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Welcome to the Future, Would You Like a Poop Burger to Go?

Welcome to the Future, Would You Like a Poop Burger to Go?

Mitsyuki Ikeda has invented a new way of making hamburger. He extracts proteins and fats from "sewage mud."

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What Rising Gas Prices Mean for the Obesity Epidemic

What Rising Gas Prices Mean for the Obesity Epidemic

There's a striking correlation between driving and obesity. Could a future with fewer cars help reverse one of our most pressing health crises?

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Preserving Lady Gaga's Meat Dress

Preserving Lady Gaga's Meat Dress

Lady Gaga's meat dress has been taxidermied and embalmed for public display. Does it matter that we don't know what its message was?

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Check Yourself Out! The Science of Supermarket Design

Check Yourself Out! The Science of Supermarket Design

Supermarkets are designed to trick you into buying more than you planned to. Can marketing psychology be used to push healthy foods instead?

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Doctor’s Orders: Don’t Eat the Meat

Doctor’s Orders: Don’t Eat the Meat

If you’re a vegetarian trying to proselytize, it's worth studying a short history of meatless medicine.

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Why We Need to Redesign the Nutrition Label

Why We Need to Redesign the Nutrition Label

Michael Pollan and Andrew Vande Moere weigh in on what's wrong with the current federal nutrition label—and how you should change it.

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Exploring Data Visualization With Two Years' Worth of Food

Exploring Data Visualization With Two Years' Worth of Food

Designer Lauren Manning has been meticulously documenting the food she eats. Now, she's visualizing this data set in "a bajillion different ways."

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What's the Effect of Banning Flavored Milk?

What's the Effect of Banning Flavored Milk?

Los Angeles schools say no thanks to sweetened milk. You can thank (or blame) Jamie Oliver.

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When Urban Planning and Obesity Collide

When Urban Planning and Obesity Collide

Take a look at what the streets of Louisville, Kentucky have got to do with the battle against obesity.

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Can Coffee Really Make You Hallucinate?

Can Coffee Really Make You Hallucinate?

Our caffeinated culture may be having an effect on our cognitive functioning.

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Beware of Whole Grain Inflation

Beware of Whole Grain Inflation

Subway offers sandwiches on 9-grain bread. You can find 10-grain, 12-grain, and even 15-grain breads in supermarkets. What do all these claims mean?

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Tastes Like Nanotechnology

Tastes Like Nanotechnology

A small step towards federal oversight for the safety of some very small particles that are making their way into foods.

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What Meat Glue Means for the Food Movement

What Meat Glue Means for the Food Movement

What is transglutaminase and, if it's not so bad, should we be more accepting of food chemistry in general?

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Check the Label and the Science, Too

Check the Label and the Science, Too

What pomegranates say about a corrosive research practice.

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Food Desert Solution: Mobile Supermarkets

Food Desert Solution: Mobile Supermarkets

Could a beer truck full of groceries revolutionize the way we think about food desert solutions? In New Mexico, one retiree is trying just that.

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Food Desert Solution: New York's Green Carts

Food Desert Solution: New York's Green Carts

Compelling portraits of how the invasion of green umbrellas in New York City changed the city's food deserts.

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Charting Our Short Memory for Food Recalls

What's more remarkable than the large-scale food recalls that follow an outbreak of disease is how quickly we forget about them.

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Where the World Is Hot, Food Is In Peril

Where the World Is Hot, Food Is In Peril

A compelling look at where the heat is on the world's food supply.

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The Microbiological Havoc of the Anthropocene

The Microbiological Havoc of the Anthropocene

From Vibrio to E. coli, what a warmer planet means for food safety.

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Global Warming Isn't Affecting Your Food Supply. At Least Not Yet.

Global Warming Isn't Affecting Your Food Supply. At Least Not Yet.

The heat's not on North America's food supply yet. But that's no excuse to ignore the pressing problem.

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