Posted on February 26, 2010.
Need Some Cocktail Trivia? Bees are more energy efficient than any machine built by people. In 1957, a Canadian researcher designed an experiment to see how a bee could travel on one gallon of honey. After a bee has been given everything she could eat honey, he was attached to poles without pain, and the pole measured the distance traveled by the bee in rotation. From this information, the scientist has calculated the return flight of a bee = 0.5 mg per 1 km. Thus, on a gallon of honey bees could go 4,704,280 miles. Clearly, car manufacturers need to get "beesy.
Supermarkets need to maintain lights. Light keeps vegetables fresh longer. According to a study by researchers from government, from light to produce vitamin spinach. Spinach is usually displayed in clear plastic about 39 degrees Fahrenheit under a fluorescent light. After the researchers kept the spinach continuous light or darkness for 3-9 days, the spinach lost in the darkness vitamins. However, spinach with light produces more vitamins. In turn, the vitamins promote photosynthesis. Even after spinach is taken - as long as moisture, gas exchange and light - spinach continues to photosynthesis - which has allowed researchers to "see the light."
According to researchers at Business Week Portland, Oregon, is the most depressed of the United States in 2010. The 50 largest metro areas were classified into categories such as crime (violent and property), divorce, suicide, unemployment and on cloudy days - 1 being the highest. The depression rate was calculated using data from pharmaceutical companies and antidepressant sales based on population. Portland ranked # 1 due to a depression rate of 1, a divorce rate of 4, a suicide rate of 12 years, crime rates in 24 years, unemployment of 7.8% and 222 cloudy days. St. Louis was No. 2 and New Orleans, No. 3 - ranking a little less depressing.
Portland can be depressing, but according to a survey by the website "Real Simple", Portland is number two among cities and friendly. The cities were ranked 1-5 in five categories: travel, health and safety, information and technology, green-time savers and lifestyle. Portland ranked 4.5, 4.5, 4, 4,5, and 4, respectively - a total of 21.5. Portland has the fourth largest, the light rail system, emergency services quickly, resulting in one of the highest rates of cardiac survival and 450 food carts around the city. Seattle, however, ranked No. 1 (22.5) and San Francisco, # 3 (21). It seems New Orleans - "The Big Easy" - is not the easiest.
