Leolo Camaleone

In 1870, a German chemist named Erich von Wolf was analysing the iron content of various vegetables. He made a decimal point error. He recorded spinach as containing 35mg of iron per 100g. The correct figure was 3.5mg. The misplaced decimal sat in the nutritional literature for decades, entirely unchallenged, because nobody particularly felt like re-testing spinach. In 1929, the Popeye comic strip launched. The creators cited the iron content of spinach as the scientific basis for their character's powers. By this point, the decimal point error was already sixty years old and fully embedded in received nutritional wisdom. The error was identified and corrected in 1937. The correction was not issued with anything approaching the cultural reach of the original claim. Popeye continued punching things. The actual iron content of spinach, 3.5mg per 100g, roughly where it was always supposed to be, is further complicated by the fact that spinach is among the highest-oxalate vegetables known. Oxalates bind to iron and calcium in the gut and remove them before absorption. The iron in spinach absorbs at around 1–2%, compared to 15–35% for haem iron from red meat. You would need to eat roughly a kilogram of spinach to absorb the iron equivalent of a 100g beef steak. There is also the kidney stone question. Spinach contains around 970mg of oxalates per 100g: one of the densest plant sources. Chronic high spinach consumption, particularly raw in daily smoothies, is a documented pathway to calcium oxalate kidney stones. The smoothie industry has not issued a correction. Popeye is still a sailor.

A friend in Cuba just notified me that every single patient in that hospital that was on ventilators died tonight. I don’t have words.

Martin Parr

Striking civilian electrical infrastructure is a war crime. The President is threatening war crimes because of an oil price. Congress must impeach, or the cabinet must invoke the 25th amendment. This is unacceptable and outside of the authority of the President.

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 Roblox programmer Jamie Borne has been arrested for possessing child rape pornography and importing a child sex doll!

🚨 16 YEARS OLD. 10.04 in the 100m. Gout Gout didn’t just win — he embarrassed the whole field and made them look like they were jogging 😭 This Australian kid is generational. Bolt 2.0 just arrived ⚡🏃‍♂️

Alejandro Magno a lomos de Bucéfalo en la batalla de Gaugamela debía ser algo parecido a esto

@paraquebailemiR "80 cortes por batería y viene con 2!!!" Le van a faltar árboles 😂😂😂

Padre se ha comprado una podadora eléctrica Stihl y ha dejado el olivo temblando 😂😂😂

@MissPaulitz Por ahí ha andado haciendo astillas y trepando a higueras.

@Incontrolovely Su nieta lo haría con las manos.

@miss_amy14 Vaya puesta de sol 😍

@Incontrolovely Wow

¡𝐏𝐎𝐆𝐀𝐂𝐀𝐑 𝐓𝐔𝐌𝐁𝐀 𝐋𝐀 𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐀! Ha tenido que sudar sangre, pero en una de las páginas más gloriosas del ciclismo, Tadej Pogacar conquista la Milán-San Remo ante Tom Pidcock. 🚴‍♂️ Lo has visto en @Eurosport_ES y @StreamMaxES. #MilanoSanremo

@AndresRublev @Lenore1789 La mía de 3 pide algunas muy random: - 'Seidermón' 🟰'Berghain' de Rosalía. - 'Los abuelitos" 🟰Buenavista Social Club - 'el de los Superhéroes'🟰 'Échate un cantecito' de Kiko Veneno - 'el del cocodrilo' 🟰 'Root Echoes' de Dj Babtr - 'el del gorila' 🟰 'Daisy' de Rusowski

Y los padres que se inventan la música que escuchan sus hijos qué. Por poco me dice uno hace un rato que su hijo pide Swans y Slint con 7 años.

Un documento tan importante a nivel evolutivo como la salida de los vertebrados del agua

Camaradas, hoy sale ES UN DOLOR INEXPLICABLE. 10 temas para los 10 meses del año. Ahora solo queda rockearlo. 🎧 orcd.co/esundolorinexp…

Me encanta.🤩 Un acento gallego de LaCoru, mientras prepara un arroz tres delicias haciendo de traductora de su padre.

THE ECONOMIST: Operation Blind Fury #TomorrowsPapersToday

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