4x [2m on, 2m off] run
medium pace (~8:00/mi)

3 rounds:
5 L hamstring curls (35)
5 R hamstring curls
max pull ups (10, 6, 5)

Trying to stay steady with G and my plan to run more this summer. 2 minute intervals felt pretty rough by the end, pace was where I wanted it but it was getting hard to keep it up.

Not as fancy (or precise) a readout as G's super new Garmin watch, but managed to extract my pace data from the RunKeeper app on my phone (if you're interested, I use either GPSVisualizer or uTrack to visualize .gpx file data). The periods in the profiles likely correspond to the corners in the track...

A reminder

The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world's most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History. The new film, created by the Museum, is part of an exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan through May 2010.

Via the Adventure Blog.

Reminds me of the awesome Powers of Ten movie.

"Some time ago, I was interested in a similar question, but not the highest survived fall, it was the LD50 height (height, where about 50% of the climbers die) which I wanted to find out. So I reviewed all the accident information I could get from my local climbing area (Elbsandstein) back to 1883, and compiled it to a graph:The black part of the bars are the ones who not survived. From this, I would estimate the LD 50 height to about 25m. Although survival rate decreases with increasing height, the dependency is not too strong. Apparently it depends also much on how you fall and what the cratering zone looks like."
- Joerg Brutscher

Source: here
Rockclimbing.com Forum thread: here

Fat states

From this article courtesy of the CalorieLab.

Maybe it has something to do with this:CNN coverage of this recent article. Go figure, kids prefer food wrapped in a McDonald's wrapper... Well, it's not quite the right experiment, but you get the idea.

Interestingly, the National Broadcasting Commission of Thailand is about to finalize restrictions on junk food ads for children. The proposed measures include a ban on junk food ads during children's programmes; prohibiting the use of children, cartoon characters, entertainers or celebrities as ad presenters; prohibiting marketing promotions using giveaways and lucky draws; and requiring ads to warn against consuming the products more than twice a day. Source

Edited (082207) to add a link:
What is the Right Way to Think About the Obesity ‘Epidemic’?
and the World Fatness Chart:
Check out other awesome illustrations by Wellington Grey.

Trendalyzer

Neat data visualization tool from global health researcher Hans Rosling, shown at TED. Not as revolutionary as the breathless blurb makes it seem, but interesting enough for Google to acquire.

New insights on poverty and life around the world by Hans Rosling of the Karolinska Institute

Saturday round-up

The Inner Life Of A Cell (animation by John Liebler/XVIVO)
The full version is here, and includes commentary explaining what the scenes are. More information here, which includes a higher resolution version of the short. This is awesome, do not miss it. Via Street Anatomy, which is also worth a visit.

More beautiful scientific artwork can be found at bioemphemera and Morbid Anatomy. 3D animation of a normal childbirth here. Click that at your own risk.

Remarkable stem cell research showing that mature skin cells can be coaxed into becoming cells with embryonic stem cell capacities (blurb in the Times, and direct links to the results from the Kyoto group and the MIT group). An explanation from Rudolph Jaenisch, who leads the MIT group:

You Are What You Grow

An interesting article in the NY Times Magazine by Michael Pollan, exploring the politics of farming and its affect on our food supply and costs.
A provocative figure from Drewknowski and Darmon,

The economics of obesity: dietary energy density and energy cost (2005).
Related information from the Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy.