If you consume another three quarters of a gallon in that hour, your nervous system will shut down. From carrots and chewing gum to Pantene hairspray and Centrum vitamins– “How Not To Kill Yourself With Household Items.” * Epitaph of Mel Blanc,“The Man of a Thousand Voices.” ###...
The good folks at GOOD have ridden to the rescue with a little perspective, “Gallon to Gallon“: a comparison of the per gallon cost of a number of things that we routinely consume… click the image above, or here, for a larger version [TotH to Flowing Data] As we are more cautious...
No matter how much their carnivorous friends might deny it, vegetarians have a point: cutting out meat delivers multiple benefits. And the more who make the switch, the more those perks would manifest on a global scale. But if everyone became a committed vegetarian, there would be serious dra...
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.”*… “In the last analysis, a pickle is a cucumber with experience”*… “Firmness, utility, and beauty”*… “Dada was a bomb...
Richard Nixon was U.S. President. Average income in the U.S. was $10,600; the average home price was $25,250. A movie ticket cost $1.50; a gallon of gas, $0.33. We listened to music the featured the albums pictured above; we sawDirty Harry,A Clockwork Orange,The Last Picture Sho...
Rhythm is much more than a component of music. Nevertheless, music is probably what first comes to mind when we hear the wordrhythm: drumming, jazz, rock and roll, marching bands, street performers with wooden spoons and five-gallon buckets, drum circles, time signatures, stomp-stomp-clap —...
As we wemuse over our madeleines,we might recall that this date in 1970 was “Black Tot Day,” the last day on which the British Royal Navy issued sailors with a daily rum ration (the daily tot). In the 17th century, the ration had been beer– one gallon per day– but the the ...
You can poison yourself with water: drinkover a gallonin an hour and you’ll be irritable, drowsy, suffering from a headache, and behaving strangely. If you consume another three quarters of a gallon in that hour, your nervous system willshut down. ...
a certain point where you say, ‘You know what, passenger vehicles shouldn’t be weighing this much,’” says Raul Arbelaez of theIIHS’s Vehicle Research Centre. “But it would, politically, be really hard to gain any momentum on that.” Finally the shift towardselectric poweris likely ...
The original formula included caffeine and five ounces of coca leaf (from which cocaine is derived) per gallon. The creator, pharmacist John Pemberton, took his syrup a few doors down to Jacobs’ Pharmacy, where he mixed it with carbonated water and shared it with customers. The pharmacy ...