The mudskipper is a fish that spends most of its time out of the water and can “walk"on its fins. Most fish use their fins to move forward, turn or stop. Fish cannot swim backwards. Mudskippers are fish that spend more time on land than in water.They use their fins to jump on ...
Why can't kangaroos move backwards? During saltation, kangaroos push off with both large feet at the same time, and they use their tails for balance. The combination of their muscular legs, big feet and tails may help kangaroos move forward effectively, but these appendages also prevent them ...
Set the point to be tracked as the nose-tip, as this is one of the easiest face-tracking points (the other being the chin) to move an object with, Set the non-constrained Position axis to 'Z' this time instead of the 'Y' we used in 'TrackingAction2'. We will explain further bel...
‘”For more advanced people, if you’ve mastered the exercises, it can be a great way to add intensity to each move, as with wall sits. It can be a tool to make your workouts easier or more complex”.’ Time under tension and technique complexity are two key elements of Pilates prog...
forward put your foot in your mouth put your heart into it put your money where your mouth is put your nose out of joint putting his feet to the fire putting the cart before the horse putting the screws to him Pyrrhic victory Return to top Q queen for a day queer as a three dollar...
As anyone who’s read much here before will know, George Orwell is one of my all-time favourite writers, and people love to quote his six rules for writing, but while I would certainly follow them if writing a news story or article where brevity is crucial, otherwise I think it’s ...
“From an engineering perspective it is imperative to understand how and why this building came down under design load conditions,” said Walter. The study says NIST made some fundamental errors in how engineers estimated the rigidity of the outside building frame and that the...
I’ve already come up with a theme for next month and am looking forward to exploring it. (Why must I be doing this in months? – another of the questions I need to explore…) Back in the land of words, this month I rediscovered a very similar technique of placing a theme of ...
(Time change, not so much.) On top of all that we do look forward to, it is the time of year of setting the hot tub up for the winter. Our family swimming pool, or as Lindsey would call it, “our time of noise and chaos.” The kids have been asking for a few weeks now, ...
Steve Mirsky: Going backwards it all makes perfect sense, but going forward it looked haphazard as hell. HDYGT: Either direction will do. Steve Mirsky: I wanted to be an actor and went to acting school. But after I did some professional theatre, I wanted to be a chemist. HDYGT: You ...