>Ted Talks is a brilliant website. It offers tons of great talks from brilliant people in every possible field. Very inspiring and also a good way to learn a lot about different things.
Today I watched this talk Christopher McDougall, the author of “Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Super Athletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen.”
The book has been ordered and will write more about it when i read it. The video of his lecture is below.

I am sure you will like it!

The scientific publisher Springer has launched a free analytics tool that gives you a peek into how people are using the publisher’s online content. The tool provides a number of visualizations based on real-time data aggregated from Springer’s online offerings.

Springer’s publications include nearly 5 million documents from about 41,000 e-books, 1160 book series, and 2524 academic journals. For this reason, the tool can be considered a useful and interesting way to look at what scientists are reading.

Here is a link to the European Journal of Applied Physiology’s stats.

Impressive tool!

The 29th of September I was invited to contribute to a panel discussion in Brussels about research in sport. In that occasion I voiced the need for further funding from the EU for sports and exercise sciences. An article is now appeared here quoting one of the many things I said in the meeting.

I hope someone in the EU will listen!