Ernie @ Tedium 1779 The year that Dutch researcher Jan Ingenhousz released a book titled Experiments upon VegetablesDiscovering Their Great Power of Purifying the Common Air in the Sunshine and of Injuring It in the Shade and at Night , a work with an extremely long title but an even more important role: The book bounced off the also-groundbreaking work of chemist Joseph Priestley, who discovered oxygen, as well as plants roles in producing it
I havent talked to him personally in a while, but the last time I called him, he had a long outgoing message on his machine
'My mates seemed to enjoy the naughtiness of it, whereas I just did it because I was on autopilot,' he said
Demographic information, including age, sex, ethnic group, physical activity, and health-related behaviours (tobacco and alcohol use), was collected by a standard questionnaire (Web Table 1, see Additional file 1), which was developed for this study