Foot-and-mouth disease in Japan
Image via Wikipedia I see foot and mouth has raised its ugly head again, this time in Japan. (Note the fear-inducing picture of the men in hazmat suits.) I’m British, and have lived through at least 2 foot-and-mouth scares, but it was a chance remark in an old interview I was reading that alerted me [...]
Work till you drop… it’ll stave off Alzheimer’s!
Image via Wikipedia Well, well. First we get this reminder from the Telegraph (reminding us of who is really working for whom) and then barely two weeks later, this from the BBC: Keeping the brain active by working later in life may be an effective way to ward off Alzheimer’s disease, research suggests. There’s a [...]
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Image by Getty Images via Daylife Coupla articles on a related subject: 1) The painful truth about trainers: are running shoes a waste of money? Then there’s the secretive Tarahumara tribe, the best long-distance runners in the world. These are a people who live in basic conditions in Mexico, often in caves without running water, [...]
Japan’s food statistics
A friend’s shared Google Reader feed alerted me to this video created for the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF). It contains some interesting statistics, and begs some interesting questions. E.g.: Japan only produces about 40% of the food it consumes. This is the lowest among all major developed nations. This is the [...]
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