Lifestyle topics
Boris Kingma of Maastricht University has published, in Nature Climate Change, a study on central heating and cooling The study shows that in offices across the Western world, the standard thermostat has been set since the 1960s to suit the metabolic rate of an 11-stone, 40-year-old male. The ideal temperature for the average woman is …
Quotation: “Our so-called free trade policies have been a disaster for the United States ever since NAFTA was enacted. Before NAFTA went into effect 20 years ago, we never had had a trade deficit of more than $135 billion. Every single year since then, for 20 years in a row, our trade deficit has been …
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12% of 16- to 24-year-old Brits think honey is produced by farmers squeezing bees. A fifth think fish fingers are made from the fingers of fish. 15% don’t know that lamb comes from sheep. 9% think potatoes grow on trees. (Rowse/Daily Mirror) And now 52% of their elders want to leave the EU. Good …
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“If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things”. (Novelist Norman Douglas, quoted on Forbes.com) Bon mot. Some children are showered with gifts of all kinds, and, by the way, are seldom made to even text a “thank you”, let alone write a letter. I have noticed that the …
“Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.” (Montaigne) Thus can a person who thinks himself fit to be President of the United States can actually propose building a huge wall to keep out Mexicans when there are more Mexicans leaving the country than entering it (overwhelmed by possible examples, I pick …
