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What should I drink?

What should I drink? One of the groups I follow on Facebook is “Runners loving Running”.  It’s full of stupid questions. Ok…OK…I hear you groaning…they are not stupid questions, they just seem stupid to me.  So that makes me a stupid observer. They ask things that are unanswerable: What kind of shoes should I wear …

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Fasted Running

Fasted Running Not ‘Fast Running’, or ‘Faster Running’ – but ‘Fasted Running’. Like running when you haven’t eaten for a long time. This week I experimented with running fasted. Why? It’s a long story. Shall we start at the beginning with some historical exposition?  Or should we jump into Act Two where I’m wondering what …

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A Quick Primer on Robotics

A Quick Primer on Robotics The word robot to describe a human-like machine was coined in a 1920 Czechoslovakian play called R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) by Karel Čapek. Mechanical men have been part of our cultural zeitgeist since then.  Robots are different than androids in that they are mechanical whereas androids are at least partly …

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