Blogger stats stink!

Every now and then I check the "all time" stats here at the Asylum.  It looks like I'll have to change the "popular all time" widget pretty soon, and manually enter some links to "classic posts" or somesuch.  Blogger is pretty good at tallying recent pagehits, but I've noticed that for part of 2011 and all of 2012, the cumulative hits on the Gary Taubes email post have been steadily DEclining.  Now I know it's not read a lot, but most...

At least it's not a Crap Shake!

Has Emeril gone low carb and moved into the Hacienda Hypocritica on the LLVLClue dud ranch?  Because it seems the in yo' face hypocrisy of Jimmy Moore has ... Bam! ... just been kicked up another notch!  Speaking of the Hartwigs of Whole9 fame while reviewing their new book, Jimmy Moore had this to say:... while the co-authors Dallas and Melissa Hartwig are not necessarily enthusiastic advocates...

Celebrating 40 Years of the Sport Wales National Centre (Part 1) - Nick Lia

On 12 June 1972 Her Royal Highness, Princess Anne, officially opened the National Sports Centre for Wales. Today marks the 40th anniversary of a superb facility - that has seen countless Welsh sports heroes pass through it's halls - that we now know as the Sport Wales National Centre. Nick Lia, Operations Manager, has worked in the Centre from the very beginning. In this first of a two-part blog...

Celebrating 40 Years of the Sport Wales National Centre (Part 2) - Nick Lia

On 12 June 1972 Her Royal Highness, Princess Anne, officially opened the National Sports Centre for Wales. Today marks the 40th anniversary of a superb facility - that has seen countless Welsh sports heroes pass through it's halls - that we now know as the Sport Wales National Centre. Nick Lia, Operations Manager, has worked in the Centre from the very beginning. In this second installment of a two-part...

Contest! Why we get fat ...

... Nah, for a change it's not Gary Taubes or Robert Lustig or any of the other usual suspects hailing from the US making sheet up and mangling facts. No, this article comes from the UK ... if you thought the state of science journalism in the US was bad, wait till you get a load of this specimen of health journalism in the UK!  This one was brought to my attention courtesy of Chris Highcock...

Gweithio mewn Partneriaeth â’r Urdd - Kathryn Thomas

Mae Chwaraeon Cymru wedi lawnsio £250,000 o byddsoddiad i mewn i'r Urdd i sicrhau bod miloedd mwy o blant a phobol ifanc yn gwirioni ar chwaraon am oes. Dyma agwedd Uwch Swyddog Chwaraeon Cymru, Kathryn Thomas, sydd yn gweithio'n agos gyda Adran Chwaraeon yr Urdd.  Yr Urdd yw’r mudiad ieuenctid mwyaf yng Nghymru gyda mwy na 50,000 o aelodau. Mae Chwaraeon Cymru wedi gweithio mewn partneriaeth...