KinesioloGENE

一些情感是不易被经常体会到的，例如归属。

大约很久没有为分离掉过眼泪了。 三个二十岁的人，竟然还是在说再见的一瞬间体会到无法按捺的惜别，尝到滑落的泪水。

列车带我们扬镳南北。朋友，再会。

dad, mom, and i went to the Gubeikou section of the Ming Great Wall this weekend. starting climbing around 4:45 am, we got the chance to c the flowing clouds and rising sun. though not perfect, the view we saw was sth ive never met before.

hahahaha, barb came over! went out together yesterday! haven't seen each other for a long long long long while :)

here is a pic dad took in a random supermarket in Shanghai. yeah, it seems here we have no ban for alcohol consumption, hahaha. see, beer bottles are just put beside spring water. yeah, it is more like just one kind of normal beverages.

still, shots from 798. the slogan, "mass production of optimism", is painted everywhere.

798 was the code signed by military to this factory. nowadays, it already became one of the most famous centres of chinese contemporary art. studioes are everywhere. no limit exists - artists even make fun on chairman Mao, haha. took several pix, to show a breath of this culture-free atmosphere. 

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Inside a Soviet-style training camp, corporate scientists are reengineering neuro-mechanics, blood chemistry, and brain waves. Welcome to the Oregon Project, where Nike is rebuilding the US marathon team one high tech step at a time.

By Andrew Tilin

IT'S A SATURDAY MORNING IN CENTRAL PARK, and 44 elite runners nervously stretch, retie their shoelaces, and jog in place before the start of the USA Men's 8K Championships. Most of the invited athletes are mulling over typical prerace concerns: Did I log enough miles? Am I psyched to push my body? Should I hit the Porta Potti?

But two runners, Dan Browne and Chad Johnson, have more on their minds: Was there enough oxygen in our hermetically sealed house? How reliable is the Russian brain wave software? Did that high-frequency neuro-mechanical stimulator actually strengthen our legs?

Browne and Johnson are among the half-dozen runners on a Nike team dubbed the Oregon Project, a stealth experiment headed by onetime marathon star Alberto Salazar to create a radically better runner. Over the last eight months, they've lived in a five-bedroom Portland bungalow, training pretty much like other top-tier racers. They run about 105 miles a week, sleep 10 hours a night, and wolf down pasta by the bowl. But the rest of their regimen is highly unusual - a multimillion-dollar lab project that relies on up-to-the-minute, sometimes untested, scientific theory and technological gizmos.

For starters, there's the house itself. Research shows that sleeping at high altitude increases the production of oxygen-carrying red blood cells, which, when combined with intense, low-elevation workouts, dramatically improves athletic performance. Of course, it's logistically tricky to live high and train low - unless Nike makes you a special mock-altitude house. Which is exactly what happened. Molecular filters inside the house remove oxygen, creating the thin air found at 12,000 feet. Runners eat, sleep, watch TV, and play videogames at what their bodies think is high elevation. Meanwhile, they train at Portland's sea level.

having fun with coloring these wireframe pix :)