In the 1970s, someone thought it would be really cool to sell people a bunch of shoes and they have just been running shoes. And so for... You know, that's interesting. My father used to run track and he showed me his track shoes one day when we went to the track. There wasn't all this extra rubber and texture and heel. It was like hardly anything covering his foot. So what happened in the 1970s? Was it just marketing?
Why do humans have butt cheeks? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice, and Gary O’Reilly learn about the biomechanics of running with professor and running specialist Dr. Irene Davis, featuring Neil’s interview with author Chris McDougall.
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