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Glass Half Empty

Glass Half Empty
What if a glass of water was, all of a sudden, literally half empty? —Vittorio Iacovella The pessimist is probably more right about how it turns out than the optimist. When people say “glass half empty”, they usually mean something like a glass containing equal parts water and air: Traditionally, the optimist sees the glass as half full while the pessimist sees it as half empty. But what if the empty half of the glass were actually empty—a vacuum? The vacuum would definitely not last long. For our scenario, we’ll imagine three different half-empty glasses, and follow what happens to them microsecond by microsecond. In the middle is the traditional air/water glass. We’ll imagine the vacuums appear at time t=0. For the first handful of microseconds, nothing happens. For the most part, air molecules jiggle around at speeds of a few hundred meters per second. The vacuum on the left is surrounded by barriers, so air molecules can’t easily get in.

7 Training Ideas That Changed My Running Forever By Jason Fitzgerald (via) Over the last 13 years of competitive running in high school, college, and beyond, I’ve picked up certain training strategies that I’ve incorporated into my current training. Some of these training principles are well-known while others are less common. Many of us know that we should do a long run every week but we don’t do it. After you read this, I want you to make ONE positive change in your training. In typical Strength Running fashion, this post is long but packed with as much tactical information as I can provide. The Almighty Long Run It doesn’t matter if you’re training for a 5k, triathlon, or ultramarathon – the long run is one of your most important workouts of the week. The long runs boosts your aerobic capacity and allows you to run faster for longer. For all new runners, the biggest limiting factor for their performance is a lack of endurance. Barefoot Strides – Not Just for Hippies Double the Fun, Double the Fitness The (Almost) Long Run

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Tying Your Shoes During your next race, take time to observe how most runners do not tie their running shoes correctly. This will cost valuable time; in a marathon this can be as much five to 10 minutes, or even more, depending on your overall time. Most people tie their shoes in the same manner they were taught as a child. This practice is fine for normal footwear, but tying running shoes like this will lead to early fatigue, thereby adversely affecting your time. This is because the normal method of tying shoes partially restricts blood flow to the feet. To illustrate the point, take a look at the back of your hand. So, how do you properly tie your shoes? ANTHRAX What is anthrax? Anthrax is a serious disease caused by a bacterium, Bacillus anthracis. A bacterium is a very small organism made up of one cell. This bacterium forms spores. A spore is a cell that is dormant (asleep) but may come to life in certain conditions. Anthrax can cause three forms of disease: 1) cutaneous ( skin); 2) gastrointestinal (digestive system); and 3) inhalational anthrax (lungs) How can someone come into contact with anthrax? Anthrax is not known to spread from person to person. Cutaneous anthrax: Humans can come into contact with anthrax by handling products from infected animals (e.g., touching an infected animal’s hair). Anthrax as a weapon: Anthrax also can be used as a weapon. Please note: Just because you come into contact with anthrax does not mean you will get sick from it. What happens if someone gets sick from anthrax? Cutaneous anthrax Usually begins with itching. How likely is someone to die from anthrax? What is the treatment for anthrax?

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'Quantum Teleportation' Beams Information Farther Than Ever Before Physicists have "teleported" quantum information farther than ever in a new study reported Wednesday (Sept. 5). This kind of teleportation isn't quite what Scotty was "beaming up" on television's Star Trek, but it does represent a kind of magic of its own. While Star Trek's teleporters transport people from place to place instantaneously, quantum teleportation sends information. A team of scientists from Austria, Canada and Germany have now beamed the quantum state of a particle of light from one island to another 89 miles (143 kilometers) away. "One can actually transfer the quantum states of a particle — in our case a photon — from one location to another location without physically transferring this photon itself," explained physicist Xiaosong Ma of the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. To do this, the researchers started out with three particles: one particle to be teleported, and two "entangled" particles.

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