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Navigating Rural Communities And The Strait Of Gibraltar

When he finished, Turner told his wife he “couldn’t have made it another two minutes.” Dr. Wade Turner has three passions: keeping people healthy, swimming the Strait of Gibraltar and raising awareness about the critical shortage of rural physicians and extreme pressures on community hospitals. Through his Strait of Gibraltar swim, Dr. Turner hopes to

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The Greatest Ice Swimming Race Ever

Courtesy of International Ice Swimming Association in Murmansk, Russia. The video above shows a mind-boggling 1000m heat at the International Ice Swimming Association-sanctioned Ice Swimming World Championship in Lake Semenovskoe in Murmansk, Russia on March 20th. Christof Wandratsch (Germany), Albert Sobirov (Russia), Henri Kaarma (Estonia), Craig Lenning (USA), and Sergio Daniel Salomone (Argentina) among others

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Mother Nature And The Open Water – 1.0

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. First Algae-Based Surfboard Unveiled Built by UC San Diego and surfing company By: The Editors New SHARES Stephen Mayfield, an algae geneticist and biology professor at UC San Diego, teamed up with professional surfer Rob Machado and Marty Gilchrist of Oceanside, California–based Arctic Foam, the largest surfboard blank manufacturer

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Physiology of Aging

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Today is the start of Environmental Physiology. Your Body In The World, a free online course offered by Professor Anne Friedlander of Stanford University. Professor Friedlander explains, “Want to climb mountains and fly fighter planes? Want to skydive? Want to travel around the country to meet science experts that

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