Remember that story a while back about how learning to juggle could increase the size of your brain? Well, the authors are back again with some follow-up research. According to this report, juggling really does change brain structure. But the new information is that learning a new skill has more effect on [...]
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I’ve been traveling a lot lately so haven’t had a chance to post much joggling stuff. But I’ll work on some material during my flight today. In the meantime, check out this impressive showing of balancing.
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This story about a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience demonstrates that people can still learn to juggle after age 50 and beyond. According to German researchers, a group of older people (ages 50-67) were studied to see how their brains would change after learning to juggle. These were people who never [...]
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If you like to juggle but don’t want to spend the money on an expensive set of clubs, consider making your own. Jonathan Poppele has put together these detailed instructions for making your own out of a soda bottle and a wooden dowel.
This would be a great weekend project. You can even use [...]
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As a joggling blogger and scientist, I spend a lot of time looking through internet links and scientific papers. Here’s one about some real science looking at the benefits of juggling in older individuals. It was published in the journal Age and Ageing.
It’s interesting. They took a group of 278 older adults [...]
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Mercury Worm reports a great story about his first experience joggling a couple miles outdoors. It’s amusing and reminds me of many of my own joggling efforts. In one part he describes his drops. He was passing someone and right after they said how impressed they were, he dropped a bean bag.
This [...]
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Here’s an interesting study reported on at NPR. It seems that people are able to improve their physical fitness just by thinking about it. This same technique could be used to improve your joggling and even your juggling ability.
Maid study
Researchers at Harvard studied a group of maids and their exercise habits. They [...]
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After practicing every day this year for 5 minutes in the morning and sometimes 5 minutes at night, I’ve finally accomplished my goal of balancing a hat on my nose for more than 1 minute. Yesterday, I did it for 1:10.
No video of my PR but here’s one that demonstrates some progress.
So, what’s [...]
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Bounce juggling is pretty cool but this one is just great. It’s amazing how well the balls bounce in that triangle. This is juggler Michael Moschen.
I wonder how difficult it would be to do some bounce joggling?
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Yesterday, I was in the coffee room at work waiting for my tea water to heat up in the microwave. Since it takes 2 minutes, I spent that spare time balancing a wooden brush on my nose. Balancing things on your nose is a great thing to do while you have a couple [...]
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