An apple is one of the most fundamental fruits throughout history. Apparently, we’ve been eating them wrong. The average person discards roughly 30% of each apple. Eat apple from bottom to up (or vice versa).
- via foodbeast.com
A reconstruction of the face of Jane, a 19 year old who left Plymouth, England, in June 1609 as part of the largest fleet yet to sail for Jamestown. A hurricane scattered the fleet, and her ship limped into Jamestown in early August. Less than a year later, she was dead.
Jamestown was founded in 1607 by English colonists. The starving time was a period two years later in which 80% of the colonists died. Besieged by Powhatan Indians in their wooden fort, the settlers had been joined by new colonists late that summer, among them women and children, whose main supply ship had disappeared in a storm, leaving them without food. Only 60 of 300 people survived the winter.
Over several months an Australian woman had sex with strangers while sleepwalking. On one occasion, her partner awoke to find her missing, went searching for her and found her engaged in the sex act.
Children who are exposed to negative parenting – including abuse, neglect but also overprotection – are more likely to experience childhood bullying by their peers, according to a meta-analysis of 70 studies of more than 200,000 children.
Here are just a few of the ways gardening can benefit your physical and mental health.