-
27 Aug 2008
OLYMPIC SPORT PROPOSAL
SUBMITTED TO IOC 2008-08-27SPORT NAME: Astronomy Biathlon
SUMMARY: Each competitor must run from the starting line, following a predefined route of approximately 1600 meters carrying a telescope of their choice. The route will end at a Sighting Area. The competitor must set up the telescope in the Sighting Area and accurately find and identify three (3) astronomical objects listed on a list provided. Then he or she will break down the telescope, and run the next route to the next Sighting Area. There will be five (5) Sighting Areas in all, followed by a final 1600 meter run to the finish line. Sixty (60) seconds will be added to a competitor's time for each object not correctly identified. The competitor with the shortest final time will be the winner. Mixed genders.POSSIBLE VARIATIONS: 4x1600 Astronomy Biathlon relay; Astronomy Biathlon medley (galaxies at first Sighting Area, binary star systems at second, etc); Astronomy Triathlon (routes alternate 1600m runs with 5km biking)
Discuss (2) -
19 May 2008
Low-carbohydrate diets predate Robert Atkins' eponymous phenomenon by more than one hundred years. The theory behind the diets goes like this: Food contains starches, which your body very quickly converts to glucose. When glucose levels spike right after a meal, in order to prevent blood sugar levels from getting too high, you convert them into triglycerides for storage (usually in fat). When your blood sugar gets very low, said fat stores (ideally) get converted to ketones, which your body can use like glucose. Low-carb diets work on the theory that the modern American diet never allows blood sugar to fall low enough for step 2 to occur.
On a whim, M and I are trying a one-week low-carb diet. Lunch and dinner we can handle. But what do you eat for breakfast when cereal and fruit and bagels are off limits? I can only eat so many hard boiled eggs before I go nuts.
-
17 Apr 2008
-
24 Mar 2008After traveling hundreds of thousands of miles, Armstrong and Aldrin spent only 2.5 hours standing on the moon and covered less area than a baseball field.
-
5 Mar 2008The most important medical breakthrough since penicillin!
-
28 Feb 2008Opened this week!
-
5 Feb 2008
-
31 Jan 2008
-
16 Jan 2008
-
31 Jul 2007
