May 2012
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“Women who wear high heels all the time and then walk without them walk...”
– Heels shorten the Achilles tendon and change how your foot orients itself to the ground. That spells trouble once the heels come off, says Gretchen Reynolds.
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“A lot of people are trying barefoot running without preparation and without the...”
– On today’s Fresh Air, Gretchen Reynolds details what she did wrong when she tried barefoot running — and how to prevent your own running injuries.
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Walking for 30 minutes 4-5 times per week can... →
nprfunfacts:
Tripling that — running for 90 minutes, 4-5 times per week — improves that number by only 4 percent.
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Running Barefoot. Do you do it?
Today’s show talks about running barefoot. I’ve never done this (though I do run distances.) Have you? Worth it?
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“[My father] got in, ashen-faced, and quietly said, ‘Everyone stay in the...”
– David Alan Grier, on what his father taught him about being African-American in the U.S.
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“When I did interviews or whatever, people - guys would be so nervous. Like they...”
– Donna Summer on her image as a disco sex goddess. [Full interview here]
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“There was a time, you know, I got so used to the police turning up. You know,...”
– Sacha Baron Cohen on his run-ins with the law while making his movies.
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Sacha Baron Cohen: The Fresh Air Interview
The Invisible Made Visible →
Radio version of the This American Life live show, up for your listening pleasure. (Fresh Air Tumblr is on loan to @ThisAmerLife)
Pics from This American Life live show! →
(In case you didn’t know, @ThisAmerLife is looking after this Tumblr for a few days, and therefore spamming you with all sorts of TAL nonsense…)
“There are some questions in life, the very speaking of which are their own...”
– David Rakoff in this weekend’s episode of This American Life, The Invisible Made Visible 