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Knee trouble and exercise

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

I’ve had fairly bad knees for a long time – cartilage damage from too much football (soccer) when I was young. A long time ago when I was still playing, a couple of days after a match, I went to my doctor with an extremely swollen and painful knee. He told me to quit football, [...]

The Golden Mean

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

There is a “Golden Mean” or “Golden Ratio” for pretty much everything – architecture, music, art, the human form – on and on. Just do a search on either of these terms and you will see what I mean. Seemingly starting from Confucianism and much referred to in philosophy, the “Golden Mean” is an optimum [...]

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