Fast food is a relatively recent innovation, only about as old as the automobile, and not really taking off until the 1950s.…
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Science progresses by theory and experimentation. When an experiment requires a human subject there are two main options for the investigator. By…
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Food production is a huge industry, meeting our vital need to stuff our faces. Unfortunately, it’s almost impossible for food producers to…
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The difficulty of debating the subject of genetically modified (GM) foods is they are so new that we don’t really know how…
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Many great science fiction novels present us with futures where capitalism has gone awry. Huge, international companies run the world, buying and…
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Most people probably think that to start eating healthier, they have to give up all the junk foods they enjoy most. This…
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There’s an old saying that pizza is like sex. When it’s good, it’s really, really good. And when it’s bad, it’s still…
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We’ve all seen the Hollywood “wire-fu” and the Chuck Norris white-boy karate. Everybody knows about the Segal arm snap and the Van…
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Medical Research and the study of Human Health are subjects that offer an extensive and ever expanding range of puzzling and in…
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Not every food scandal revolves around a batch of moldy jam or some undercooked hamburgers. They can range from hilariously funny events…