Mountain Biking Made To Look Easy

These guys make mountain biking look so easy! Makes me want to get one and kill myself.

Wavespark Flash Game

Wavespark is a chilled out one button physics game. The idea is simple: There’s a ball, moving along a wave, and your one button is used to increase gravity. Therefore, when the ball’s going down a wave, you can give it a boost by increasing gravity, flinging it up peaks. You have to keep going as long as you can. There’s nothing else to it!

Your score increases the longer you last, as a timer counts down, so if you go to slow you won’t reach the next checkpoint. There are four game modes, Distance, Bonus, Time Attack (my favorite) and Free Play. Requires Flash, and plays in your browser.

http://nmccoy.net/games/game04_wavespark/applet/index.html

The Claim: To Cut Calories, Eat Slowly

I know this is true, but man, it's so hard go slow on something that tastes so good...

For ages, mothers have admonished children at the dinner table to slow down and chew their food. Apparently, they’re onto something.

Researchers have found evidence over the years that when people wolf their food, they end up consuming more calories than they would at a slower pace. One reason is the effect of quicker ingestion on hormones.

In a study last month, scientists found that when a group of subjects were given an identical serving of ice cream on different occasions, they released more hormones that made them feel full when they ate it in 30 minutes instead of 5 . The scientists took blood samples and measured insulin and gut hormones before, during and after eating. They found that two hormones that signal feelings of satiety, or fullness — glucagon-like peptide-1 and peptide YY — showed a more pronounced response in the slow condition.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/health/23real.html