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Burning Calories in Your Cubicle is Still Ridiculously Expensive
Want to burn calories while working in your cubicle? You’ll have to shell out nearly $5000. Continue reading
Six Hours of TV Could Shorten Your Life by 5 Years
Research published in the “British Journal of Sports Medicine” has provided evidence that six hours of television daily could cut five years off of your life. Continue reading
Walmart Cutting Electronics Department So They Can Sell More Plus Sized Clothing
Around 7.2 million square feet of retail space previously used for electronics will now be used for ‘Plus Sized’ clothing. Continue reading
Taste of Tech: Tangled Webs of Health, Purity, and Processed Food
Michelle Obama teams up with Walmart to fight obesity and bring down the cost of healthy food. But the problems of processed food emerged from yesterday’s answers to questions of purity, safety, and health; will the future be any different? The latest in our series on the science and technology of food, co-produced with GOOD. Continue reading
Doormat Scale Breaks Your Guests’ Spirits
And they really thought they could avoid weighing themselves by hiding their own scale. Nice try, fatty. There’s no way to avoid your morbid obesity now. There’s no blaming it on your big bones. The scale doesn’t lie. Either does the fact that you can’t fit through my door without shimmying ever so delicately. The Doormat Scale won’t let your guests escape without knowing their true weight. Me? I’ll be using the back door from now on. Link [via]
Deep-dish Pizza Vending Machine
I’m always rambling on about a Rock N’ Roll Pizzeria but that doesn’t have shit on a vending machine that will serve you piping-hot fresh pizza. Did I say fresh? OK so that was a total lie but it’s still portable pizza. Unfortunately, the pizza is Tombstone brand which usually tends to fail my personal taste test. And by taste test I mean scarfing down food when I’m drunk. What city could possibly have a deep-dish pizza vending machine? Houston,... Continue reading
