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Thursday, June 2, 2011

Product Deception

Clipping from Time Magazine




This isn't from the same Time Magazine article I was reading (above), but it’s always interesting learning about product deceptions...

-- Budget Gourmet Light and Healthy Salisbury Steak, which is labeled "low fat," derives 45% of its total calories from fat.

-- Diet Coke contains more than the one heavily advertised calorie per can (so does Diet Pepsi).

-- There is no real fruit -- just fruit flavors -- in Post Fruity Pebbles.

-- Honey Nut Cheerios provides less honey than sugar and more salt than nuts.

-- Mrs. Smith's Natural Juice Apple Pie contains artificial preservatives. The word natural refers to the fruit juice used to make the pie.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Numbers: Sex

Things you'll learn by reading Discover Magazine (Science, Technology, and the Future):

8:1 Ratio of the length of a barnacle's penis to the rest of its body, making it proportionally the largest phallus in the animal kingdom. Among vertebrates the Argentine lake duck is the leader, with a penis that can exceed the length of the bird's 16-inch body.

Ugh, I just searched "Argentine lake duck" on google and the images are not pleasant.

Argentine Lake Duck censored