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ABC Science asks…
If you were told you could get fit with just a few minutes of exercise a week, would you believe it? It sounds too good to be true, right?
But like a new drug on the market – sprint interval training promises to do just that by rapidly boosting the energy centres of your cells – mitochondria.

Basil Valentine
21st Century Wire
Some say it’s caused by volcanoes, others by nuclear explosions, but all that matters is that it happens. About every thirty years, the monster rises from the depths of the ocean: renewed, rejuvenated and ready to do battle on land once again. Behold the monster that is Leeds United, Godzilla of Football…! 

If he’s good enough for you,
He’s good enough for me!
If he scores another few,
Then I’ll be Muslim, too!
—  Sung by Liverpool supporters at Anfield, their home stadium

What is a million dollars worth compared to the love of eight million Cubans?
— 3-time Olympic heavyweight boxing champion Teofilo Stevenson on why he never signed a contract to become a professional boxer

What is a million dollars worth compared to the love of eight million Cubans?
— 3-time Olympic heavyweight boxing champion Teofilo Stevenson, on why he never signed a contract to become a professional boxer

The National Football League is ruing the day it denigrated the peaceful protests by some players against police brutality and inequality.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
— Martin Luther King, Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story (1958)

I have expressed an opinion on public issues whenever they appeared to me so bad and unfortunate that silence would have made me feel guilty of complicity.
Albert Einstein, Address to the Chicago Decalogue Society (20 February 1954)

Sun Yang

I never met the great basketball player, Bob Cousy, the man known as “the Houdini of the Hardwood,” yet he somehow influenced my life in ways I never knew, or to be more accurate, in ways I didn’t reflect upon except in superficial ways.  He was the guy who brought professional basketball into the modern era with his bag of fancy tricks that included no-look and behind-the-back passes, uncanny dribbling, and a magical court sense that made the fast break into an exquisite art form.  The captain and point-guard of the Boston Celtics from 1950-1963, Cousy led the Celtics to six NBA titles, ma