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Nice infographic about running shoes, traditional ones are bad for you. I own a set of Vibram FiveFingers, love them.
To make a business, you need to multiply the two.
There’s this thing called speed limit. No cars near the intersection. And you still need to make a freaking full stop? Who the hell makes these stupid laws?
I really hate USA’s safety paranoia. This sort of things come out of paranoia, but they don’t even help prevent accidents. They say people are stupid and don’t have common sense. I’m not stupid, and I do have common sense. Makes me feel offended.
Things like this make me appreciate living in Mexico. USA might offer better quality of life, but it offers 0 freedom. In Mexico quality of life is not that great, but I feel there’s much more freedom, and I’d rather have more of the second.
“The Fibonacci tree design performed better than the flat-panel model. The tree design made 20% more electricity and collected 2 1/2 more hours of sunlight during the day. But the most interesting results were in December, when the Sun was at its lowest point in the sky. The tree design made 50% more electricity, and the collection time of sunlight was up to 50% longer!”
Amazing, this is where nature is already a pro, you need to imitate it.
From the last minutes on episode 26 (Be the Change) of Latest in Paleo podcast:
I would like to dispel the myth that the pharmaceutical industry is in the business of health and healing, because in fact what the pharmaceutical industry is in the business of doing is disease, maintenance, and symptoms management. They are not in the business to cure cancer or to cure alzheimer or to cure heart disease because if they were they would be in the business of putting themselves out of business and that in fact doesn’t make sense.
Reading this makes anyone outside the US notice right away that americans just don’t get football (or as americans call it, soccer). First off, you can see right away that the author is clearly basing his “fixes” on USA’s lost final of the Women’s World Cup, he’s sad because it came down to “gambling” (penalties).
I’d say penalties are not a gamble, they require skill both from the shooter and the goalkeeper. Even if I considered them as gambling, if you are the superior team I see it as the prize you pay for not being able to score, if you are the inferior team you get a chance to win because you prevented the other team from scoring, and if they were equally good, then it’s time to play another game, penalties.
Like Martin Pilkington said, there have been many ways that ties get resolved: golden goal, silver goal, penalties, replays. Today penalties is the most popular, it’s not hard to know why, that’s what most people like all over the world.
They only thing I would partially agree with is “fix” number 3. If there is one thing I don’t like about football, it’s that players go down all the time. I don’t know what’s the best solution for this, because you don’t want to have injuries all the time.
And finally, the footnote.
Oh, yeah, we’re all calling it soccer now. You can call it whatever you want in your crazy gibberish language, but in English, we’re settling on “soccer”.
Oh boy, so many things wrong here. It so happens that the country with the best league in the world speaks English, and that’s England, and they call it football. On the other hand, only 5 countries in the whole world call it Soccer, what the US calls football, is called “american football”. And last, why the hell is american football even called football if they barely use their FOOT to interact with the BALL?
I would say they are the Apple of cars. Love every aspect of both their cars.
But with soccer there aren’t the usual temptations to hit the FF button — time outs, injury time outs, TV time outs, etc. — so I found myself watching as the game unfolded.
This is why football (it’s not soccer!) is my favorite sport. Full 90 minutes of action.
Did you know that having speed limits causes more accidents than not having them? Shame on the government, shame on laws, shame on politicians.
The common wisdom is that your fingers wrinkle when they’re wet because they absorb water. But Mark Changizi thinks there’s more to it than that. According to him, pruney fingers are an adaptation to help humans, and probably other primates, get a better grip during wet conditions.
It makes a lot of sense, because you’re whole body doesn’t get all pruney.
