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Three strikes and you’re out! Does your team seem full of limp bats? And what about basketball–is your team in that sport doing badly as well? Donuts, bat wraps, weighted gloves are some of the many devices are available to help baseball players warm up while waiting to go to bat. But a new study finds that none of ten commonly used warm-up devices has a significant effect on bat speed, which may explain why YOUR team is doing so badly.
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It happened again: The earthquake that hit Japan moved the island nation 8 feet and shifted the Earth on its axis by almost 4 inches. Japan is prone to earthquakes, but this was the most powerful one to hit the country in recorded history. Japan is part of the "ring of fire" in the Pacific, an area of high seismic and volcanic activity that stretches from New Zealand, up through Japan, across to Alaska and down the west coasts of North and South America.
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