Claudia Dreyfus interviews Daniel Lieberman (who shared the 2009 Ig Nobel Prize in physics, for or analytically determining why pregnant women don’t tip over) about his research on barefoot running and other things. It’s in the New York Times. Here’s a snippet: Among his academic peers, Daniel Lieberman, 47, is known as a “hoof and mouth” […]
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Running downhill
Does running downhill affect maximum speed? A team from the Structure and Motion Laboratory at the Royal Veterinary College in the UK have been investigating the relationship between running-speed and slope. The rapidity of thoroughbred racehorses (Equus caballus), greyhounds (Canis familiaris) and human subjects (Homo sapiens) was logged under a number of different uphill and […]