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Posts made in February, 2015

Ice Cream That Has Skin

Do you want to inhale your whisky rather than drink it, or maybe print a smell? Harvard professor David Edwards can make it happen.More intriguingly, he has created an edible skin meant to replace traditional food packaging, as part of his Wikifoods effort.  Skin on ice cream sounds kind of gross, except an apple has skin, a banana has a skin, an orange has a skin. He is just replacing...

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Valentine’s Day 6,000 BC: Phallic Carvings And Sex Cults

We tend to think society is more sexualized today but perhaps it's only now that the common people are getting it on the way elites once did.In the Eilat Mountain region around Nahal Roded in Israel, recently discovered sites look distinct from other ones nearby: They have 126 ‘regular’ standing stones along with perforated ones and anthropomorphic stone images to go with them.  The...

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Valentine’s Day 6,000 BC: Phallic Carvings And Sex Cults

We tend to think society is more sexualized today but perhaps it's only now that the common people are getting it on the way elites once did.In the Eilat Mountain region around Nahal Roded in Israel, recently discovered sites look distinct from other ones nearby: They have 126 ‘regular’ standing stones along with perforated ones and anthropomorphic stone images to go with them.  The...

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Charles Darwin And A Koch Brother Everyone In Science Academia Can Like

Charles Darwin And A Koch Brother Everyone In Science Academia Can Like

Everyone has heard of Louis Pasteur - most people know that pasteurization is a process of sterilizing food to make it safer. (1) And today is Darwin Day, when Charles Darwin is fêted for his work on evolution and natural selection.Fewer people have heard of Robert Koch, though he is responsible for keeping billions of people alive in much the same way Pasteur is. read...

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SB 203: California’s New Warning Label Drive Targets Soda, But Not Sugar-Filled Juice

A California Democrat believes he can curb diabetes by requiring warning labels on sodas and energy drinks.Warning labels are not new to Californians. Ever since Proposition 65 required the ubiquitous 'may cause cancer' signage in virtually every business, lawyers and the politicians they lobby have been seeking to duplicate it for their pet causes.  read...

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