Sports and Fitness
The Fracture Risk Assessment Tool
. If your bone density test shows that you have low bone density (osteopenia), the fracture risk assessment tool called FRAX can help estimate your chance of breaking a bone within the next 10 years. This makes it easier to decide whether you might benefit from taking an osteoporosis medicine. more »
Exploratorium's Science of Baseball; The Girls of Summer
In the 1870s, an American woman could not vote. She could not own property in her own name after marriage. But she could play ball — as well as it could be played in an outfit that weighed as much as 30 pounds and included a floor-length skirt, underskirts, a long-sleeved, high-necked blouse, and high button shoes. more »
Tracking Your METs in Exercise — Rethink Golfing
"METS for certain golfing activities were revised downward from 1993 estimates based on measurement of the activity using indirect calorimetry." Uh-oh. Put down that putter and pick up that mop, ax (if you're like the late President, Ronald Reagan, and like to chop wood while vacationing) or a jump rope. more »
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Between innings there was a mini-car race, a BBQ apron give-away, tee shirts catapulted into the crowd and tossed from a truck that circled the field, a chicken dance dance-off, kids running the bases, and more kids racing the Spinners’ three mascots, the Canaligators. Meanwhile, in between all these shenanigans, an actual ball game was played. Or so they tell me. I was having too much fun to notice. more »