Month: November 2024

This is the first of a series of posts about Claude Shannon, mathematician, engineer, and computer scientist whose work beginning in the late ’30s helped to define the Information Age that emerged over the subsequent decades. Shannon is largely credited for having developed Information Theory. Over the next few posts, we’ll dive into some of … Read more

In recent posts about Bruce Lee, we looked at his technical prowess as a fighter, including his use of the one-inch punch and the stop-hit, as well as a fight that exposed the limitations of his approach. By 1964, at the age of 23, Lee had become a fighter who possessed blinding speed, incredible strength … Read more

In hand-to-hand combat, being taller has advantages, all else equal. If you are taller than your opponent, your reach will tend to be longer than your opponent’s, meaning you can strike from a distance that is outside your opponent’s range. To counter, your opponent has to lunge forward to reach you, making him more vulnerable. … Read more