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S-Cool revision
Knee bone connected to the thigh bone.... good link for knee structures
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Biophysics-patella as pulleyhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/barrypeters/3981443426/sizes/l/in/photostream/
From Discover Magazine's Veronique Greenwood:
The patella, or knee cap, allows your thigh muscles to lift your lower leg without crushing the knee joint. If the quadriceps were connected directly to your shin, every time it contracted, the bones of the lower leg would grind into the base of the femur, and it would take a lot of effort to move. But by routing the connection over the top of the patella, evolution changed the geometry--when the quad pulls on the lower leg, the force comes from in front of the shin, rather than from directly above, so the shin moves easily. http://discovermagazine.com/photos/06-beetle-screwdriver-machines-created-by-evolution |
Workouts and Snacks
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Sore muscle Rx
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/20/really-the-claim-an-ice-bath-can-soothe-sore-muscles/
Elbow injuries not just for modern times
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Two articles in the Economist, the first related to the history of doping and the second is on the race between scientists and the athletes on who will win the doping wars in the Tour de France http://www.economist.com/node/21548498 http://www.economist.com/node/11670551 |
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This might fit better in neurobiology but sports have a lot of science in them,physics as well as neurobiology. Reaction time clip from the NSF and NHL examines these together.
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