fun with maths!

[elephantgiraffe]

I am getting close to finishing my manuscript that I hope to turn into a book about my cross country bike tour last year. I the course of writing, I've been doing some research, largely on points of historical or geographical interest in the places I went through, but I am also enough of a geek that I want to include some math & science. So here is

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Cool figures

[polyanarch]

I like it. Too bad we can't be like cars and not burn calories when we are not "being driven." Then again, some of us need to burn more calories so that isn't a bad thing.

I wonder how many gallons of gas it takes to grow and transport those food calories to our mouths?

My car has gone about 320,000 miles. At 30MPG that works out to out 10,667 gallons of gas. Even if we can average gas out to about $2/gallon over the life of the car that is still way more money than I paid for the car, including upkeep. Sobering thoughts. But it's taken me 16 years to pat those miles on it.

[saidelsajap]

Thanks for posting, I like this blog!