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He started researching how to improve endurance without overtraining and found a formula that worked: moving around a lot at a low level of activity, lifting heavy things only once in a while, and sprinting once a week. The key to endurance training, he says, is low-level training combined with occasional all-out, really hard training. That was how
... See moreDave Asprey • Game Changers
The most glaring contrast: while the NIH monkey chow contained about 4 percent sugar, the Wisconsin diet comprised an astonishing 28.5 percent sucrose, by weight.
Peter Attia MD • Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
Harry Bullmore • This is how many steps you should be walking a day, according to a walking expert
Kimerer LaMothe also publishes extensively on dance in the natural environment and eco-somatics. She is a dancer, philosopher, and scholar of religion, with a doctorate from Harvard, where she has also taught.
Catherine Schaeffer • Moving Consciously: Somatic Transformations through Dance, Yoga, and Touch
In the twentieth century, the biodiversity crisis, as it eventually came to be known, only sped up. Extinction rates are now hundreds—perhaps thousands—of times higher than the so-called background rates that applied over most of geological time. The losses extend across all continents, all oceans, and all taxa. Along with the species formally cate
... See moreElizabeth Kolbert • Under a White Sky
“[…] the glass of anthropological knowledge has become darkened by despondency, dystopian, and extinction theories. The earth is exhausted, and ontologies are dying. Many anthropological monographs read as funeral rites for communities. Alternatively, anthropologists offer hyper-micro studies of specific communities and their life worlds that still
... See morehumans could sustain work at rates of just between 50 and 90 W, while draft mammals could deliver no more than 300 W for small cattle, 400–600 W for smaller horses, and up to 800 W for heavy animals.