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  • An Inliner’s Guide to Getting Into Ice Part 1: Gear

    An Inliner's Guide to Getting Into Ice Part 1: Gear

    There are many reasons why an inline speed skater would want to have a go at ice skating. Whatever your reason, in this article I hope to provide some useful tips into making the transition into what may at first seem like a very alien new environment.

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  • Noma

    Noma

    Two weeks ago I visited a little restaurant in Denmark called "Noma" whose main claim to fame is that it is apparently the best restaurant in the world.

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  • A Word on Supplements

    A Word on Supplements

    Anyone who has ever been involved at a fairly serious level in the world of sport will have come across nutritional supplements of some kind. These can range from having electrolytes in your drinks to constructing entire meals out of powders and vitamin tablets.

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  • Core Conditioning

    Core Conditioning

    How does one go about training our core muscles? Most people immediately think about doing lots of situps, or crunches. If you want to have good-looking abs, then by all means do lots of situps, but this is only a small part of the story.

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  • Bad Advice Part 1: Fitness

    Bad Advice Part 1: Fitness

    In catching up with old friends in Melbourne, I have noticed a curious trend. Ordinarily, when one catches up with old friends after being overseas for an extended period, one is asked mostly about

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Latest from the Darkroom

  • Floored! Monday, June 1, 2009
    Heerenveen Several days ago, a new wooden floor arrived from the US with the purpose of enriching the experience →more […]
  • Baseball Tuesday, June 17, 2008
    Daniel Yeow for Columbia Daily Spectator… Baseball is supposed to be a great American pastime. Well, one thing is →more […]
  • Softball Monday, June 16, 2008
    Daniel Yeow for Columbia Daily Spectator… Softball is an interesting sport. It is similar to baseball in many ways →more […]
  • Pillowfight! Friday, March 28, 2008
    Whoever came up with the idea of a random pillowfight in New York city deserves the Nobel Peace Prize →more […]
  • State of the Planet Thursday, March 27, 2008
    Every year, there’s a conference organized by the earth institute called “State of the Planet”. It has (apparently) grown →more […]
  • A Day in DC Tuesday, March 18, 2008
    I decided to visit the capital of the United States of America, Washington DC, for spring break. However, since →more […]
  • Inzell with the Danes Sunday, October 30, 2011
    Continuing from where the previous post “left off”, the weekend right after Enschede, I found myself in Inzell, →more […]
  • Return to Enschede Friday, October 14, 2011
    Recently I have undertaken a new “job” as one of the coaches for the Danish junior ice speed skating →more […]
  • Penultimate Post Sunday, March 28, 2010
    About a week ago, the speed skating season came to an end with the world allround championships in Heerenveen. →more […]
  • Pep Talk Friday, February 19, 2010
    Sophie Muir Sophie Muir recently made history by not only becoming the first Australian long track skater in 16 →more […]
  • Predictions, Part 1 Saturday, February 13, 2010
    The moment the gun fires Predictions for the first half of the speed skating competition. (I would have had →more […]
  • Hockey Update Friday, February 12, 2010
    So I’m in Canada and, by the end of this season, will have been here for over three months →more […]

Musings on Economic Inequality

World GDP per capita, adjusted for purchasing power parity. source: world bank

One of the most fascinating machines I’ve tried to understand recently is the way we allocate scarce resources – economics. It is interesting for many reasons, and one of them is… →more

Cricket

A cricket ball

Cricket is a very old bat-and-ball game that originated in England. It is popular in England, and is considered by some to be the national sport. When the British Empire was at its peak, it spread the game throughout the colonies →more

Core Conditioning

obliques

How does one go about training our core muscles? Most people immediately think about doing lots of situps, or crunches. If you want to have good-looking abs, then by all means do lots of situps, but this is only a small part of the story. →more

Let the Right One In

The female leads in the original (left) and remake (right)

The film is a refreshingly original take on the vampire genre. Oskar is a 12-year-old boy who is a “difficult” child. He’s a little anti-social, and is the preferred punching bag for a group of local bullies. →more

Gun Control

UNU_crisis-11

Guns will always be a controversial subject. For the record, I think guns are really cool. I’ve never owned a gun, and before living briefly in the US have never lived in a culture where gun ownership or use was widespread. →more

Tao of Travel

Packing for 2 months in Europe - note the compression bags for my clothes

Traveling is a lot of fun. You get to meet people, see places, and do things that are quite outside of the scope of normal everyday life. Everyone should travel. If more people traveled, I think we’d be a little closer to world peace than we currently are. →more

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