AUSTIN, Texas â Theyâve traded insults, embraced dueling policies and accused the other of mishandling a surge of migrants at the southern border.
And yet, for President Joe Biden and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, their acrimonious relationship might only be starting.
In the two months since Biden took office, top White House officials and the Republican governor have already engaged in a series of ongoing and contentious disputes, a rare public back-and-forth for an administration that has been highly selective about responding to criticism.
Political veterans say for two leaders with far different ideological views, itâs an antagonism that will likely only deepen in the coming months and years.
Lakota Gambill
New research stresses the importance of having a strong upper body when it comes to running efficiency.
Training your upper body improves your running because it helps you prevent fatigue and improves endurance.
Adding exercises such as planks, back extensions, and squats to overhead presses to your strength training routine is a great way to work multiple muscle groups at once.
For better running efficiency, it’s a given that you need a strong lower body including your glutes, calves, and quads as well as more flexibility and mobility in your hips, knees, and ankles. Does that mean your upper body is just along for the ride, though? Turns out, it may play a bigger role in running than you might think.
By performing a CT (computed tomography) scan, they were able to determine that the skull had belonged to a young female, who was between the ages of 24 and 35 when she met with her demise. There was no way to tell exactly how her head had become disconnected from her body. But a set of lesions on the cranium revealed that the tissue on her face had been cut and scraped off sometime shortly after she had died.
These scrape marks, plus the separation of the head from the body, allowed the researchers to make a definitive conclusion about the cranium’s origin and the young woman’s fate. They knew that her head had been severed from her body, and the skin and underlying tissue removed from her face, in preparation for an elaborate Neolithic era funeral ritual . Her head would have been buried separately from the rest of her skeletal remains, which also may have been split up and buried in multiple locations.
February 26, 2021
Gretchen Reynolds
THE NEW YORK TIMES/ CNA – We can thank early human evolution that many of us can enjoy running as much as we do.
Watch anyone with a ponytail run, and you can see their hair repeatedly describe a figure-eight in the air, responding to the forces generated by the running.
But their heads stay still, their eyes and gaze level.
If it weren’t for some unique evolutionary advances, our heads would do the same as that ponytail, flopping like a swim noodle when we run, according to a clever new study of how – and why – our upper bodies seem to work the way they do when we run, but not when we walk.