No shirt, no shoes, no problem.
A pop-up restaurant in London is taking natural to a whole new level.
Bunyadi, operated by a company called Lollipop, is scheduled to open in the United Kingdom’s capital in June. Customers can decide whether they would like to dine in the nude. Those that do will be offered a locker to store their clothes, and they will be given a robe to wear as they make their way to the “naked section.” Tables are separated by bamboo partitions, and photography will not be permitted.
“We believe people should get the chance to enjoy and experience a night out without any impurities,” Lollipop founder Seb Lyall told the Daily Mail. “No chemicals, no artificial colors, no electricity, no gas, no phone, and even no clothes if they wish to. The idea is to experience true liberation.”
The Daily Mail reports that Bunyadi already has a waiting list of almost 10,000 people. That’s unfortunate news for about 7,000 of them, since the restaurant can seat just 42 diners at a time and Bunyadi will only be able to serve 3,000 people in the three months it will be open.
According to Bunyadi’s website, the atmosphere will be that of a “Pangea-like world, free from phones, electric lights, and even clothing.”
Source :Fortune.com
Increasing numbers of foodies and health enthusiasts are opting to take their food ‘natural’, but a new restaurant in London is taking the trend to a new level.
A naked pop-up eatery called Bunyadi is soon to launch in June in London, and there are already nearly 10,000 people on the waiting list.
(CNN)Want to get naked while getting dinner in London?
Keep your clothes on for now and join the back of a very, very long line.
More than 32,000 people have signed up for a chance to dine at Bunyadi, a pop-up restaurant billed as the UK capital’s first “naked food experience.”
Opening in June, the central London venue will offer gowns, changing rooms and lockers to guests wanting to digest the sight of their own exposed skin while getting their chow on.
Only 42 diners a time will fit in the restaurant — at an as-yet-undisclosed location — meaning that many of those hoping for a naked lunch, or dinner, will be disappointed.
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“I’m both surprised and excited by the response,” Seb Lyall, whose company Lollipop is behind the venture, tells CNN.
It turns out you were doing your friend a favor when you cupped your hand to your butt,farted, then swiped it into their face. Same with all those times you crop dusted (the act of farting and walking at the same time thus spreading the scent over an expansive area) anunsuspecting crowdat the supermarket. According to a study,the smell of farts, or hydrogen sulfide, can have some incredible health benefits.
The study emanating from Devon, England, states that not only does farting help the farter live longer, but the smell of the farts can quell dementia. In addition to helping people remember your farting around them when they were younger,smelling farts could help withheart disease, diabetes, and even arthritis. The stinkier the better. The scientists say the risk of cancer, heart attacks, and strokes can be reduced by simply farting.
This is thanks to the ecosystem in our bowels.When you fart, you’re helping yourself out:
“When cells become stressed by disease, they draw in enzymes to generate minute quantities of hydrogen sulfide.
This keeps the mitochondria ticking over and allows cells to live. If this doesn’t happen, the cells die and lose the ability to regulate survival and control inflammation.
Researcher Dr. Mark Wood gives the key quote for you to repeat to anyone in the vicinity of your gas passing (if they have a problem with it ((they shouldn’t if they keep up on their #Science)):
“Although hydrogen sulfide is well known as a pungent, foul-smelling gas in rotten eggs and flatulence, it is naturally produced in the body and could in fact be ahealthcare hero with significant implications for future therapies for a variety of diseases.”
Are You Faster Than The Smell Of A Fart? Here’s Why You’ll Never Escape!
All farts are like snowflakes, beautiful and unique. If you never thought you’d read a sentence like that before, it’s possible that you’re not familiar with ASAP Science, the video series that teaches you all the magical things your high-school science teacher likely never did. (Like why we’re so obsessed with breasts.) Today’s lesson is all about farts. But it’s not about how or why we fart (duh, because it’s fun and annoys others), but whether we could outrun a fart if we wanted to (like in middle school when that one weird smelly kid would just set one off and we’d all cringe at our desks, trying not to bathe in the smell and doing our best not to worry about whether farts contain fecal particles).
The easy answer is that outrunning farts is near impossible. Even Usain Bolt, the video explains, wouldn’t be able to outrun the sound of a particularly loud fart he had produced if he wanted to. He might be gone before you’d know it was him, but he’d certainly hear the sound of the fart escaping as he high-tailed it out of the room. But the issue of smell makes it more complicated. That’s because not only are all farts unique (just the reminder you needed that you were special on this Wednesday!) but because so are our noses, meaning that while some of us might feel the full flavor of a particularly pungent expulsion of gas, sensing it violating the very core of our being, others might just be all “whatever. Farts.” Even then, though, ASAP Science points out that the “smelliest” part of the fart moves at more than 243 meters per second, meaning that we can’t really escape, we can just hope our noses aren’t sensitive.
Good to know. Let’s hope ASAP Science’s next video addresses another of life’s most important questions:Is the one who smelled it also the one who dealt it?
When we last checked in on the palm oil industry, it was busy planning to expand its operations to Africa’s Congo Basin. Environmentalists worried that the industry’s destructive farming practices would lead to imminent slash-and-burning of the Congo’s rainforests for palm tree plantations.
Now this week, the industry’s self-regulatory organization, the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), is being criticized for not being quite self-regulatory enough. According to the Guardian, environmentalists are charging that the RSPO failed to sufficiently investigate the involvement of some of its members in the wildfires that swept through Indonesia last month.
In the wake of the fires, the media reported that numerous hot spots were located on plantations owned by five RSPO members. At end of June, RSPO, a membership-based organization that counts palm oil growers and manufacturers, retailers, investors, and environmental NGOs among its ranks, responded by requesting that the five companies in question submit digital maps to compare their concession boundaries with satellite imagery taken of the blaze.
The RSPO announced four days later that three of the growers had complied, while “delays in communication” had prevented the other two companies, PT Jatim Jaya Perkasa and Tabung Haji Plantations, from following suit. The organization gave those companies 48 additional hours to comply, after which the organization said it would commence formal complaint proceedings. PIC FROM INTERNATIONAL ANIMAL RESCUE/GUZELIAN – (PICTURED – Pelansi, the Bornean orangutan who lost his hand after being caught in a snare) – A young male orangutan that spent days trapped in a snare, resulting in the amputation of his right hand and half his arm, has been released back into the forests of West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo after months of treatment and rehabilitation. Picture shows him receuperating after the operation.SEE GUZELIAN COPYEleven days after that, the RSPO announced that only Tabung Haji Plantations had provided maps, and that it would commence a formal complaint proceeding against Jatim Jaya Perkasa. Two days later, on July 11, the RSPO said it had analyzed all of the maps the companies provided and cleared them of any violations, and that Jatim Jaya Perkasa had finally submitted maps, but they were unusable. Meanwhile, Greenpeace reported that it had information showing some 100 hot spots on Jatim Jaya Perkasa’s land.
Critics are demanding to know why it took so long for the RSPO to get maps from its own members, asking how effective the organization can really be if it can’t even demand transparency.
In an interview, Bustar Maitar, the head of Greenpeace’s Indonesia forest campaign, questioned “why the RSPO needs to wait for over two weeks for companies to hand in concession maps, when it is part of the RSPO principles and criteria for members to be transparent about their concession maps.” He added that it was “time for individual palm oil companies to step up and set the bar higher than the RSPO.” Greenpeace is currently campaigning for an “immediate moratorium” on forest and peatland destruction in Indonesia, which is says is the world’s third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases; the group is calling for zero deforestation by 2015.
For its part, the RSPO has issued a release on its website stating in part that “The recent fires in Indonesia also represent an opportunity for RSPO and its members to play a positive role to help other companies and governments mitigate, or avoid altogether, the annual fires and haze in South East Asia…The RSPO firmly encourages its members with existing plantations on peat and elsewhere to adopt fire prevention measures within their concessions. For further guidance, kindly refer to RSPO’s Peat Best Management Practices (BMP).”
Indonesia ‘may blacklist Leonardo DiCaprio over palm oil comments’
Indonesia says it may ban Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio from returning over his comments on rainforests being cleared for palm oil plantations.
Mr DiCaprio entered Indonesia on a tourist visa and on Sunday visited Gunung Leuser National Park in Aceh.
“A world-class biodiversity hotspot… but palm oil expansion is destroying this unique place,” he posted.
If the comments were judged as “incitement”, he would be banned in future, a top official told the BBC.
”In terms of [his] visa and immigration permit, Leonardo DiCaprio did not do anything wrong: He entered and left Indonesia legally. But, we still investigate,” Heru Santoso, spokesperson for the director general of immigration department, said.
“If DiCaprio’s posting in his social media can be categorised as incitement or provocation, we can blacklist him from coming back to Indonesia.” Image copyrightleonardodicaprio/InstagramIt is not the first time a Hollywood star has run into trouble in Indonesia over their environmental activism.
Star Wars actor Harrison Ford was threatened with deportation in 2013 for “harassing state institutions” after interviewing the then forestry minister about illegal logging.
‘Black campaign’
In posts on his Instagram account, Mr DiCaprio said he was working to save the Leuser ecosystem, “the last place on Earth where Sumatran orang-utans, tigers, rhinos and elephants coexist in the wild”.
On Twitter, he posted a link to a petition addressed to the Indonesian President Joko Widodo, calling for the area to be protected.
Some members of the government have accused him of running a “black campaign” to discredit the government and the country’s palm oil industry.
But Farwiza Farhan, chairperson of the group Forest, Nature and Environment of Aceh, told BBC Indonesia that the Oscar-winning actor had done nothing wrong.
“The claim that he was trying to discredit Indonesia doesn’t make sense because these environment campaigns are local movements,” she said.
“He just gave his support. Tourists can come and speak their opinion. When Leo arrived in Medan he was shocked that the haze was so thick, he asked us: ‘Is this smoke or clouds?'”
Smelling Farts Could Work Wonders For Your Health, Says Science
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