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The Best Time of Day to Run
Episode audio: https://anchor.fm/thompson-running/episodes/The-Best-Time-of-Day-to-Run-epjfnt Subscribe on Apple podcasts Subscribe on Spotify In Episode 4, I talk about the best time of day to run based on the ideas in Daniel Pink’s book When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing.
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Episode 3: Why we love the 5k
Episode 3 audio: https://anchor.fm/thompson-running/episodes/Why-we-love-the-5k-epda8v Subscribe on Apple podcasts Subscribe on Spotify In episode 3 of the Thompson Running Show we talk about why we love the 5k. We start off with some 5k trivia, talk about our reasons for loving the 5k. rank some of our favorite local 5k races, and let you know some…
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Running improvement from year to year
Subscribe on Apple podcasts Subscribe on Spotify This will be the first one of our podcasts that is mostly intended to be informative. In this episode, I discuss my reflections on bombing out on a recent marathon attempt based on Brad Hudson’s Book Run Faster from the 5k to the Marathon. Some questions to…
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Thompson Running Show: Episode 1
Audio: Subscribe on Apple podcasts Subscribe on Spotify For getting started running check out a Couch to 5k plan or app: https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/exercise/couch-to-5k-week-by-week/ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/c25k-5k-trainer/id485971733 Running group in Tangipahoa Parish: https://www.facebook.com/groups/TEAMbeastmode985 For a couple of my favorite books about the mental side of running check out: What I Talk about when I Talk about Running by…
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Unnaturalness in experimental design
I read a language related article today where the researchers presented their subjects sentences with the words making up the sentences being presented serially on a screen. Their goal was to determine if brain responses correlated with the presentation of words in a sentence carrying more information according to several probabilistic models of language. The material that they presented…
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In which Morrissey responds to Kris’ question on the utility of linguistics
Kris asks: what is linguistics good for? Here’s what Morrissey has to say: I’m not quite as pessimistic as Morrissey. I Kris’ question has layers to it. I believe those who engage in exegesis (a group to which I no longer belong) benefit from using resources informed by modern linguistic theory. I believe they would benefit from…
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Is Cognitive Linguistics growing “dominant”?
Short answer: I don’t think so. Or at least, I’m not sure. For the backstory and my reasoning for saying so read on. Today I read a review of Constantine Campbell’s Advances in the Studies of Greek by Nicholas Ellis and Mike Aubrey over at Themelios. Lest I give any of those who know me any misconceptions, I didn’t do…
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Why we can’t yet trust our lives to the algorithms
“jeremy thompson, We’ve picked a few styles we think you’ll like based on your past purchases and preferences.” … Uh … What?