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Study: Negative Thoughts Are Damaging Your DNA

Lose your temper on the road?

Frustrated with colleagues at work?

You may be cutting your life short, warns molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn � who

won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2009 � and health psychologist Elissa Epel, who studies

stress and aging.

The authors claim in their new book, The Telomere Effect, that negative thoughts harm your health

at the DNA level.

Research has shown that a person's "social relationships, environments and lifestyles"

affect their genes.

"Even though you are born with a particular set of genes, the way you live can influence

how they express themselves."

Blackburn and Epel say components of DNA called telomeres determine how fast your cells age.

Short telomeres are one of the major reasons human cells grow old, but lab tests have shown

that they can also grow longer.

In other words, aging "could possibly be accelerated or slowed -and, in some aspects, even reversed."

Research Proves That DNA Is Reprogrammed by Words and Frequencies

The aging and lifespan of normal, healthy cells are linked to the so-called telomerase

shortening mechanism, which limits cells to a fixed number of divisions.

During cell replication, the telomeres function by ensuring the cell's chromosomes do not

fuse with each other or rearrange, which can lead to cancer.

Blackburn likened telomeres to the ends of shoelaces, without which the lace would unravel.

In one study, telomere length, an emerging biomarker for cellular and general bodily

aging, was assessed in association with the tendency to be present in the moment versus

the tendency to mind wander, in research on 239 healthy, midlife women ranging in age

from 50 to 65 years.

"People who score high on measures of cynical hostility tend to get more cardiovascular

disease, metabolic disease and often die at younger ages.

They also have shorter telomeres."

Pessimism shortens telomeres too.

"When pessimists develop an aging-related illness, like cancer or heart disease, the

illness tends to progress faster...

They tend to die earlier," warn the authors.

Ruminating over a bad situation is also destructive.

"Rumination never leads to a solution, only to more ruminating...

When you ruminate, stress sticks around in the body long after the reason for the stress

is over."

The resulting depression and anxiety only make your telomeres shorter.

Trying to suppress thoughts and feelings makes matters worse.

"The more forcefully you push your thoughts away, the louder they call out for your attention...

In a small study, greater avoidance of negative feelings and thoughts was associated with

shorter telomeres."

Even lack of focus is bad for telomeres because "when people are not thinking about what they're

doing, they're not as happy as when they're engaged."

To reverse the harm to telomeres, try meditation and long-distance running

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The mystery continues What they're not telling us about Antarctica - Duration: 8:56.

The mystery continues What they�re not telling us about Antarctica.

Antarctica has it all. The most amazing landscape, sub-zero temperatures, unforgiving terrain,

mystery structures buried under the ice, and evil mastermind penguins. However, as you�ve

probably heard by now, Antarctica is the one place on Earth that is OFF limits to civilians.

But why? It�s not because of Happy Feet, is it?

Antarctica was in the distant past, a very different place. With its 14.0 million square

kilometers, Antarctica is the fifth largest Continent on our planet, and in other words,

is twice the size of Australia.

What we have to understand is that around 170 million years ago, Antarctica was part

of the supercontinent called Gondwana. Around 25 million years ago, Antarctica as we know

it, gradually broke apart from Gondwana.

Experts tell us that Antarctica was once covered with vegetation and teeming with life. Today,

the home contents of Happy Feet is covered with around 99 percent of ice.

via GIPHY

Antarctica was located farther north and experienced a tropical or temperate climate, meaning that

it was covered in forests, and inhabited by various ancient life forms.

What does this mean?

Well� given the little we know about the life on our planet in the distant past, it

is likely that people might have lived on this now, icy continent and developed as a

society just like people did in Africa, Europe, and Asia.

The first time mankind supposedly came across the icy continent was around 1820.

However, that�s not totally correct.

Curiously, there are numerous ancient maps that depict parts of Antarctica free of ice.

One of the most controversial maps was without a doubt composed in 1513, by Turkish Admiral

Piri Reis who drew a map that would create a global debate over 500 years after him.

The map depicts Antarctica which was discovered between 1818-1820. But how is this possible?

It has become a popular belief that ancient civilizations across the globe were in fact

much more advanced than what mainstream researchers are crediting them for. Numerous maps discovered

in the past are clear indications that the story told today by scholars is incomplete,

and there are numerous missing links in our history.

Smells like there�0s much more we DON�T know about Antarctica.

Between 1946 and 1947, we INVADED Antarctica in a military operation called Operation high

jump. A very interesting documentary called Third Reich � Operation UFO seems to question

a lot of things regarding Antarctica and one of those things, that the documentary approaches,

is whether there�s a possibility that Antarctica might be home to numerous secret underground

bases.

After the Soviet collapse in 1991, the KGB released previously classified documents that

shed light on the infamous �Operation Highjump.� Intelligence reports obtained by Soviet spies

working in the United States revealed that the United States NAVY sent numerous expeditions

to Antarctica for mysterious purposes.

Operation Highjump, officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments

Program, 1946�1947, was a United States Navy operation organized by Rear Admiral Richard

E. Byrd Jr., USN (Ret), Officer in Charge, Task Force 68, and led by Rear Admiral Richard

H. Cruzen, USN, Commanding Officer, and Task Force 68. Operation Highjump commenced 26

August 1946 and ended in late February 1947. Task Force 68 included 4,700 men, 13 ships,

and 33 aircraft. Even though the operations primary mission was to �establish the Antarctic

research base Little America IV,� some believe its true purpose is far more mysterious than

anyone of us can imagine.

Basically, Operation HighJump was characterized by two things: It was fast and it was extremely

secret. During Operation high-jump, Admiral Ramsey stated: �the Chief of Naval Operations

only will deal with other governmental agencies� and that �no diplomatic negotiations are

required. No foreign observers will be accepted.�

It is believed that more than 70,000 aerial photographs were taken during an approximate

220 hours of flight time and it was all shrouded in secrecy. Several men had been reported

as losing their lives in plane crashes.

Interestingly, when Admiral Byrd got home he was summoned to Washington and interrogated

by the Security Services� before meeting with Secretary of Defense James Forrestal.

Following, �Adm. Byrd declared today that it was imperative for the United States to

initiate immediate defense measures against hostile regions,� reported the El Mercurio,

a news outlet in Chile, on March 5, 1947.

He made a staggering declaration:

Flying objects that �fly from Pole to Pole with incredible speeds� were the new threat.

But who were the new enemies, given Germany had just suffered a defeating blow in the

War? Some say it was the remnants of the German army and bases established in Antarctica.

Others aren�t so sure.

Antarctica remains one of the most isolated and mysterious places on the surface of our

planet.

Government nondisclosure continues and will most likely continue in the future. Around

30 nations now operate research stations bases on the continent, and little information is

given society about what exactly is going on there. The Antarctic Treaty demands scientific

research and collaboration without a military presence, yet the military visits the continent

from time to time.

What is referred to as a �truly shocking and astonishing video on extremely strange

events in the Antarctic continent� has recently been uploaded to YouTube, causing a social

network debate about Antarctica and what�s really there?

�A naval officer tells us what he remembers, including seeing a huge opening in the ice

in a no-fly area they were crossing with a medical emergency on board. Then he ferried

a group of scientists who had disappeared for two weeks and has specifically been warned

not to refer again to this subject. As he put it, �they looked scared.� When they

returned to McMurdo, their gear was isolated and they were flown back to Christchurch,

New Zealand in a special plane. He discusses what he saw and experienced in detail. This

is the most provocative story about what is going on in Antarctica ever presented anywhere.�

What do you think? Is there anything strange to Antarctica? Is Antarctica just an isolated,

frozen continent? Or is there perhaps more to it, as many conspiracy

theorists and whistleblowers claim?

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Pedophilia. Nuances - Duration: 7:38.

It's a very dangerous topic to discuss,

so forgive me for my little pre-emptive cheat.

Which is to remind you that I am a parent myself

and that a big chunk of my social activism is dedicated to protecting children's rights.

Now, let's talk about pedophilia.

Raping a child is arguably the most disgusting of all crimes.

However, pedophilia, meaning sexual attraction to children,

is not a crime as long as it is not accompanied by action.

According to some interpretations, it's a diagnosis, a mental disorder.

According to others, it's a variation of sexuality.

For simplicity, it can be perceived as an illness.

Remember: being sexually attracted to women doesn't mean that you will rape a woman.

Being sexually attracted to men doesn't mean that you will rape a man.

And being sexually attracted to children doesn't mean that you will rape a child.

Few of us can control our physiology and attractions.

But most of us are able to control our actions.

Like most people with healthy sexual preferences,

many pedophiles avoid inappropriately touching the objects of their desire.

They also restrain their sexual drive by plain moral principles or by the fear of consequences.

They adopt self-control for preventing their urges from turning into action.

Like anyone who really, really wants to punch their boss in the face,

but doesn't do it because they are not a savage or they care about their position.

Or anyone who really, really wants someone's body, but understands that "no" means "no."

At the same time, many molesters and rapists of children are not psychologically pedophiles.

Oftentimes, it's relatives of the child, not excluding parents and legal guardians.

Usually, under the influence of alcohol or other substances.

Sometimes, it may be elder siblings or orphanage-mates unable or unwilling to control their libido.

And sometimes, it's producers of child porn in the pursuit of profit.

For those, a child's body is just a commodity, not an object of attraction.

Despite partial correlation, pedophilia and child rape are two fundamentally different problems

having fundamentally different effects on society and requiring fundamentally different approaches.

Let's get our priorities straight.

What is more important to us: to protect children or to vent our Righteous Indignation?

I see only one acceptable option:

putting emotions aside, abandoning the witch hunt,

and devoting our best efforts to protecting potential victims of both of these problems.

Child molestation has only one victim: the raped child.

In order to minimize the number of such victims,

we are in critical need of education and dialogue concerning two subjects.

The first one is consent.

Who is able to give it? Which situations must be avoided?

In which situations we should be especially careful in order to reduce the chance of negative consequences?

"Everyone knows rape is wrong" is a dangerous simplification of the issue.

Well, okay, maybe everyone does know that rape is wrong,

but people are still arguing on what is rape, when it is rape, and why it is rape.

And far too many people rely on their instincts rather than facts and solid ethical rationale.

The second subject on which education is direly needed is child sexuality.

What information should be provided to children and at what age?

What in the behavior of a child is healthy, even if inconvenient for conservative adults,

and what is a symptom of a trauma or of impaired development?

Which actions towards children are necessary for their psychological well-being

and which ones will traumatize them?

All these are the topics I hope to discuss in my future videos.

For now, I'll just emphasize the most important part.

Child rape is rarely committed by some perverted alien monster we are used to imagine.

That would be too simple to be true.

It's a messy, convoluted issue involving a lot of stupidity, ignorance, exploitation, and denial.

A problem that is much closer to home than we are comfortable to admit.

It turn, pedophilia has two possible victims.

By default, it is the pedophile.

Their already problematic sexual attraction that can't be acted on without breaking someone's life,

is exacerbated by the fact that pedophiles have to hide their problem from society and often from themselves.

They can't ask for help and there's no one to share their internal struggle with.

Their mind continues to crumble due to stress and the dissonance between morality, fear, and physiology.

And when the situation gets out of control, there can be only two possible outcomes.

Either the pedophile commits suicide, or we are dealing with the aforementioned situation of child rape

in which case the second, unnecessary victim of pedophilia emerges.

Neither the law nor the public condemnation can help in eradicating pedophilia.

Pedophilia is within the mind and body of a person.

However, as a society, we are able to create an environment that will allow a pedophile

to find psychological help before it's too late.

An environment that will eliminate the need to hide from the world or live in denial.

That will reduce the likelihood of those with the disorder snapping and doing something tragic.

Or relapsing, if the situation is already tragic.

As a consequence, such an environment will help to avoid unnecessary victims.

Even if a pedophile really struggles with the urges to commit a crime against a child's safety,

it is in our best interest to help the pedophile emerge victorious in this fight.

To phrase it pretentiously, a saved pedophile is a saved person, a productive member of society.

A pedophile we didn't save is either a dead pedophile, or a predator.

We need more research on pedophilia.

We need people who are ready to share their feelings and experiences in order for us to understand the big picture of the issue.

We need therapies and support groups for helping pedophiles and preventing them from crossing the line that must not be crossed.

It is necessary to learn whether drawings of naked children,

porn with adults posing as adolescents, and sex toys in the shape of a child

can help pedophiles in controlling themselves.

Or whether it is the other way around, and these things will only fuel their drives.

Is there a way to "cure" at least some of pedophiles?

Or is pedophilia completely incurable?

Speculation and an intuitive approach are inapplicable here.

The stakes are too high.

And yet, in our stand against pedophilia, most of us are guided not by the intent to protect children

but by a need to protect our idea of a Child as a pure, innocent creature.

That, in our minds, must not be associated with "adult" topics till late teens.

People wish death upon pedophiles for the same reasons they evade "inappropriate" questions asked by a child

and oppose sex education in schools.

Ignoring the fact that sex ed reduces the number of unwanted pregnancies and STDs in adolescents

and helps to avoid a lot of other problems both in childhood and in adulthood.

For the same emotional reasons, parents punish children caught during playing doctor or watching pornography.

They scare a boy by saying he will grow up to be a rapist.

They scare a girl by saying she will grow up to be a prostitute.

Instead of sitting down with the child to calmly explain that pornography is artistic in nature

and is fundamentally different from a real-life relationship.

Few things in the world are as destructive as the slogan "Let kids be kids!"

Although time must be taken to bring children from naivete to awareness,

this process must be accepted and begin early.

Especially if children are to be kept safe.

In my heart, I can perfectly understand the Righteous Indignation and the desire to find and punish a person

for a mere thought of touching a child inappropriately.

I understand the impulse to despise pedophiles and everything associated with them.

My worst nightmares come from my fears for my child.

There are times when my anxiety makes it particularly hard to let her out of my sight

let alone out of the house.

But the fact remains that by dehumanizing and stigmatizing pedophiles

we are not protecting children, we contribute to creating new victims.

Emotions are the worst enemy in solving complex problems.

While the understanding, that a pedophile is not a monster from a horror story but a person who was dealt a bad hand in life,

can save more lives and substantially reduce the amount of suffering in the world.

As I said, let's get our priorities straight.

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Baseball Joe of the Silver Stars | Chapter 12 - Duration: 7:22.

CHAPTER XII

DISCONTENT

"Leg it, Joe!

Leg it!"

"Keep on!

Keep on!"

"He can't get you in time!"

"A home run!

A homer, old man!"

"Keep a-going!

Keep a-going!"

These and other frantic appeals and bits of advice were hurled at Joe as he dashed madly

on.

He had a glimpse of the centre fielder racing madly after the ball, and then he felt for

the first time that he really had a chance to make a home run.

Still he knew that the ball travels fast when once thrown, and it might be relayed in, for

he saw the second baseman running back to assist the centre fielder.

"But I'm going to beat it!"

panted Joe to himself.

The grandstand and bleachers were now a mass of yelling excited spectators.

There was a good attendance at the game, many women and girls[97] being present, and Joe

could hear their shrill voices mingling with the hoarser shouts of the men and boys.

"Keep on!

Keep on!" he heard yelled encouragingly at him.

"That's the stuff, old man!"

shouted Darrell, who was coaching at the third base line.

"Shall I go in?"

cried Joe as he turned the last bag.

Darrell took a swift glance toward the field.

He saw what Joe could not.

The centre fielder instead of relaying in the ball by the second baseman (for the throw

was too far for him), had attempted to get it to third alone.

Darrell knew it would fall short.

"Yes!

Yes!" he howled.

"Go on in, Joe!

Go on in!"

And Joe went.

Just as the manager had anticipated, the ball fell short, and the pitcher who had run down

to cover second had to run out of the diamond to get it.

It was an error in judgment, and helped Joe to make his sensational run.

He was well on his way home now, but the pitcher had the ball and was throwing it to the catcher.

"Slide, Joe!

Slide!" yelled Darrell above the[98] wild tumult of the other players and the spectators.

Joe kept on until he knew a slide would be effective and then, dropping like a shot,

he fairly tore through the dust, feet first, toward home plate.

His shoes covered it as the ball came with a thud into the outstretched hands of the

catcher.

"Safe!" yelled the umpire, and there was no questioning his decision.

"Good play!" yelled the crowd.

"That's the stuff, old man!"

exclaimed Darrell, rushing up and clapping Joe on the back.

"A few more like that and the game will either go ten innings or we'll have it in

the ice-box for ourselves," commented Captain Rankin gleefully.

But the hopes of the Silver Stars were doomed to disappointment.

Try as the succeeding men did to connect with the ball, the best that could be knocked out

was a single, and that was not effective, for the man who did it was caught attempting

to steal second and two others were struck out.

That ended the game, Joe's solitary run being the only one tallied up, and the final

score was three to six in favor of the Red Stockings.

"Three cheers for the Silver Stars!" called[99] the captain of the successful nine and they

were given with right good feeling.

"Three cheers for the Red Stockings," responded Darrell.

"They were too much for us," and the cheers of the losers were none less hearty than those

of their rivals.

"And three cheers for the fellow who made the home run!" added a Red Stocking player,

and our hero could not help blushing as he was thus honored.

"It was all to the pepper-castor, old man," complimented Darrell.

"We didn't put up a very good game, but you sort of stand out among the other Stars."

"And I suppose the rest of us did rotten!" snarled Sam Morton as he walked past.

"Well, to be frank, I think we all did," spoke Darrell.

"I'm not saying that Joe didn't make any errors, for he did.

But he made the only home run of the game, and that's a lot."

"Oh, yes, I suppose so," sneered the disgruntled pitcher.

"You'll be blaming me next for the loss of the game."

"Nothing of the sort!" exclaimed Darrell quickly.

"I think we've all got to bear our share of the defeat.

We ought to have played better,[100] and we've got to, if we don't want to be at the tail

end of the county league."

"And that means that I've got to do better pitching, I suppose?"

sneered Sam.

"It means we've all got to do better work," put in Captain Rankin.

"You along with the rest of us, Sam.

You know you were pretty well batted to-day."

"Any fellow is likely to be swatted once in a while.

Look at some of the professionals."

"I'm not saying they're not," admitted the captain.

"What I do say is that we've all got to perk up.

We've got to take a brace, and I'm not sparing myself.

We're not doing well."

"No, that's right," admitted several other players.

In fact there was a general feeling of discontent manifested, and it was very noticeable.

Darrell Blackney was aware of it, and he hoped it would not spread, for nothing is so sure

to make a team slump as discontent or dissatisfaction.

"Oh, Joe!" exclaimed a girl's voice, and he turned to see his sister walking toward

him over the field.

"That was a fine run you made."

She had two other girls with her and Joe, who was a bit bashful, turned to execute a

retreat.

"I believe you never met my brother," went on Clara, and there was a trace of pride

in her tone.[101] "Miss Mabel Davis," said Clara, presenting her to Joe, "and

Miss Helen Rutherford."

"I've heard my sister speak of you," murmured the young centre fielder.

"And I've heard my brother speak of you," said Mabel, and Joe was conscious that he

was blushing.

"I've got to wash up now," he said, not knowing what to talk about when two pretty

girls, to say nothing of his own sister, were staring at him.

"Does your hand hurt you much?" asked Mabel.

"No—it's only a scratch," said Joe, not with a strict regard for the truth.

"Oh, I thought I'd faint when I saw you lying there so still," spoke Clara with

a little shudder.

"So did I," added Helen, and then Joe made his escape before they could "fuss"

over him any more.

There was considerable talk going on in the dressing room when Joe entered.

He could hear the voice of Sam Morton raised in high and seemingly angry tones.

"Well, I'm not going to stand for it!" the pitcher said.

"Stand for what?" asked Darrell in surprise.

[102]

"Being accused of the cause for the loss of this game!"

"No one accuses you," put in the captain.

"You might as well say it as look it," retorted Sam.

"I tell you I won't stand for it.

Just because that new fellow made a home run you're all up in the air about him, and

for all the hard work I do, what do I get for it?

Eh?

Nothing, that's what!"

"Now, look here," said Darrell soothingly, "you know you're talking foolishly, Sam."

"I am not!" cried the pitcher petulantly.

"Either Joe Matson leaves the team or I do, and you can have my resignation any time

you want it!"

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Triathletes should climb their own mountain - Duration: 9:50.

- Things I do for you guys.

The mountain that you are climbing

is the same height as the mountain that I'm climbing.

Well isn't that cute?

Good morning trainiacs, bit of a different day today,

I pulled a real genius move and did not go and get new tubes

considering that I had a soft flat last week.

So this is supposed to be a cycling day,

it ended up being a running day,

didn't bring the go pro, not listening to podcasts,

I was just in the mood for a real tough AF kind of run,

so we are six K into it, at a 4:36 per kilometer pace,

which is seven 20s?

That's a total guess, I'm not sure about that.

But what we're gonna do is negative split

this son of a bitch, and the six K home

is gonna be death metal, 80s rock, in my earbuds,

at as fast a pace as I can go.

Good way to measure your pace is if you wanna go mellow,

breathe out every three steps

and in every three steps,

and then if you wanna go hard,

in every two steps and out every two steps,

so we're gonna do this run home on two-two breathing,

opening up those hips, getting those knees up,

kicking in behind me, it's gonna be hard.

And do you see what I do for you here?

I pulled that out of the garbage and filled it up with water

to hold the phone up.

Things I do for you guys.

A lot.

All right, let's go.

I gotta throw that away.

All right, now let's go.

This isn't the exact body of water,

but it's the water system that we're gonna be swimming in

in exactly one month, I hope.

It's moving like that on June 25th.

Oh, we've done 37 K in three hours.

(sings Bon Jovi)

Oh hair metal to run, catch me right where I need to be.

We are gonna have a lot of sniffling

to chop out of this.

Disgusting.

Well, trainiacs, that was 12 kilometers

in 52 minutes and 31 seconds.

That last six K coming back was done in 4:09 per kilometer

pace which is about 6:35 per mile.

I had to work in that last kilometer

to get it under 4:10, about a mile out

it flipped to 4:11,

and then about 500 meters later 4:10,

and for the last kilometer, you wanna talk

hard running on two-two breathing,

that was the two-twoiest.

Average 4:22 per kilometer for 12 K.

Given that we're so focused on long endurance

swim training, there's not a whole lot of reason

to throw that kind of run in right now.

It's just a couple things that made me want to do it,

number one is we're doing nothing but long, slow distances,

and sometimes it's nice to put a little pop in the step,

I was feeling good this morning

so I thought that I would take today to put that little pop

in my step, and then the run itself,

negative split runs are really really beneficial.

If you think about most running races

that you've done, as you're getting into running,

how often do you run the last half

just hanging on and getting slower and slower,

and like, oh my god, my time is slipping away.

Doing negative split runs trains your body

to go faster in the second half than the first half.

Granted when you get out into a race,

you're running race pace so it's still harder,

but gets your legs used to going, boom,

nice and fast towards the end.

That's all I've got for the moment.

I think it's time for a mega shake.

(sings)

Ladies and gentlemen, in today's edition of

Thoughts from the Bike,

I wanna talk a little bit about a conversation

that I literally just had with a tenant of ours,

and by a tenant I mean the tenant,

we have a renter who rents out our basement,

I see her maybe once a month,

and she is going in her very first five K run this weekend.

Awesome, right? Yeah.

Now something that she's said to me

a few times over the last week is

oh, you must look at my workouts

and the races that I'm doing

and think that it's just nothing.

Occasionally the trainiacs will give me

questions and comments along those lines,

but here's the thing,

everyone is climbing their own mountain,

and it's all relative,

basically the mountain that you're climbing,

is the same height as the mountain I'm climbing,

because it's not in relation to each other,

it's in relation to yourself.

There is a time not too many years ago

that a three kilometer run was a big accomplishment for me,

and now that's getting up to more 20, 30 kilometers

and I was just as proud as that first half marathon

that I did at 1:52 as the last half marathon I did at 1:28.

And with triathlon, I was probably more proud

of the very first 42 minute try a try,

than my last half ironman,

because the relative accomplishment from where you come from

to where you get to is all that matters.

Doesn't matter if what you're doing

in comparison to what other people are doing

is smaller, shorter, slower,

as long as you're doing it.

So with all that said, trainiacs,

just keep climbing whatever mountain you want to climb.

Eventually that mountain will grow,

and you'll set bigger, loftier, newer,

more exciting, more challenging, faster goals,

and other people will start looking up to you

and saying things like oh my goodness,

I couldn't do that,

you must think that what I do is so silly,

yeah, no, you just do you.

Be the best you you can be.

That is busy right now, at this time of the morning,

so that concludes another edition of

Thoughts from the Bike.

(upbeat music)

Hmm.

This is interesting trainiacs.

So if you've been around for longer than about four minutes,

you know that last week I did some blood testing

with a company called Inside Tracker,

this is not a sponsored video,

that was not a sponsored video,

I actually paid for the blood testing,

and Inside Tracker, Mariah from there,

who does their social and a lot of their marketing,

reached out and asked if I liked it,

and I was like yeah,

and then she promoted the video,

and then I think the founder

promoted the video on his twitter,

and she just emailed me, well isn't that cute,

that they set up a specific page

just for me on Inside Tracker.

See there's me complaining about my blood test,

there's Inside Tracker.

She just said that if I was cool with that page,

that they would make it live

and through that page, or the discount code,

this way, no reverse, this way to this way,

is that right? We'll go here.

Somewhere around here, triathlontaren20,

that any trainiacs that go there,

and I'll put the link in the description below,

will get 20% off of their own sport specific blood pound.

So I end up getting the ultimate,

which was $589, and will be 20% off,

$471, but they've got one that's $389,

and one that's $289 for a high performance,

just the essentials, inner age,

home kit, DIY, apparently it applies to everything.

So what happens is you order online,

and then they set up for somebody to come and visit you,

and it's a 10 minute blood draw,

and then literally, I think it was six business days later,

they have all of your data uploaded, analyzed,

with recommendations for what markers

you need to be careful of, what markers are good,

what markers are excellent.

And then suggestions for how you can either

fix the bad markers

or keep going with the markers that are really good.

Because we're pushing ourselves so much

a lot of our blood markers end up

going out of whack if they can't keep up.

And it's just kind of part of doing triathlon.

So this is a decent way that is not crazy expensive

to see where you're at

and I think that they've got it set up too

that if every few months you take markers,

that it can actually track

where your blood markers are going.

Very interesting.

Okay, so trainiacs, yeah,

if you wanna go to Inside Tracker

and test out what I tested out,

go to a link that I'll put in the description below

and use either just that link or go to triathlonterran20,

and use that coupon code.

Like I said, I'm not making any money off of this,

I just really liked it, I liked Mariah,

she's cool, she's friendly, she shared some of my videos,

she thinks I'm funny, you tell me I'm funny

I'll do anything for you.

True, true dat.

All right, that's been three separate

gibber gabber talks here today

so it's starting to rain out, I'm gonna go home,

that's enough triathlon Taren for the day.

See ya trainiacs.

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ListenHarvard Student's Rap Album Thesis That Earned Him - tech and science - Duration: 4:15.

Listen: Harvard Student�s Rap Album Thesis That Earned Him an Honors Graduation

One remarkable undergraduate student has made history at Harvard University after submitting

a rap album as his senior thesis in the English department. Twenty-year-old Obasi Shaw will

be graduating from the Ivy League school with honors after his creative work was awarded

a grade of summa cum laude minus, the second highest in the department.

Shaw was featured in a profile by the Harvard Gazette as one of �Harvard�s stellar graduates�

for his accomplishments at the university, where he was managing editor of the Harvard

Ichthus, a Christian journal produced by undergrads. He was also a member of the Christian group

Harvard Faith and Action.

The idea to submit a rap thesis actually came from Shaw�s mother, who made the suggestion

when she saw her son struggling for an idea as the deadline to submit a proposal for his

thesis was rapidly approaching. Shaw began rapping at a bible camp in Tennessee but didn�t

take it very seriously until his mother made him aware of his own potential

Shaw grew up listening to Christian rap music in Alabama, where he was home-schooled by

his parents, both of whom are also Harvard graduates. He credits his Christian upbringing

with giving him his moral compass and says he always preferred �songs of faith and

salvation with positive messages and clean lyrics.� Although he studied mainstream

rap for his thesis, Shaw disliked the violence and misogyny often presented through explicit

lyrics. Two mainstream rappers stood out to Shaw, however, who says he admires Kendrick

Lamar and Chance the Rapper for their eloquence and the way they confront �questions of

race, religion, and black identity.�

�Some people don�t consider rap a high art form,� Shaw told the Gazette. �But

poetry and rap are very similar. Rhyming poems were very common in old English poetry.�

So Shaw combined his affinity for writing with his background in Old English Literature

to create a 10-track rap album. Using beats collected online and from friends, he recorded

the album over the course of a year at Quad Sound Studios. The finished product was an

evocative journey through the �history of African-Americans� quest for equality�

from slavery to police brutality, from segregation to the Black Lives Matter movement, from mass

incarceration to Barack Obama.�

�Obasi�s album is very interesting because it uses Geoffrey Chaucer�s �Canterbury

Tales� as an intellectual overlay,� said Shaw�s thesis adviser and Briggs-Copeland

lecturer in English, Josh Bell. He observed that Shaw �is telling stories in each song

from different points of view, and it�s critical of American society and racial politics.

But above all that, it�s a fun and interesting album.�

The album is titled �Liminal Minds,� both as a play on the phrase �criminal minds�

and an allusion to the state of blackness in America today, said Shaw. �Black people

in America are kind of caught between freedom and slavery,� he said. �They�re free,

but the effects of slavery still exist in society and in people�s subconscious. Each

song is an exploration of black liminality, that state between slavery and freedom.�

The album opens with a track titled �Declaration of Independence,� which combines gritty

lyrics with an ominous beat to highlight the rampant police brutality faced by the black

community. However, Shaw closes on a more positive note with �Open Your Eyes,� which

puts a spotlight on �progress gained by African-Americans with resilience, courage,

and hope in their struggle for rights.�

While rap will always be important to him, the Harvard grad has different plans for his

future. Shaw plans to move to Seattle after graduation for a one-year internship in software

engineering.