Archive for the ‘Food & Diet’ Category
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
If you're a "generation X" member, you probably remember the 1970s Dannon Yogurt commercial about the people in Soviet Georgia who ate lots of yogurt and lived into their hundreds. For decades, we've been told that yogurt is healthy and good for you. Unfortunately, not all yogurts are ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
Despite findings that it's a silly recommendation there are still people who suggest that you drink eight 8-ounce glasses of water a day for weight loss or colon health or proper hydration.
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One of the trains of thought I read on this is that people lose 10 cups of water a ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
I know it's been a little while since my last post and it may seem odd for me to do a second post in a row about smoking, but last month I marked 1 year since I'd last had a cigarette or any sort of tobacco use, and it got ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Over the past few days, friends have been asking me "have you seen this measuring cup?" They were all abuzz about this new gag measuring cup that featured markings on it for things like "20,000 grains of rice" or "volume of half a human brain." I knew I ...
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
A Quick Announcement: Last Friday's "Your Weight In..." calculator has been updated to calculate the value of your weight in Spam, foie gras, and Snausages. This is in addition to your weight in gold, crude oil, lard, pretzels, pennies, and Hummers.
And Now Back To Our Regularly Scheduled Programming... ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
On Friday, I created a calculator where you could find out how much you're worth if you're worth your weight in gold, pretzels, crude oil, etc.
It occurred to me that some people might be a little embarrassed to put in their real weight. A bit silly since it's not ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
We all know the tongue twister: "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?" But not a lot of people know the answer, which is: "it depends."
A peck is not a count, like a dozen. It's a ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
In my previous post, I discussed the British Thermal Unit (BTU) and how it converted into horsepower. The thing I didn't mention is that a BTU is very similar to a food calorie. A BTU is the energy needed to raise one pound of water by one ...
Posted in Energy, Food & Diet, Speed | 8 Comments »
Monday, April 14th, 2008
This weekend I pulled out my trusty kitchen scale, a half-cup measure, placed the measure on the scale, zeroed it out, and began spooning in Jello Brand Chocolate Pudding from pudding cups I got in the refrigerated aisle. I wanted to determine the pudding's weight by volume, because I'd ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Welcome to Rough Equivalents. This is where my twisted brain comes up with odd factoids like how long it would take to drive to the moon in rush hour traffic, creating strange correlations and using odd measurements. It's fun with math, but plain enough that you don't have ...
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