Food
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Agriculture in the Wild
November 10, 2010
Humans aren’t the only creatures that grow their own food. Leaf-cutter ants, trees, and even protists do it too.
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Building Science Leaders
September 27, 2010
Pop!Tech launches an initiative to cultivate a new class of science leaders—young researchers with the skills and drive to reach out, communicate their science, and lead society towards evidence-based solutions.
climate, communication, food, leadership, network, policy, politics, social science
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This is Your Brain on Food
September 13, 2010
The foods you eat often affect how your neurons behave and, subsequently, how you think and feel. From your brain’s perspective, food is a drug.
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All Consuming
August 23, 2010
With population and per-capita consumption both on the rise, it's hard to believe humanity's impact on the Earth is sustainable. But what would happen if we ate less meat? Or gave women better education and more power? David Biello takes a critical look.
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Does Coffee Work?
August 04, 2010
More than any other drug, caffeine makes the modern world go ’round. But how good is it for you, how well does it work, and how much do most users consume? The answers may surprise you.
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Wanted: GM Seeds for Study
July 01, 2010
A battle is quietly being waged between the industry that produces genetically modified seeds and scientists trying to investigate the environmental impacts of engineered crops. Although companies have recently given ground, researchers say these firms are still loath to allow independent analyses of their patented — and profitable — seeds.
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On Pleasure
June 22, 2010
In How Pleasure Works, Paul Bloom argues that understanding why we like what we do—from food and sex to art, science, and religion—is critical to comprehending the human experience.
art, books, evolution, food, neuroscience, psychology, sex
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Greener Pastures
June 03, 2010
Dominant theory says that desertification is caused by overgrazing. Operation Hope, winner of the 2010 Buckminster Fuller Challenge, has upended this idea—restoring degraded African grasslands into lush, green pasture.
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Books to Read Now
June 01, 2010
June releases follow cave divers into the bowels of the Earth; chart the geography of hunger; and explore the science of false memories, inflated confidence, and distorted senses.
agriculture, climate, food, geography, innovation, neuroscience, psychology, technology
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Food Fight, Round 1
May 12, 2010
What does "sustainable agriculture" truly mean—and what should it look like? In round one of our debate, two experts square off on the true causes of food insecurity.
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Food Fight
May 11, 2010
Is organic farming an elitist fetish that hampers efforts to stanch global hunger? Or is it the kind of holistic approach we’ll need to produce food on a circumscribed planet? Seed kicks off an Oxford-style debate on global food security and what we mean by "scientific farming."
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Starving in a World of Plenty
May 05, 2010
Researchers are beginning to uncover the neurological underpinnings of eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia. Can recent advances lead to better treatments?
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Watered by the Sun
April 05, 2010
Linking the efficiency of drip-irrigation to the reliability of solar panels, a new technology—and a creative science-development partnership—is helping women to grow more food in rural Benin.
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A Battle at Midway
February 18, 2010
We talk with photographer Chris Jordan, who recently traveled to a remote part of the Pacific Ocean to document effects of the world’s largest known mass of garbage.
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Appetite for Destruction
February 18, 2010
Chris Jordan traveled to a remote area of the Pacific and returned with snapshots of a burgeoning ecological crisis, from the belly of the world’s largest garbage pile.
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Benign by Design
November 24, 2009
With toxic compounds turning up in animals, food, and people all over the world, scientists are calling for green chemistry: a sustainable ethos of product design.
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A Natural Obsession
October 26, 2009
Organic foods are exploding in popularity. But fears of biotechnology—and a widespread mistrust of science—won’t help efforts to create a truly sustainable agriculture.
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An In Vitro Beef
August 31, 2009
Even if meat isn’t murder, that doesn’t mean it’s good for you.
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Why In-Vitro Meat Is Good for You
August 31, 2009
Jason Matheny on the world’s addiction to meat and how to grow ground beef in a test tube.
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Scientific Flip-Flop
June 18, 2009
Five experts debate the roots of GM opposition, the role of big agribusiness, and whether we’ve achieved real scientific consensus.
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In Seeds We Trust
June 09, 2009
Because science won’t save us if biodiversity fails, a global effort is underway to collect and cache the genetic resources contained in seeds.
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What the Cow Genome Tells Us
June 08, 2009
The recent sequencing of the bovine genome will dramatically transform more than just the cattle industry.
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Case Study: Troubles in Kenya
April 27, 2009
On the eastern coast of Kenya, controversy erupts over plans to turn a biodiversity hotspot into farmland for Qatar.
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Hungry for Land
April 27, 2009
Growing food in foreign lands has a long history. But the 21st century version of outsourced agriculture presages something fundamentally new.
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Be Fruitful and Multiply
February 12, 2009
Agriculture and civilization have sped up the evolution of humanity. From this simple thesis grows an argument aimed at the heart of how we think about history.
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Ideas
I Tried Almost Everything Else
John Rinn, snowboarder, skateboarder, and “genomic origamist,” on why we should dumpster-dive in our genomes and the inspiration of a middle-distance runner.
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Ideas
Going, Going, Gone
The second most common element in the universe is increasingly rare on Earth—except, for now, in America.
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Ideas
Earth-like Planets Aren’t Rare
Renowned planetary scientist James Kasting on the odds of finding another Earth-like planet and the power of science fiction.
