Month: July 2015

Workstation evolution

makes sense.

Eating at the bar is the best

I don’t get why eating at the bar is considered a last resort. It has many benefits: there’s usually no wait, no wobbly tables, more comfortable for tall people, service is excellent and you can talk to your dining companion more easily in a loud space. Plus there’s usually something interesting going on behind the bar.

T.G.I. Friday’s Invented the Singles Bar

TGI Friday’s wasn’t always a suburban family restaurant, but started as a coed cocktail bar in manhattan at a time when bars were men only. when TGI opened with a friendlier design, they created such a hit that 1st avenue was closed to traffic every friday and saturday night.

London Urban Farm

Located extremely close to Central London, the farm can get its crops onto restaurant plates within 4 hours of being harvested, which is both a boost to freshness and a fuel saver

Blurring the Metal-Insulator Line

SmB6 might be neither a textbook metal nor an insulator, but something more complicated that we don’t know how to imagine. On the basis of established wisdoms this cannot possibly happen, and henceforth completely new physics should be at work

Self-fertilization

hermaphroditic flatworms with needle-tipped male organs inject themselves with sperm in whatever body region is easy to stab.

The lonely end

In aging Japan, 1000s die alone and unnoticed every year. Toru Koremura is there to clean up what they leave behind. 3 months ago in an apartment on the outskirts of Osaka, Japan, Haruki Watanabe died alone. For weeks his body slowly decomposed, slouched in its own fluids and surrounded by fetid, fortnight-old food. He died of self-neglect, solitude, and a suspected heart problem. At 60, Watanabe, wasn’t old, nor was he especially poor. He had no friends, no job, no wife, and no concerned children. His son hadn’t spoken to him in years, nor did he want to again.