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...Read newspaper. Crank desk up to heady top speed of 2 m.p.h. This is the optimum velocity, the literature says, because you are moving but you won't break a sweat. I'm cruising...
...began working with a lanky 16-year-old named Dirk Nowitzki, voted Most Valuable Player of the NBA in 2007. Through their work, Geschwindner found that most players shoot the ball on too flat an arc. "The higher the arc, the better, but you can go too high. The optimum is around 60°," he says...
...much of sports, after all, involves battling gravity. But basketball coach Holger Geschwindner, 62, has found a way to turn the laws of physics to his advantage. A former captain of the German national team and a physicist, he has developed a series of formulas that may reveal the optimum arc for jump shots, using a combination of player height, arm length and release point. "Take differential and integral calculus. Make some derivations and create a curve," he recently said. "Everybody...
...people has always elicited controversial discussion, the Bush administration’s emphasis on abstinence as a preventative measure for (STIs) in young people is simply not effective. Instead, a focus on comprehensive sex education, the availability of contraception, and frequent preventative screening processes are key to ensuring the optimum sexual health of young people. When tackling problems like common STIs, policies such as abstinence are insufficient. Unfortunately, the current administration has opted to spend billions on abstinence education to combat teenage pregnancy and STIs, rather than emphasize safe sex and healthy family planning. These abstinence-only policies are dangerous...
...what if biofuels could be made without food crops, using an inedible plant grown on less than optimum farmland? That's exactly the thinking behind the push to develop cellulosic ethanol from the waste plant switchgrass, which grows throughout the Midwestern prairies, with little input from farmers. Instead of fuel from food, switchgrass cellulosic ethanol promises fuel from virtually nothing - and a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) argues that it's worth making the switch...