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• Culture

  

  Intermission: It's Getting Real in the Whole Foods Parking Lot

  Ironic hip-hop meets kombucha and quinoa.

  by Andrew Price

• Design

  

  Built to Last

  As an inventor, Saul Griffith has spent a lot of time thinking about how to make useful things. Griffith developed innovative designs for...

  by GOOD

• Lifestyle

  

  Superb Idea: Spaghetti with Built-In Portion Control

  This elegant hexagonal spaghetti package contains six single portions, so you can make the right amount no matter how many people you're cooking for.

  by Nicola Twilley

• Education

  

  Testing School Design Before Anything Is Built

  Well this is pretty cool: A project in Birmingham is letting students and teachers test out school designs and then weigh in on the virtual...

  by Siobhan O'Connor

• Environment

  

  Floating Golf Course To Be Built In the Maldives

  Sea levels are rising, and the Maldives is taking notice. An estimated 80 percent of the atoll nation is no more than 3 feet above sea level, so...

  by Mother Nature Network

• Design

  

  Watch a Chinese Hotel Get Built in Just Six Days

  This Chinese hotel is level 9 Earthquake-resistant, sound-proofed, thermal-insulated, and 15-stories tall. It was built very, very fast.

  by Morgan Clendaniel

• Culture

  

  Why Are People Still Having Weddings at Plantations Slaves Built?

  Your wedding day is supposed to be the happiest day in your life. So what if your happiness depends on the historical persecution of black people?

  by Amanda Hess

• Environment

  

  How Plants' Built-In Tools Could Help Them Adapt to Climate Change

  New research shows plants could have the tools to adapt and survive climate changes. But how will those changes affect us?

  by Sarah Laskow

• Lifestyle

  

  How Coconut Water Built a Health Empire Out of Electrolytes, Rihanna, and Human Blood

  Forget Gatorade. Coconut water producers have routinely compared the beverage to an even more precious substance: Human blood.

  by Amanda Hess

• Lifestyle

  

  Watch Your Mouth: What Should Food Stamps Subsidize?

  The federal food stamp program is about alleviating poverty, not discouraging obesity, so farmers' markets or fatty snacks are both fair game.

  by Peter Smith

• Environment

  

  Home in Quilmes, Argentina Built with Quilmes Beer Bottles

  Tito Ingenieri of Quilmes, Argentina, just put every well-constructed beer can pyramid you've ever built to shame. Argentina's already given us...

  by Alicia Capetillo

• Lifestyle

  

  Food for Thinkers: How Food Packaging Carries Cues About Culture and Class

  Alexandra Lange takes a look at packaging design, and the differences that signal whether food is upscale, mainstream, affordable, and/or healthy.

  by Nicola Twilley

• Lifestyle

  

  Food Studies: Meet Josh, Part of the Yale Sustainable Food Project

  GOOD's next Food Studies blogger is a junior at Yale, where he makes his own vanilla extract in between writing papers on Imperial Roman cookbooks.

  by Josh Evans

• Lifestyle

  

  The Sweetness of Seeing Red: How Food Color Could Help Healthier Foods Taste Better

  Since food colors can influence a drinks' sweetness, could red dyes be used for making healthier products—or will it take something else entirely?

  by Peter Smith

• Environment

  

  More Alice Waters Backlash: "From Food Hero to Food Police."

  A couple weeks ago we brought you this choice quote from Anthony Bourdain about his distaste for Alice Waters's particular brand of food orthodoxy...

  by Zach Frechette

• Lifestyle

  

  Infographic: Eight Food Recalls That Spurred the Latest Food Safety Bill

  A disgusting sounding mess of contaminated eggs, peanut butter, cookie dough, and jalepenos contributed to the ongoing food safety overhaul.

  by Peter Smith

• Lifestyle

  

  Food for Thinkers: Writing About Numbers to Hack the Food System

  Food + Tech Connect's Danielle Gould finds that writing is her most important tool to build a more transparent, data-driven food system.

  by Nicola Twilley

• Lifestyle

  

  Food for Thinkers: Synthesizing Food Safety Politics Into Something Edible

  Helena Bottemiller makes sense of U.S. food policy—and shares a behind-the-scenes peek at the preparations for a White House State Dinner.

  by Helena Bottemiller

• Lifestyle

  

  Food for Thinkers: What if Your Food Hired an Architect to Redesign Your Kitchen?

  Architect Nick Sowers asks why high-end kitchen design relegates food behind smooth, generic, and glossy surfaces.

  by Nicola Twilley

• Lifestyle

  

  Food Studies: What I've Learned By Washing Down Organic Food With Diet Coke

  Erin and her classmates cook with both farmers' market vegetables and Crisco. What does that have to do with larger questions of poverty and obesity?

  by Erin Ross