Offtopic: rice crisis

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080424/ts_nm/food_dc;_ylt=AvWMlnUPTSgGrjlJWyQCBlis0NUE

Nice post on yoga and martial arts

Here is a great post on yoga and martial arts. The blogger hasn’t done a day of yoga in his life but his post is super convincing. I like how he puts a clip of this guy doing really advanced inversions above a clip of Royce sparring and draws some interesting comparisons.
http://www.markstraining.com/2008/04/yoga-for-martial-arts.html

Acupressure and qigong

I am trying to learn about acupressure as an adjunct to qigong. It seems remarkably simple and effective. The treatment method is to just hold the points. It also seems much more specific.
The main points are part of the Strange Flows, apparently so-named because they do not follow meridian channels, but intersect them.
Various points [...]