Interesting Links for 04-04-2013

[andrewducker]

• Men more depressed and sad than women if childless
  (tags: children men )
• How much is a bitcoin actually worth?
  (tags: bitcoin )
• Attention Students: 'Just Being Yourself' Isn't a Skill That Should Earn You Admission to College
  (tags: life education advice )
• Superheroines - Fully Dressed. A really nice piece of design work.
  (tags: art superheroes

Comments

[bart_calendar]

The thing is "just being yourself" will get you into the college that right for you

[danieldwilliam]

Yeah - I think that’s a good call

[ice_hesitant]

I do recommend stretching AFTER a workout (or every other workout; I stretch on my upper body days). If I don't stretch, I get charlie horses in my calves and muscle cramps generally.

[i_ate_my_crusts]

I've always wondered what a charlie horse is - one of those things I saw in US-originating books as a kid, but had no frame of reference for. Thank goodness Wikipedia can now answer my questions!

[anef]

I'm prepared to believe that stretching isn't a good preparation for vigorous exercise, and that warming up is better. I don't think that the studies cited have explored the benefits of stretching on its own, from the point of view of the health of the body generally.

[i_ate_my_crusts]

I'm quite pleased this has gone mainstream - a review on google scholar before I took up running in earnest confirmed for me that my walking-as-warm-up was at least as good as stretching, despite many people telling me I must stretch. I trust to evidence-based advice.

You're right, I think - this was wrt only to stretching before exercise, not to stretching qua stretching.

[anef]

It's only that people who do yoga seem to get a lot of benefit from it, and I would hate to see the media now implying that stretching is no use, and not to bother to do it, which is how messages tend to get out.