Runners should GRADUALLY introduce shoe technology into training. New... survey data shows 61.7% of amateur runners using "super shoes" perceived changes in technique, That has downstream negative effect on injury risk and soreness. Here is a breakdown (including a progression for implementation)show more

One of my favorite exercises I’ve been doing recently... is the reverse lunge with a med ball twist. Unlike a heavy reverse lunge, I’m focusing less on pure strength and more on coordination, rhythm, and movement quality. A simple way to think about it: Heavy reverse lunges are a strength exercise, whereas reverse lunges with a med ball twist are a movement exercise. It won’t replace heavy strength training, but it provides a lot of athletic benefit with much less fatigue and soreness. For runners, that’s a big advantage. It’s easy to recover from and much easier to incorporate into a high-frequency, high-volume running plan.show more

China is creating new digital jobs. A 24-year-old Chinese... entrepreneur turned streets into income using 3D scanning technology — building virtual tours for hotels, apartments, and shops that now generate thousands of dollars monthly. Using low-cost AI tools and Gaussian Splatting, he scans locations in minutes and turns them into interactive 3D spaces online. A new digital business wave anyone can start in their own country.show more

Heavy isometrics are the lowest-hanging fruit when it comes... to strength training for runners. There is no muscle damage, so they don’t make you sore. There is no technique or skill required, especially when you use a machine. Here I’m using the hamstring curl machine. After squeezing a relatively heavy weight for about 30 seconds, the hamstring muscle relaxes and the strain shifts to the tendon. Stronger tendons equal more force production, fewer injuries, and better running performance. It’s super simple. Hold a heavy fixed position for 30-60 seconds, then repeat for multiple sets if it’s a problem area. You can do these every day, multiple times a day. Isometrics are a game changer.show more

Love this from Rory McIlroy 💯🙌 Reducing injury risk,... increasing availability to play/ practice, and feeling good both on + off the course are great benefits of fitness training for golf 🏋️‍♂️ Not everything training wise needs to be swing speed related, although Rory has defo added speed over the last few years! 🚀 2-3 strength + power sessions a week, a few mins daily mobility, and getting plenty of steps in on the golf course itself, is a pretty decent + sustainable way of training for many golfers 😁show more

NEW: FBI has launched an investigation to find the... drone operator who put a 3x6 hole in Canada's Super Scooper aircraft which was fighting the LA fires. The plane was initially grounded but thankfully, two more Super Scoopers are on the way, according to The War Zone. "I’d just like to stress, that technique, using that super scooper aircraft, are our most effective technique to fight fires like this, and when this happens, it puts everybody’s lives at risk," said the assistant director at the FBI’s LA Field Office. The Super Scooper skims across the surface of the water, quickly picking water up before dumping it on the fires.show more

In Finland, a new generation of energy-efficient data centers... is transforming how cities manage heat. Data centers have transformed urban heat management by recovering waste heat from servers and funneling it into the country's extensive district heating networks. This innovative system turns an energy byproduct into a vital resource, significantly reducing reliance on fossil fuels for heating. This ingenious solution addresses two major challenges: the growing energy demands of data storage and urban heating needs. Instead of releasing heat into the environment, Finland’s system recycles it, creating a closed-loop energy network that benefits both technology and society.show more

For the past month, Pi has been in a... constant sell-off. Pioneers know that mining Pi is tough and that most are long-term holders. But since February 20, the data shows relentless selling for over 1.5 months. This worries me and raises a lot of questions… Any theories on what’s going on? #Pi #PiNetwork #Dump #Cryptoshow more

🚨 EARTH IS SPINNING SLIGHTLY FASTER AND FOR THE... FIRST TIME, SCIENTISTS ARE SERIOUSLY DISCUSSING A “NEGATIVE LEAP SECOND”. For decades, Earth’s rotation has been gradually slowing, which is why we occasionally add a leap second to keep atomic clocks in sync with the planet. But since around 2018–2020, something unusual has happened: Earth has been rotating faster than expected. Several days in recent years (including June 29, 2022) were among the shortest ever recorded by atomic clocks. This acceleration has forced timekeepers to consider something that has never been done before: subtracting a second from official time (a negative leap second) instead of adding one. Why this matters: • A negative leap second would mean clocks skip a second (e.g., jumping from 23:59:58 straight to 00:00:00) • It would be the first time in history this has happened • It could affect GPS, financial systems, telecommunications, and any infrastructure that relies on precise timing • The leading theory links the speedup to changes in Earth’s liquid outer core, though melting ice sheets are partially counteracting the effect The deeper implication: Earth is not a perfect clock. Its rotation speed is influenced by complex interactions between the core, oceans, atmosphere, and even climate change. As we become more dependent on ultra-precise global timing, these small geophysical changes are no longer just scientific curiosities they’re potential infrastructure issues. A 2024 study in Nature suggested a negative leap second might be needed around 2029, though the exact timing remains uncertain and depends on how Earth’s rotation behaves in the coming years. Would you rather we keep adding/subtracting leap seconds forever, or should we eventually decouple our clocks from Earth’s imperfect rotation? Follow for more frontier Earth science and timekeeping realities.show more

Here’s a back angle of the same play. This... is a clean play IMO. I see some mild contact here, but no tackle “from behind” is performed which has been alluded to by some. Jakob is not a dirty player and has never proven to be. Kuithe plants with his left leg at the top of the route and you see a slight buckling inward of the left knee (valgus force which is typical in ACL tears.) This is normal contact with a TE/DB at the top of a route. Jakob disengages with his body after the initial contact. It appears to be a left knee injury. Possibly an ACL tear with some collateral damage based off the mechanism. Kuithe begins to hobble after the plant and eventually falls to the turf. Kuithe, in 2022 suffered an ACL injury and meniscus tear to his right knee. Data shows that once you’ve had an ACL Injury, there is a higher risk of injuring your opposite knee than your reconstructed knee. Furthermore, there is increasing data supporting the elevated risk of ACL injuries correlated to turf as well as style and type of cleats. My heart goes out to Kuithe.show more

We are excited to introduce Stable Fast 3D, Stability... AI’s latest breakthrough in 3D asset generation technology. This innovative model transforms a single input image into a detailed 3D asset in just 0.5 seconds, setting a new standard for speed and quality in the field of 3D reconstruction! Alongside this release, we’ve also published a technical report that highlights how we achieve fast inference speeds with reduced baked illumination and material parameters. 👾You can learn more and access the report here:show more

🤖 Another zero-shot reward model is now in LeRobot:... ROBOMETER. A general-purpose, zero-shot video-language reward model from University of South Carolina, UT Dallas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of Washington, Ai2, and NVIDIA that predicts frame-level task progress. Trained on 1M+ trajectories from 21 robot embodiments, generalizes zero-shot to unseen tasks, scenes, and robots. 2.4–4.5x better downstream success rates across online RL, offline RL, data filtering, failure detection, and data retrieval for IL. Project: Paper:show more

The computers of tomorrow are using photons instead of... electrons... Notice the fiber optics here in this quantum super computer, it's the new design and the copper wire is pretty much gone. The tech is so advanced now they're using entangled photon packets to resonate data from one quantum computer to another via light waves... Wireless quantum networks could communicate via entanglement without the need for radio or other wireless transmissions... this is the dawn of a new computing revolution....show more

The idea that lifting weights will stunt a child’s... growth is actually a myth that for some reason started and spread after a mid 1900s Chinese study to find out why child laborers on a mine in a remote region of China were on average signifigently shorter than their peers. The hypothesis was that it was due to carrying heavy loads out of the mines. However, the technology at the time could not confirm that as the cause, and the study was deemed inconclusive because they couldn’t tell if the cause was in fact the loads or if it was due to malnourishment due to the remote area in China, and all the time spent in the mines. Fast forward to 1999, Dr Avery Faigenbaum relooked at the issue this time studying a group of pre-pubescent children participating in resistance training vs a control group (Faigenbaum et al. 1999). Using modern technology )I believe he used MRIs) he found that the bone density was actually thicker in the trained group vs the control group, with no damage or negative impact on growth plates. Several hundred follow up studies have been done in the close to 25 years since and have all confirmed Faigenbaum’s findings. Resistance training (which includes weight training) causes bone density increases with no risk to growth plates. As such, even the American Association of Pediatrics as well as many other orgs such as National Strength & Conditioning Association and National Academy of Sports Medicine all encourage youth resistance training under qualified supervision. Links to a few recent scientific papers & position statements supporting the benefits to resistance training for youth (and debunking the stunting growth myth) This on shows the cognitive benefits caused by resistance training in youth athletes :show more

Two Sides of Marin's Sad Injury: Today, 🇪🇸Spain's Carolina... Marin broke into tears after an injury forced her to quit the semifinal of the Olympics. I wish her a speedy recovery! But, at 2016 Rio Olympics, she criticized 🇨🇳Li Xuerui for using a "feigned injury" as a tactic to affect her performance after Li was severely injured in the semi-final. Although she apologized after realizing the seriousness of Li’s injury afterward, the Internet never forgets, especially since today Marin suffered the same injury, at the same semi-final. Today, when the retired Li Xuerui learned of Marin's injury, she broke into tears on live TV. I’m not inciting hatred here. We should have more love and friendship at the Olympics, not hatred and attack.show more

An Ohio city has deployed a new super weapon... in the ongoing struggle against potholes. Officials described this technology as a "longer-term solution" than a traditional patch, adding that it can be applied in temperatures as low as 5 degrees and is capable of filling around 150 potholes in a day and a half. As opposed to a traditional road crew, these Isuzu-style work trucks, purchased at $300,000 apiece, are a "one-man operation" that will be put into service each weekday, officials say.show more

Mark Carney highlights how far behind Canadian businesses are... in adapting AI: "Globally, Canada ranks near the bottom of countries in AI training, and literacy and trust. Only 12% of Canadian businesses are using AI today. Among small and medium-sized businesses, adoption is even lower." This is actually a good thing to recognize and vocalize. He is actually quoting a Statistics Canada research paper. Adapting technology that generates productivity multipliers is a key for Canadian industries to actually be competitive on the world stage.show more

## Romania is using blockchain to count Presidential electoral... votes today. The Permanent Electoral Authority in Romania (ROAP - Romania Autoritatea Electorală Permanentă) is using blockchain technology to count and validate today's (Nov 24) presidential electoral votes. People from all over the world can follow the data in real-time at leveraging the use of a public ledger to offer more transparency and data immutability. The tool is offered in partnership with Romania's Special Telecommunication Service (STS - Serviciul de Telecomunicații Speciale, in Romanian), although it is not clear which infrastructure the country is using. ### Anybody has more information about that? What blockchain are they using? Since when was this implemented? Who else was responsible for implementing it? Really groundbreaking use case, given the usual electoral concerns, which illustrates how deep into the blockchain technology Romania is and some opportunities for blockchain developers surging in the country. --- Sources: - Dr. X 🧬 ( - damian (show more

Just look at this river flowing all the way... from Tibet into India through Nelong Valley on the Indo-China border. The water here is unbelievably crystal clear you can literally see right to the bottom with the naked eye. And then, as it flows into India and becomes part of the Ganga River, we all know how drastically it changes. That contrast says everything. The purity here exists because access is strictly controlled only a few people with special permits are allowed. It’s a stark reminder that we, not the river, are responsible for what it becomes downstream! 😍👌🏻show more

Examples of Housewives (including Dorit) using the word attacked... with each other, which has been done for years before Garcelle ever became a “housewife.” If the women have to walk on eggshells and avoid saying regular words that they say to each other all the time, in order to avoid Garcelle making it a race issue, then she should be on a different show. #RHOBHshow more

China has successfully launched the world's first commercial underwater... data center. China's underwater data center in Hainan Province currently the only operational commercial facility of its kind in the world, has evolved to handle high-density AI computing. Key details include: 🔹Originally deployed in 2022, the facility has been expanded with new modules specifically designed for demanding AI training and cloud services. 🔹By sitting on the seabed, the sealed capsules utilize seawater for natural cooling, eliminating the need for energy-intensive air conditioning and saving massive amounts of freshwater and land. 🔹While it solves land and energy issues, researchers warn of potential risks to marine biodiversity, including local water warming and ocean deoxygenation. 🔹A second underwater data center is currently under construction near Shanghai.show more