Save money, shave with a spade. “A Russian teacher is economizing on razors – by shaving with a garden spade instead,” Orange News U.K. reports. “Alex Karpenko, 35, who teaches English, was taught how to shave with everyday objects by his Second World War veteran grandfather. Mr. Karpenko, from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, started with a sharpened axe but now uses his spade. He said: ‘Razors are an expensive, unnecessary luxury.
My grandfather told me that during the war he used to shave using anything. Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue? How a tired brain can slow your physical performance. “Improve your marathon time while sitting at your computer” is the kind of claim you expect from an infomercial or a spam e-mail, not from the keynote speaker at an academic gathering.
“It sounds crazy,” Samuele Marcora admitted during his talk at a conference on fatigue at Charles Sturt University in Australia last month, “but it’s actually not.” Dr. Marcora, a professor at the University of Kent’s Centre for Sports Studies in Britain, has spent the past few years unravelling the surprising links between tired brains and physical performance. His initial results suggest that what we perceive as physical limits are actually highly dependent on our levels of motivation and mental fatigue – and that we may be able to use this fact to our advantage. How the Brain Works « New York Times Knowledge Network.