10/13/2011
10/07/2011
» Nutrition: 10 Stubborn Food Myths That Just Won't Die, Debunked by Science(via @Lifehacker)
Every other week, new research claims one food is better than another, or that some ingredient yields incredible new health benefits. Couple that with a few old wives’ tales passed down from your parents, and each time you fire up your stove or sit down to eat a healthy meal, it can be difficult…
03/12/2011
» "[Cornell] Study links warm offices to fewer typing errors and higher productivity..." they're just bitter because they're cold up there in NY!
“Study links warm offices to fewer typing errors and higher productivity”… I don’t believe it! Arctic temperatures make me crazy productive! and by arctic I mean 65-69 degrees!
According to the daily stat’s synopsis of this Cornell study:
JULY 15, 2010
Chilly Offices Limit Productivity
Raising the temperature of an insurance company’s offices from 68 degrees to 77 degrees Fahrenheit (20 to 25 C) reduced typing errors by 44% and boosted typing output by 150%, according to a monthlong study by Alan Hedge of Cornell. The higher, more comfortable temperature resulted in a savings for the employer of about $2 per worker per hour, Hedge says.
Source: “Cornell News: Office temperature and productivity” via Harvard’s daily stat
09/17/2010
07/22/2010
Largest consumer of oil in the world = <drum roll>
Largest consumer of oil in the world = U.S. Military
06/07/2010
22.5 years = Combined time NYC-ers spent waiting & riding ELEVATORS…last year! Geeze thats a long wait time, OTIS must be getting too old for those jettsetters, high speed elevators (like high speed monorails/miracle trains) a thing of our near future? I’m calling dibs on the patent idea for this one OTIS (turning in grave right now I’m sure), engineers lets get to work!
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Image and stat via IBM report: http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/30191.wss
06/06/2010
“ Working for the weekend (only) might be a good thing…according to @thedailystat from hbr.org, “People who work 10 to 12 hours a day are 56% more likely to develop heart disease or have a heart attack than people who work less than 10 hours…. „
Read on: Working Overtime
05/26/2010
“The average person in a developing nation struggles to find 5 gallons of water a day.”
05/25/2010
We think of it as a New York landmark but most of the island that the Statue of Liberty stands on is in New Jersey.
We think of it as a New York landmark but most of the island that the Statue of Liberty stands on is in New Jersey.
The Statue of Liberty isn’t technically in either state, but the land it stands on is mostly in the jurisdiction of New Jersey. A Supreme Court case in 1998 determined that only the natural parts of Liberty Island are New York, and the rest of the island that was constructed artificially (which is most of the island) was part of New Jersey. Of course the whole island is…
05/24/2010
14% = percent of homes with a bathtub in 1909…
- 47 years = average life expectancy
- 14% homes had a bathtub
8% homes with telephones - 95% = number of home births
- Number of cars in US = 8000
- Miles of paved road = 144 miles
- Maximum city speed limit = 10 mph (on avg)
- 22 cents/hr = average wage (Average Worker made $200 and $400 per year)
- Dozen Eggs = 14 cents.
- Sugar = 4 cents per lb.
- Coffee = 15 cents per lb.
- Leading causes of death were: 1. Pneumonia and influenza 2. Tuberculosis 3. Diarrhea 4. Heart disease 5. Stroke
- Population of Las Vegas, Nevada = 30
- 2/10 adults couldn’t read or write and
- 6% graduated from high school..
- Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter at the local corner drugstores.
- 230 murders were reported (entire US).
Source: Un-verified email.
05/21/2010
2 billion = number of videos streaming per day on YouTube (via techcrunch)
2 Billion views a day
3rd most visited website (Alexa)
Localized in 23 countries across 24 different languages
15 The average number of minutes people spend on the site each day
24 Hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute
45 Million home page impressions every day
70% of YouTube traffic comes from outside the U.S.
100 Years of video scanned by copyright managent technology, Content ID, every day
1700 Years it would take you to watch the hundreds of millions of videos on YouTubehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/D9N16Bjyeyc/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email
05/21/2010
“Oysters can change genders back and forth. “
Oysters can change genders back and forth.
(source)
05/20/2010
6,300,000 = gallons guestimated to have leaked into the gulf (equivalent of 50,000 barrels of oil)
It’s been exactly 30 days since the earth starting throwing up on itself. 210,000 gal per day x 30 days = 6,300,000 gallons of oil guestimated to have entired the gulf of Mexico; equivalent of 150,000 barrels of oil.
05/11/2010
“How much water is in a latte?” - MIT Sloan Management Review
“Here’s the breakdown, by liters, of the water needed to make that latte:
0.1 for the water itself
2.5 to make the plastic lid
5.5 to make the paper cup and sleeve
7.5 to grow the sugar
49.5 to feed the cows that make the milk
143 to grow the coffee”
Source: How much water is in a latte? - Beyond Green - MIT Sloan Management Review
05/10/2010
19.5 million = Barrels of Oil Americans consume daily…
Marcie Dickson’s article “More of the Sound and the Fury on the BP Oil Spill” -May 4, 2010
