Palais Bourbon! …oh wait sorry, wrong bourbon :( This is instead, ‘simply’ a government building.
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Night bus tour of Paris (4/6) →
Night bus tour of Paris (3/6) →
Looking across the Pont des Arts (the famous bridges where lovers lock padlocks and toss the keys into theSeine) towards the Institut de France. An astounding feat of snap-photography from a moving bus with a tiny phone camera!
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Night bus tour of Paris (2/6) →
View across the Pont d’Iéna (that’s a Cap-i ;) over the Seine. Paris bustles by night!
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Night bus tour of Paris (1/6) →
Arc de Triomphe. Great wikipedia article on it… history, tomb of the unknown soldier, etc
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A glimpse of Paris by night →
Delightfully cool open-top bus ride. Total tourist thing to do, but Paris sure is b-e-a-utiful by bight. Notre Dame and the Seine. Of course.
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The first leg home →
Our first leg is a car ride into Paris. We’ve a hotel room tonight so we are closer to the airport tomorrow morning. Stand-by (or sit if you wish) for photos from tonight’s open-top-bus tour of Paris. Bunch more fun videos from today too that I have to post from Tracy’s phone.
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Dangerous Place →
The world is a dangerous place to live; Not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.
~ Albert Einstein
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US fructose consumption trends →
1970: 42.5 lb/year of added fructose.
~ Stephan Guyenet from, Whole Health Source: US Fructose Consumption Trends
2007: 50.6 lb/year of added fructose.
At 19%, it’s not a staggering increase, but it’s definitely significant. I also think it’s an underestimate, because it doesn’t include fruit juice or total fruit consumption, both of which have increased. Other notable findings: grain intake has increased 41% between 1970 and 2005, due chiefly to rising consumption of processed wheat products. Added fats and oils have increased 63% in the same time period, with the increase coming exclusively from vegetable fats. The use of hydrogenated shortening has more than doubled.
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And the amount of average exercise has INCREASED as well since the 70s. We [Americans] have not become sedentary… our diets is killing us, and we’ve been partly stemming the tide through exercise. Reduce your added sugar intake, reduce your processed grains intake. You don’t have to go to extremes… just make small changes. ‘Big ship, small rudder’ but you are still at the helm.
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Pioneering scientist Erwin Chargaff on the power of being an outsider and what makes a great teacher →
If there is such a thing as a great scientist … that greatness can certainly not be transferred by what is commonly called teaching. What the disciples learn are the mannerisms, tricks of the trade, ways to make a career, or perhaps, in the rarest cases, a critical view of the meaning of scientific evidence and its interpretation. A real teacher can teach through his example — this is what the ducklings get from their mothers — or, most infrequently, through the intensity and the originality of his view or vision of nature.
~ Erwin Chargaff from, Pioneering Scientist Erwin Chargaff on the Power of Being an Outsider and What Makes a Great Teacher – The Marginalian
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The Seine at dawn →
This one’s for Jesse (who’s currently on an expidition sharing Parkour in South Africa) who asked for more photos. This is a shot of the Seine near dawn as we were walking to Notre Dame (in Paris, in case that’s not obvious.)
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