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Works at a desk. Takes no exercise. Poor expectation of life

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

A British educational clip from the 1960s on food and weight. Brutal by our politically correct standards, with quotes like “Mr Brown, also very much overweight. Works at a desk. Takes no exercise. Poor expectation of life.”

As Mark Frauenfelder notes on BoingBoing, “most of the obese children in the video look like average kids today”.

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Thanks god for miniaturization

Monday, December 21st, 2009

We have certainly forgotten, but there were definitely a few prerequisites to the existence of the iPod :D

Dutch Army research between WWI and WWII. Link (via lobollo)

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