In the past 50 years car crashworthiness has improved. Demonstrating this was a crash test between a 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air and a 2009 Chevrolet Malibu.

Time Magazine has released their list of 50 Best Inventions of 2009 and there are some amazing inventions which you might have never seen before.

The Best Invention of the Year is NASA’s Ares Rockets; and they call it the “the best and smartest and coolest thing built in 2009 — a machine that can launch human beings to cosmic destinations we’d never considered before”.

Here is the first SprintCam v3 showreel, made for NAB 2009 exhibition. Mostly 1000FPS shots, made during a recent rugby competition in the Stade de France, Paris. A great video!

Excessive cardio is linked with heart disease, according to some recent studies examining marathon runners and markers for coronary risk

Here’s the summary:

“they recruited 102 active marathon runners. To be a marathon runner … required at least 5 marathons in the past 3 years. Many had run dozens or more in their lifetime. Anyone with a known history of heart disease or diabetes was excluded … There were 102 totally asymptomatic age-matched controls, also with no history of diabetes, who had no significant history of vigorous exercise.”

“12% of asymptomatic marathon runners had evidence of myocardial damage on LGE … [4% of sedentary controls had abnormal LGE]” This metric was not technically significant, p < .08, but it certainly trends in the right direction and is probably worth investigating.

“The more marathons run, the higher the likelihood of heart disease. The number of marathons run was an independent and significant predictor of the likelihood of myocardial damage.”

Kings of Leon have a disaster of a gig at Reading Festival 2009.