Do a quick count of how many of your meals from the past week looked like that. Our world is full of processed food, for better or worse. But just because something is processed (whatever that means) doesnt automatically make it bad for you. Dont Obsess OverHowProcessed Each Food Is Heres the hard part: defining processed food. Not a tough call there. Raw potato with the dirt still on it: unprocessed....
Bones from Stegosaurus and Apatosaurus are still exposed in the rocks today, and can be felt and touched. Dinosaur footprints at Dinosaur Ridge in Morrison. Sauropod dinosaurs lived and died along the rivers. Sometimes their bones were fossilized in the river mud and sand. During this time, Iguanodon dinosaurs migrated along the western edge of the inland sea. Photo credit:James St. John/Flickr One of several dinosaur footprint at Dinosaur Ridge....
On November 3 they saw the sun for the last time as it set below the horizon. They didnt expect to see the sun again until February 8. Captain Barents did not believe them since he knew that the sun was well below the horizon. Barents, unfortunately, had died during the return journey. Photo credit:Mila Zinkova News of the Novaya Zemlya Effect spread throughout the scientific community. Almost everywhere it was met with disbelief and skepticism....
I have a friend namedNathan Barrywho recently finished writing three books in just 9 months. How did he do it? By following a simple strategy. He wrote 1,000 words per day. (Thats about two to three pages.) And he did it every day for 253 straight days. It wasnt a sprint; it was his average speed that was key. This post originally appeared onJames Clears blog. The maniac in the cabin has a high maximum speedmaybe 20 or even 30 pages per day....
If youve ever been to an outlet mall, you know there are some super cheap finds. I asked my friend. Well, theyre only a dollar, so youhaveto buy them, she insisted. Plus, we had bags full of ugly clothes wed only hate in a few months. Dont get me wrong; Im not down on deal hunting. When I shop for a new computer, I spend months tracking prices and waiting for a bargain....
Its not apparent but examples of feng shui practice are almost everywhere in Hong Kong. Why do these buildings have holes in the middle? Keep reading for the answer. Indeed, many corporations set aside a portion of their annual budget for feng shui consultation. Others can be as expensive as demolishing and reconstructing parts of the building. The HSBC building in Hong Kong. Hong Kongs growth in recent years has been attributed to good feng shui....
But where does this stress originate, and how do we deal with it? This post originally appeared onZen Habits. These are all amazing, and you should do them. However, Im more interested in getting at the root of stress. Dig down, ferret out the cause, and work with that directly, rather than treating the symptoms. Only once you deal with the cause of stress can you truly be a master of it....
Consequently, the town of Havre was created in Montana to service the railroad and its passengers. Almost overnight, Havre became the business and retail hub of the area. In January 1904 a devastating fire wiped out a large part of Havres business area. Scarcity of building materials delayed rebuilding efforts and businesses grew impatient of waiting. The tunnels also became home to the Chinese population who worked for the railway....
Teufelsberg is 80 meters tall and is made of 26 million cubic meters of rubble. It sits on the site of a former Nazi military training school designed by Hitlers chief architect Albert Speer. In fact, the ruins of the school are still buried underneath. These women came to be known as Trummerfrauen or rubble women for their efforts. At first mobile listening units were deployed at Teufelsberg to listen into communications from Russian-controlled East Germany....
If you tremble when you think of giving a speech, youre not alone. Just thinking about it makes me shudder insideand Ive spent 18 years giving talks. Heres what Ive learned over the years to bust my fear of public speaking. Thats not an easy goal but it can be done. Begin by setting aside time to assemble your piece. Move on by jotting down points you want to get across to your audience....
Jim thought that it would a nice place to relax and have a martini. So he built a bench and a table so he and his wife could picnic at the spot. Jim decided a miniature railroad would be a nice addition. Unfortunately, the train is in action only when Metcalf is around. Photo credit:D. Brigham/Flickr Photo credit:Lee Toma/Flickr Photo credit:Val D’Aquila/Flickr Sources:Lionel.com/www.pinnaclehouses.com
Because of its sensitive border location, Mustang was off-limits to foreigners until 1992. Some of the caves appear almost impossible to reach even to experienced climbers. Some caves were apparently used as burial chambers. The several dozen bodies that were found in these caves were all more than 2,000 years old. They lay on wooden beds and decorated with copper jewelry and glass beads. Sky burial is still practiced in many remote regions in the Himalaya....
Perfection simply isnt how you should measure success. This post originally appeared onThe Conversation. It was Voltaire who said: perfect is the enemy of the goodand he should know. It is only by these failures that Candide is painfully cured of his obsession with perfection. Fast forward a couple of centuries and the lessons learned by Candide remain relevant today. We live in a world dominated by the pursuit of perfection....
