Jul 19 2011

Gulls Smell Sex

Tag: Animal Behavior,Animal Communication,Fish,Food,Marine Life,Photography,Wild Birds — Jennifer Viegas @ 2:30 pm
Seabirds can smell out good partners and choose to mate with genetically dissimilar partners.

Jul 14 2011

Veggie Garden Could Land Woman in Jail

Tag: Food,Food Chain,Plants — Tim Wall @ 12:43 pm
The City of Oak Park, Michigan, is prosecuting a front-yard vegetable garden owner for not following the neighborhood lawns.

Jul 11 2011

Snails Eaten by Birds Survive in Poo

Tag: Animals,Food,Humans,Wild Birds — Jennifer Viegas @ 4:25 pm
Imagine if you ate an animal and then later saw it smiling back at you, unscathed, from the toilet bowl.

Jul 11 2011

Virtual Grocery Shopping In the Subway

Tag: Apps,Computer Networking,Computer Software,Computers,Food,Public Transportation,Smart Phones,Ubiquitous Computing — Nic Halverson @ 11:07 am
A South Korean supermarket chain is testing a system that lets commuters buy groceries while waiting for the train.

Jul 08 2011

Remote Thermometer Lets You Barbecue from Inside

Tag: Apps,Food,Gadgets,Wireless Computers — Scott Tharler @ 2:26 pm
Wirelessly connected to your iPad, the iGrill device and its companion app let you relax and grill from afar.

Jul 06 2011

Cookiecutter Shark ‘Scooped’ Out Swimmer’s Flesh

Tag: Animal Behavior,Animals,Fish,Food,Human Behavior,Humans,Marine Life,Oceans,Photography,Sharks,Travel — Jennifer Viegas @ 12:03 am
The first documented cookiecutter shark attack on a live human resulted in crater-like wounds.

Jun 30 2011

Climate Change Good for Oregon Grapes – Not Napa

Tag: Carbon Emissions,Climate Change,Food,Food Chain,Global Warming,Heat Waves,Pollution — Tim Wall @ 7:31 pm
Climate change could halve California and Washington wine regions by 2040, but give Oregon vineyards a boost.

Jun 23 2011

Did We Get Duped by the Poop Burger Story?

Tag: Food,Food Sources,Issues and Ethics,Reuse,Safety and Prevention,Synthetic Biology,Waste and Recycling — Nic Halverson @ 4:33 pm
"Sewer" meat is not only plausible, it's been taste-tested. Yum.

Jun 23 2011

Artificial Sweetener Leaves Environmental Aftertaste

Tag: Chemistry,Food,Food Chain,Pollution,Rivers,Water — Tim Wall @ 1:43 pm
Not even kryptonite can destroy this super-strength sweetener.

Jun 20 2011

Mississippi Floods to Raise the Dead Zone in the Gulf

Tag: Chemistry,Fish,Floods,Food,Food Chain,Oceanography,Zoology — Christina Reed @ 5:28 pm
A record-setting dead zone is predicted to occur in the Gulf of Mexico this summer following the excess nutrient runoff from spring floods along the Mississippi.
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