Caffeine, of course, is the stimulant found in coffee and tea. The research team did not administer beverage.
Rather it gave pills to 160 participants about 5 minutes after it showed them a set of images.
Restaurant business innovation: Marijuana sauceyou're not in Indiana. Amsterdam's Manneken Pis chip shop, named after Brussels'famous pissing boy statue,
Food trends can start anywhere. They go a long way toward establishing a place's image (will California ever shake its sprouts?
You can find the newest condiment for your french fries in Amsterdam of course, the city where hooch is so legal you can puff away in certain coffee shops
as if you were downing a Starbucks latte. The mayonnaise-like spread doesn't contain the active ingredient THC
so it won't get you giggly, forgetful, relaxed, paranoid or whatever it is weed real does to you.
given that the restaurant that invented it sits across the street from a place called the Grasshopper Cafe.
but contains no THC, inspired by the marijuana aroma from the adjacent coffee shop. It's just about the taste,
We specialize in sauces and we constantly want to diversify. There's no way of knowing yet
whether the dope dip will catch on and sweep across the globe. Â But it does leave you wondering what the Dutch might serve up next.
so about radiation that it is missing a golden opportunity to move the world onto a low-CO2 diet by shifting to nuclear power.
who can forget the irony-laced scene where the anti-nuke protestors take a break to eat sustenance-giving bananas?)
Hargraves reminds us that in our daily lives we encounter constant natural background radiation from sources like cosmic rays, breathing radon, ingestion of food and water,
Radiation sterilizes food. Radiation serves us broadly in the medical field, both as a diagnostic and therapeutic tool.
The bird made famous in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner can fly incredible distances with a single flap of the wings.
Let it spread its wings. Updated Jan 29 around 10:05 a m. PST adding reference to alternative nuclear's improved waste managementcover photo of Half Dome at Yosemite is from Diliff via Wikimediathe land of milk and honey-and radiation:
Wine and radioactivitynuclear innovations, on Smartplanet: The score after the deep freeze: Nuclear power 1, Polar Vortex 0business!
There are art galleries, original shops and restaurant, stables, hiking and biking trails, organic farming and farmers markets. â Å It preserving natural lands
I called Leavell recently at Charlane Plantation, his farm just south of Macon, Ga . What does a tree farmer do?
The cellulose, for instance, goes into everything from tires to chewing gum to salad dressing. We just have to manage the trees properly.
what we need (food, fresh water and energy). This week, the project, which is supported by fertilizer companies,
and salad rocket (arugula), along with useful desert plants around the seawater greenhouse. Another key element of the facility is concentrated the solar power plant:
growing salt-tolerant grasses for fodder or biofuel, and evaporating the concentrated saline the plant emits to produce salt, Science reports.
with warmer temperatures allowing the insect to move into previously inhospitable areas and shortening the beetle's life cycle by up to a year.
By converting sugars harvested from beetle-bitten lodgepole pines into n-butanol Cobalt is trying to replace some of the petroleum and petrochemical materials in anything from gasoline to plastics to paint.
but dampen the  entrepreneurial  spirit in cities where there's a desire for fresh,
local food. Fortunately San francisco's new law sees past that and celebrates all forms of the urban agriculture--from community gardens to market gardens.
Scientists say Fukushima's food is safe. So why aren't the Japanese eating it?
Japanese government officials say the region's food is safe to eat. Problem is, neither its producers nor consumers trust them anymore.
in addition to a hefty supply of fish and seafood fetched from its 100-mile coastline. Since the meltdown, Fukushima has dropped from the nation fourth-largest rice producer to its seventh
two of Fukushima largest food-producing areas, one Sukagawa farmer noted that the government approves of shipments of food that test below 100 becquerels (units of radioactivity) per kilogram,
lower than its original 500 Bq limit (and in line with global standards), selling it at below-market value.
But he would not allow his own family to eat the food he is allowed to sell. â Å We won eat it ourselves
or joy in our work anymore. â Â But despite the gut instinct that food from Fukushima cannot be safe,
together with Japan natural iodine-rich seafood diet, make Fukushima food today safer than an average CT scan.
fish and seafood pose an even bigger challenge. Marine creatures are always on the move following tides and currents. â Å Some fish in one area of the sea are contaminated,
â Â says Foust. â Å They're having better luck focusing on certain breeds of bottom feeders.
to claim all seafood was safe. Â While natural iodine from some seafood helps cancel out the radioactive iodine in fast-moving fish
using octopi as a standard misrepresents localized risk. No one was fooled, further eroding trust. So, the fear of Fukushima's food persists.
Geraldine Thomas, Professor of Molecular Pathology at the Imperial College in London, and the scientific director of the Chernobyl Tissue bank, was asked to assess likely health effects from Fukushima after her extensive work on thyroid cancer cases in Russia.
Thomas finds the food fear in Japan baffling a sign of modern and misbegotten hysteria. â Å The most important thing to do immediately after the accident was to restrict the consumption of locally produced milk and green leafy vegetables
natural iodine found in some seafood. â Å This the Japanese government did very well in contrast to the Soviet authorities following the Chernobyl accident.
The Japanese continue to monitor foodstuffs, and they have imposed even stricter limits on radiation in foodstuffs from Fukushima prefecture than we have for our own produce in the U k. and the U s. â Â Â Dr. Ian Fairlie,
an independent consultant on radioactivity in the environment who is closely monitoring Fukushima says that Japanese should fear radiation just not necessarily in the region food. â Å Contaminated food intakes are a relatively small part of the problem.
People near Fukushima are exposed more via direct radiation (groundshine: smaller doses also come from water intakes,
Personally I would have no worries about consuming food from Fukushima and in fact did so when I was in Tokyo last April. â Â Photo:
Seattle builds nation's largest food forestthere are plenty of innovative ideas in urban farming:
In Seattle's Beacon hill neighborhood, plans are in place to turn an empty seven acre lot that didn't receive much attention (expect from the occasional lawn mower) into a food forest for everyone to use.
the Beacon Food Forest will be the largest public food forest in the United states, according to the Seattle news website Crosscut.
A n entire acre will feature large chestnuts and walnuts in the overstory, full-sized fruit trees like big apples and mulberries in the understory,
and kid space full of thornless mini edibles adjacent to community gardening plots, native plant areas, a big timber-frame gazebo and gathering space with people barbecuing,
and food as far as you can see...In a food forest, everything from the tree canopy to the roots is edible or useful in some way.
It sounds like the Wonka factory, only good for you. In reality, it will be a large scale example of permaculture, an attempt to mimic natural ecosystems.
and provide fresh food for the community. Plus, the lot will now be equipped better to capture more of Seattle's notorious rain water.
Nation's largest public Food Forest takes root on Beacon hill Crosscut Photo: Beacon Food Forest
Self-sculpting sand assembles itself into shapessandboxes will never be the same again. Picture this:
Cows get so routinely sick that they undermine the planet's tenuous food supply and cost the global economy an estimated $60 billion.
the type of feed they are receiving or one of a very large spectrum of health complications.
Vital Herd's technology could potentially alleviate a food shortage that threatens to worsen as the world's population swells from today's 7. 1 billion to somewhere around 9. 6 billion by 2050.
 Should restaurants fine customers who waste food? Half of all food wasted
Sensor-managed garden goes'beyond organic 'And you thought it just took sunlight and soil to raise a tomato.
Will Bratton and Samuel Bagot believe a much better tomato can be brought to life in their horto domi (latin for garden at home) kit,
Our goal is to produce open systems and hardware that produce healthy, clean food, conveniently, for individuals and families.
We want to get past the mega-industrialized food production systems that are often more of a harm than a benefit to our health
Their technological path to food independence consists of a raised bed garden that contains 30 square feet of growing space with light heat
this approach to raising food in small spaces could catch on. Sensors are used widely to monitor the conditions within high-value
sensitive crops such as wine grapes. But the horto domi concept shows the convergence of the maker culture, organic and local food advocates and high-and low-tech.
So far, the horto domi is 47 days and around $7, 000 from being funded. Via:
where the city's support systems are located entirely within city limits, from  energy sources to food production.
the sharing of nutrients, the transfer of energy from sunlight to plants and then to animals,
The spread of concrete, benign as it is, is suited more for a gas station than for the front lawn of a residence.
the two companies use the honey in the employee  cafeteria  and offer beekeeping classes.
Engineers from Silicon valley tinkered with the software on a laptop to ensure the machine was eliminating the right leafy buds.
Another company, San diego-based Vision Robotics, is developing a similar lettuce thinner as well as a pruner for wine grapes.
and the location of buds all to decide which canes to cut down. In Southern California, engineers with the Spanish company Agrobot are taking on the challenge by working with local growers to test a strawberry harvester.
The organic vertical farming practice makes use of derelict warehouses to produce food for the community.
The new warehouse, located 15 miles from Chicago, grows more than one million pounds of greenery such as herbs
The greenery is sold to local restaurants and stores in Chicago, including Whole Foods and Green Grocer.
Production is based on two systems, aquaponics and aeroponics. Several types of fish, mainly tilapia, are grown in the tanks that feed the aquaponic system
which results in very little water wastage. oewe use about three percent of the water of traditional agriculture and it all recyclable, says Farmedhere CEO Jolanta Hardej in an interview with Designbuildsource
and national governments to secretly acquire land in poorer countries in order to secure supplies of food and other resources.
Verified deals But despite the concerns that many investors are buying to take advantage of high food prices,
it was split equally between food and non-food crops. The team said there was no clear bias towards biofuel crops.
Danone, the manufacturer of Aptamil and Cow And gate baby milk powder, said most supermarkets were introducing a restriction of two cans per customer.
"Retailers were also capping sales of Nestle's SMA milk, despite the company saying there were no stock shortages.
Danone said in a statement:""We understand that the increased demand is being fuelled by unofficial exports to China to satisfy the needs of parents who want Western brands for their babies."
Danone said it was taking action to respond to the shortfall in the UK, including increasing production of milk,
Boosting production Danone is also increasing production and supplies of its brands that are already available in China,
However, Nestle insisted there were no shortages of its formula milk available to retailers. The company said:"
Contrary to reports, Nestle UK has requested never that retailers limit the supply of SMA powdered infant milks sold to consumers
the rising steel structure will help the city grow more food locally, reducing dependence on imported produce.
But thanks to the new vertical farm, citizens can eat locally produced goodies available exclusively at the Fairprice Finest supermarket.
consumers seemed eager to buy the freshest food possible often buying out the market stock of vertical farm foods.
giving dense cities an opportunity to grow food in their own back yard
Bionic beesengineers from the universities of Sheffield and Sussex are planning on scanning the brains of bees
As parents and communities bestow more consideration to safe food for their kids, the local food campaign is earning immense popularity.
Perhaps, most people try to protect the surroundings by reducing energy-consumption associated with foodstuff distribution from faraway farmers.
Although the desire to grow fresh vegetables at home seems to be growing among more people,
and grow your favorite vegetables, herbs and flowers without any hassle. Not only does this hydroponic system provides healthy and chemical-free produce,
while cooking or washing the dishes is recycled to provide nutrients to the hydroponics. Taking only a section of the area
and to put the power to muster this group in the hands of our future food producers We work together in the spirit of mutual aid
We work together share a meal, play, talk, and make music. No money is exchanged. This is the stuff that communities are made of
can take water dirtied by heavy metals from mining operations or other activities and turn it to clean drinking water.
where most of the nutrients and proteins reside. So he decided to investigate its chemical composition to see
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The research arm of a Chocolate Factory War! Scientists say they have determined the complete DNA sequence of the tree that produces cocoa beans,
an accomplishment that is expected to vastly accelerate efforts to assure a stable supply of chocolate
The candy maker Mars is expected to announce on Wednesday that a project it financed has completed essentially the raw sequence of the genome of the cacao tree,
The rivalry between the two big chocolate companies projects in some ways mirrors what occurred in the race to sequence the human genome, between Celera Genomics and the publicly financed Human genome Project.
the maker of Snickers, M&m S, Milky way and other confections, announced two years ago that it would spend $10 million over five years to sequence
Dr. Guiltinan said the new genetic information could lead to chocolate that tastes better and contains more flavonoids,
Farm experts say that such efforts could lead to higher food prices, lower crop yields, rising farm costs and more pollution of land and water. oeit is the single largest threat to production agriculture that we have seen ever,
the opposite direction, said Bill Freese, a science policy analyst for the Center for Food safety in Washington.
Glyphosate oeis as important for reliable global food production as penicillin is for battling disease, Stephen B. Powles,
razor blade and screwdriver Mr. Mcelroy sets to work replacing a broken screen, deftly prying it off the iphone.
He quit his job tending bar to focus on his repair work. In the last few weeks, he enlisted an apprentice:
however, is either a glimpse at the future of food growing or a very strange hobby possibly both.
Some 500 gallons of water fill a pair of food-grade polyethylene drums that he scavenged from a light-industry park.
Mr. Torcellini has a Youtube channel to demonstrate it. oethere alternate ways of growing food,
including those seeking fresh winter herbs; gadget-happy gardeners; and high-income parents and their science-fair kids.
While she boasted about picking fresh basil the other day for a risotto, she has lately been preoccupied with exotic fish.
Ms. Bernstein is now introducing pacu, a thin, silvery import from South america that she called oea vegetarian piranha
Villagers defy supermarkets A village on the western fringes of Hampshire is well on the way to becoming the first in England to defy the power of the supermarkets by achieving communal self-sufficiency in food.
The people of Martin continued to be surrounded by fields growing food but none of it reached their plates.
And after the village shop closed in 1982, they had to travel to buy provisions. Nick Snelgar, who earns a living from growing herbs
and shrubs near his home in Martin, thought it was crazy that he could not eat local produce."
"It would be fresher, tastier and more nutritious than anything from the supermarket and I thought it could be cheaper too
I wanted a system to provide local food for the many.""He organised a meeting in the village social club in 2003,
Chickens, lamb and pork are sold alongside vegetables at a Saturday morning market in the village hall throughout the year.
the food was produced entirely by voluntary labour, and Martin remains a village full of people on rotas for various horticultural and stock-rearing tasks.
Snelgar says 60%of the households in Martin use the co-op to supply at least some of their food.
Snelgar's dream is for each village to combine cooperatively to employ a food grower with as much status as the local teacher or doctor.
regards the co-op as an inspiring example of how a small community can combine to produce food locally.
Beddington has increased called for production to counter a"perfect storm"of food shortages that could become a global threat by 2030.
"People are sick of being told to worry about food. They need to feel empowered. We know of lots of alternative local food systems that are sustainable, resilient, viable and principled.
They may not be able to solve the global problem, but they can say:''Nothing we are doing will stand people in worse stead.'"
'"Gold award Across Britain, scores of local food projects are supported by the Soil Association, often in coalition with other groups.
In Dorset, the Local Food Links scheme is providing hot lunches to 23 primary schools in Bridport and Blandford.
The school meals venture was triggered by the Jamie Oliver television series that led the government to order all schools to serve hot meals by September 2008.
Tim Crabtree set up the Local Food Links scheme in Bridport to provide a healthier, local alternative.
It is now supplying similar meals to four care homes for older people and a day centre.
Crabtree admits he relies on charitable grants to break even on school meals at £2 a head.
"We have seen a polarisation in food. There are niche organic outlets for those who can afford it,
but most people end up with food at low cost and low nutritional value. We think we can do something about that in institutions serving people who need high-quality food
Are vegetables the new flowers? A Lancashire town is experimenting with using traditional floral displays,
Exponents say the idea is symbolic of the local determination to highlight the risk of food shortages and climate change.
said the aim was to encourage people to think about sourcing food nearby.""We need to move towards that sort of economy, taking responsibility as individuals for our own food production,
"she said. The initiative follows successful pioneering in another Pennine town, Todmorden, where the Yorkshire-Lancashire boundary bisects the town hall and cricket pitch.
Vegetable beds, herb gardens and orchards have sprung up on sites as varied and previously urban as the railway station forecourt and an elderly people's home, under the aegis of the Incredible Edible Todmorden campaign.
Schools use local produce and the long-term aim is complete self-reliance for food by 2018.
part of a national network encouraging similar sustainable, locally grown food production. The group's secretary, Chris Gathercole, said:"
And, in addition to computer hardware and software, garage hackers and home-build enthusiasts are now merrily cooking up electric cars,
The DNA thus collected could be used to make a map showing the spread of microorganisms.
help rice plants process nitrogen fertiliser more efficiently, measure the alcohol content of a person's breath
as Steve Kurtz, a professor of art at the State university of New york in Buffalo who works with biological material, found Out in May 2004 he awoke to find that his wife,
The police who accompanied paramedics to his home found Petri dishes used in his art displays,
Pubs that Were rose once & Crowns or Dukes of York have been given names used throughout the chain now they are grouped under corporate ownership.
First, I tried to identify the best wide-spectrum herb in Chinese, Indian, or Western medicine based on its long term traditional use and data indicating that the herbal extract can target multiple longevity genes identified by Genescient or by other research groups.
In Chinese traditional medicine, Astragalus membranaceus (Huang Qi) appeared to be the best Chinese herb because of its many traditional uses
Modern herbal treatments with Astragalus membranaceus root (often in concert with other herbs) are partly based on clinical trials showing benefits in strengthening immune function during viral (e g. chronic hepatitis)
In looking for the best herb in the Indian Ayurvedic medicinal tradition, I soon focused on the potent antidiabetic herb, Pterocarpus marsupium.
Crude extracts of Pterocarpus marsupium (Indian keno tree) bark naturally have high concentrations of pterostilbene (more than 4%by weight
Besides diabetes, the herb is reported also to cure a wide spectrum of ailments like skin diseases, fractures, bruises, constipation, hemorrhages, and rheumatoid arthritis.
These diverse health benefits of Pterocarpus marsupium make it a clear favorite to include in a preventive herbal cocktail along with Astragalus.
I looked for an effective herb with wide-spectrum health effects from the Western herbal tradition.
wherein The french tend to have reduced much rates of cardiovascular disease compared to other Western countries on a high-fat diet because of their high intake of red wine made with grapes.
To round out the above herbs, I wanted an herbal compound that provided neural protection in the brain.
or 5-N-ethyl-glutamine) is an uncommon amino acid found preferentially in green tea. Theanine is an analog of glutamine
All of these neuroprotective properties of L-theanine make it a strong complementary addition to the three essential core herbs of the herbal mix.
We named the final 4-herb mix Stemcell 100 because of its positive effects on adult stem cells
and the Food Pillthe FUTURIST magazine has featured recently potential oefixes and uncommon solutions to various big problems facing the world.
Unlike corn or even sugar ethanol, halophyte algae (algae that grow in saltwater) do not compete with food stocks for freshwater. oewhen the cost of pumping ocean water into so-called wasteland regions such as the Sahara
could lessen the world food and water shortages. Some 68%of the freshwater that is now tied up in conventional agriculture could
most of these people will be born in the countries that are least able to grow food.
and children) to trek miles to public wells. While the average human requires only about 4 liters of drinking water a day, as much as 5,
000 liters of water is needed to produce a person daily food requirements. Futurist Fixes 1. The Food Pill.
In the future, we may see a type of pill for replacing food, but experts say it likely would not be a simple compound of chemicals.
A pill-sized food replacement system would have to be extremely complex because of the sheer difficulty of the task it was being asked to perform
more complex than any simple chemical reaction could be. The most viable solution, according to many futurists, would be a nanorobot food replacement system.
Dr. Robert Freitas, author of the Nanomedicine series and senior research fellow at the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing, has described several potential food replacement technologies that are somewhat pill-like.
The key difference, however, is that instead of containing drug compounds, the capsules would contain thousands of microscopic robots called nanorobots.
but don t like what a food-indulgent lifestyle does to their body, Freitas has two other nanobot solutions. oenutribots floating through the bloodstream would allow people to eat virtually anything, a big fatty steak for instance,
and experience very limited weight or cholesterol gain. The nutribots would take the fat, excess iron,
and anything else that the eater in question did absorbed not want into his or her body and hold onto it.
While the average human requires only about 4 liters of drinking water a day as much as 5, 000 liters of water is needed to produce a person daily food requirements.
The Playpumps, which are erected in school playgrounds, are able to produce 1, 400 liters of water an hour,
A pot for more-efficient food storage, a bicycle rigged to carry hundreds of pounds of cargo,
With sections focusing on food, water, shelter, health and sanitation, energy and transportation, and education, oedesign for the Other 90%focused on problem solving for the vast majority of the world people who survive under the poverty level
The simple activated carbon filtration system aims to tackle the Millennium Development Goal of reducing the proportion of the world people without sustainable access to safe drinking water.
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