Humans eat food, whilst cars “eat” fuel.
This interesting series of facts puts it into perspective how effiecent humans are compared to vehicles. If you paid attention during biology / science you’d know that energy is measured in calories (or joules) and no matter which way you look at it (whether it’s petrol, wood, a burger [...]
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Fuel Consumption: Car vs Human
13 Things your Grocer Simply Won’t Tell You
[photo by buck82]
We’ve all read about how grocery stores and shops all over the world trick us into buying more than we should… and more than we can.
From ReadersDigest.com, we have a list of 13 things your grocer won’t tell you that could actually benefit you in more ways than one. Get Smart!
Below are a [...]
Why Men Are Better Dieters Than Women
Picture by altemark
Now this is interesting.
It’s no unknown fact that weight loss is an incredibly popular topic these days, especially considering the obesity rate in not just North America, but Europe and even my home country, South Africa. We are constantly bombarded with weight loss adverts, health tips and “healthy” TV cooking shows that [...]
Anti-Theft Lunch Bag
Having your lunch stolen ruins anyone’s day. It’s also only funny if you happen to be the thief.
Here’s a clever trick to stop that sandwich from ever being stolen again! And most importantly, to stop you from going hungry!
from Skforlee,
Anti-Theft Lunch Bags are regular sandwich bags that have green splotches printed on both sides. After [...]
Huge Rice Field Art
This is an incredibly interesting way of creating art. Somewhere in Asia, these insane works are created with different types of rice! Instead of painting the rice and wasting the food production, they simply use a combination of species of rice to create a picture. This obviously takes a lot of planning and practice, but [...]
The Baby Burrito
This is just another one of those news articles which you simply laugh at. What I find particularly funny is that the newspaper / publication prioritized this news above everything else from Mountain View.
From Photo Basement
One of The Most Expensive Mushrooms of 2007
$330 000 is a lot of money. That’s more pizza than I care to imagine. But the expensive and much loved delicacy was unfortunately not my favorite food, but a truffle. Your ordinary truffle won’t fetch anywhere near that much, despite already being expensive. What much this mushroom so expensive is its massive mass, [...]
