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Beyond the Food Desert: Why We Can't Get Healthy Foods in Poor Communities
Two new studies challenge the existence of "food deserts"—but the link between poverty and obesity runs deeper.
Lifestyle
Could Charging People for Uneaten Food in Restaurants Help Us Stop Wasting It?
An increasing number of restaurants are making people pay for getting more food than they can eat. That's a great idea.
Environment
Debunking 'Green Living': Combatting Climate Change Requires Lifestyle Changes, Not Organic Products
It's clear what people should be doing to live greener lives. What's important now is figuring out how to convince people to actually do it.
News
A Pickup Truck Grows an Educational Mini-Farm
A literal food truck expands the creative arsenal of urban agriculture.
Lifestyle
Just Deserts: 6 Ways to Bring Good Food to Poor Neighborhoods
Here's how to bridge the gap between farm and table in low-income communities.
Lifestyle
The Least-Worst Juice Cleanse: A Three-Day Liquid Diet That Won't Make You Want to Die
I pledged to spend three days subsisting on only lemon juice, cayenne pepper, and maple syrup. Thirty-six hours later, I remembered that pizza exists.
Lifestyle
Eat Scum: The Science Behind the Algae Fat Substitute
A renewable energy company found a low-fat fix where food scientists hadn’t looked—in the peculiar molecular structure of single-celled algae.
Lifestyle
Could Superweeds Mean the End of Genetically Engineered Crops?
Superweeds could be the final nudge needed to prompt an about-face on America’s acceptance of GE foods.
Lifestyle
How Fingerprinting Food Stamp Recipients Hurts Everyone
New York will stop fingerprinting its food stamp recipients. That's good for the hungry—and the economy.
Lifestyle
The Robot Zombie: A Bitter Cocktail for the Van Halen Reunion
Van Halen is back, and still, reportedly, hating.
Lifestyle
Margaritas for Cinco de Mayo, Juleps for Derby Day, and Hats for Everyone
Two drinks to celebrate Bartholomew Cubbins Day, the hat-based holiday we just made up.
Lifestyle
The GGG Cocktail: A Non-Vanilla Drink Inspired by Dan Savage
Tired of swallowing anti-gay rhetoric? Drink a GGG instead, a cocktail dedicated to sex columnist and LGBT advocate Dan Savage.
