{"id":10580,"date":"2012-09-25T08:45:16","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T13:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=10580"},"modified":"2012-09-24T17:33:30","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T22:33:30","slug":"new-stuff-tuesday-september-25-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/10580","title":{"rendered":"New Stuff Tuesday &#8211; September 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/mathletics.jpg\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"Mathletics\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mathletics<\/strong>:<br \/>\nA Scientist Explains 100 Amazing Things About the World of Sports<br \/>\nby John Barrow<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wtwlib.wisconsin.edu\/vwebv\/holdingsInfo?bibId=870987\">GV 706.8 .B373 2012<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>New Arrivals<\/strong>, 2nd floor<\/p>\n<p>This past weekend, I did something that I had previously thought was unthinkable &#8211; I ran a 5K. That&#8217;s right &#8211; I managed to go 3.1 miles in just over twenty-five minutes and not die from exhaustion. I enjoyed it so much that I will be doing a 10K in a couple of weeks. In honor of this feat [and the Packer game last night], I selected a book that highlights sports from a slightly different perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Barrow, math professor at Cambridge University and Gersham College in London, wastes no time in diving right into the subject of science in sport with a tip for Usain Bolt and his record-breaking sprints. He features short vignettes about the sports of the world, from archery to track and field and everything in between, exposing a less-explored side of the games. If you&#8217;re a sports nut that wants to one-up your friends with your crazy trivia skills, or you like sports, math, and\/or science, this book&#8217;s for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mathletics: A Scientist Explains 100 Amazing Things About the World of Sports by John Barrow GV 706.8 .B373 2012 New Arrivals, 2nd floor This past weekend, I did something that I had previously thought was unthinkable &#8211; I ran a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/10580\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[178,1482,185,1076,229,228,268],"class_list":["post-10580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-stuff-tuesdays","tag-books","tag-mathematics","tag-new-stuff","tag-olympics","tag-physics","tag-science","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10580"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10582,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10580\/revisions\/10582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}