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Saturday, December 01, 2018

Let's Get Physical!

The Science of Sports: Winning in the OlympicsThe Science of Sports: Winning in the Olympics by Scientific American
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Over the many years of its publication run, Scientific American has produced many fine collections of their articles in the form of books. Much like their special editions, but in a longer form. The volume is such a collections made for ebooks. When they first started publishing these ebooks, they did a sloppy job of copy editing and produced awful volumes with numerous typos and obvious cutting and pasting without formatting. They finally straightened up and fixed those errors, so good on them for that, but then something must have happened between ebook publishers and SA, because they withdrew the over 50 volumes from the Kindle store and went into self-publishing. Fortunately, Amazon maintains volumes already purchased. You can get all of their ebooks at their site, but you'll have to put up with epub and mobi editions and not be able to share highlights. Way to support public outreach, guys.

Anyhow, if you like sports, you'll find most of these articles interesting. They focus on the scientific issues of the 2012 Olympics, but they also address exercise, genetics and even heat stroke prevention. The formatting is good (though I did find a couple of errors lurking). Hey, it's Scientific American! What could go wrong? There are no essays about water with memory is this ebook.

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