Cricket, Race and the 2007 World Cup

Nature and Pattern of Cricket Injuries: The Asian Cricket Council Under-19, Elite Cup, 2013

Cricket has over the years gained much popularity in Asia, thus the number of cricket players has also grown in tandem. However, cricket players are not as fortunate as other athletes as they do not always have a standard cricket infrastructure to practice; therefore, the injury prevalence is expected to be high. Unfortunately, very few studies have been conducted to investigate the nature and ...

The wonderful world of cricket.

C ricket geeks love numbers. It is amazing that there are only 42 rules of cricket but the statistics on the game fill libraries. I wonder whether the late Douglas Adams had that number in mind when he wrote the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and the planet-sized super computer ‘‘Deep Thought’’ came up with the same answer to the question of the meaning of life. What is it about cricket that ...

The first World Cell Race

Acknowledgments We thank The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute for providing facilities in Gamboa that allowed us to collect ant colonies and conduct the behavioural assays, Luke Holman and two anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on an earlier version of the manuscript, and the members of the Centre for Social Evolution for creating a pleasant working environment. This study was supp...

Dengue and the World Football Cup: A Matter of Timing

The possibility of a dengue fever outbreak during the FIFA Football World Cup raised controversies about the use of health data and the impact of climate on dengue dynamics. One example of this debate is the article ‘‘Football fever could be a dose of dengue’’ recently published in Nature by Simon Hay and its repercussion in media and scientific forums. The risk map presented by Hay appears to ...

World Cup 2010 and acute pain in the neck.