Wednesday, February 22, 2012

things of no value

Sometimes you read or hear about someone incurring some sort of injury of a nature seemingly wholly unrelated to the activity that caused it. For example, an early researcher and amateur scientist JBS Haldene had a pressure tank in his hope lab and tested the effects of compression and decompression on family members and friends. (Including, bizarrely, Spain's prime minister.) He subjected himself once to oxygen deprivation of near-lethal levels during one experiment and as a result lost all the feeling in his butt for six years. I have no idea how the two are connected.

Have to be trained specifically to scale jumps and trample obstacles. Their natural inclination is to go around it or stop moving, so standing on or over something requires training to perform an non-instinctual response.

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