Author: rokur
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Learn Anything in 20 Hours
A fun and thought-provoking TEDx Talk by Josh Kaufman, author of The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything . . . Fast!, via Lifehacker
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Danish anti-doping agency receives major grant
Read Jyllands-Posten The Culture Ministry is giving Anti Doping Denmark a nearly one million kroner grant to help it combat the growing use of steroids and growth hormones in the nation’s gyms and fitness centres. Steroid use is rampant in some centres, with Danes as young as 14 reportedly shooting themselves up in pursuit of…
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CC photo #508: Opening ceremony at Debrecen 2012
Just a photo from the opening ceremony at the LEN 2012 European Swimming Championships in Debrecen, Hungary.
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You Can Swim – Dr. Murray taking a swimming lesson at Stirling
Scottish Commonwealth Games hopeful Kerry Buchan teaches Dr. Andrew Murray, who is trying out every Commonwealth Games sport, the basics of swimming at the National Swimming Academy in Stirling. You Can Swim runs from 20 May – 30 June in a pool near you in Scotland. For more info look at www.scottishswimming.com/youcanswim
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Google I/O 2013 – Dive Into Underwater Street View
30+ minutes of geekdom, bear with me Google and Catlin Seaview Survey‘s Richard Vevers have partnered together to bring the first ever underwater street view imagery to Google Maps. Learn how Catlin Seaview Survey has built a special camera to collect this spectacular surround imagery.
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TV Ad: Dara Torres, Knee Surgery, Cartilage Regeneration
When five-time Olympic swimmer Dara Torres found that knee osteoarthritis was keeping her out of the pool and unable to play with her young daughter, Torres chose Brigham and Women’s Hospital for an autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI), or cartilage regeneration, which takes a patient’s own healthy cartilage to repair unhealthy cartilage. BWH is one of…
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South African swimmer Zandberg hungry for success
A little later this year, the world swimming championships takes place in Spain with South African’s Cameron van der Burgh and Chad le Clos hoping to build on their Olympic success. But as those two were celebrating gold in London, another swimmer from the Republic was in tears and faced an uncertain future.
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YMCA Teaches Minority City Kids to Swim to Stop Drownings
The president of the YMCA of Greater Boston talks about the organization’s urban swimming program, which teaches poor black and latino kids how to swim to keep them from drowning. Kevin Washington, who learned to swim at the