Joel Snape

London

Journalist and Editor at Freelance

Freelance Editor at Men's Fitness (UK)

Writer, video maker, BJJ black belt, piano dabbler. Work in @guardian, @ObserverUK, @thetimes, @sciencefocus, and a bunch of other places.

Articles

Is Dua Lipa the best literary interviewer?

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Joel Snape

Dua Lipa is, obviously, good at a lot of things. She sings, she dances, she writes dozens of songs, and she co-designed a collection with Donatella Versace. But if someone told you that she’d recently come out on top in a Mortal Kombat-style contest as the best literary interviewer, you’d probably think they’d taken her song Hallucinate a bit too literally. Nevertheless, that’s what’s happened, in a YouTube video that has garnered more than a million views in a matter of weeks.
Το χάπι του δρομέα: επανάσταση ή παραμύθι;

2 weeks ago | tanea.gr | Joel Snape

Μπορεί ένα χάπι να αντικαταστήσει το τρέξιμο; Η ιδέα ενός χαπιού που μιμείται τις ευεργετικές επιδράσεις της άσκησης ακούγεται σαν επιστημονική φαντασία – και όμως, βρίσκεται πλέον στο επίκεντρο της έρευνας. Πρόσφατα, επιστήμονες από το Πανεπιστήμιο του Ααρχους στη Δανία ανακοίνωσαν ότι το πειραματικό φάρμακο LaKe μπορεί να προκαλέσει «μεταβολική κατάσταση αντίστοιχη με το να έχεις τρέξει 10 χιλιόμετρα με άδειο στομάχι και υψηλή ένταση».
Το χάπι του δρομέα: επανάσταση ή παραμύθι;

2 weeks ago | tanea.gr | Joel Snape

15 oC Online ΈκδοσηΈντυπη Έκδοση tanea.gr > Έντυπες Ειδήσεις > ΝΣυν > Τρέχω > Το χάπι του δρομέα: επανάσταση ή παραμύθι; Έντυπη Έκδοση - ΤρέχωΕπιστήμονες πειραματίζονται με ουσίες που ενεργοποιούν τον οργανισμό σαν να έτρεξες – αλλά χωρίς να κουνηθείς.
Five things you should know about using the gym

3 weeks ago | taipeitimes.com | Joel Snape

By Joel Snape / The Guardian The gym is back. A few years of exhorting people to socially distance and wipe down machines, gym chains are removing cleaning stations, while their clientele go back to sharing kit and sweating all over the benches. Nature, as they say, is healing. But how many people are using their membership, and how much value are they getting out of the gym when they go?
11 things you should know about using the gym, from ‘Is everyone watching me?’ to ‘How do I use a squat rack?’

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Joel Snape

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11 things you should know about using the gym, from ‘Is everyone watching me?’ to ‘How do I use a squat rack?’

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Joel Snape

The gym is back. In the UK, about . Even old habits are making a comeback: after a few years of exhorting people to socially distance and wipe down machines, gym chains are removing cleaning stations, while their clientele go back to sharing kit and sweating all over the benches. Nature, as they say, is healing. But how many people are using their membership, and how much value are they getting out of the gym when they go?
The lower back pain treatments that actually work (and the ones not to bother with)

4 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Joel Snape

"Taping" - or applying kinesiology (K) tape to the lower back to provide support and feedback to the brain - was one of the more unexpected treatments shown to be beneficial in the recent review of studies. "The effect was fairly small, but it's also a low-risk strategy if you've already tried other possibly effective options like exercise and spinal manipulative therapy (SMT)," says Dr Cashin.
Stressed out? You may have cortisol belly. Here's how to lose it

1 month ago | sciencefocus.com | Joel Snape

Feeling stressed? That’s not surprising. The modern world, with its relentlessly breaking bad news and always-on communication, is more or less set up to keep us on edge. But there’s a problem: our bodies are built for fight or flight, not fearmongering and Facebook notifications. We’re increasingly finding that constant and continual stress can be very bad for us – and it’s likely one of the biggest causes behind our worldwide weight gain. There is some good news, though.
Just Start: Things I'm Glad I Did When I Did Them

2 months ago | joelsnape.substack.com | Joel Snape

It’s my birthday! I’m 46 today, and I’m still having a pretty great time, thanks for asking. A kind of traditional thing to do on YouTube around these occasions is a video about ‘things I wish I knew when I was [age]’, and since I’m not immune to trends I did one of those last year. But today, I thought I’d do something different: I want to talk about things I’m glad I did when I did them. I think I’ve led quite a charmed life.
Just Start: Mental models I might have invented

Feb 14, 2025 | joelsnape.substack.com | Joel Snape

I’ve got a confession to make: I’m not entirely sure I know what a mental model is. I know what it’s supposed to be, obviously: it’s a simplified way of representing how things work in the real world that may or may not be useful, depending on what you’re doing. But before you nod and go “Yeah, that sounds right”, consider this: is evolution a mental model? What about strawmanning? Thermodynamics?

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15 May 25

This rules

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Shout out to the painter working on the house next door BLASTING the audiobook of Middlemarch from a Bluetooth speaker strapped to his belt

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14 May 25

Did wrestling tonight for the first time in a while. One of my old coaches told me "When you do wrestling right, it's what aikido promises to be like", and that's completely true.

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14 May 25

Has anyone done a Tolkeincut of the Hobbit 3, where Bilbo gets cracked on the head just as the five armies are massing, and then it cuts to him being told what happened after he wakes up?