Woodpeckers can easily slam their beaks against wood with a force of 1000 times that of gravity.  They don't get concussions because of thick skulls.

There is already an average of  1 tablet per household in the US.  This is remarkable considering the ipad was launched just 2 years ago.  It took a lot longer for PCs and laptops to reach one per household.

Arsenic, which is added to chicken feed to promote unnaturally rapid growth, runs off into local waterways and leaches into groundwater.

What are the worst jobs in America?  According to a Careercast.com survey, journalist, disc jockey, mail carrier, lumberjack, and soldier.

The number of internships in the US soared in the recession.  In 2008, 50 percent of graduating students had held internships compared with 17 percent in 1992.

The United Nations declared Internet access a human right in June 2011.

Why, in other words, use the poor chicken as a machine to produce meat when you can use a machine to produce “meat” that seems like chicken?


- Mark Bittman

43% of people say social media has amplified their FOMO or ‘Fear Of Missing Out’.  To learn more see:
http://youtu.be/gH65v8MNBZ4

The NY Lottery jackpot is $540 million!  They're selling $1 million worth of tickets an hour.  If you win and take the lump-sum payment, after taxes you'd have about $219 million. 

The "Wrath of the Titans" posters make me think of the Sony "God of War" games.

Do more faster.

Success doesn't cause happiness.  Happiness causes success.

http://www.wpp.com/wpp/marketing/publicrelations/happynomics.htm

Anyone who has lost their job in the last few years should watch "One-Armed Swordsman" (1967).  It's a powerful metaphor.

"We need to be more sensible with respect to antibiotic use because we use them indiscriminately in places like the food industry, where they serve no genuine purpose other than to increase animal weight."

- Richard Roberts, molecular biologist and winner of the 1993 Nobel Price in Physiology/Medicine

One third of the world’s cigarette consumption is in China.  China consumes 50,000 cigarettes
 per second.

‎1/585 people on Earth was a New Yorker in 1960. Now it's 1/854.


- New York Magazine

‎"In 1984, [American] households headed by people age 65 and older were worth just 10 times the median net worth of households headed by people 35 and younger.  But now that gap has widened to 47-to-one, marking the largest wealth gap ever recorded between the two age groups." 


- CNN Money

The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in battle.

"All you garlic belt club med countries eating your lunch al fresco everyday doing nothing while I've been having mine al desco for last 4 years... It's payback MOFOs"
- A friend's Facebook status (with a picture of a salad in front of his monitor)

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.


- Zig Ziglar