When Segar wasn't lighting lamps, he was sent out to pick up burgers for the owner. Meet Moustafa Ismail, a real-life Popeye. The 24-year-old Egyptian (pictured), whose 31-inch biceps measure the same as a man's waist, can lift 600lbs - the same weight as an average-sized grizzly bear. You have to focus mentally and prepare yourself,' he said. Again, Popeye’s real-life inspiration is sometimes attributed to a photo of an old sailor whose name is lost to history, but the Imperial War Museum lists him as “A Leading Stoker nicknamed ‘Popeye,'” with 21 years in service and fighting aboard the HMS Rodney in 1940. Arbesman uses the Popeye story as an allegory of admonition against the all-too-human ego and our chronic propensity for shortcuts, the combination of which makes us too lazy to look closer and too afraid to admit we’ve been blind and wrong: Ultimately, the reason these errors spread is because it’s a lot easier to spread the first thing you find, or the fact that sounds correct, than to delve deeply into the literature in search of the correct fact.
In recording his findings, von Wolf accidentally misplaced a decimal point when transcribing data from his notebook, changing the iron content in spinach by an order of magnitude.
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Mr Ismail, who entered the Guinness World Book of Records last year as the man with the world's largest biceps, added: 'I like chicken and beef - anything but spinach.'. The marker was inscripted with the 1929 version of E.C.
Mr Ismail, who lives with his wife Carolina, 30, in the U.S., said: 'I'm the first Egyptian in the Guinness book.
Unlike the famous cartoon sailor, who gets his strength from the iron-rich plant, 'Big Mo' cannot stand the greenery.
Subscribe to this free midweek pick-me-up for heart, mind, and spirit below — it is separate from the standard Sunday digest of new pieces: During my teenage years, given my athleticism, my insatiable appetite for spinach, and my last name, friends were quick to latch onto the stuff of pop-culture legend and nickname me Popeye. Wimpy's rotund figure was based on Popeye creator E.C. While there are actually only 3.5 milligrams of iron in a 100-gram serving of spinach, the accepted fact became 35 milligrams. Every week since 2006, I have been pouring tremendous time, thought, love, and resources into Brain Pickings, which remains free (and ad-free) and is made possible by patronage. It makes Popeye invulnerable, giving him a skin as resilient as steel. Spinach is a leafy vegetable with a high vitamin content, making it a healthy and nutritious food for human consumption. Ismail’s upper arms are an incredible 31 inches round and he can lift up to 600 pounds. Literary Productivity, Visualized, 7 Life-Learnings from 7 Years of Brain Pickings, Illustrated, Anaïs Nin on Love, Hand-Lettered by Debbie Millman, Anaïs Nin on Real Love, Illustrated by Debbie Millman, Susan Sontag on Love: Illustrated Diary Excerpts, Susan Sontag on Art: Illustrated Diary Excerpts, Albert Camus on Happiness and Love, Illustrated by Wendy MacNaughton, The Silent Music of the Mind: Remembering Oliver Sacks, how Gutenberg’s press embodied combinatorial creativity, predictable patterns of how knowledge grows, too afraid to admit we’ve been blind and wrong, why science and philosophy need each other, how to cure our propensity for self-deception. This version of Popeye most resembles his legendary ‘real life’ counterpart. But perhaps the most fitting reflection on what the Popeye story teaches us can be found in Dorion Sagan’s fantastic meditation on why science and philosophy need each other, in which he observes: It is the spirit of questioning, of curiosity, of critical inquiry combined with fact-checking. You can beam some bit-love my way: 197usDS6AsL9wDKxtGM6xaWjmR5ejgqem7. But the damage had been done.