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Intermission: "Man as Industrial Palace"
An animated look inside the bowels, based on a 1926 lithograph by the German artist Fritz Kahn.
Read & DiscussWelcome 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."
Read & DiscussWhat 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?
Read & DiscussPreserving 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?
Read & DiscussCheck 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?
Read & DiscussDoctor’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.
Read & DiscussWhy 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.
Read & DiscussExploring 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."
Read & DiscussWhat's the Effect of Banning Flavored Milk?
Los Angeles schools say no thanks to sweetened milk. You can thank (or blame) Jamie Oliver.
Read & DiscussWhen Urban Planning and Obesity Collide
Take a look at what the streets of Louisville, Kentucky have got to do with the battle against obesity.
Read & DiscussCan Coffee Really Make You Hallucinate?
Our caffeinated culture may be having an effect on our cognitive functioning.
Read & DiscussBeware 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?
Read & DiscussTastes Like Nanotechnology
A small step towards federal oversight for the safety of some very small particles that are making their way into foods.
Read & DiscussWhat 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?
Read & DiscussCheck the Label and the Science, Too
What pomegranates say about a corrosive research practice.
Read & DiscussFood 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.
Read & DiscussFood 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.
Read & DiscussCharting 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.
Read & DiscussWhere the World Is Hot, Food Is In Peril
A compelling look at where the heat is on the world's food supply.
Read & DiscussThe Microbiological Havoc of the Anthropocene
From Vibrio to E. coli, what a warmer planet means for food safety.
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