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From Science News:

You bite into a piece of candy and find a cricket leg. Eewwww. Or notice that raisin in a bowl of cereal has legs and wings. Bam, down the disposal it goes. Such filth in foods is supposedly illegal, but the Food and Drug Administration’s actual tolerance is far from zero. FDA rules […]

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Are you a whiz at building popsicle-stick bridges that can support three tonnes of weight, but completely incapable of feeding yourself with anything that doesn’t come with fries and a soda? Lucky for you there’s Cooking for Engineers, a quirky recipe site designed for people with “an analytical mind.”
From the site:

Michael selected the name […]

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Yes, I know the title is cheesy. Has that ever stopped me before?
Found by Asher on divine caroline — a site I’m really starting to like — is a layman’s analysis of some of the chemicals, drugs and other heebie-jeebies in your food, by Brie Cadman:

The other day I was snacking on some bright […]

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The New York Times ran a great piece today on the world’s growing hunger crisis, with a focus on Haiti. Here’s an excerpt, because I can’t say it any better than this:

Hunger bashed in the front gate of Haiti’s presidential palace. Hunger poured onto the streets, burning tires and taking on soldiers and the […]

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