Beetroot juice has been found to boost physical stamica and endurance during exercise up to 16%. The juice was found to increase endurance by reducing oxygen uptake, making exercise less tiring. Even regular training did not lead to similar results as drinking beet juice...
As NowPublic member asterix611 previously reported, David Blaine concluded his 60 hours of (occasionally) hanging upside down in New York City with a "Dive of Death" that wasn't a dive, didn't risk death, and was...
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Gawker calls out David Blaine for failing to hang upside down, continuously, for 60 hours as he currently claims to be doing -- and they've got the "photographic evidence" to prove it.Is David Blaine faking it?...
Street magician and "endurance artist" David Blaine has begun his latest challenge: he will hang upside down above a skating rink in New York for 60 hours. As always with Blaine's stunts, there are many risks...
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Sure, MSM reports that "protesters" get hassled or arrested. But since dissent is one of key rights as Americans, it is better reporting to add details about who is protesting, and what their issues are. Code Pink's complaints are detailed and nuanced, and challenge simple...
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"Descendants of Sir Ernest Shackleton and his team are looking for a final budding explorer to complete their ancestors' journey to the South Pole. Legend has it Sir Ernest recruited his expedition members with an advert promising "small wages", "constant danger" and a...
" A World Bank study found China is home to 16 of the 20 worst cities for air quality. Three-quarters of the water flowing through urban areas is unsuitable for drinking or fishing. International Olympic...
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Could Australia's wild horses be about to take the endurance world by storm? Thirteen wild horses from Western Australia have been plucked from the wilderness, and, in a tale reminiscent of "My Fair Lady", now...
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Another female suicide bomber has struck in Iraq, this time killing 15 people."The latest in a wave of female suicide bombers killed 15 people and wounded more than 40 others on Sunday near a heavily fortified courthouse and government outpost in central Baquba, Iraqi...
"THE son of the world's most wanted man is planning a race for peace.
Omar Osama bin Laden, 26, one of Osama bin Laden's 19 children, raised a storm last year when he married a 52-year-old British woman, Jane...
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"An arab rider has bettered the endurance world record over 160km by 13 minutes, winning a prestigious ride in Dubai in just under six and a half hours."
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It's interesting to note that no mention was made of the audience, other than that Dane fed 'em. All how many of 'em? Could anyone possibly endure seven hours of stand-up (that is, unless it was Dave...
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"A lightweight solar-powered plane has smashed the official world record for the longest-duration unmanned flight.
UK defence firm QinetiQ, which built the Zephyr unmanned aerial vehicle, said it flew for 54 hours during tests.
The researchers believe it is the first time a...
"A deeper analysis of the images taken on Mars surface (JPL website) stir the debate on whither there is standing water … puddles of water on Mars.
In a report to be published in the journal IEEE Xplore, R. L....
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"The best swimmers tend to be tall and thin with long arms, long legs, long feet, and long hands. The size of their hands gives them great "water grasp", and only a very small hand movement keeps them afloat.
They...
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