Science of walking

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#1

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090728/sc_afp/sciencearmsoffbeat

I read this article … and it provided insight into how many preconcieved ideas are still outhere. Come on … anyone who ever had pay a little attention to the phenomenon of walking, realized that the arm swinging has a balancing and helping effect in our forward movement. Did that really need a scientific study to realize ? Apparently such scientific studies are needed to get rid of silly ideas like arm swinging being a useless atavistic remnant of four legged walking. How much of our science (spiritual efforts and funds) are directed to state obvious things if one has a bit of awareness ? Apparently, it take a lot of energy to uproot prejudices.

Which reminds me [I]justwannabe[/I] and his weeding activities. Mmmm … wonder how that’s going …

#2

Indeed. Agreed. Well put. And about time.

#3

I wouldn’t mind getting paid to give the public useless information. Sounds like a job full of win imo.

#4

studying arm walking is about as significant as the question how did we get here, no?

#5

Lencho – I disagree. Here’s an illustration: you’re an athlete. How much of your precious time are you really willing to devote to a salary when the activity that generates the salary doesn’t do anything else for you or for anyone else in the world? But I think Hubert’s original impetus for posting is, (while this is important information) it is readily available to anyone who walks, or at least any high school cross country coach. There was someone out there willing to pay for that which is freely given. (actually, that reminds me of one of my own church’s abandoned religious practices: sell indulgences to the rich while the poor understand that a good rosary will take care of it better.)

It makes me wonder if I am willing to pay for (and there are lots of ways to ‘pay’) something that is already mine.

And yes, justwannabe, the basics of human experience (for those of us who walk) touches on the origins of our current condition. A scientific study might not be the best way to reveal those connections. . .

#6

No. How did we get here is actually a very important question, and the answer divides people in many groups, separating them, and creating the possibility of conflict. Thus, it is important to have an answer to it, one that unifies, and can be freely approached and accepted by anyone.

#7

[QUOTE=justwannabe;21825]studying arm walking is about as significant as the question how did we get here, no?[/QUOTE]

Do you scoff at a multitude of people, - scientists and religious believers included - who keep asking questions like “why?” and “how?”? Or have we misunderstood you? I think there is a lot of money and effort wasted on studies of this nature but the questions still keep coming up. And a big one, the [B]bigges[/B]t for many, is “How did we get here and where are we going?”

Asking these questions is what separates us from just [I]‘being’[/I] in nature like a butterfly or a wolf. They know all they need to whereas we keep asking.

Brooke

#8

[QUOTE=Hubert;21844]No. How did we get here is actually a very important question, and the answer divides people in many groups, separating them, and creating the possibility of conflict. Thus, it is important to have an answer to it, one that unifies, and can be freely approached and accepted by anyone.[/QUOTE]
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