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Cornucopia: Digital Gastronomy – could 3D printing be the next revolution in cooking?

Wouldn’t it be great to have a digital food machine sitting in your kitchen that could create any dish, real or imagined, from scratch at the touch of a button? Cornucopia: Digital Gastronomy is a concept design that uses the well-established principles of 3D printing – plus precisely timed and temperature-controlled mixing and cooking – [...]

Tags: creative cuisine, creative food, creative possibilities, digital food, edible creations, food machine, food printing, foodstuffs, printed food, printing machines, revolutionary invention
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Getting Our Nitrogen Fix

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Our ability to pull nitrogen from the air fed a growing human population. Can 21st century biotechnology refine the process while reducing environmental impact?
In 1968 the entomologist Paul Ehrlich published a foreboding manifesto called The Population Bomb, in which he argued that the explosive growth of the human population would lead, within the [...]

Tags: Famine, fertilizer, Fritz Haber, Haber process, Natural resource, Nitrogen, Population Bomb, population growth
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Benn unveils plan to boost UK food and ‘grow your own’

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Plans to boost food production in Britain and reduce its impact on the environment have been unveiled.
The government’s 20-year food strategy includes making land available for people to grow their own food and more healthy cooking courses.
Minister Hilary Benn said shoppers had led the push for free-range eggs and could do the same [...]

Tags: climate change, food, food security, government, Hilary Benn, Obesity, Oxford Farming Conference, sustainability
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Climate Wizard Makes Large Databases of Climate Information Visual, Accessible

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A Web tool that generates color maps of projected temperature and precipitation changes using 16 of the world’s most prominent climate-change models is being used to consider such things as habitat shifts that will affect endangered species, places around the world where crops could be at risk because of drought and temperatures that [...]

Tags: american geophysical union, climate change, Climate Wizard, Environment X United States, nature conservancy, Public Library of Science, san francisco, University of Southern Mississippi
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World’s Healthiest Food

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So what’s the most scrumptious, wholesome, exquisite, healthful, gratifying food in the world?
It’s not ambrosia, and it’s not even pepperoni pizza. Hint: It’s far cheaper. A year’s supply costs less than the cheapest hamburger.
Give up? Here’s another hint: It’s lifesaving for children and for women who may become pregnant. If you know of [...]

Tags: Child, Congenital disorder, Folic acid, Health, micronutrients, Neural tube defect, Pregnancy, Pregnancy and Birth, Reproductive health, World’s Healthiest Food
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