Persons who make their living by creating, naming, and giving advice about fad diets can find food for their professed thoughts about food in this new study: “Lower Obesity Rate during Residence at High Altitude among a Military Population with Frequent Migration: A Quasi Experimental Model for Investigating Spatial Causation,” Jameson D. Voss, David B. […]
Tag: height
Jumping Off a Building With Bubble Wrap
Rhett Allain, writing in Wired, took a calculating approach to bubble wrap. He introduced it with these thoughts: How much bubble wrap do you need to survive jumping out of the 6th floor of a building? Let me randomly say this is a height of 20 meters. Where would you start with a question like this? […]
Cooking: The drop of the steak, the sizzle of the analysis
XKCD tries to answer the question “From what height would you need to drop a steak for it to be cooked when it hit the ground?” This graph is a small part of the analysis: This is an example of both temporarily-haute cuisine and temporarily-fast food. BONUS (barely related): Another example of drop-cooking, compared […]
Sunset calibration, for people in skyscrapers
Muslims who live in skyscrapers must calibrate the sunset according to what floor they live on, according to a mufti, according to a report in The National: Fatwa means late iftar on top Burj Khalifa floors … In a fatwa released over the weekend, the Grand Mufti of Dubai called upon Muslims living in skyscrapers, particularly […]