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Feel the illusion of progress while accomplishing nothing! A “panorama treadmill” trick with metaphorical applications to other aspects of life too!

Sep 12, 2016

Fitness, Health

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The issue: Running on a treadmill can be quite unrewarding due to the repetitiveness and relatively long duration of most treadmill-based exercises. Fig 1: This treadmill needs to be jazzed up somehow. There are certain “gimmick”-based treadmills that connect to a monitor to give you the illusion of actually making progress toward a destination as…
Five ways to improve your climbing wall (actually just two ways)

Aug 4, 2014

Culture

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Background: The goal of most climbing walls it to simply get to the top. However, there is no reason not to make the goal something more elaborate. The inspiration: There is a video game called “Shadow of the Colossus” in which your goal is to guide a man with a sword as he clambers on…