Some of the whales engaged in deep feeding stopped eating and either sped up or moved away from the source of the noise.
Among crop plants pollination means food.##Understanding this molecular back-and-forth at all the different levels and stages will be useful to either engineer the process
The process for creating Portland cement a key ingredient in modern concrete requires fossil fuels to burn calcium carbonate (limestone) and clays at about 1450 degrees Celsius (2642 degrees Fahrenheit.
#Secret ingredient: Volcanic ashconcrete was the Roman empire#s construction material of choice. It was used in monuments such as the Pantheon in Rome as well as in wharves breakwaters and other harbor structures.
The recipe for Roman concrete was described around 30 BC by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio an engineer for Octavian who became Emperor Augustus. The not-so-secret ingredient is volcanic ash
temperature and pressure the three main ingredients of weather forecasting of Earth atmosphere. The sensors are attached to satellites designed to only last a few years.
The solution might be the Biolite stove-it's a collapsible wood-burning cook stove that uses almost any forest-found fuel
The Biolite stove is a collapsible wood-burning cook stove that uses almost any forest-fou...
and clips to the exterior when removed to create a cook stove that is 7. 5 inches tall, 4. 75 inches in diameter,
and dung stoves by distributing these cook stoves and monitoring the drop in air pollution and respiratory irritation in the next two years.
the researchers came up with a magnetic sensor the size of a sugar cube that is also cheaper to manufacture
To mimic the wavelike peristaltic motions that move food along the digestive tract, the membrane is attached to the side walls of the chamber that stretch
and efficacy of new treatments and to test the metabolism and oral absorption of drugs and nutrients."
they're not just for eating, anymore. Chitin, one of the main components of their exoskeletons, has recently found use in things such as self-healing car paint, biologically-compatible transistors, flu virus filters,
and finding enough food for it shouldn't be a problem...chitin is the second-most common biopolymer on earth,
and get a bit of food when it feels like it. Levy even claims that the cows learn how to use the system faster than the farmers do.
the trough can automatically dispense food, minerals, supplements, and liquids to suit each cow. As the trough swings clear at the end of milking,
and nutrient levels of their soil. The system will notify them when levels drop to the point that irrigation is required, at
Those who are older may remember the Ethiopian famine of the early 1980's and the images broadcast across the world.
and brought the problems of famine into the general public consciousness, again. The underpinnings of the famine were largely political,
but famine thanks to drought, crop failure or pestilence remains a stubborn problem for farmers and for wider regional food security.
One issue for small hold farmers in the developing world is access to information and according to the United Nation development and humanitarian news website, IRIN,
which is one reason why the continent tends to produce less food despite its natural resources.
Populous Ethiopia has one of the fastest growing GDPS on the continent after years of famine and civil war.
But in June 2014 the Food and Drug Administration approved the aptly named Freedom Driver.
He works with therapists to sustain his mobility with the Freedom Driver onboard is on a number of blood-thinning medications and eats low sodium meals.
Imagine a future version of Facebook where instead of posting photos of your lunch on your wall you have a Second life-like avatar
#DNATRAX tracks tainted food with molecular bar code According to the US Center for disease control (CDC) 129000 Americans are sent to hospital and 3000 die each year from food poisoning.
and detective work but Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers in partnership with DNATREK have developed DNATRAX a DNA-based additive for directly tracking food from producer to consumer.
and then subjected to DNA analysis. The application of food tracking was unexpected an bonus. DNATRAX is surprisingly simple.
It's an odorless tasteless substance that's classified as a harmless food additive by the US Food and Drug Administration.
It's made of strands of nonliving and nonviable DNA encased in sugars similar to common icing sugar.
Applying DNATRAX is simply a matter of spraying it on fruits vegetables and meats or mixing it in with bulk commodities like honey olive oil flour or rice.
Aside from tracking down contaminated food LLNL says that DNATRAX can also help combat food piracy.
but piracy is actually a major problem for almost all commerce including food. Called wastage grocery shelves are invaded constantly by everything from fake corn flakes to counterfeit honey selling under false labels to adulterated wines
and olive oils mixing the premium with the cheap stuff. Since such label swapping and adulteration does not occur where the food is produced
but somewhere down the line DNATRAX can identify fraudulent foods as well as how many adulterants have been added how much
and where they came from. Another application that LLNL is looking at is protective clothing.
With the current Ebola outbreak tracking contamination in anti-contamination suits is vital so the researchers see DNATRAX as a safe way of assessing how well current suits are performing.
We are prepared not to deal with an outbreak of pathogens such as E coli and salmonella in tainted foods.
However DNATRAX is a quick and efficient way to stop these foods from sickening more people
and photocatalysts Drinking clean water is something that many people in the world can't take for granted as they rely on polluted sources
#Gelatin Nanoparticles could Deliver Drugs to your Brain Stroke victims could have more time to seek treatment that could reduce harmful effects on the brain thanks to tiny blobs of gelatin that could deliver the medication to the brain non-invasively.
University of Illinois researchers and colleagues in South korea led by U. of I. electrical and computer engineering senior research scientist Hyungsoo Choi and professor Kyekyoon#Kevin#Kim published details about the gelatin
The researchers found that gelatin nanoparticles could be laced with medications for delivery to the brain
Gelatin is biocompatible biodegradable and classified as#Generally Recognized as Safe#by the Food and Drug Administration.
Once administered the gelatin nanoparticles target damaged brain tissue thanks to an abundance of gelatin-munching enzymes produced in injured regions.
Illinois professor Kyekyoon#Kevin#Kim graduate student Elizabeth Joachim and researchscientist Hyungsoo Choi developed tiny gelatin nanoparticles that can carry medicationto the brain which could lead to longer
The tiny gelatin particles have a huge benefit: They can be administered nasally a noninvasive and direct route to the brain.
#To test gelatin nanoparticles as a drug-delivery system the researchers used the drug osteopontin (OPN)
By lacing gelatin nanoparticles with OPN the researchers found that they could extend the treatment window in rats so much
The researchers hope the gelatin nanoparticles administered through the nasal cavity can help deliver other drugs to more effectively treat a variety of brain injuries and neurological diseases.#
#Gelatin nanoparticles are a delivery vehicle that could be used to deliver many therapeutics to the brain#Choi said.#
but schools, stores and restaurants are several miles away, and one where he houses are smaller and closer to each other,
but schools, stores and restaurants are within walking distance. Nielsen reports that millennials are in favor of the latter option at a rate of nearly two to one.
where leisure is king and work outside of restaurants, stores and bars is nowhere to be seen.
tailors and so on) become places to consume food, beer and goods produced in factories far away. To take one indicative example:
The Homestead steel mill, across the river from Pittsburgh, is now a mall e
#How Scientists Can Turn off Pain Receptors In research published in the medical journal Brain, Saint louis University researcher Daniela Salvemini, Ph d. and colleagues within SLU,
Wall Connectors are popping up at hotels, casinos, ski resorts, restaurants, shopping centers, airports, and even mobile phone stores.
In the case of a restaurant, a Tesla with a second onboard charger could charge 90 miles in an hour and a half
costing the restaurant just $3. 55 in electricity. And who knows? Assuming Tesla does stick to its 2017 timing for a launch of a lower-cost car,
when not having Wall Connectors could become a slight disadvantage for hotels and restaurants. While Tesla investors shouldn count on such an optimistic scenario,
In the case of a restaurant, a Tesla with a second onboard charger could charge 90 miles in an hour
and a half, costing the restaurant just $3. 55 in electricity. And who knows? Assuming Tesla does stick to its 2017 timing for a launch of a lower-cost car,
when not having Wall Connectors could become a slight disadvantage for hotels and restaurants. While Tesla investors shouldn count on such an optimistic scenario,
If patients say, good at making soy soup, but forget ingredients, guide them step by step, she advised.
Otherwise, hey may make it into salt soup, and everyone will say, h, this is terrible, you stop doing it.
Even the youngest are enlisted. Mr. Kwak, the local government official, arranges for nursery school classes to play games with nursing home patients,
bringing tofu. his is very soft, like the brain, he said, letting it crash down.
he said, with exercise, ot drinking too much sugar, and saying, addy, don drink so much because it not good for dementia.
But when y mother asked him to get ingredients for curry rice he came back with mayonnaise,
she said. And one day, Mr. Cha, 74, a retired subway official, could not find his way home. was like,
give her drinks, wash her face. But I even resisted and fought back, he said.
will admittedly be used mostly for buying cups of coffee and snatched lunchtime sandwiches, but when Orange head of mobile payments, Jason Rees, calls it he beginning of a new order he not wrong.
Yougov research, commissioned by digital payments provider Intelligent Environments, says 42 per cent of smartphone users want to use their phones as mobile wallets.
#FTC Proposes Stricter Guidelines on Food Ads for Children The Federal trade commission has proposed sweeping new guidelines that could push the food industry to overhaul how it advertises cereal, soda pop, snacks, restaurant meals and other foods to children.
regulators are taking aim at a range of tactics used to market foods high in sugar,
Regulators are asking food makers and restaurant companies to make a choice: make your products healthier
or stop advertising them to youngsters. oucan Sam can sell healthy food or junk food, said Dale Kunkel,
a communications professor at the University of Arizona who studies the marketing of children food. his forces Toucan Sam to be associated with healthier products.
The guidelines, released by the Federal trade commission, encompass a broad range of marketing efforts, including television and print ads, Web sites,
online games that act as camouflaged advertisements, social media, product placements in movies, the use of movie characters in cross-promotions and fast-food children meals.
The inclusion of digital media such as product-based games, represents one of the government strongest efforts so far to address the extension of children advertising into the online world,
Ronald Mcdonald and the movie and television characters used to promote food. It also raises the question of
a lawyer with the trade commission. he goal is to encourage children to eat more healthy foods
and that it was committed to improving he nutrition credentialsof its products. e have very specific criteria, based on a broad review of scientific reports,
Scott Faber, a vice president of the Grocery Manufacturers Association, a group that represents food makers,
said that ads for packaged foods on television shows aimed at children 2 to 11 had dropped significantly since 2004,
and that the ads more often showed healthier types of foods. He said companies had changed also many recipes to reduce salt,
sugar and fat and add healthful ingredients like whole grains. he rate of reformulation is going to increase,
not as a result of the principles that were announced today but because consumers are demanding changes in the marketplace,
Many food companies participate in an industry-led effort, the Children Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative,
The guidelines were created at the request of Congress and written by the commission, the Food and Drug Administration, the Agriculture department and the Centers for Disease Control.
The guidelines call for foods that are advertised to children to meet two basic requirements. They would have to include certain healthful ingredients, like whole grains, fresh fruits and vegetables
or low-fat milk. And they could not contain unhealthful amounts of sugar, saturated fat, trans fat and salt.
The sugar requirement would limit cereals to eight grams of added sugar a serving, far less than many popular cereals have today.
Froot Loops and Cap Crunch, for example, contain 12 grams of sugar a serving. The salt restrictions are particularly stringent,
and many packaged foods on the shelves today would have a hard time meeting them. In an initial phase in period,
the guidelines call for many foods to have no more than 210 milligrams of sodium a serving,
while main dishes and meals, including both restaurant food and packaged food, could have no more than 450 milligrams.
Today, a 15-ounce can of Chef Boyardee beef ravioli has two servings, with 750 milligrams of sodium per serving.
The sodium restrictions would get tougher over time. The federal agencies acknowledged that a arge percentage of food products currently in the marketplace would not meet the principles.
The guidelines would apply to both young children and teenagers. The industry has said it should have greater leeway for teenagers,
director of nutrition policy for the Center for Science in the Public interest, an advocacy group, predicted that the guidelines would force many companies to accept great restrictions
vast amounts of new data are being generated about the complicated path that food takes from field to supermarket shelf.
whom they received a food product and to whom they sent it. Theyl have to maintain that information in digital form,
one step backtraceability requirement for processed food and produce is designed to make it easier for the Food and Drug Administration to identify the source of an outbreak of foodborne illness,
The new requirement represents a major adjustment for some parts of the nation food system as the government imposes standards
Many in the food business already are using traceability technology, mostly relying on bar codes that can be affixed after harvesting to a piece of fruit or a crate.
which covers food other than meat, poultry and egg products. They are competing to develop the tracking technology
former assistant commissioner for food protection at the FDA. omebody is probably going to make a bundle of money out of this.
and adopting it to the food business. He said traceability helps not only with safety but also allows companies to hold their partners along the chain accountable for moving food quickly
and avoiding spoilage. t about allowing people to make more intelligent decisions by providing accurate,
but not farms or restaurants. But according to a 2009 investigation by the Department of health and human services inspector general, most food facilities surveyed did not meet those requirements
and 25 percent didn even know about the law. The need for better traceability became clear after a national outbreak of salmonella illness in spring 2008 that sickened more than 1, 300 people across the country.
who are interested increasingly in the way food is produced. Harvestmark, based in California, has developed a two-dimensional bar code sticker that can be placed on individual fruits and vegetables or packaging.
and enter the number from the sticker to learn the path the food has taken and other information the farmer chooses to share,
said Elliott Grant, the chief marketing officer for Harvestmark. ith very high-profile food recalls, cellphones and iphones,
Not only does the technology provide information about the food, but it also allows the consumer to send a comment to the farmer,
It about using technology to put people back in touch with the people who grow their food.
After some funny tests, like asking the suspected bot what the main ingredient in tomato soup was concluded,
and required that we all attend##Wiener Wagon Fridays##at a local hot dog stand. The Wiener Wagon special was piled a chili dog with Fritos.
#At lunch, eating teriyaki chicken out of a styrofoam container from the deli by the bus station felt like heaven compared with the slog of the day.
for that to happen, people would have to ignore how their telemarketing sausage was made.####I think this is the way it all should be done,
##We need to get the entire universe here to accept how the sausage is made. But once you do that, the entire experience for inbound or outbound, it s better.##
and perhaps a nice martini. We still don t have the full picture, but there s currently reason to give some of the tech companies at least a limited break.
a browser feature that s supposed to dissuade websites from tracking internet use with cookies.
Of course, we now know those same cookies can be hijacked by the NSA. And all over the world,
brewing a pot of coffee and switching off your security system. That s the vision of companies like#Smartthings,
Kayser cut open a soup can, sliced and bent its sides into fan blades, attached the creation to a spinning DC motor,
#Scientists create electrode that lets you taste virtual food on your tongue The same research team is also working on a digital lollipop.
but also with food. What if such an experience was a reality? What if you could
not only interact with food in a virtual environment, but also actually#taste#it? Scientists at the National University of Singapore have developed a new electrode that could be the first step in making that happen.
In addition to gaming applications, such a device could also allow you to taste dishes on a cooking show.
and being able to test her pasta primavera before preparing it yourself. The electrode could even be used to simulate sugary treats for people with diabetes.
a non-stop sugar rush, without the sugar. Just call it the ultimate diet cheat. Of course, the team still needs to take into account that taste isn t just something that happens with the taste buds.
Both smell and texture play a part in how we perceive what we re eating.
get their dog food, pick up a bone or new toy and go home, ##he says.####But there s this core market of people who are obsessed with their dogs,
You have convenient metro systems, plenty of#gourmet dining choices#and endless shopping destinations. But with all that activity comes a whole lot of noise pollution.
now many implementations including Flapjax, Bacon JS, and Elm are gaining popularity for front-end development.
Think of it like an executable cocktail napkin, where business users describe what they want and that specification is close enough to what IT uses to simply execute.
Sensors will no doubt be employed to bombard us with tailored advertisements as we pass node points in public, like restaurants, theaters, shops.#
Modern Meadow is developing the technology that will someday in the distant future provide the meat counterpart of instant coffee:#
#instant beef!##For now, it is focusing on synthetic meat made with 3d printers.####Artificial food seems to have a particular attraction for young tech barons,
for one of Modern Meadow s main backers is#Facebook s Peter Thiel. Though Modern Meadow is not a publicly traded company,
If you think that##nutrient fluid-grown##synthetic beef is a revolting concept that will never take off, you re partly right:
But think of frozen meals and TV DINNERS. You probably had one yesterday, but what would your#grandparents#have had to say about them?##
#And what about the##pink slime##that was recently found to be a key ingredient in#Mcdonald s#burgers?
and grew beef muscle cells from which that##Googleburger##was made.##The Economist#did a story on that event of a kind.
at the ethical implications of synthetic beef is presented in this report in#The Mirror. The rating from this front is a big thumbs up.
##Meat will become a luxury food and will become very expensive, ##Professor Post said. That#Economist#story also mentions that the##world s appetite for meat is forecast to rise by 70%by 2050.
##How will anticipated the food shortfall be made up?#####One possible (and grossly revolting) solution was tabled in the Sci-fi classic#Soylent Green.
Suddenly, 3d printed beef doesn t sound too bad!##Indeed, synthetic meat was foreseen decades back by visionaries like Aldous Huxley in#Brave New world#and Robert Heinlein instranger in a Strange Land.
Second, it will be sent to areas of food crises and famines engendering the PR-written headlines,##Synthetic Meat Saves Thousands of Starving Children!##
teachers and parents how to convert the packaging and drinking straws leftover from lunch. If we were to use only the world s plastic waste rather than oil from oil fields,
Cook said, or too many of our friends and family, life has been cut short or the quality of their life is too often lacking.
to juice, to vegetables, to beer, to soup, and much more. Transporting water is expensive,
So, the The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has joined forces with America beer brewers to change how farmer irrigate their crops.
For the nonprofit, conserving America rivers meant growing America barley, one of the primary ingredients in one of our favorite cold beverages, with less water.
Honeybees pollinate nearlyone-third of the food we eat but they have been dying at unprecedented rates because of a mysterious phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder (CCD).
which feeds the dashboard with information on#nearby gas stations, restaurants, and all sorts of Google earth overlays.
#New LED light technology sheds light on the future of food LED growing lights, delivering sunlight whatever the weather.
This century, the challenges of growing enough food to feed the world have grown more severe.
There is potential for these multifunctional techno-greenhouses built around LED grow lights to increase the quality of the food we eat
one of our most fundamental emotions and the by-product of evolution's early need to prevent an organism from eating foods that could harm that organism.
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Keiley Abbat, owner of Small Wonders Pets, a Toronto shop that specializes in nutrition education
Now, the100-lb. lap dog tags along on cottage getaways, hangs out at backyard barbeques, and listened to him explain the rules of soccer during the FIFA World cup.
quickly translating books, restaurant menus and other needed materials for daily living, especially away from home or office.
the promise of the Fingerreader is its portability and offer of real-time functionality at school, a doctor s office and restaurants.
Eventually, printing clothes is going to be as easy as ordering a burger and fries from your smart watch.
That chunk of plastic, produced from unexpectedly simple ingredients, proved to be tremendously hard and stable.
what you re drinking (soda or wine) to supplement the visualization.""We wanted the feedback to be really really quick,
so I m mindful of the protein in my beverages. That said, none of this real-time monitoring would matter
if Vessyl s beverage detection doesn t work as seamlessly as it does. At its core lives a molecular sensor, the specifics
but we re told its scans are of high enough fidelity to distinguish, not just milk from beer,
but Coke from Pepsi. Over a Skype demo, Lee let me choose from maybe 60 different beverages he had on the table.
Colas fruit sodas, energy drinks, protein shakes, beers, wines, orange juices with pulp, orange juices with no pulp,
and everything in-between. We pointed him to the old Pepsi Challenge, and asked him to pour Coke and then Pepsi into the Vessyl.
The first analysis, Coke, took roughly 20 to 30 seconds, but the Vessyl got it right.
The analysis of Pepsi took more like three to five seconds which we were told was more the target, typical rangeand again,
Vessyl was right. Presumably, this analysis time is of little concern to the user. It's certainly neat to watch as a machine reverse-engineers the liquid poured into it
but any long-time user of the Vessyl should, theoretically, forget that the Vessyl is doing anything special at all.
You pour mindlessly. It tracks meticulously. That's the real value of a device like Vessyl:
as it and other technologies are integrated into our dishes and glassware to help us keep tabs on our diets.
Maybe it will continue to demand nothing from us and we ll eat and drink as we normally do included (guilty feelings).
Just don t let my insurance company see my proclivities for booze and deep dish pizza. I'll need solid coverage for my impending heart attack.
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