on April 11, 2013.  The mine owner has suspended operations inside one of the world’s deepest open pits as geologists assess a landslide the company says it anticipated for months.  (Photo: Ravell Call / The Deseret News via AP / NBC News)
Holy shit.


Big slide! Fortunately I think they have the gear to effectively clean up the aftermath!

inothernews:

DEEP CUT  The Kennecott Copper Bingham Canyon Mine in Utah sits quiet after a landslide on April 11, 2013.  The mine owner has suspended operations inside one of the world’s deepest open pits as geologists assess a landslide the company says it anticipated for months.  (Photo: Ravell Call / The Deseret News via AP / NBC News)

Holy shit.

Big slide! Fortunately I think they have the gear to effectively clean up the aftermath!

posted : Monday, April 15th, 2013

reblogged from : Final Boss Form

thirstypirata:

abluegirl:

Living Wall

These vegetated surfaces don’t just look pretty. They have other benefits as well, including cooling city blocks, reducing loud noises, and improving a building’s energy efficiency.What’s more, a recent modeling study shows that green walls can potentially reduce large amounts of air pollution in what’s called a “street canyon,” or the corridor between tall buildings.

For the study, Thomas Pugh, a biogeochemist at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, and his colleagues created a computer model of a green wall with generic vegetation in a Western European city. Then they recorded chemical reactions based on a variety of factors, such as wind speed and building placement.

The simulation revealed a clear pattern: A green wall in a street canyon trapped or absorbed large amounts of nitrogen dioxide and particulate matter—both pollutants harmful to people, said Pugh. Compared with reducing emissions from cars, little attention has been focused on how to trap or take up more of the pollutants, added Pugh, whose study was published last year in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.

That’s why the green-wall study is “putting forward an alternative solution that might allow [governments] to improve air quality in these problem hot spots,” he said.Compared with reducing emissions from cars, little attention has been focused on how to trap or take up more of the pollutants, added Pugh, whose study was published last year in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.

That’s why the green-wall study is “putting forward an alternative solution that might allow [governments] to improve air quality in these problem hot spots,” he said.

Full Gallery

want

Wonderful design and a super idea for cleaning up the city environment.

posted : Monday, April 15th, 2013

reblogged from : Final Boss Form

posted : Friday, March 22nd, 2013

posted : Thursday, March 21st, 2013

Australia is headed in the wrong direction!

posted : Wednesday, March 20th, 2013

reblogged from : Friendly Atheist

(via The Timber Trail | Nga Haerenga, The New Zealand Cycle Trail)
This is amazing and it is wonderful to see such an intelligent development and reuse of existing trails.

(via The Timber Trail | Nga Haerenga, The New Zealand Cycle Trail)

This is amazing and it is wonderful to see such an intelligent development and reuse of existing trails.

posted : Wednesday, March 20th, 2013

(via Japan Successfully Taps ‘Flammable Ice’ as an Energy Source for the First Time)
Imagine the potential if the carbon once burnt was sequestered somehow?
Imagine the potential for disaster…

(via Japan Successfully Taps ‘Flammable Ice’ as an Energy Source for the First Time)

Imagine the potential if the carbon once burnt was sequestered somehow?

Imagine the potential for disaster…

posted : Wednesday, March 13th, 2013

(via Water Usage: Some Startling Numbers)
Some of these numbers are staggering

(via Water Usage: Some Startling Numbers)

Some of these numbers are staggering

posted : Wednesday, March 13th, 2013

cab1729:

Einstein’s Zurich Notebook
Einstein’s search for general relativity spanned eight years, 1907-1915. Some periods were quiet and some were more intense. The moments when the great transition occurred, came sometime between the late summer of 1912, when Einstein moved from Prague to Zurich, and early 1913. If we could choose one time at which to look over Einstein’s shoulder and watch him work on general relativity, it would be this time.And that is just what we can do. For, found among his papers when Einstein died in 1955 was a small, brown notebook containing his private calculations from just this time. This is the Zurich notebook.

Fascinating!

cab1729:

Einstein’s Zurich Notebook

Einstein’s search for general relativity spanned eight years, 1907-1915. Some periods were quiet and some were more intense. The moments when the great transition occurred, came sometime between the late summer of 1912, when Einstein moved from Prague to Zurich, and early 1913. If we could choose one time at which to look over Einstein’s shoulder and watch him work on general relativity, it would be this time.

And that is just what we can do. For, found among his papers when Einstein died in 1955 was a small, brown notebook containing his private calculations from just this time. This is the Zurich notebook.

Fascinating!

posted : Sunday, March 10th, 2013

reblogged from : math geek with no social life

The Super Supercapacitor | Brian Golden Davis (by Focus Forward Films)

The super capacitor is the way of the future. Being able to build a SuperCap that is also non-toxic, easily recycled, cheap, and made from an abundant resource - that would be nirvana.

posted : Tuesday, March 5th, 2013

This is stunning and mesmerising!

posted : Friday, March 1st, 2013

posted : Friday, March 1st, 2013

posted : Thursday, February 28th, 2013