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Starre Vartan
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Yes, Australians DO have the
Thu, May 23 2013 at 3:25 PM
Yes, Australians DO have the highest rates of skin cancer, which is what happens when you import millions of English people to a tropical desert type environment. Over the last 20 years, Australian scientists and government agencies have spent way more time and money than anyone else to figure out what REALLY works when it comes to protecting skin, and because of that info and related public health campaigns, their skin cancer rate has dropped a lot (still more work to do, but the younger generations are much more informed). How do I know all this? I'm actually half-Australian, attended school there and most of my family still lives there (that's where my German and English ancestry comes from).
Katnapper, you clearly didn't
Sun, May 19 2013 at 1:01 AM
Katnapper, you clearly didn't read much beyond the beginning of the piece I linked to - Edison slept between 5-7 hours a night and often took 2 naps a day, which adds up to close to 10 hours - perhaps an estimate, but not too far off the mark. Of course he wanted to be THOUGHT of as someone who slept less - only 4-5 hours - but the reality didn't prove that out. He wrote a great deal about sleeping minmal amounts, but it's not what he actually lived, and slept quite a lot. More to the point regarding what I wrote about (which was more about the time that we sleep, not amounts of sleep), was the fact that he had atypical sleeping patterns: As quoted in the piece I linked to: "For two days, and nights and twelve hours — sixty hours in all — he worked continuously without sleep, until he had conquered the difficulty; and then he slept for thirty hours. He often works all night, thinking best, he says, when the rest of the world sleeps."
My grandma always used to eat
Fri, May 03 2013 at 1:55 PM
My grandma always used to eat apples that way and tell me how wasteful I was being throwing half the apple out!
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Starre Vartan
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Starre Vartan has been an environmental journalist for almost a decade, focusing on natural beauty, eco fashion and sustainable living on her blog, eco-chick.com, on which her book, The Eco Chick Guide to Life: How to Be Fabulously Green (St. Martin's Press), is based. Starre was chosen as one of Glamour Magazine's 'Green Women' for their 70th anniversary issue last year, and has written for a number of online and print venues, including guest-blogging at elle.com, contributing to E/The Environmental Magazine, writing the 'Green Guru' column at Audubon Magazine, and style editing at Plenty Magazine. She was most recently managing editor for Greenopia.com. She is currently a regular contributor to The Huffington Post in the Green and Style sections, as well as writing for Inhabitat.com. Starre has fun appearing on TV and radio as a green living expert and also consults on green and lifestyle topics for Fortune 500 companies. Starre lives on the Connecticut shore in a 100-year old Victorian house (that she is slowly greening) with a rescued cocker spaniel and two fluffy cats. When not on the road visiting her family in Australia or checking out swimming holes the world over, she gardens, makes videos, hikes, mountain bikes and snowboards.
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