Eating is not as simple as many people seem to believe. An upcoming seminar (at Harvard University, on September 7) promises to drive home that point (which is actually a complicated set of points): On September 7, 2011, Program for Evolutionary Dynamics Seminar Series Presents Kitchen confidential? Knowledge transfer and social norms in gourmet cuisine. […]
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Meat, following vanilla, from dung
Hearing about unexpected things, people used to say, “How do they think up these things? There must be something in the water….” The Digital Trends web site, among others (see video, below), reports that a scientist has devised a way to make meat, of a sort, from feces: Mitsuyuki Ikeda, a researcher from the Okayama […]
What do you feed to a scheming slime mold?
What do you feed a puzzle-solving slime mold, if you want the slime mold to be at its best? A new study suggests that the traditional food ought be replaced with something better, and suggests what that something is: “On attraction of slime mould Physarum polycephalum to plants with sedative properties,” Andrew Adamatzky, Nature Preceedings, […]
More NMR rides: Through Ugli and Okra
Think of this as Thrilling Virtual Rides Through Food (before the food takes a thrilling ride through you), part 2. Here are two more of Andy Ellison’s magnetic resonance images of foods. (He makes them into animated GIFs, which give a sort of thrilling quick ride through the food from one end, or side, or […]