Reblog: Can muscle fibers grow without being activated?

Chris Beardsley·Follow5 min read·2 hours ago–ListenShareAfter publishing my last short article, I received some feedback from friends and colleagues notifying me that one of the reasons that many people are struggling with the use of the principle of neuromechanical matching for governing exercis

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Reblog: What Startups Are Really Like

Paul Graham’s essay on what startups are really like:

I wasn’t sure what to talk about at Startup School, so I decided to ask the founders of the startups we’d funded. What hadn’t I written about yet? I’m in the unusual position of being able to test the essays I write about startups.

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Reblog: To Understand Heart Disease, You Need To Understand This.

Heart disease does not kill people. Heart attacks do.

Appreciating this distinction is critical to understanding heart disease.

Heart disease is the presence of plaque or atherosclerosis in the coronary arteries.

(Heart disease can, of course, refer to many other heart-related conditions, but in general, the terms heart disease and coronary artery disease or atherosclerosis are typically used interchangeably)

A heart attack occurs when plaque ruptures in the artery, forming a clot that blocks blood flow down the artery, and the heart muscle dies.

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