I actually don't think that supination is all that uncommon. I have high arches and I supinate. I ended up getting orthotics for running shoes which corrected the problem.
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Natter 58: Let's call Venezuela!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Really, Kat? I have high arches that don't remotely touch the floor and a high instep that means a lot of shoes cut right into the top of my foot. If I walk too much I get shin splints and my heels need to be soaked in cool water.
OMG, it's so nice out here, I just want to sit in the park all afternoon. Ah well.
Supination is the rolling outwards. I remember a podiatrist telling me that people with high arches tend to supinate precisely because the high arch, with its attendant connective tissue, forces the foot more outward than in.
The other things you described aren't necessarily related to supination itself, though they are issues with high arches.
Jesse, me too. Maybe I can get IT to loan me a laptop so I can spend the rest of the day working from Bryant Park.
ION, this sounds way cool, but the lectures are all $25 each. Ouch! (At least the street fair is free.)
For all of those Doctor Who, specifically David Tennant fans, the first publicity photo of him as Hamlet.
Woo hoo! I now have a new desktop to stare at longingly have in the background as I do lots of important HR tasks.
The Brain and Bourne: Neuroscience in the Bourne Trilogy — In this special collaboration with MoMA, a screening of The Bourne Identity will be followed by a panel discussion in which the film’s producer/director Doug Liman will be joined by psychiatrist and neuroscientist Giulio Tononi to explore the science behind The Bourne Trilogy.
to explore the science behind The Bourne Trilogy.
Ummmm. I don't think there is any. I say that with love, but, also with a general grounding in how psychology (to say nothing of the physics of cars) really works.
Vortex, Google says it's *67.
Ah, i didn't realize that it was for cell phones as well.
I wanna go to this one: [link]
Sustainable Solutions, Radical Designs — In a program that celebrates human ingenuity while providing a stark reminder of looming challenges, leading innovators including the planner behind China's first eco-city, an inventor of stackable cars, and a pioneer of urban farming, lay out radical blueprints and innovative solutions as they imagine housing, feeding, transporting and sustaining city dwellers of the not too distant future.
And this one: [link]
The Wonderful Weirdness of the Quantum World - Join Alan Alda as he accompanies Brian Greene, Nobel Laureate William Phillips and other leading thinkers at the vanguard of quantum research on an accessible multimedia exploration of the astounding weirdness of the quantum world.
And this one: [link]
Throwing a uniquely personal and intimate spotlight on their relationship with science, renowned researchers, writers, and artists take to the stage to tell stories about heroic failures, miscalculations and experiments — scientific and otherwise — gone wrong.
And this one: [link]
Are there universal laws of life, much like the fundamental laws of physics, that govern or limit the characteristics that make life — in any form — possible? Hear a vibrant discussion with astrobiologists Paul Davies, Steven Benner, and Maggie Turnbull about the search for life as we don’t know it.