Nietzsche famously argued that art grows from the marriage of Apollo, the Greek god embodying rationality, order and planning, and Dionysus, who embodies drunken disorder and wild dancing. The two gods obviously conflict, but their unruly marriage is essential, Nietzsche said. Strong companies likewise embody a continuous conflict between these …
Here’s a new study from researchers at Tufts to share over turkey if you’re looking to motivate older relatives. Even a little walking goes a LONG way: * Adults who walked at a pace faster than three miles per hour (mph) had a 50%, 53%, 50% lower risk of coronary heart …
Busy building virtual races for real athletes, we’re obviously fascinated by interactions on the borderline between machines and athletes. So two stories this week caught our eye. First, the Washington Post noted that, after winning a gold medal in the world championships in Beijing, the most-likely next Olympian gold medalist …
Responding to popular demand… starting today, racers will be able to upload mileage directly through their race’s map. Accessed via the ‘log miles’ tab, the upload form has today’s date auto-filled, but also allows back-dating mileage for racers who miss logging a day or two. Right now, the app assumes …
ExitEvent’s article about Racery, written by Laura Braverman, has a nice summary of Racery’s origin story, which grounds and the fact that our former colleague Bruno Sokic’s brother lives in Sweden. Oh, and zombies. The idea came after a former Blogads employee started to use the Zombies, Run! app, which …
Remember when Team IBM had its own jerseys and Triangle tech behemoths took corporate competition to the streets by contending in road races? To celebrate a new Racery feature that allows teams to use real miles to race against each other on a digital route, we’re excited to revive this …