Collaborate Disseminate
Home-fermented foods are great– they’re healthier, more flavourful, and cheaper than store-bought alternatives. What they aren’t is convenient: you need to prep a big batch of veggies, let it sit, …read more Continue reading Hacking Fermentation for Infinite Pickles from Pass-thru Bioreactor
Food poisoning is never a fun experience. Sometimes, if you’re lucky, you’ll bite into something bad and realize soon enough to spit it out. Other times, you’ll only realize your …read more Continue reading Fighting Food Poisoning With A Patch
Human existence boils down to one brutal fact: however much food you have, it’s enough to last for the rest of your life. Finding your next meal has always been …read more Continue reading Field Guide to North American Crop Irrigation
Ever ruin a perfectly serviceable piece of toast by trying (and failing) to spread a little pat of rock-solid butter? [John Dingley] doesn’t! Not since he created the Butta Melta …read more Continue reading Butta Melta Stops Rock-solid Butter From Tearing Your Toast
Radiation is a bad thing that we don’t want to be exposed to, or so the conventional wisdom goes. We’re most familiar with it in the context of industrial risks …read more Continue reading Food Irradiation Is Not As Bad As It Sounds
So far in the “Field Guide” series, we’ve mainly looked at critical infrastructure systems that, while often blending into the scenery, are easily observable once you know where to look. …read more Continue reading A Field Guide to the North American Cold Chain
United Natural Foods has taken some systems offline after detecting unauthorized activity on its IT systems, causing disruptions to operations.
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You’re cutting yourself a single slice of cake. You grab a butter knife out of the drawer, hack off a moist wedge, and munch away to your mouth’s delight. The …read more Continue reading High Frequency Food: Better Cutting With Ultrasonics
Despite stories of “wasps getting drunk” and “beetles consuming beer,” it has been thought that alcohol consumption in the non-human animal world has not been particularly widespread, deliberate or sought out for a physiological benefit. Now, ecologist… Continue reading Alcohol consumption is widespread in the animal kingdom
Researchers have discovered a fascinating new link between the gut and the brain: swallowing nutritious food causes the release of the feel-good chemical serotonin. The findings open the door to developing new treatments for eating disorders.Continue R… Continue reading Brain releases feel-good serotonin after swallowing “good food”