奥运会的科学?我们的第一本电子书可以解释

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奥运会是世界上最伟大的体育盛事。男男女女奔跑、游泳、跳水、举重、撑杆跳、发球、挥杆、踢球和互相比赛,直到在各个运动项目中决出冠军。但是,是什么让每位冠军从所有同样是精英运动员的竞争对手中脱颖而出呢?

为了回答这个问题和许多其他问题,《大众科学》推出了其第一本电子书《运动的科学:在奥运会中获胜》。它包含超过 30 章,分为八个部分,揭示了运动成就背后的科学和一些丑闻。它探讨了冠军在训练和比赛期间头脑中发生的心理活动,解释了可以预防和修复损伤的前沿疗法,揭示了允许某些人突破人类极限的基因、激素和大脑结构,并审视了试图通过药物作弊的运动员与试图抓住他们的官员之间有时会进行的猫捉老鼠游戏。这本电子书还介绍了最后一节,为我们所有人提供关于如何保持健康和健美的建议。在组织这本书之后,我可以说仅在那一节中的一些见解就令人惊讶。


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Mark Fischetti has been a senior editor at 大众科学 for 17 years and has covered sustainability issues, including climate, weather, environment, energy, food, water, biodiversity, population, and more. He assigns and edits feature articles, commentaries and news by journalists and scientists and also writes in those formats. He edits History, the magazine's department looking at science advances throughout time. He was founding managing editor of two spinoff magazines: 大众科学 Mind and 大众科学 Earth 3.0. His 2001 freelance article for the magazine, "Drowning New Orleans," predicted the widespread disaster that a storm like Hurricane Katrina would impose on the city. His video What Happens to Your Body after You Die?, has more than 12 million views on YouTube. Fischetti has written freelance articles for the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian, Technology Review, Fast Company, and many others. He co-authored the book Weaving the Web with Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, which tells the real story of how the Web was created. He also co-authored The New Killer Diseases with microbiologist Elinor Levy. Fischetti is a former managing editor of IEEE Spectrum Magazine and of Family Business Magazine. He has a physics degree and has twice served as the Attaway Fellow in Civic Culture at Centenary College of Louisiana, which awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 2021 he received the American Geophysical Union's Robert C. Cowen Award for Sustained Achievement in Science Journalism, which celebrates a career of outstanding reporting on the Earth and space sciences. He has appeared on NBC's Meet the Press, CNN, the History Channel, NPR News and many news radio stations. Follow Fischetti on X (formerly Twitter) @markfischetti

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