News tagged with olympic games
Sexist Olympic coverage
Pirkko Markula says when it comes to the Olympics, media coverage rarely gives women equal treatment.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jan 20, 2010 |
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GE to buy $345 mln of ads from NBC Universal
(AP) -- General Electric Co. has promised to buy at least $345 million in advertising from NBC Universal over five years after selling a controlling stake in the entertainment company to Comcast Corp., according to a regulatory ...
Dec 04, 2009 |
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New study further disputes notion that amputee runners gain advantage from protheses
A study by six researchers, including a University of Colorado at Boulder associate professor and his former doctoral student, shows that amputees who use running-specific prosthetic legs have no performance ...
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Why Winning Athletes Are Getting Bigger
While watching swimmers line up during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, former Olympic swimmer and NBC Sports commentator Rowdy Gaines quipped that swimmers keep getting bigger, with the shortest one in ...
Jul 17, 2009 |
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Mice run faster on high-grade oil
Between the 1932 and 2008 Olympic Games, world record times of the men's 100m sprint improved by 0.6 seconds. Scientists at the Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology in Austria have shown that an equivalent improvement can ...
Jun 29, 2009 |
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Athletes, spectators faced unprecedented air pollution at 2008 Olympic Games
(PhysOrg.com) -- Particulate air pollution during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing constantly exceeded levels considered excessive by the World Health Organization, was far worse than other recent Olympic ...
Jun 19, 2009 |
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