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Treats & Eats

by pribut on December 14, 2011

Holiday Food
The holidays are upon us. If we aren’t careful they will be on top of us, in front of us, and adding to our girth. Instead plan on developing and following a healthy diet for 2012.
The Bacon meme has embedded itself in the Internet over the past few years. So instead of just bacon [...]

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You may love Apple computers and their devices including the iPod, iPad, and iPhone. Or you may like Windows computers or perhaps Linux boxes. Whatever you like about your computer, whatever it may be, it was Steve Jobs and
Steve Wozniak’s abilities, vision, and salesmanship that has put one in your home.
Without Wozniak the engineer, and [...]

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Apple’s eyePhone or is it a spyPhone?
The big high tech scare story this week is that Apple is recording location data on it’s iPhone and iPad customers. The bigger scare story is that people are writing about high tech issues without having a clue about what they are writing. It is shocking that supposed specialists [...]

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Miniaturization of technology continues to bring new innovations in science and technology. The very latest innovation which you probably have not seen yet is a miniature NMR. On a larger scale this is the old familiar MRI machine. The micro-NMR is coupled to a Smart Phone and used to analyze cell surface proteins. A study [...]

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“The Case Against Lance Armstrong” is the title of an article in the January 24, 2011 issue of Sports Illustrated. The case that is made within this article is based on in large part on what a few people with gripes against Lance have said. The other “hard” evidence is based on several tests detailing [...]

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Running In America: On The Airwaves

by pribut on July 10, 2010

The Diane Rehm Show will host Christopher McDougall (author of Born To Run), Amby Burfoot (winner of Boston Marathon, 1968, Editor at large: Runners World) and myself on Monday. The topic will be “Running In America. We should cover a lot of ground. Both Amby and Christopher are knowledgeable and entertaining. It should be an [...]

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End of Year “Bests of 2009″

by pribut on December 31, 2009

Best Meme: Exercise is Medicine. Trademarked and owned by the American College of Sports Medicine
Best Public Domain Meme: Exercise is good for what ails you. It’s mine and probably someone else’s too. You can have it for free as an open source code for life.
Best Runner of The Year: Usain Bolt
Best Marathon Victory of The [...]

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Portrait of Eric Heiden, 5 Time Gold Medal Olympian

by pribut on September 30, 2009

The New York Times has a short portrait of Dr. Eric Heiden. Dr. Heiden was the first athlete to win 5 gold medals in an Olympics. Eric is a fine sports orthopedist and he is still an inspiration to athletes and skaters around the world. He trained under Dr. James Andrews, another excellent sports medicine [...]

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Throw Away Your Shoes

by pribut on August 30, 2009

Sense and Sensibility
Note: There are several comments, but the interface on word press blogs will only show them if you click on the title and view only this blog entry.
The media seems to have decided that barefoot running is the trend that can’t be stopped, and should perhaps be encouraged. “Throw away your shoes” seems [...]

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The Numbers You Can’t See
These are the hidden numbers. This is the truth from the recent Washington Post/ABC poll on opinions entitled “What Do Insured Think of Health Reform”. Three questions asked and three answered by a significant majority who clearly are positive on health care reform  in spite of all the negatives spun every [...]

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