Further examples include a Burritobot on Kickstarter last year and Google serving 3d printed pasta. Other 3d printing technologies have been investigated for use with food.
Whether the technology can truly move from the novelty sector will most likely depend on the ability to process a wider range of foods requiring influence from both the kitchen and from printer developers.
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#There s Gold In Them, Thar Hills--And Toxic Mercury (ISNS) --When gold was discovered in California in 1849 the miners were confronted with a problem:
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#Thirsty Wood's Distress Call Heard in Lab Like a person gasping for air when it's in short supply living trees make noises
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I use Google earth quite a lot because nobody goes there. We know the GPS location to go
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#Toddler Meals Have Too much Salt: CDC Most ready-to-eat meals for toddlers have too much salt government researchers say.
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#Tomatoes, Summer's Last Sigh (Op-Ed) Katherine Tallmadge M. A r. D. is registered a dietitian author of Diet Simple:
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The researchers from Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus Ohio analyzed information from a national database of emergency-department visits focusing on choking visits involving food that did not result in death.
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#Trees Have Internal Clocks Too, Study Finds Like human bodies some trees have internal clocks that coordinate the activities of their cells with the cycles of day
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#US Ivory Crush Canceled in Wake of Shutdown In a bid to discourage poachers and wildlife traffickers federal officials had planned to pulverize 6 tons (5. 4 tonnes) of illegal elephant ivory this week
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#UV Light Makes Mushrooms Rich in Vitamin d The dog days of summer are a distant memory and so are the long bright sunny days.
Hansen and his colleagues teamed up with Google to make it happen. On a single computer processing the data archive would have taken 15 years Hansen said.
With Google's cloud computing it took mere days. The fine scale of the map allows researchers to zoom in close enough to see logging roads river meanders
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#Virtual Nature Makes Us Feel Good Even if It's Farmville (Op-Ed) This article was published originally at The Conversation.
or wander around in Second life? Perhaps like some Grand Theft Auto fans you even share photos of its landscapes on Flickr. If so you re experiencing nearby nature via your phone tablet or computer screen.
And it is almost certainly doing you some good. In the 1980s experimental psychologists Rachel and Stephen Kaplan studied the effects of nature on people.
Images of nearby nature on our phones and computers can alleviate mental fatigue. They enhance our attention help us cope with distraction
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#Western Crop Watering May Make Wetter East Coast Summers SAN FRANCISCO Intensive irrigation in the Western United states could be causing wetter summers on the East Coast new research suggests.
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#Whales Trap Dinner with Mouthful of Swirling Bristles Humpback and bowhead whales create their own food nets from specialized bristles in their mouths to more efficiently nab fishy morsels a new study of baleen whales suggests.
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#What 11 Billion People Mean for Food security Editor's note: Â By the end of this century Earth may be home to 11 billion people the United nations has estimated earlier than previously expected.
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#What America's Forests Looked Like Before Europeans Arrived European settlers transformed America's Northeastern forests.
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#What Are Greenhouse Gases? Behind the struggle to address global warming and climate change lies the increase in greenhouse gases in our atmosphere.
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#What Are Superfoods? Superfoods are foods mostly plant-based but also some fish and dairy thought to be nutritionally dense and thus good for one's health.
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#What Is a Paw Paw? What tastes like a cross between a banana and a mango and might be growing in your neighborhood right now?
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#What Is Coconut oil? The coconut palm ranks as one of the most useful plants on the planet.
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#What Is Jell-o? Sold since 1897 Jell-o has occupied a familiar place on American dinner tables for decades.
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#What Is Melatonin? Melatonin is produced a hormone naturally by the pineal gland in response to darkness.
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#What Is Molasses? Thousands of fish have been reported dead in the waters around Honolulu after a massive spill of molasses.
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#What Is Raspberry Ketone? A raspberry contains 200 molecules that contribute to its distinct raspberry flavor.
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#What is the'Birds and the Bees'?'The phrase the birds and the bees is a metaphor for explaining the mechanics of reproduction to younger children relying on imagery of bees pollinating
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#What Is the Oldest Tree in the World? Until 2013 the oldest individual tree in the world was Methuselah a 4845-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) in the White Mountains of California.
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#What Is the Paleo Diet? The Paleo Diet also known as the Stone age Caveman or Ancient Diet is a modern attempt to replicate the diet of humans of the Paleolithic age.
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#What Is the World's Largest Tree? The largest tree in the world is a giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) in California's Sequoia National park. Called General Sherman the tree is about 52500 cubic feet (1487 cubic meters) in volume.
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#What Is the World's Tallest Tree? The tallest trees in the world are redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens)
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#What Is Veal? Like many culinary terms veal came to English from French. It refers to the meat of a young cow
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#What's Driving Federal Efforts to Nullify State Animal Protections?(Op-Ed) Wayne Pacelle is the president and chief executive officer of The Humane Society of the United states (HSUS.
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#Where Did Potatoes Come From? The potato is an immigrant coming from the Andes mountains in South america or by some accounts possibly from the western coast of Chile.
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#Which Comes First--Optimism Or Good health?(ISNS)--Boosting optimism defined as the general expectation that the future will be favorable could provide new ways to improve health some researchers believe.
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#Whole Grains, Half truths, and Lots of Confusion An enduring mantra among nutritionists from both a vegetarian and carnivorous perspective has been to eat more whole grains to reduce the risk of heart disease type 2 diabetes and colon cancer.
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#Why Are Tree Rings Lighter or Darker? New wood formed in a tree during spring
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#Why Autumn Leaves May be dulled by Climate Change Every year New england and other northern regions reliably burst into a blaze of fall color.
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#Why Do Camels Have Humps? Contrary to popular belief the camel s humps are not full of water.
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#Why Do We Carve Pumpkins at Halloween? Carving vegetables into scary faces then lighting them is an odd kind of custom that just must have interesting roots.
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#Why Elk Are Robbing Birds Sonya Auer of the Department of Environmental Conservation at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently won the Elton Prize from The british Ecological Society for her research and writing.
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In addition to financing catalytic innovations for growth are also emerging including mobile-phone technology for better sharing and disseminating information;
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This Op-Ed was adapted from 41 Leading Scientists Call on EPA to Protect Our Forests and Climate on the NRDC blog Switchboard.
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#Wild and Woolly: Deer Joins Sheep Flock Even deer get lonely it seems. A young red deer in England has been accepted into a flock of about 100 sheep
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#Wild Turkeys Are Back, A Century After Severe Decline In the early 1900s wild turkeys seemed to be on the road toward extinction as unregulated hunting
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#Wildlife Bandits: How Criminology Can Fight Poaching Newark N. J. With no shortage of human-on-human misdeeds criminologists haven't typically concerned themselves with crimes against wildlife and the environment.
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#Will Eating Pet food Kill Me? There s no official record of how many people dine on crunchy kibble
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They assessed 9200 peer-reviewed studies undergirded by a staggering two million gigabytes of numerical data.
Microsoft Kering Natura Disney and Barclays are among those taking voluntary action addressing the greenhouse gas emissions they cannot avoid by purchasing REDD+credits.
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#World's Largest Owl Exposes Health of Russia's Forests The world's largest owl requires equally huge trees a finding that reveals that this salmon-devouring predator could be a key sign of the health of some of the last great forests of Russia
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#Worst Allergy Season Ever? Marlene Cimons writes forâ Climate Nexus a nonprofit that aims to tell the climate story in innovative ways that raise awareness of dispel misinformation about
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#Yogurt Lovers Have Better Diets People who like yogurt may be enjoying more than its taste and texture.
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#Yosemite national park: Facts, Information & Lodging Yosemite national park created in 1890 is one of the oldest nature preserves in the United states. A wonderland of geological formations
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#Early Life Pain May Affect The next Generation A mom's painful early life experiences might influence her offspring's sensitivity to pain according to a new study of lambs and ewes.
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#8 Tips to Be a Probiotic Pro These days you'll find probiotics in more places than yogurt and the supplements aisle.
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#Intersex Fish Showing Up in Pennsylvania Rivers Editor's Note: This story was updated on Tuesday (July 1) at 10:25 a m. E t. Scientists found intersex fish in three river basins in Pennsylvania a sign that the water may be tainted with chemicals from human activity.
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#Shorebirds Adopt Baby Duckling, Cuteness Ensues A family of long-legged shorebirds adopted a fuzzy baby duckling this month in California's San francisco bay.
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#7 Strategies for Outdoor Lovers with Seasonal Allergies Do you love the great outdoors but don't feel so great out there during allergy season?
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#Trendy'Paleo'Diet May not Suppress Appetite The trendy paleo diet a plant-based diet inspired by the idea that human ancestors mainly consumed roughage may not be so good at suppressing appetite according to new research conducted on gut bacteria.
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#Wild Monkeys Learn to Puzzle out Banana Video The wild marmosets living in the Brazilian forest have seen never a television show
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#Lions: Facts & Information Lions are large felines that are depicted traditionally as the king of the jungle.
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#Earth-Friendly Packaging Made of Organic Mushroom Parts Most of today's gadgets and gizmos are packed with plastic
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#Pesticides Linked to Parkinson's Risk in People with Specific Gene Several studies have linked pesticides with the development of Parkinson's disease
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#Why Koalas Hug Trees The mention of a koala bear often conjures up an image of an adorable spoon-nosed creature cocking its head to one side while clinging to a tree.
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#EPA Aims To Slash Power plant CO2 by 30 Percent Nearly every state in the U s. now has a greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal to meet under the Obama administration's new Clean
and expose some of this data in a tangible representation Duncan Rowland a researcher at the University of Lincoln's School of Computer science who developed the software application said in a statement.
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#The Wilderness Act Turns 50 John Weaver senior conservation scientist for the Wildlife Conservation Society has conducted field research in many wild areas across western North america over the past 45 years.
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#Could Taxing Packaged Foods Reduce Obesity? If most foods created by the food industry are unhealthy why not place a stiff tax on all of them
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#Apple Health App: What It Can and Can't Do Apple's new Health app is now up and running on the latest version of ios 8 but
what exactly can this app do for you? The first thing to know is that the Health app doesn't track information by itself at least not yet.
It's an aggregator meaning it pulls information from your other health apps and displays it all for you in a single dashboard.
So for Apple's Health app to be useful you'll need other health apps.
Experts say that aggregation apps like Apple's Health can offer users a new experience
while allowing them to keep the apps they've become accustomed to using. With the Health app Apple is saying you don't have to abandon your old apps
but here's a new experience that you can digest your old data in said Dan Ledger principal at consulting firm Endeavour Partners
Although this aggregation may not be difficult for people who use just two or three apps separately there may be opportunities for taking that data combining it
and visualizing it in ways that these stand-alone apps can't do said Ledger. Right now there is a limited selection of apps that work with Apple Health.
For example if you track your activity with a fitness tracker such as a Fitbit a Withings Pulse
or a Basis watch you're out of luck because the apps for these devices don't integrate with Apple Health yet.
But quite a few popular apps have updated already their software and do work with Apple Health including Jawbone UP Myfitnesspal and Run with Map My Run+.
+You can allow these apps to write data to your Health app so that your data like how many steps you take
and how many calories you've eaten will show up on the Health app dashboard. You can also allow these apps to read data from the Apple app
so your different health apps can share information with one another. Essentially the Health app serves as a hub allowing information to come in
and go out of a central place. And you can choose which information you want third-party apps to see. 10 Fitness Apps:
Which Is Best for Your Personality? But how does aggregation offer more of a benefit than tracking things in just one app?
After all the new UP app (which does not require a wristband) already tracks steps calories burned
and sleep and even has a place to input what you eat. To find out some of the potential benefits of aggregation I downloaded Myfitnesspal to track my food intake.
This app does not show you a graph of the data on individual nutrients over time
but Apple's Health app does. Here's what the graph looks like: Graphing information for a single nutrient like sodium may be a useful way to keep track of
whether you're getting too much or too little of it. However when I tested the app there seemed to be a few bugs in communication between Myfitnesspal and Apple Health:
First my nutrition data did not show up on the Health dashboard until I restarted my phone
and entered my nutrition information again. And second only one nutrition data point showed up at a time the app didn't show me a graph of my intake over time.
Ledger said there are other challenges to aggregating information. For example if you have one app that tracks your workouts
and one that tracks your steps and you go for a run the apps will have to know that that's one event which is not an easy problem to solve Ledger said.
Still tracker aggregators could help users find connections in their data that they might not notice otherwise like
whether their workout quality changes based on temperature or humidity levels he said. However it's not clear
if there's an app for that yet.)Also right now the Health app can aggregate a number of measurements from your apps
but it's not an all-inclusive list. For example there is no place to track menstrual cycles or your exposure to ambient light
(which some finesses trackers do track). In addition when developers make apps that provide prescriptive information about your health that is give you advice on how to be healthier they have to tread carefully
because they need to make sure those insights are said accurate Ledger. As a result many health apps provide only descriptive information (i e. just your stats.
The biggest challenge right now is getting those insights into an extremely high level of accuracy
or cause them to distrust the app even if the app is right most of the time Ledger said.
It's not about the 80 percent of the time you're going to get it right;
I go into the app and tell it Ledger said. That's a huge thing to ask of people.
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