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@Alan_Couzens @toothsleuth33 So anything over heart rate zone 1 increases cortisol? That's almost every form of exercise.

@toothsleuth33 On average ~10% gap in the lower ranges, so 50% VO2max is typically ~=60% max HR. These gaps narrow as we get closer to (and beyond) the second threshold.

This is important. He's almost entirely wrong, but not quite. Cortisol release is intensity-dependent. While work >~60% VO2max increases cortisol, work <50-60% VO2max decreases cortisol below baseline levels. That is, it's a de-stressor that stabilizes your metabolism. In other words, the metabolic health of the athlete has a lot to do with how they train & how much of it is at moderate-high intensities.

@diedisappointed Eco is criticizing someone else for digressions?

kind of a hilarious introduction by umberto eco for everyman library of count of monte cristo

@IIHFHockey @usahockey 3 on 3 is an abomination. Don't ever do it again. No other sport settles their most important games with gimmicks like that.

USA ARE OLYMPIC CHAMPIONS! 🥇🇺🇸 #Olympics #IIHF @usahockey

@acoyne Crow did the same thing again, waiting on the line for the next car, which ran over the chestnut, cracking it open. Crow flew down and started eating the insides. 2/2

Then it flew up into a tree and started making a sound I’ve never heard a crow make before. It’s difficult to describe, but it sounded almost like a gong. A gong of … triumph? Has anyone had this happen to them? Seen it? Heard of it? That crow was basically playing with Toby 5/5

So I took our dog Toby to the park today, where he started chasing a large, ungainly-looking crow. The crow flew low to the ground for some time, as if it were struggling to gain altitude, but after a chase of about two hundred yards, escaped up into the trees. 1/n

@acoyne Once when walking to work on our residential street I saw a crow pick up a fallen chestnut in its beak and fly up to perch on a power line spanning the road. It waited for a car to approach, then dropped the chestnut in front of it. Car drove by. 1/2

True!

@acoyne Either both are okay or neither is.

@acoyne Wd indicate accepting Speakership was for partisan reasons in first place. Same principle as Speaker breaking ties by voting with govt.

@acoyne On what principle would just-elected Speaker resign? Wouldn't resignation itself be for purely partisan reasons, thus tarnishing the post?

@acoyne Would you believe Mozart? Guglielmo in Cosi fan tutte: "An equal to me cannot be found from Vienna to Canada."

@doncraigphoto Great things come in small packages!

@doncraigphoto These are fabulous! Thanks so much, Don!

"I like to help with props." Dec. 5 FearNoOpera.com #yyjarts #indieoperawest

@CommunityMike That makes my day!

@christopherburd Thanks so much!

@doncraigphoto Thanks for the GREAT photos, Don!

@IndiegogoRank please stop retweeting for a campaign that ended over a month ago.

@harbourliving Thanks for the retweet!

@twinkelmans Thanks! 42% of the way toward our goal!