Posts Tagged ‘Science of Sports’

Read all about it, Saturday edition

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

What other blogs have to say about some of Saturday’s World Science Festival events:

Science of Sports, Brain and Bourne, Biological Biography Add new participants

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

It’s been an exciting two weeks at the World Science Festival. We have already told you (here, here, here, here and here) about new events and new participants, but that’s not all by a long stretch.

Tom CrawfordFormer Director of Coaching for the US Olympic Committee, Tom Crawford (left), joins the team for Science of Sports, at NYU’s Coles Gymnasium, on Saturday May 31. Described as “the most knowledgeable single-source expert in athlete and sports development in the US,” Crawford will lay-out the play-by-play story of how science drives success for world-class athletes.

David EaglemanTom recently told a gathering of WSF supporters that at the highest levels of competition, winning is mostly about the mind. David Eagleman, (more…)