{"id":13,"date":"2009-09-21T10:53:56","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T08:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malemuk.wordpress.com\/?p=13"},"modified":"2015-01-04T04:30:28","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T04:30:28","slug":"surviving-the-extremes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malemuk.com\/olofee\/surviving-the-extremes\/","title":{"rendered":"Surviving the Extremes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A book by Kenneth Kamler. Subtitle: What Happens to the Human Body at the Limits of Human Endurance.<\/p>\n<p>I was afraid it was going to be testosterone-laden but, in fact, there are few superlatives. Kamler gives detailed physiological explanations of the how the body reacts to cold, altitude, poison, heat. It is quite fascinating and might even be useful for those of us who feel better outside in -30 \u00b0C than inside on the couch&#8212;which couch? Didn&#8217;t I trade it for a pair of skis?<\/p>\n<p>I found the chapter on the jungle the most amazing. How people have been able to adapt to this hostile environment and, not the least, the incredible biodiversity. Kamler reminds us that, sadly, these guys are being lured by our unsustainable lifestyles. The old guide knows it&#8217;s wrong but he&#8217;s powerless against the carefree youngsters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/ken_kamler_medical_miracle_on_everest.html\" target=\"_self\">Here&#8217;s a link to Kamler&#8217;s TED presentation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A book by Kenneth Kamler. Subtitle: What Happens to the Human Body at the Limits of Human Endurance. I was afraid it was going to be testosterone-laden but, in fact, there are few superlatives. Kamler gives detailed physiological explanations of the how the body reacts to cold, altitude, poison, heat. It is quite fascinating and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2809,"url":"https:\/\/malemuk.com\/olofee\/living-in-truth\/","url_meta":{"origin":13,"position":0},"title":"Living in truth","date":"June 20, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ONzLgOHD6uw\u00a0at 57'14\" Chris Hedges: \"As Hannah Arendt wrote in the Origins of Totalitarianism, the only morally reliable people are not those who say this is wrong or this should not be done but those who say I can't. They know that, as Emmanuel Kant wrote, if justice perishes, human life\u2026","rel":"nofollow","context":"In \"Politics and Society\"","img":{"src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3082,"url":"https:\/\/malemuk.com\/olofee\/michael-parenti-conspiracy-and-class-power\/","url_meta":{"origin":13,"position":1},"title":"Michael Parenti - Conspiracy AND class power","date":"August 14, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"@youtube{, topic = {ruling class, conspiration}, url = {https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Jsua0m6GreY}, author = {Michael Parenti}, title = {Conspiracy AND class power}, institution = {Berkeley, CA}, year = {1993}, abstract = {This is an in-depth analysis of the modern state and the exercise of power behind the scenes. The speech is also an\u2026","rel":"nofollow","context":"In \"Politics and Society\"","img":{"src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malemuk.com\/olofee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malemuk.com\/olofee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malemuk.com\/olofee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malemuk.com\/olofee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malemuk.com\/olofee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malemuk.com\/olofee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460,"href":"https:\/\/malemuk.com\/olofee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malemuk.com\/olofee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malemuk.com\/olofee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malemuk.com\/olofee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}