Steve Jobs became a vegan partly because he believed his body odor would be nicer than those of omnivores
Steve Jobs, the late co-founder of Apple, was one of the most influential figures of our century in the fields of computers and consumer electronics. A legendary inventor, Jobs has often been dubbed the ‘Father of the Digital Revolution’.
Apart from his brilliant mind, the college dropout was also famous for his peculiar personal habits and way of living. As described in Job’s biography by Walter Isaacson, the entrepreneur became a vegan partly because he believed his body odor would be nicer than those of omnivores. What is more, Jobs was convinced that being a vegan he didn’t need to shower as often as people who ate meat. However, Jobs was reported to smell rather awful and as if he hadn’t showered for days, if not weeks. Even though it was mostly during his youth when he was something of hippie, it mustn’t have been very pleasant for Job’s colleagues and people around him.
Nevertheless the result in his case, Jobs was onto something with his theory of vegans smelling better than people who consume animal products on a daily basis. According to a scientific experiment, when asked to smell the armpits of men on a vegetarian diet and meat-eating ones, 95% of the women participating in the study described the body odor of vegetarians as less intense and much more ‘attractive’. Scientists explain these results with the fact that
Real Life Mowgli: Girl Who Grew Up in the African Wildlife
Riding a five-ton elephant, whom she called ‘my brother’, chilling with a cheetah or hugging a giant bullfrog as if it were a Teddy bear. The childhood of a French girl Tippi Degre sounds more like a newer version of Mowgli, rather than something real. A white child, she was born in Namibia to French wildlife photographer parents, and grew up in Africa. Tippi spent her whole childhood playing with wild animals including lion cubs, a mongoose, a snake, a cheetah, baby zebra, giraffes and crocodiles.
The little girl saw nothing unusual about her company: “I don’t have friends here. Because I never see children. So the animals are my friends,” she once said.
Tippi is now 23 years old, and the only child to wildlife photographer parents Sylvie Robert and Alain Degre, who published her photos in a book called Tippi of Africa. “It was magical to be able to be free in this nature with this child. She was a very lucky little girl – she was born and raised until the age of 10 totally in the wild.” said Sylvie.
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