Footage of London filmed in the late 1920s by British cinematographer Claude Friese-Greene. There’s even a snippet of the fifth and final Ashes cricket test, played between England and Australia, at the Oval, in 1926.

The World Health Organization has had a busy couple of weeks keeping track of three deadly strains across the world, and world travelers have probably been equally overcome with fear. And while the public-health group has been realistic in combatting a worldwide freakout – at least it’s been a bit more proactive than local governments in check-ups on novel coronavirus, Chinese bird flu, and now wild polio in Africa – the WHO did confirm over the weekend that the SARS cousin, NCoV, can spread between humans in the same room. If you’re already afraid of humans in the same room as you, here’s how to responsibly freak out on the viral news before it goes viral in the wrong way.

In 12 exercises deploying only body weight, a chair and a wall, it fulfills the latest mandates for high-intensity effort, which essentially combines a long run and a visit to the weight room into about seven minutes of steady discomfort – all of it based on science. “There’s very good evidence” that high-intensity interval training provides “many of the fitness benefits of prolonged endurance training but in much less time,” says Chris Jordan, the director of exercise physiology at the Human Performance Institute in Orlando, Fla., and co-author of the new article.

If you wish to try the workout, this website will help you step through each of the exercises inside the seven minute time frame.

Producing a burger that potentially requires a diner to take out a mortgage to pay for though, wasn’t the intention however:

The hamburger, assembled from tiny bits of beef muscle tissue grown in a laboratory and to be cooked and eaten at an event in London, perhaps in a few weeks, is meant to show the world – including potential sources of research funds – that so-called in vitro meat, or cultured meat, is a reality.

Food as you seldom see it, from a cutaway image prospective, the result of a collaboration between New York City based food stylist Charlotte Omnes, and photographer Beth Galton.

The Rainshader protects people from the elements while watching major sporting events – crucially it doesn’t blow inside out, poke passers-by in the eye or drip on neighbours’ shoulders in crowds. Its cut-away front, based on the design of a motor cycle helmet, lets people see the action while allowing the umbrella to sit low over the head so it doesn’t block the view of those behind.

So it’s because of the details of nuclear fusion – the particular size at which nuclei stop producing energy – that iron is the most common element heavier than neon. And as we saw before, you have to be a d-block element to make a decent pigment, which means that iron is going to be, by far, the most plentiful pigment for any species which lives on a star that isn’t about to blow up. And it’s going to bond to oxygen, the most plentiful thing around in planetary crusts for it to bond to (only hydrogen and helium are more common, and they tend to evaporate), to form iron oxides: those rich, red ochres that we mix with oils to form a cheap, stable, red paint.

We don’t buy coffee like we used to… for a period during the seventeenth century, coffee houses in England were issuing their own coffee tokens, as small change was in short supply.

Via Brain Pickings.