domingo, 15 de julho de 2012
A prova de que o sol envelhece a pele
Este retrato quase que dispensa palavras, a não ser as que permitem explicar o que provocou o acentuado envelhecimento unilateral da pele deste homem.
A imagem não deixa lugar para dúvidas. O homem retratado, um camionista de 69 anos de idade, conduziu um camião pelas estradas da América do Norte durante 28 anos.
Numa fotolegenda na revista New England Journal of Medicine, os médicos Jennifer Gordon e Joaquin Brieva, da Universidade Northwestern de Chicago, explicam facilmente o fenómeno: os raios ultravioletas A (UVA) do Sol atravessam o vidro das janelas dos veículos; ser-se cronicamente exposto aos UVA faz com que a pele se torne mais espessa e menos elástica.
Falta acrescentar o óbvio: como nos Estados Unidos (tal como em Portugal) o volante dos veículos fica do lado esquerdo, foi o lado esquerdo da cara do homem o que mais sofreu os efeitos da exposição solar.
in Público
Alison read the note, smiled, and immediately put on her coat
It was winter and one night, Alison decided to go to a café with her friends to drink a hot chocolate. She was wearing a very nice mink coat.
When Alison arrived the café, she noticed that it was very warm so she left her mink coat at the cloakroom, near her umbrella.
Alison and her friends had a great time together.
Later, when the twelve clangs were heard, they picked up their belongings from the cloakroom and went home.
The next day, Alison was looking for her red lipstick because she had a date and she wanted to be pretty for her companion, so she started checking the pockets of the mink coat.
She didn't find her red lipstick but she found another thing instead: a much better thing.
With that thing, she could buy every lipstick in the world and some more.
Checking the pockets of the mink coat, Alison discovered a small paper.
It contained a sequence of numbers.
The right numbers for the euromillions!
Two mink coats had been switched at the café, that winter night.
Moral lesson: don't leave your euromillions ticket in your pocket!
Written by: Natacha Soares
sábado, 14 de julho de 2012
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