Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Robin Edgar

Gym machines are boring, CrossFit is sadistic, and dieting sucks. Luckily, none of them is essential to being truly fit. Through years of trial and error — and humiliation at the hands of some of the world’s top trainers — the author discovered the secrets to real health.

The article starts to get useful at page 4

There are four fitness goals you can go for: Strength, power, muscle mass and endurance.

In order to achieve most of these goals you don’t need to spend more than 3 hours per week, using the most basic equipment.

via Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie | Men’s Journal.

New Disposable, Medical Camera Is the Size of a Grain of Salt

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Robin Edgar

The German Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration recently reported the development of a camera with a lens attached that is 1 x 1 x 1.5 millimeters in size, which is the size of a grain of salt. At about a cubic millimeter in size, this camera is right at the size limit that the human eye can see unaided. The camera not only produces decent images but it is also very cheap to manufacture…so cheap in fact that it is considered disposable.

Resolution: 250 x 250 @ 40Hz

New Disposable, Medical Camera Is the Size of a Grain of Salt | Singularity Hub.

EU Votes on copyright extension soon – mail your local JURI MEP today!

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Robin Edgar

Background: In 2009, the EU discussed the issue of a term extension for the ”neighbouring rights” that record companies have to recorded music. These neighbouring rights are now 50 years from the recording of a song. The proposal was to extend them to 95 years. After a lively debate in the European Parliament, it was decided to extend them to 70 years. Then the issue got stuck in the Council of Ministers, where several countries (including Sweden and Denmark) felt that no extension was necessary. Now it appears that the Danish government has folded, which means that there is no longer a blocking minority in the Council.

Right now: On the agenda for the meeting of the European Parliament’s legal affairs committee JURI this Monday and Tuesday, there has appeared a point about making certain formal corrections to the text that the European Parliament adopted (such as the date when the new rules should enter into force). It appears that they have been trying to give the issue a low profile. The documents were not sent out to members of the JURI committee until last Friday, after we had explicitly asked for them.