9.06.2010

findings. real ones.

i have jet lag:
see?
well i guess it looks like i'm actually asleep but obviously not cause i'm taking a picture.
i never get jet lagged. never to the point that i can't sleep at night.
i pride myself on my falling asleep capability.
but not anymore. :(

anyways here are some findings i feel it's my duty to pass on:

A recent earthquake in chile was found to have shifted the city of Concepcion ten feet to the west, shortened Earth's days by 1.26 microseconds, and shifted the planet's axis by nearly three inches. the salt spray of the sea was detected in Colorado. Neon on Jupiter is absorbed into raindrops of helium. Astronomers discovered an ancient, metal-poor star in the Sculptor Galaxy, and British metallurgists traveled throughout northern Tlangana to record the oral history of wootz steel. A report presented at the 239th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society concluded that most American supermarkets use inappropriate refrigeration temperatures for queso fresco. The world's largest meat-eating plant was found to prefer not tree shrews but rather their feces. The Yale School of Medicine announced the creation of a fellowship in obesity studies, sponsored by PepsiCo. High-fructose corn syrup is likelier than sugar to cause obesity and may also scar the liver. half the mothers of fat five-year-olds could not identify them as fat, and obese children as young as thress were showing early warning signs of heart disease. Serving sizes in images of the Last Supper were found to have grown by two thirds over the past millenium.

this is a weird post.
but full of fascinating information.
which is new for this blog.
some of it may be hard to believe, but this stuff is just too good
to have been made up.

two-THIRDS?!?

-findings courtesy of Harper's magazine. i don't think they own these findings. there's no way they have the budget to afford running so many useless studies.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

V. here...Jetlag is never good unless your sleep schedule was way off before the trip.

be said...

Jet lag seems pretty educational. I do wish Concepcion would stay put, though.

Anonymous said...

V. here...good luck with your jet lag. it causes some interesting side effects.

Matt Chadwick said...

I get it... All Americans are fat!

liso. said...

this picture reminds me of the picture of you sleeping in the back of our car with cardboard on you.

blackstarmonkey said...

with cardboard?
i do not remember this.
you digress.