starvation diet
the pint of science, brought to you by the faculty of science, charles university in prague, department of chemistry. sponsored by the pilsner brewery (plzeåˆskã½ prazdroj). ok. good evening, everybody. my name is jiå™ã mãå¡ek, starvation diet, i'm from here, from the department of organic chemistry, and i'd like to tell you a story today. i want to start of with this picture of this lady. her name is jeanne louise calment. she's french as you can tell from the name. and in this picture she is 20 years old. and this picture was taken 1895. this picture, this is the same lady 100 years later, when she had her 121st birthday and the original thinking and the picture was taken in 1996. and she passed away a year later when she was 122. and she's the oldest, well-documented person that ever lived on earth, and her story is quite amazing. she was born in south of france, in arles. she knew personally vincent van gogh, the painter. she was quite vital when she was 85. she t