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Sure, playing in the women’s World Cup burns a lot more energy than watching the women’s World Cup. But the number of calories expended in sports and daily activities isn’t always so obvious.

To figure it out, we dove into this database compiled by Arizona State University. It charts the energy expenditure for hundreds of activities, from mainstream (“bicycling, leisure, 5.5 mph”) to obscure (“caulking, chinking log cabin”).

As part of our sports and health series and poll with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, we’ve picked a few of our favorites.

Sweeping Or Skydiving? When Counting Calories It’s All The Same

Illustrations: Mary McLain/NPR

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It’s Member Station Tuesday! Science desk producer Gisele Grayson says she has the “best job at NPR (shhhh) working with member station reporters all over the country on health stories.” She got this mug from  vermontpublicradio's Bob Kinzel. “I use it every day and I love it.  Thanks, Bob!!”

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My pal and partner in crime is famous! 

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Remembering veterans and their faithful dogs today. 

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Since I last saw you, my family got a new dog, a Doberman rescue. He's great.

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Hey, I'm back. 

NPR White House correspondent Scott Horsley and I often get mixed up -- at least when it comes to email and packages. I always consider it an upgrade. Here's a handy photo so you can tell us apart.

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Three ads in a row in the Charles Center subway stop in Baltimore. You can't make it up.

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Driving Ms. Moose #Doberman #dobie #subaru #bigpup

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Radiation Physicist Colorizes X-Ray Images and Shows Hidden Beauty Inside Nature

Arie van’t Riet

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I like the sparing use of Photoshop to add color and “reverse” the x-ray images, which show bones and other radio-opaque matter as lighter shades against a dark background. 

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Fabulous! 

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@tandrewgus and @maanvisings hard at work at their desks. It’s tough making important phone calls. #NPRScience

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They're working hard. Don't be fooled!

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It's My Life by The Animals, featuring live women's heads mounted like big game trophies in the background. Crazy!!

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Here it is, internet. The laziest stock photo ever created.

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Will try to resist. 

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JAMA made me laugh this week. Doesn't happen often. Check out the cover for the theme issue on medical education.

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I avoid this -- also the "new" part. NEW! IMPROVED! 

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We have received the warning letter from the Food and Drug Administration. We recognize that we have not met the FDA's expectations regarding timeline and communication regarding our submission. Our relationship with the FDA is extremely important to us and we are committed to fully engaging with them to address their concerns.

An email to me from 23andMe spokeswoman Kendra Cassillo.

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However, even after these many interactions with 23andMe, we still do not have any assurance that the firm has analytically or clinically validated the PGS for its intended uses, which have expanded from the uses that the firm identified in its submissions. In your letter dated January 9, 2013, you stated that the firm is “completing the additional analytical and clinical validations for the tests that have been submitted” and is “planning extensive labeling studies that will take several months to complete.” Thus, months after you submitted your 510(k)s and more than 5 years after you began marketing, you still had not completed some of the studies and had not even started other studies necessary to support a marketing submission for the PGS. It is now nine months later, and you have yet to provide FDA with any new information about these tests. You have not worked with us toward de novo classification, did not provide the additional information we requested necessary to complete review of your 510(k)s, and FDA has not received any communication from 23andMe since May. Instead, we have become aware that you have initiated new marketing campaigns, including television commercials that, together with an increasing list of indications, show that you plan to expand the PGS’s uses and consumer base without obtaining marketing authorization from FDA.

FDA warning letter to 23andMe tells company to immediately stop marketing its Personal Genome Service. A very blunt letter. Very.

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Heavy rotation: Untethered by Gas Money

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Exploring the invisible universe that lives on us -- and in us. Take the video tour put together by Ben Arthur and Rob Stein. For more, see and hear the NPR series: "The Human Microbiome: Guts and Glory."