Andrew Price
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 Heart Attack Grill - home of the quadruple bypass burger pictured at [left] - is suing the owner of Heart Stoppers Sports Grill.
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A Geodesic Dome Promises Fish from the Sky
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TED's Taboo: What's Too Controversial for the Hipster Confab?
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Billr: The App for Dining on a Budget (Without Annoying Your Friends)
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Debunking 'Green Living': Combatting Climate Change Requires Lifestyle Changes, Not Organic Products
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Infographic: Understanding Social Enterprise
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TED's Taboo: What's Too Controversial for the Hipster Confab?
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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...
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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...
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I'm still looking for an artist (and information) credit on this lovely comic detailing proper sushi etiquette (via Swiss Miss), but I find both...
A new art project reveals the criminals behind our food. On March 12, 1942, Donald Smith, a cook in Iowa, was arrested on charges of disorderly...
Couple things we know. Childhood obesity is basically a national health crisis. Sugar cereals, as we called them when I was a kid, are not good...
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...
