Divorce makes men fatter

There's a cliché that says marriage leads men to increase the weight, a fact which is confirmed by several studies. However, according to a study by Ohio State University, in the United States, the divorce also helps men to get fatter. That is, from the moment when a man marries, the more likely it is to win some weight: want to stay in the marriage or divorce.

The study, cited by NYMag, analyzed more than 10,000 people in the two years following the marriage or divorce â€" the first data was collected in 1979.

So, 63% of the men gained weight after the divorce, when compared with men who remained married; the chances of women gain weight in post-divorce however are only half of these.

"This study proves that marriage is associated with all kinds of health benefits for men, while the divorce is especially bad in terms of health," says the New Yorker magazine.

On the other hand, the risk of heart attack, stroke and suicide also increases after the divorce. IE: from that moment on, for man, it takes a special care with their diet.

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Pay to see an exhibition of Earth and grass?

Per Kristian Nygard, a Norwegian artist, managed to bring literally the nature inside an enclosed space and managed to fill a gallery in Oslo with a mound of dirt and grass.

Installing flows from the showroom to the entrance hall. Called "Not Red But Green", the installation plays with the notion of unlikely environments, the intuitive human responses and the relationship between architecture and nature.

Works by Per Kristian Nygard tend to explore the possibilities of space and in this last installation the aim was to create the experience of "enter a space where everything is bad but that appears to be fine," cites the Inhabitat.

To build the facility was a wooden structure used to create the valleys and mountains of work. Subsequently, the structure was covered with plastic sheets on which was deposited layer of dirt impregnated with grass seed. Along the exhibition the seeds were germinating creating now looks like a green landscape trapped inside four walls.

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What if you could rent your bicycle to a stranger?

In Copenhagen, Denmark, it is possible to rent the bike to a stranger. The Cyclister, Danish startup, wants to help cyclists to rent your bikes to total strangers. So, intends to release soon a smartphone app to make the service more effective.

The company launched its service in the city of Copenhagen for more than six weeks and already has an online database with approximately 300 bikes. The cost for renting a bike is approximately $ 15 (€ 12), according to the co-founder of Cyclister David Paag.

"The Denmark is the perfect place to start. Is the capital of the bikes in the world and 25 percent of tourists actually rent a bicycle in the city, "says Paag, quoted by PC World Magazine and quoted by my aggregator well-being.

So far, the Cyclister managed to attract a small number of people willing to rent your bikes to other inhabitants or tourists in the city, so the rental companies in town offer most bikes available in the database of the company.

The company is now looking for investors to help expand and improve the service, including developing a mobile application to make the rental process more effective and "an obvious need," according to Paag.

The Cyclister will have to compete with bike rental programs supported by municipalities and companies in major cities. But Paag ensures that Cyclister will compete with rental services already available, by offering a wider range of bikes, including cargo bikes, racing and mountain bikes.

The aim of the company is to provide 5 million bicycles in Denmark in February 2015.

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Pope will ask Catholics to combat climate change

Next March, the Pope should disclose an edict where Francisco will ask Catholics around the world to combat climate change. The document will be the first of its kind issued by a Pope and will be directed to approximately 1.2 billion Catholics.

The document, according to the Guardian, writes should be disclosed after a visit to Tacloban City â€" the Philippine city devastated by a typhoon in 2012 â€" which is scheduled for next March.

An encyclical like this is rare in the history of the Catholic Church, and the Pope's message must have a stamp of urgency and seriousness. The Pope is expected to ask the world community of Catholics not only to fight climate change in the name of science but also make this claim in a moral obligation for believers. The edict, which should take between 50 to 60 pages will be distributed to 5,000 bishops and 400,000 priests around the world.

It is estimated that this Pope's message can reach more individuals than any other message on the same subject issued by political groups or environmentalists. Is still on the agenda of the Pope speak on the same topic at the UN General Assembly in September, which will take place in New York.

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Rio de Janeiro: air pollution kills more than traffic accidents

The traffic jams in Rio de Janeiro have skyrocketing due to the numerous interventions and works at various points in the city, which has caused more damage to the health of our citizens than hours lost, according to the least one Car.

Between 2006 and 2012, 36,194 people died as a result of diseases caused by air pollution, according to a survey of Health and sustainability Institute (ISS). This number is even more alarming when compared with the number of deaths caused by traffic accidents between 2006 and 2011: according to data from the map of Violence from 2013, 16,441 people died in Rio de Janeiro, i.e. less than half of the deaths from pollution, according to the Jornal do Brazil.

Also according to the study of the ISS, on average, 14 people died in Rio de Janeiro a day due to air pollution. In addition, the survey estimates that the deaths because of pollution can exceed the records of death by HIV, breast cancer and prostate in the State of Rio de Janeiro, same as pollutant emissions decrease over the years.

About 77% of the pollution in the Rio de Janeiro results from emission from cars, concludes the study. Second Evangeline Motta Pacheco, Director of ISS and coordinator of the study, "measuring parameters of pollution in the State is lagged. Therefore, the research used data from the World Health Organization (who), who come to be three times more stringent than the Brazilian legislation. Based on these data, the survey showed that in the State of Rio de Janeiro the pollution rate is two times higher than what is determined by who ".

"There are cities in the State [Rio de Janeiro] in which the rate is three times greater, but that's just the average per year. While conducting the study, when we analyze the relationship of emissions per day, we found that these amount to be between six to ten times higher than is considered to have a minimal effect on health "alerts.

The traffic of Rio de Janeiro has arrived to be ranked as the third worst in the world, in 2012, and the situation seems to have improved over the years. In 2013, a study indicated that the time that Brazilians spend in traffic has exceeded the time of congestion in Sao Paulo.

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Largest cave in the world is threatened by cable car

The plans for the construction of a cable car in the National Park of Phong Nka-ke Bang, Vietnam, may threaten the Son Doong cave, the longest cave in the world, considered a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2013.

The construction of the cable car you can open the cave to mass tourism, which in a short time will degrade the space. The Vietnamese are already protesting against the project and experts argue that the environmental impact can be devastating.

Projects the chairlift can carry around 1,000 visitors per hour. The new transport should have 10.6 miles of cable, which will connect the Son Doong cave to other caves in the Park, being housed in a complex of services, tourism and resorts ".

The project was approved in October by the authorities of the province of Quang Binh and the construction of the cable car will be charged to the Group of Sun resorts Group. The cost of cable car is valued at €171 million. After the announcement of the project generate a wave of unprecedented protests in the country, the Vietnamese Minister of tourism came the public make it clear that the project had not yet been approved by the Government. However, the Executive authorized a preliminary study on the impacts of the construction of the cable car.

The Sun Group advocates, in turn, the cable car will be the most ecological means of opening the area to tourism and will develop the region of Quang Binh as a tourist center, creating jobs for the locals, says the Guardian.

"The environmental impact will be devastating," defends Andy McKenzie, one of the first explorers to visit the cave. Researchers fear that the construction of the towers necessary to support the gondola could damage the fragile network of caves in the area. The construction of any infrastructure on top of Son Doong cave "would create pressure on the ceiling already fragile, which can eventually trigger its collapse," says geomorfologista Vu Le Phuong, who studies the Grotto since the first expedition, in 2009.

Le warning that the province still Phoung remote Quang Binh is not properly prepared to receive the millions of tourists who invade other popular destinations of Vietnam.

However, it was already created a Facebook page and an online petition against the construction of the cable car.

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2015 will be the international year of light

2014 is coming to an end and the attention is already focused on 2015. One of the aspects you must select the next year's agenda will be the light, since 2015 was declared the "international year of light" by the United Nations General Assembly, to celebrate the light as a matter of science and technological development.

The international year of light is a global initiative that aims to raise awareness of citizens around the world to the importance of light and optical technologies in society. To celebrate the light in its most varied forms, are already being prepared various activities aimed at audiences of all ages and different cultural levels.

With the advent of electricity in the 20th century, many people have forgotten the luxury that is you can access daily to this energy form. At the same time, in developing countries, there are millions of people who do not have access to electricity and is also the problem that the u.n. intends to emphasize with this international year of light.

The international year of light coincides with several milestones in the field of the physical study of light, as the work in optics of Ibn Al-Haytham, in 1015; the wave behavior of light proposed by Fresnel in 1815; the electromagnetic theory of light proposed by Maxwell in 1865; Einstein's work on the photoelectric effect (1905) and on the link between light and Cosmology in the context of general relativity (1915); the discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation by Penzias and Wilson, in 1965, and the work of Charles Kao (1965) regarding the use of fiber optics in telecommunications.

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