Random links
- For Lent, can man live by brew alone?
- "Three hundred or four hundred years ago, a group of Paulaner monks in a Bavarian region had made a stronger beer in a town called Einbeck and they called it bock. The monks started making a stronger beer, a double beer, called doppelbock ... The story goes the monks would give up eating and literally would drink this 'liquid bread' to sustain them through their Lenten fast." I can see Lent becoming somewhat more popular. This also reminds me of the Guiness Diet episode of Glutton for Punishment.
- Human Poop-Powered Bus Hits UK Roads
- "This “Bio-bus” runs on biomethane gas, which is produced from the treatment of human sewage and food that is unsuitable for human consumption. ... Just one person’s annual food and sewage waste is enough to fuel the bus for 60 kilometers"
- Man eats sugar-heavy diet for 60 days, receives shocking diagnosis
- The interesting angle per the guy on this experimental diet: "I had no soft drink, chocolate, ice cream or confectionery ... All the sugars that I was eating were found in perceived healthy foods, so low-fat yogurts, and muesli bars, and cereals, and fruit juices, sports drinks ... these kind of things that often parents would give their kids thinking they’re doing the right thing."
- Pro football player leaves behind $37 million contract to become a farmer
- Call me crazy but I'd advise more than just watching a few YouTube videos before making a jump like this guy did.