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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yiuI04Ak2w 350 425] I wonder how difficult it would be to do some bounce…
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…
For Christmas my fabulous sister-in-law gave me a great gift. It's a training device called The Stick. It seems like it will be pretty good and already seems to be helping keep my muscles from getting too sore. Here is…
While joggling along the wet, muddy sidewalks of Chicago listening to the latest episode of The Skeptics Guide to the Universe, I passed a women who looked at me quizzically and asked, "Why do you juggle and run?" Without missing…