Day: April 15, 2011

According to Playboy, the rankings are determined via Playboy on-campus Facebook pages, surveys and other interviews with students. They consider the male to female ratio, the winning percentage of sports teams, vicinity to beaches and ski slopes, and the music scene.

Such a great song!

Some people have advanced radical solutions to the sitting syndrome: replace your sit-down desk with a stand-up desk, and equip this with a slow treadmill so that you walk while you work. (Talk about pacing the office.) Make sure that your television can only operate if you are pedaling furiously on an exercise bike. Or, watch television in a rocking chair: rocking also takes energy and involves a continuous gentle flexing of the calf muscles. Get rid of your office chair and replace it with a therapy ball: this too uses more muscles, and hence more energy, than a normal chair, because you have to support your back and work to keep balanced. You also have the option of bouncing, if you like.

Or you could take all this as a license to fidget.

But whatever you choose, know this. The data are clear: beware your chair.

UH Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital’s Dr. John Letterio comments.

US, British and French leaders insist that Muammar Gaddafi must step down in Libya, amid continuing signs of division within Nato over the alliance’s military campaign.