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Is Altitude Sickness Harshing Your Midlife Crisis? Fixed.
Acetaminophen: A viable alternative for preventing acute mountain sickness (read more)
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Strong, but Itchy. Armourers Update the Hairshirt for 2017
Strength of hair inspires new materials for body armor (read more)
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Ketone Drink : (Yet Another) Perfomance Enhancer for Cyclists
Ketone drink gives competitive cyclists a boost by altering their metabolism (read more)
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Walloped Millennials: Sports Injuries Increasing in Adolescents
Concussions on the rise for adolescents (read more)
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Dislocated Shoulder : What *Not* To Do
We do not recommend self-setting of shoulder dislocations (read more)
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Enduring the Heat with Paracetemol
Paracetamol improves the time someone can exercise in the heat, and that this occurs alongside a reduced body temperature (read more)
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Leather helmets
Biomechanical performances of old-fashioned leather helmets and modern football helmets studied. (read more)
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Sports fandom and forgiveness
Celebrity confessions : Deep in Sports fandom do we really believe that anyone believes them anymore? (read more)
Society
Joe Rogan ‘s Kale Shake Pt 2.
How to make Kale Shake without Kale. March / April growing season can mean that Kale is hard to come by. What next? Cavolo Nero. (read more)
Society
Joe Rogan ‘s Kale Shake Recipe
How to make Joe Rogan’s Kale Shake, which blender is the best to use if you can’t afford a BlendTec blender and you’re in the UK and you’re a beginner. (read more)
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Playing Sport for Fun
To protect against injuries, young athletes may need to play more just for fun (read more)
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Girls better at school, worse at tests
Why do girls get better grades in elementary school than boys—even when they perform worse on standardized tests? (read more)
Society
Too Much Monkey Business
Eleven defining cultural moments featuring gorillas. SWP reports on the City of London’s Great Gorilla Run (read more)
Society
Childishness and Cockroaches: An Academic in Africa
Just as we were about to start, Andrew appeared on the other side of the fence, waxing wroth. Why had we broken into his field, who did we think we were, we had no permission to play there etc., etc. It was at this point that I started to be deeply unhelpful.
This is a country of endless potentiality, but that potential will never be realised as long as people only talk about what others must do, and never think about what they must do themselves. (read more)
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Women’s Professional Football Challenges
Carter also states that societal beliefs about women’s bodies affect the way they deal with pain and injuries. “While visible injuries on the field are dealt with similarly through a culture of sacrifice, off the field, women often face stigma due to visible bruising, cuts, scrapes, and other abrasions,” she says. (read more)
Society
Taking the Olympiss
once the Five Ring Circus leaves, Stratford will be stripped of its Olympic flourishes and left behind to slowly rot once more, loomed over by a cold, distant Canary Wharf and scarred by poverty and social strife in equal measure. (read more)
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An Olympic Damper: How Rubbish Humans Really Are at Sports
Slower, Lower, Weaker. Well, we can’t use the proper Olympics motto in a Trebuchet news item, lest we get lynched by a team of predatory lawyers hellbent on protecting the copyright phrases and icons their (read more)
Society
Crazy Golf at Selfridges
As a veteran crazy golfer I approached the Selfridges course with low expectations. How could a ‘pop up’ on a department store roof offer the nightmare experience provided by an enormous day-glo basement in downtown (read more)
Art
Zidane: A Strange Form Of Love
Zidane and Camus unlikely bedfellows a discussion of the film and it’s implications (read more)