His specialty is static apnea: holding your breath while remaining immobile in a swimming pool. It requires some of same skills as being buried alive for a week, Mr. Blaine said: “It’s all in your mind. You’ve got to stay calm and slow everything down.”
The guy can hold his breath for sixteen minutes; here is the article, interesting throughout. He is also versatile:
As a self-described endurance artist, he’d spent 35 hours atop a 105-foot pole and survived a week buried in a coffin. He’d fasted for 44 days in a box suspended over the Thames, a nutritional experiment that was written up in The New England Journal of Medicine (with Mr. Blaine listed as a co-author).
Nor had I known this:
Immersing the face in water produces a protective action in humans similar to that in dolphins, seals, otters and whales. Called the mammalian diving reflex, it quickly lowers the heart rate and then constricts blood vessels in the limbs so that blood is reserved for the heart and the brain.
He also survived being tormented with Big Macs attached to remote control helicopters during the Thames stunt. Though, perhaps it had the opposite effect…
Nature imitates art – read Kafka’s The Hunger Artist
but…but…but…he can hover, rex! I saw it on TV!
Ever seen babies happily ‘swimming’ under water? That’s the mammalian diving reflex. Apparently, we lose it as we age and our learnt behaviour takes over.
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BTW, the article also is mistaken when they claim the diving reflex was “recently rediscovered”, unless they’re talking geological time. The diving reflex, and the fact that it’s found in humans as well as non-human animals, has been known for over 70 years. That the writer or some selected people were ignorant of it all this time doesn’t really mean that their finding out about it constitutes its being “rediscovered”.
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The extent of the market means producers will not produce more than they can sell at a maximum profit.This to do with globalisation because one or a few producers are satisfying all demand and therefore control labour. Govt should remain nuteral because they are interfering with market conditions if they intervene Keynsian view there are other vailid views – see any Economics Textbook.
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