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Fast, small, defensive: effective start tactics in sabre

February 14, 2014

Sabre fencing was once the weakest discipline of the three Olympic fencing events. It had a reputation for being a loud and boring sport where every point consisted of two guys charging at each other, then screaming at the referee to award them the point. Since the 2008 Olympics, such simultaneous actions in sabre have … More Fast, small, defensive: effective start tactics in sabre

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February 13, 2014

Science is a method to distil truth from the world. The core of science is experimentation: formulating a hypothesis about how something works, aggressively testing it, collecting observations in the form of data, analysing the results, and coming to a conclusion. All of these steps require “invention, sagacity, [and] genius” (Whewell, History of Inductive Science, 1837, and … More Show me the data