From echoing societal shifts to changing the way the game is played, the heights of players at the top level of Australian Football have been a crucial part of footy's history.
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Anthropometry and Kinanthropometry
The scientific study of body measurements Curated by Peter Mellow |
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From echoing societal shifts to changing the way the game is played, the heights of players at the top level of Australian Football have been a crucial part of footy's history.
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The Napoleon Complex - aka 'small man syndrome' - suggests short men are overly aggressive. But is it true? And was Napoleon himself even short? It seems we may have been spun a neat web of lies, smears, and propaganda.
Film by Max Tobin
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For the vertically gifted, every day of the year means standing out. But March can be particularly maddening.
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Short people don’t just save resources; as resources become scarcer owing to overpopulation and global warming, they may also be best suited for long-term survival.
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Heightism is hard to identify. Yet there’s evidence that our biases around stature help shape our careers.
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Mildly embarrassed, vaguely detached, patient with strangers, popular with children: the life of a certain kind of tall person
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This year’s draft marks the 35th anniversary of the point guard’s entry into the league. It’s easy to forget just how good a player he was
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Study of 250,000 people sought to remove confounding factors such as socioeconomic status
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The researchers found a link between shorter heights and lower bone mineral content among vegan kids, compared to meat-eaters. But they didn't show diets caused the difference – or that it lasted.
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Humans are growing taller around the world. The average adult today is 5% taller than they were a century ago. But how tall could humans get in the future, and what can we learn from the tallest people in the world - the Dutch?
A film by Melissa Hogenboom & Pierangelo Pirak
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David says until recently the negativity towards his height has been an invisible pain with no solution.
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Data on 65 million children in 200 countries show Europe has the world’s tallest children while southeast Asia, Latin America and East Africa have the shortest.
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It's not just older adults who get shorter. You start shrinking, the moment you get out of bed in the morning.
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A global analysis suggests that on average the world's tallest teenagers live in the Netherlands.
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Researchers crunched longitudinal data to provide a simple predictive equation, and a chart.
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A poor diet and lack of exercise can lead to diabetes. But your height could also be a factor, according to a new report.
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Being tall undoubtedly has its benefits, but with the good comes the bad. Each 10 centimetres of height over the average increases cancer risk by 10 per cent, and a new paper has added weight to this.
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The reason tall people are at a greater risk of cancer is because they have more cells in their body, new research has suggested.
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Using a phone app to measure distances! If you are in the field and don't have a stadiometer.
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People in the tallest states are, on average, nearly two inches taller than people in the shortest ones.
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In what researchers are calling "the largest genetic study ever performed" on varicose vein disease, a Stanford University School of Medicine study found a person's height to be a risk factor for developing varicose veins.
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The general health of Greenlandic children is now as good as that of their European peers – perhaps even better.
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Despite the technological advances that humanity has known for millennia, the standard of living did not begin to rise until around 1800.
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Subtle changes in our genetic make-up could help to explain why some people are taller than others, the largest ever study of height has suggested.