What Cut Of Beef Are You Munching On?
Check out the infographic chart showing you which part of the cow you are consuming.
Psy’s NongShim Noodles Contained Carcinogens
Nongshim is the South Koren food processing company famous for their Nongshim Ramyun noodles. Psy recently taken the model role for the company. Health officials from Taiwan, Hong Kong and China have discovered carcinogens in 5 out of 6 of their noodle products. And they are now being recalled from shops.
The recall would affect six of the company’s products, including Neoguri, bowl-type Neoguri and Sang Sang Noodles, which were found to contain benzopyrene, a compound that can cause lung cancer.
Benzopyrene is known to cause stomach and lung cancer or birth defects if consumed for a long period.
Infographics For Knives
Apple Campus Brochure Went Out To Neighbours
Apple’s last legacy from Steve Job is not only iPhone 5 designs but also the physical campus that looks like a spaceship located Cupertino, California. It will cover 2.8 million square feet and have its own power plant inside the circular spaceship design. It will be covered in solar panels and house up to 13,000 people on a daily basis and 6,000 trees.
The letter that comes with the brochure Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer plead neighbours to add their name to a list of supporters, attend a public meeting or write a letter to show their support for the new Apple complex.
Here is the letter:
Dear Neighbor,
We’d like to update you on our plans for Apple Campus 2, a new, state-of-the-art research campus in Cupertino.
The new campus site is bound to the west by Wolfe Road, to the north by Homestead Road, to the east by North Tantau Avenue, and to the south by Interstate 280. Today there are 26 aging buildings totaling approximately 2.65 million square feet on this 176-acre site. We plan to replace them with a single ring-shaped, four-story building of approximately 2.8 million square feet. We also plan to replace nearly 300,000 square feet of existing buildings east of North Tantau Avenue with 300,000 square feet of new research buildings.
The new main building and research facilities are intended to accommodate approximately 13,000 employees, over 3,000 more than the existing site. Finally, we are including in our overall plan an additional 300,000 square feet of expansion space for future growth. A segment of Pruneridge Avenue will be closed and integrated into the campus to create a unified and secure environment.
Respect for our neighbors was a priority as we designed Apple Campus 2. The main building will be set back from the street. By keeping the majority of existing trees along the perimeter — and planting additional perimeter trees and thousands of new ones throughout the interior — the building will fade into the landscape. What’s currently a sea of asphalt will be transformed into nearly 120 acres of green space.
We are also committed to protecting the environment. Apple Campus 2 will attain LEED certification, and we are confident it will exceed the City of Cupertino’s standards for environmental sustainability. The campus will be clean, with no manufacturing or heavy industrial activity onsite.
Apple Campus 2 will also include a restaurant, a fitness center, and other amenities to serve Apple employees and reduce automobile trips. As with the current site, Apple Campus 2 will not be open to the public. Infinite Loop will remain our corporate headquarters, and we will continue to occupy many of our existing buildings in Cupertino.
Here is our current schedule:
– Later this year, the City of Cupertino expects to consider the campus plans, which were submitted in August 2011.
– Apple plans to break ground immediately after city approval and begin occupying the campus in 2015.If you have questions or comments, or would like more information about Apple Campus 2, please fill out and return the postage-paid response card included in this mailing. You may also visit the City of Cupertino website at www.cupertino.org.
Sincerely,
Peter Oppenheimer
SVP and Chief Financial Officer
Apple
Apple iPod Designer Pushes Thermostat To The Digital Space
Tony Fadell, a former Apple executive who led iPod and iPhone development formed Nest Labs with former iPhone software manager Matt Rogers. They have created the next generation thermostat. The unique feature of this thermostat is the ability for it to learn. Nest will take 1 week to learn the behaviour of the owner and adjust temperature settings accordingly. The $249 thermostat will ship by the middle of November.
Bill Gates Love Toilets
During the Techonomy conference, Bill Gates revealed that has a great fascination with toilets. Bill Gates said: Latrines are fascinating. No one wants to read about it — it’s one of the greatest under-investments. We’re gonna have a breakthrough in the latrines.
Wow, Bill really has a fixation on toilets because he continue to say: When it comes to things like investing in new toilets, not much money goes into that. You end up with the low IQ guy on the toilets.
Source: Bill Gates’ Mind Is In The Gutter. Literally
60-watt Bulb Replaced With LED light
Osram Sylvania announced a greener option of replacing the common 60W light bulb with a general-purpose LED light designed to replace screw-in incandescent, halogen, or compact fluorescent bulbs. The company is also working on a 75W version.
The new bulb will last 12 times longer than traditional bulb and it will be brighter too.
Osram Sylvania expects to sell the LED bulb, as part of its Ultra line, this August.
Bloom Box – Mini Power Plant For Your Home
The “60 Minutes” Bloom Box segment shows the world how to obtain cheap, clean energy that flows almost magically from a refrigerator sized box. Bloom Box from Bloom Energy is invented by K.R. Sridhar where the box consists of a collection of fuel cells that use oxygen and fuel to create electricity with no emissions.
Check out the full feature on CBS 60 Minutes
Earth Dims For Earth Hour
WWF Earth Hour event see nearly 4,000 cities and towns in 88 countries dim nonessential lights from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. China took part by turning lights off Beijing’s “Bird’s Nest” National Stadium and other locales in the Chinese capital.
Kim Carstensen, director of the global climate initiative for WWF said, Earth Hour has always been a positive campaign; it’s always around street parties, not street protests, it’s the idea of hope, not despair. And I think that’s something that’s been incredibly important this year because there is so much despair around.
Source: Antarctica to Pyramids lights dim for Earth Hour
Earth Hour 2009
Earth Hour 2009 will happen on March 28, 2009 from 8:30-9:30 PM local time, so mark your calendars now. Currently 1,858 cities, towns and municipalities in 81 countries are committed to show public concern about climate change. Participate with the rest of the world and turn off your lights.
