The Flashnificents The Message is Medium Rare Herman and Candelaria Zapp: Couple who have been traveling the world for 13 years with their four multinational children show no signs of stopping By Rachel Quigley Updated: 22:15 GMT, 27 March 2013 After driving their way through Africa, the Zapp family have another continent on their to do list - Europe. For the last 13 years, Herman and Candelaria Zapp have traversed the coasts of South and North America, Asia, Australia and Africa in their 85-year-old vehicle which has also been their home. Along the way they have covered almost 200,000 miles and visited more than 40 countries. Pampa, ten, was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, Tehue, seven, was born in Argentina, Paloma, four, is a native of Vancouver Island, Canada, and little Wallaby, three, is - obviously - from Australia. Scroll down for video Long way round: The Zapp family has grown on the journey. In Argentina: The Zapp family have covered almost 200,000 miles and visited more than 40 countries - and they've also had four kids In South America: Another one for the photo album Intrepid: The couple have faced many obstacles on their continuous journey. They married in 1996.
Women’s cravings for chocolate begin in the womb, study suggests New research may explain why some women would choose chocolate over sex: A woman’s passion for chocolate appears to begin before she is even born. Italian researchers who set out to test whether female and male fetuses respond differently when their mothers eat chocolate found that female fetuses react much more strongly than males to chocolate. Cuckoo for real stuff: Benefits of cocoa for the heart are backed by history & research, just mind the milk chocolate Is chocolate actually good for you? The chocolate debate was resurrected last week when a new randomized, placebo-controlled study, published in the June edition of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that theobromine, the active compound in chocolate, might raise HDL (“good”) cholesterol. Read more… Andrea Tranquilli, of the University of Politecnica Marche in Ancona, Italy, says chocolate cravings are known to be more common in women. The new study involved 100 pregnant women who were close to delivery.
This Article Will Make You Laugh, Cry, Then Resent Me The Most Important Key To Getting Views Has Nothing To Do With Your Content I write headlines for a living—and I love it. I love nimble phrasing and trying to understand what will emotionally resonate with readers. I’m a firm believer that in today’s digital world of abundant content and curated feeds, headlines are the single most powerful tool for the modern publisher. (Insert Spiderman quote here.) But I’m worried that in a culture where the headline is often the sole determinant of whether something is worth our time, people like me are abusing this power. This Event in 2006 Made Headlines Matter More Than Ever (See what I did there. In the last few decades, the quantity of content being produced for the web has far outpaced our capacity to consume it. Please, Tell Me What to Feel Now, as we scroll through our feeds, we are looking for signals to be inspired, for emotion, for an itch that needs to be scratched. Tl;Dr Why All This Matters So, where’s the rub?
I've Been Single For My Entire Life | Katie Heaney I would like to tell you about a theory I've developed, in the past two years or so, about a certain brand of people I like to call "lighthouses." This theory was developed after years spent in the company of one such member of the species, carefully observed in her natural habitat. She was the prototype, basically. Her name is Rylee and she's my best friend. You might as well know that now because she's going to come up a lot. Rylee, since the time I met her seven years ago, has dated nine people. This is what I like to call being "a lighthouse." Lighthouse people are beacons that call all the sailors in ships back to land, beckoning them in toward the light. Now, I've had it pointed out to me (by a bunch of boys who couldn't possibly understand the metaphor) that this is not how lighthouses actually "work." I am not a lighthouse. The first time I told Rylee that she was a lighthouse, she asked me what that made me. I know that sounds like an exaggeration.
8 | The Top 11 Crowdfunding Stories Of 2013 The crowdfunding movement continued to grow in 2013, with the sector projected to have generated $5.1 billion globally worldwide over the past year. As crowdfunding has become more popular, the ambition of projects raising money on sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo has also grown. Health and wellness products in particular have become popular on crowdfunding sites. Biking was another hot crowdfunding category this year, with a smart bike wheel, a series of bamboo bikes, and a cardboard bike all raising cash from interested cyclists. Here's the full list of our top crowdfunding stories for 2013: 1: Point This Magical Scanner At Your Food And It Will Count The Calories The TellSpec could be the missing link for people watching their weight or trying to avoid certain ingredients--if its creators can manage to bring it to the market. 2: This 24-Year-Old Entrepreneur Raised $300,000 By Wearing Dad’s Wool Shirt For 100 Days 5: Forget Standing Desks: Here's One You Pedal To Power Your Gadgets
The Story Behind The Famous FedEx Logo, And Why It Works The following is an excerpt from The Laws of Subtraction by Matthew May (McGraw-Hill). My ten-year-old daughter points out the logo on a FedEx truck every time she sees one. She’s done that without fail ever since she learned to sound out letters. But she doesn’t do that with any other logo. “There’s the white arrow that no one on my gymnastics team knows about,” she’ll say. The FedEx logo is legendary among designers. We spoke at length about visual impact, his creative process, and his story of the FedEx logo development. “It’s those kinds of stories that are the most gratifying for me, most rewarding,” he says. When Lindon graduated from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, his very first job was with Saul Bass, the iconic Los Angeles designer perhaps best known for creating the AT&T logo. According to Lindon, seeing the original Smith & Hawken catalogs in the 1980s made a significant impression on him and influenced much of his early approach to design.
How Your “Someday” List Reveals Who You Really Are And What You Really Want To Do Once upon a time, to-do lists were simply scrawled on scraps of paper. These days, the exploding number of productivity apps means that not only can people upgrade their lists--we’re also discovering new information about the way people actually work. For instance, what happens when somebody puts an item on a “someday” list? Recently, the team at Any.do, a productivity app that lets you assign tasks to Today, Tomorrow, Upcoming, and Someday lists, decided to find out. The “Someday” list items, says founder Omer Perchik, ran the gamut from planning a trip to Japan to fixing the kitchen sink. Regardless of the task, though, Any.do discovered that if a “Someday” task hadn’t been moved up to a Today, Tomorrow, or Upcoming list within six weeks, the probability of it ever happening dropped off drastically. What’s so special about six weeks? We think six weeks is the window where people are the most enthusiastic about doing something. That realization can provide you with valuable insight.
23 Things To Do Instead Of Getting Engaged Before You’re 23 | Wander Onwards As 2013 wraps up, I’ve been noticing more and more people getting engaged and/or married under the age of 23. I get it. It’s cold outside… you want to cuddle and talk about your feelings… life after graduation is a tough transition… so why not just cut to the chase and get married, right? It’s hip. It’s cool. You get to wear clothing that wouldn’t normally be socially acceptable at the dive bar you frequent with the $5 beers. Oh wait. The divorce rate for young couples is more than twice the national average. “How to budget for your prom AND your wedding in the same year!” “What’s HOT: Kids raising Kids.” “Why your Mom doesn’t really know what she’s talking about.” Because at the age of 22, I have no idea who I am, what I’m doing, and who I’ll be doing it with for the next year… let alone for the rest of my life. Some day, I want to get married too. What inspired me to scribble down my feelings (so many feelings!) I can’t help but feel like a lot of these unions are a cop-out. Sure. 1. 2. 3.
Why smart women go for jerks Tim* and I met at an economics class in university. Though we didn’t know it at the time, two things would bring us together by the end of the semester – our near-identical timetables and a mutual fascination with Adam Smith. For him, it was Smith the economist – author of Wealth of Nations and the father of modern economics. For me, it was the newspaper astrologist – author of the lesser known (but no less powerfully titled) Saturn, Fatal Attraction. Smith, the astrologer Smith, the economist Growing up, I looked forward to reading my weekly horoscopes the way old people would lust after their new TV guides. But on the Sunday before my first week of uni, Smith offered no hint that I was about to get into my first real relationship. Advertisement Eventually, I realised that the other Adam actually had much better advice when it comes to navigating the nuances of love. Not according to Smith. After the first semester, Tim and I went on to share many more economics classes.