A walking human gets about 75 MPG (miles of travel per gallon of food energy). A biking human? Even better, at 290 MPG.
But when you factor in all the fossil fuels that go into making that food, we only get 18 MPG walking and 70 MPG on a bike. Check out the full rundown of the energetic calculations at Do The Math.
The Fibonacci Sequence As Seen in Flowers gallery by Environmental Graffiti is a math and history lesson wrapped in a pretty package of flowers.
Stralsund, Germany (by zug55)
in order to emigrate to Germany one must either be studying there and have a job within a year of graduation, or have a job lined up for you before you even get there. and the job has to be important.
:(
i’ll go to law school there. i’ll become a German diplomat…. yeah.
or maybe i’ll just spend the year after graduation looking for a rich smart person and make him marry me so i can stay.
or maybe i’ll just keep moving around Europe and keep getting the 90 day visas and working odd jobs and sleeping in youth hostiles or my car.
we’ve all heard “beer before liquor; never sicker”
but what if you mixed your beer with your liquor and drank it together?
someone should try this next time they’re drinking and tell me how it goes ;)
i read somewhere that drinking more coffee can help you live longer
that’s good enough for me. even though i’m probably going to die in a car accident.
i’m in love with grammar
specifically german grammar
so good. so fun. so easy.
literally the only definite rule is that you have to put the verb in the second position. all the other phrases and modifiers and participles can go any were you want, as long as they have the correct tense and/or conjugation and/or gender ending.
there are guidelines, of course, for putting certain things in certain places so it flows and makes the most sense.
it’s just beautiful. i’ve been learning how to diagram german sentences all day. so fun.
diagramming sentences has always been my favorite thing we did in English class.
however useless it may prove to be. lol.
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The Spring of 2012 Is the Hottest in U.S. History
In case, you know, you haven’t been outside in the past three month, it’s about to become official: unless a freak blizzard blankets the country by Thursday, the spring of 2012 will go down as the warmest for the U.S. in 117 years of record-keeping. The National Climatic Data Center won’t release a report on the temperatures in May until sometime in June, but based on their assessment of March and April, University of Maryland professor Steve Scolnik, who blogs at Climate Capital, says that our warm May will smash the 102-year-old record.
Read more at The Atlantic Wire. [Image: Dino Grandoni]
the world is melting D:
i think this is a sign of the endtimes. we have a little less than 7 months left :P](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4sy2g5zhc1qcokc4o1_500.png)
The Spring of 2012 Is the Hottest in U.S. History
In case, you know, you haven’t been outside in the past three month, it’s about to become official: unless a freak blizzard blankets the country by Thursday, the spring of 2012 will go down as the warmest for the U.S. in 117 years of record-keeping. The National Climatic Data Center won’t release a report on the temperatures in May until sometime in June, but based on their assessment of March and April, University of Maryland professor Steve Scolnik, who blogs at Climate Capital, says that our warm May will smash the 102-year-old record.
Read more at The Atlantic Wire. [Image: Dino Grandoni]
the world is melting D:
i think this is a sign of the endtimes. we have a little less than 7 months left :P
