Want to Lose Weight? Just Exhale
Exhale, and you’ll lose a few grams! More precisely, 2.5-6 grams, or 0.1-0.2 oz, depending on your size.Just do the math: (lung volume) x (density of …
Biology
Health Myth: Fat
In So Butter is Good For You (Briebart.com, 2-11-15; give credit to Nina Teicholz for much/most of the research on this issue!!), James Delingpole writes:The big …
Health Myth: 8 Glasses
The advice to drink eight glasses of water a day is a myth. The remedy: independent thought. Do your research; do due diligence. And be very wary …
Feed Your Brain
In “The Government’s Bad Diet Advice” (New York Times Online, 2-20-15), Nina Teicholz writes:Since the very first nutritional guidelines to restrict saturated fat and cholesterol …
What a Good Education Would Produce
Dr. Terry Wahls shows us, in a very good article, some good reasoning, reasoning that comes only with independence and some mastery of induction, integration, …
Integration and Induction in Practice
Yes!! This, Polyface Farm, is rational, scientific farming: this is integrated, inductive farming based on principles of biology and evolution. The stuff that goes by …
Exercise and Training Is Mathematical
I did a 35 second/count one-arm hang with each arm today. Sweet! No gloves, no bars. Bare hands and bare branches. Just real.Did only 15 …
Interesting Application of Math Concepts to Breathing
Well, math concepts, and more. In “Human sigh acts as a reset button” (Discovery News, Tuesday, 11 May 2010), Larry O’Hanlon says:Scientists studying breathing patterns …
Math Matters
Justin Beiber shows us, with his bad posture, what sitting in modern car seats, using big modern pillows, working at computers with chronically bad posture conspire to …
Math and Everyday Experience
Math is needed to find causal relationships beyond the perceptual level, and some number of levels above the perceptual. Here some researches use it to …