Because my brain is too small to rememeber all these junks…
Reason #8: Central Park: Because We Wouldn’t Trade a Patch of Grass for $528,783,552,000 (and more)
That’s the current valuation of the Central Park!
That prices out to about $627 million an acre, or 26% more than the entire 2006 U.S. defense budget, or 7 million times the price of Boardwalk and Park Place together. Considering that New York “paid more than $5 million for undeveloped land from 59th Street to 106th Street” between 1853 and 1856, that’s pretty good appreciation.
(via Ask Y!)
It’s widely known that you can prolong your life by eating less. Well, it seems it’s not as simple as that:
[researchers] found that the average life span of fruit flies on restricted diets decreased when they were exposed to food odors.
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To determine if smell alone has an effect on longevity, Pletcher’s team created a fruit fly strain that had a particularly sensitive olfactory receptor inhibited. Fully fed female flies with an impaired sense of smell exhibited an average life span increase of 56 percent compared with unaltered wild females. Males also lived longer than their wild counterparts.
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[the study] provides “really profound evidence” that longevity is controlled not by actual resources but rather by hormones that are cued to resources (such as the way plants sense winter by sunlight changes). “It’s like the whole system doesn’t actually function on the currency of resources anymore, it all functions on virtual data about what the resources should be like,” he says. “It’s mind over matter.”
Heh, my deviated septum should extend my lifespan by at least 30%!
SUNBUTTER - Genuine Red River Sunflower Butter
While shopping for peanut butter a while back, I made a wonderful discovery of SunButter. It’s like peanut-butter but with sunflower seeds instead of peanuts. And it tastes GREAT!!! Imagine eating a handful of conveniently peeled sunflower seeds at once, mmm~ It’s actually good for you so you feel less guilty eating it than eating peanut butter.
I haven’t seen it stocked on many places, but it looks like you can order them online from their website. I highly recommend you try it!
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