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Facebook Doesn't Need Your Money; Invest in Africa Instead
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A Geodesic Dome Promises Fish from the Sky
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Debunking 'Green Living': Combatting Climate Change Requires Lifestyle Changes, Not Organic Products
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TED's Taboo: What's Too Controversial for the Hipster Confab?
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Pet Diaries: The Joint-Custody Dog Who Taught Me to Move On
This week's most popular post is Mapping America's Eating Habits by Andrew Price. Each map takes a look at a different aspect of food culture in...
In the ever-growing list of reasons to avoid processed food-a list that includes obesity, ADHD, heart disease, diabetes, and so on-you can now add...
A company called Nutricate is selling a new, patented receipt for restaurants and other "foodservice operators" that includes the nutritional...
Approximately two-thirds of the United States' adult population is overweight. This is because, on average, adults in the United States are...
Dr. Jay Parkinson, who you may remember from issue 13, thinks we need to stop pussyfooting around the issue of obesity in America. In a recent...
Can your food choices help make you more healthy? Vietnamese pho is next to godliness. Fresh noodles, steaming amber beef broth, and herbs. The...
It's another fun map. This one shows, in red, the parts of the country where bars outnumber grocery stores. And that's in the Midwest. Here's...
Why does a salad cost more than a Big Mac? Part of the reason is that a huge proportion of our food subsidies go to meat while only 0.37...
When talking about the environmental effects of industrial meat industry, people often refer to a 2006 U.N. report that concluded that cattle was...
The BBC reports that Nato is shutting down fast food restaurants like Pizza Hut and Burger King in its Afghanistan bases: "This is a warzone, not...
Since 1949, the rise of industrial, processed food meant Americans could spend less on their meals. But those savings come with a high cost:...
It looks like Monsanto, the agricultural company that chokes farmers financially, is also hurting our kidneys and livers. The company makes...
We've all heard that going vegetarian is better for the environment. But how much better, exactly? In the chart below, from The Oil Drum, you can...
This video (below the jump) investigates why one in seven people is malnourished, how food dependency affects the poor, and how we can make sure...
How do you know that your pinot noir is really from 2004? Or that the wild salmon you ordered wasn't actually farmed? You don't. The Washington...
Are probiotics a prescription for glorious guts or just a gimmick? Until his death in 1916 at the unremarkable age of 71, the Nobel Prize-winning...
We're all familiar with the idea of peak oil-the point at which our oil production will start declining forever. But that's not the only thing...
This chart from Phil Howard at Michigan State University shows how three chemical giants, Monsanto, DuPont, and Syngenta, have come to...
Just in case you were worried that with all this talk about biking and healthy eating America is losing its je ne sais quoi: The owner of the...
You may remember the idea of taxing soda to help pay for health care reform. I thought it was a pretty good idea. You know who didn't, though?...
