A new study reviewed the diets of crocodiles and showed that 13 of 18 species ate fruit of some sort and a wide variety of plants.
So there is some chance that these crocodiles are indirect eaters of fruit who feast on fruit-eating animals.
But direct observations (see video) have been made many times to believe that they might actually like eating fruits.
Perhaps it is similar to why dinosaurs consumed stones (gastroliths) to help with grinding food in their stomachs
If meat was ever in short supply they had the capacity to diversify and track down other food sources from vegetation and grasses.
The study reveals something interesting about the way scientists might operate. Crocodiles are obligate carnivores âÂ#Âtheir primary diet is meat âÂ#Âand as such fruits are classed often as anomalous food items
when found in their stomach and not considered in a physiological context. This mainstream view may have led to the ignorance that feeding on fruits could help their diet and energy balances.
That the review study picked up so many independent instances of crocodiles feeding on fruit and having ingested seeds is solid evidence for this.
#Engineering The Soursimply put a Sour is a drink consisting of a base liquor plus a sour component balanced against a sweet component.
A Daiquiri uses rum lime and sugar. A Bee's Knees calls for gin lemon and honey syrup.
A Margarita mixes tequila lime and orange liqueur. The basic formula for a Sour is 2 parts of the base spirit to 1 part of the sweet component and 1 part of the sour component.
For example: Daiquiri 2 parts white rum 1 part simple syrup 1 part fresh lime juiceshake ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass or strain
onto new ice in a rocks glass. Cocktail recipes and definitions change with the times (just like language)
so we re taking a broad and modern view of a Sour here. At one point a Sour always called for lemon juice not lime.
At a later point Sours usually had added egg white to them to give them a frothy head.
Heck a better name for this drink format would be the Sweet -and-Sour so let s not get too hung up on that.
Regardless with this basic recipe we can swap out ingredients and plug in others but the sweet-to-sour balance is the key.
As Attaboy bartender Sam Ross says âÂ#Âoethe sweet and sour elements in a cocktail are like the pieces of bread in a sandwich.
If they re not in balance the whole thing falls apart. âÂ# The sour component of a Sour is usually lemon
or lime juice but it can be grapefruit or yuzu juice or even muddled sour candy
if that s how you roll. The sweet component can be anything from a nonalcoholic sweetener like simple syrup agave nectar and grenadine to a liqueur like Cointreau or peach schnapps.
It could even be an artificial sweetener like Sweet âÂ# N Low though most bartenders would argue against that choice.
Then we can throw in anything else to the drink that doesn t alter that sweet-to-sour balance.
Egg whites are used still in vintage-style Whiskey sours and all Pisco Sours to give them a nice foamy head and softer texture.
Herbs and spices and bitters can provide accents as well. Pick one of each and get started:
Base spirits: Vodka gin tequila brandy/cognac rum pisco bourbon rye scotch cachaca etc. Sour elements:
Lemon juice lime juice grapefruit juice yuzu juice (make sure it s unsalted. Note that orange juice and pineapple juice are rather sweet
so if you use those you ll also want a sour juice in the drink as well.
Most bartenders use lime. Sweet elements: Raw sugar simple syrup (equal parts sugar and water) agave syrup (equal parts agave nectar and water) honey syrup (equal parts honey
and water) maple syrup etc. Extras: Herbs (mint basil oregano etc. spices (cinnamon nutmeg black pepper hot sauce etc.
egg white garnishes (citrus zests cherries etc. That 2: 1: 1 ratio (2 parts base spirit to 1 part sour to 1 part sweet) can change depending on a bar s house style.
A neighborhood bar might make drinks with a little less booze; while a modern speakeasy-style cocktail bar might emphasize the spirit by reducing both the sweet and sour.
Some people like their Sours on the sweet side while others may take a citrus-forward approach.
Start with 2: 1: 1 proportions find the balance that you like and go forth and make many cocktails.
A note on sweeteners and sours: Some people use sweeter simple syrup than others âÂ#Âstart with equal weights of sugar
and water to make simple syrup (no need to heat it; it will dissolve if you're patient).
When using thick agave nectar or honey dilute it with equal parts of water. Keep in mind that lemons
and limes are not the same sourness as each other and they also change in tartness over the season.
You ll need to adjust the quantities to keep the drink in balance. âÂ#¢The Cosmopolitan is actually a clever variation on the Sour with citrus vodka triple sec lime juice and cranberry juice
(which is both sweet and slightly tart) which requires rebalancing the other ingredients. âÂ#¢Add soda water
or another unsweetened filler to a Sour and you ve got a whole new group of cocktails at your disposal (known as the Collins). A Mojito is a Rum Collins with Mint
which in turn is just a Daiquiri with soda water and mint. A French 75 is a Gin Sour with champagne as the filler.
If you use a sweetened soda like ginger beer as a filler you ll need to reduce
or eliminate the other sweet component. âÂ#¢You can also use a sweet liqueur for the base spirit (as in the Amaretto Sour)
but then you ll want to seriously reduce the amount of the sweet element to rebalance the drink
#Mystery Animal Contest: Who is this Upside-down Tree-Dweller? So here are the rules: To answer follow us on Twitter and tweet at us with the hashtag#mysteryanimal.
For example: Hey@Popsci is the#mysteryanimal a baboon? And then I might say if you think that's a baboon perhaps you are the baboon!
But probably not because this is a positive environment and all guesses are welcome and also this is not a very common animal so guess whatever you want!
The first person to get it right wins! We'll retweet the answer from@Popsci and also update this post
so your amazing animal knowledge will be permanently etched onto the internet. Show your kids! Your dumb kids who thought that was a baboon!
Update: And the winner is...@Tarabethidaho who correctly guessed that this creature is a cuscus!
Cuscuses are marsupials native to the far northeastern corner of Australia as well as New guinea and a few other islands stretching as far as Sulawesi.
Cuscus is applied the word to a few species of possum in this area as opposed to the more common possums native to the rest of Australasia like the brushtail possum.
This one in particular is spotted a common cuscus which is found throughout that small cuscus range.
Fewer bees not only means less honey it means less food. Researchers at Harvard are working on a partial solution--tiny drones the size of bees (not to be confused with drone bees the mostly useless males of a bee colony.
Their wings mimic those of a fly flapping when pulled by a special ceramic that contracts
#Is Red Bull Downplaying Research On The Harms Of Mixing Alcohol And Energy Drinks? Step away from the Jà ¤gerbomb.
Peter Miller a psychologist from Austrialia's Deakin University has taken to BMJ (formerly The british Medical Journal) to air his view that energy drink titans like Red Bull are meddling in research that explores the harms of mixing energy drinks
and alcohol providing funding and placebo supplies to scientists whose research supports their interests. Red Bull sold 4. 6 million cans of its picker-upper last year presumably in large part to college students who wanted to use it as a mixer.
and in a 2007 study 73 percent of U s. college students said they had mixed energy drinks with booze in the past month According to that study from Nutrition Journal most energy drinks pack a caffeine punch of 80 to 141
milligrams per 8 ounces about the same as two cans of soda plus various energy boosters like caffeine ginseng and taurine.
Some studies have found energy drinks and alcohol together to be associated with riskier behavior including aggressive sexual behavior and drinking and driving.
Still the research is slim. Red Bull has only been around since 1997 and in lab settings researchers can't just get people wasted
and give them tons of energy drinks. Because you know ethics. So according to Miller most lab research has been restricted to looking at people with low levels of intoxication who consume only one energy drink.
Many of the researchers who have declared mixing alcohol and Red Bull to be completely safe have been funded by Red Bull.
From Miller: Red Bull often provides a placebo drink to researchers--after the company approves their protocols
--but as one psychologist told Livescience this means that there's no independent verification that the placebo doesn't contain stimulants like the active version of the Drink in an email to Popular Science Patrice Radden a spokesperson for Red Bull had this to say in response to Miller
but his main point is that researchers who study energy drinks should have to declare any conflicts of interest in their work
and tell people that energy drinks are safe. And that's a pretty easy argument to get behind.
Sean Seidell an information designer who previously taught us about chocolate and also got us super wasted created this infographic of 41 apples organized by taste
I could while still leaving room for exceptional apples that have amazing flavors such as the Winesap with a unique tart spicy vinous flavor or the all-purpose excellent tasting but not a beauty queen Newtown Pippin.
and has no beard. 4. Sustainable Dietscolobus monkeys are almost exclusively leaf-eaters filling an important niche in the tops of the African forest.
and fruits that are poisonous or indigestible to most animals; think of the eucalyptus of Australia or the bamboo forests of China.
The colobus monkeys eat this abundant food and are able to digest it thanks to gut bacteria that ferments and breaks down the plant product.
Christopher Columbus mostly ate pickled and preserved meat and fish and bread products. His voyage also included livestock beginning a legacy that would lead to the extermination of many native animals in the New world through predation
An eminent demonstration of the lies spread by âÂ#Âoescienceã¢Â# is placed that
Thus this is a modern enlightened liberal congregation of feel-good back-to-the-Earthmother vegan hippies who are not vaccinating their children with the wicked chemicals of the modern world.
Jumping-ginger I suppose that other countries awarding court cases to people who have taken the MMRS
I'll take my chances on this one ginger. To ignore the rulings the sealed evidence of the case is to be naive.
48pm-Comment by drchuck1 If people smoked weed instead of drinking; many many lives would be saved.
06am-Comment by drchuck1 bull you are just a bully A lot of the food we eat today comes from plants that were pollinated cross
it would be like comparing ibuprofin to naproxen instead of to a sugar pill and then concluding it's safe
This data supports the idea that people's immune systems were better able to handle pathogens most likely from improved nutrition (less exposure could be another factor
#FDA Aims To Reduce Use Of Antibiotics For Fattening Farm Animalsthe U s. Food and Drug Administration is asking veterinary drug companies to voluntarily agree to make it illegal to feed healthy animals some antibiotics.
If the antibiotic is on the FDA s list of drugs that are used related to drugs to fight infections in people including everything from bronchitis to urinary tract infections to Lyme disease to infections after surgeries then the agency is asking companies to stop their use for fattening up pigs chickens
The move is meant to reduce the amount of antibiotics farmers feed to food animals. âÂ#Âoewith these changes there will be fewer approved uses for animal antibiotics
and the remaining uses will be under tighter controlã¢Â# Michael Taylor the FDA s deputy commissioner for foods
âÂ#Âoeeven if it were observed by the industry there s no guarantee that the usage profile for these drugs would changeã¢Â# Keeve Nachman who studies food production at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public health tells Popular Science.
On many farms animals eat low doses of antibiotics mixed into their food either to make them grow faster
or grow more on less food. It's not clear exactly why low-dose antibiotics fatten animals up
Farmers and farming companies don t need prescriptions from veterinarians to get drugged feeds; they get them from feed stores.
and from there may spread to crops as fertilizer get carried around by birds and eventually make it to people.
but unless these veterinarians believe these uses are creating a public health problem they have no incentive to do thatã¢Â# says Steven Roach a program director for public health at the Food Animal Concerns Trust a farm animal welfare
Slate estimated back in 2010 that by the time you've read your 23rd book on the Kindle you've gotten yourself equal to the environmental cost of reading physical books--so everything after that is gravy.
In my opinion it's important to have numerous copies of unmodifiable works of literature spread across the world in different languages.
When Schools Serve Healthier Lunches? You can build it but will they eat it? In a new study the U s. Department of agriculture examined
and veggies in school lunches is correlated actually with kids eating more fruits and veggies at lunchtime.
We hope data like these will help schools shape their lunchrooms to steer kids toward healthier choices:
It is great to strive to make meals for children healthier but they need to consider that this cannot be a one size fits all solution.
Foods taste different too me. Watermelon and tomatoes taste very bitter. Citrus fruits are so sour that
I can't stand them. When I was in grade school they started a program where they made us drink orange juice every day.
They would line us up and threaten to force feed me (they said I was just being difficult).
I never ate the school lunch because it was always stuff I couldn't eat.
Now I hear schools are throwing away sack lunches because they don't feel they are healthy enough
and forcing kids to by a school lunch. This is crazy. A lot of the stuff they are pushing isn't any better it just sounds like it should be.
The study was supposed to come out supporting the new more socially acceptable lunch programs and worked hard to come out with positive sounding results.
whose only option is mandated a veggie-heavy school lunch are not the same kids who can leave campus for something they'd prefer to have4-kids who have learned at home to be selective in their food choices earning them the label picky tend to reject the official veggie menu5
if one finds alot more beans rice and oatmeal in the diet. You mean if they aren't taught to eat properly at home they don't at school?
and a video of cockroach farms and farmers including a photo of Shandong Insect Industry Association head Liu Yusheng tucking into a plate of fried cockroaches.
certain sea anemones can bud identical twins from the sides of their bodies. Aphids bees and ants can reproduce asexually.
Biologists say that the benefits of sex come from the genetic rearrangements that occur during meiosis the special cell division that produces eggs and sperm.
Bdelloids lay unfertilized eggs that grow to be fully fertile daughters. What's the secret?
Civets selectively eat the best ripe coffee berries and their digestive tracts strip the fruit from the beans.
which civet coffee farmers gather wash ferment and roast. Regular little Santa's helpers civets are!
The researchers analyzed Kopi Luwak that they produced (presumably with civets in lab) as well as commercially sold Kopi Luwak and commercially sold regular coffee beans from different regions in Indonesia.
They found that digested coffee beans had significantly different levels of certain acids than non-digested beans.
Perhaps the gastric juices and the microbes in the civet digestive system give beans a distinctive acid profile the researchers wrote in a paper they published in July in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
-even if you were using pure feral cat cream which is awesome. What to know how awesome?
What Would Happen If I Ate Nothing but Meat? You might get scurvy like a pirate.
Cooked meat contains very little Vitamin c notes Donald Beitz a nutritional biochemist at Iowa State university.
Without the vitamin scurvy would bring on rashes and gum disease not to mention very bad breath. Moreover meat lacks fiber
so you'd probably be constipated. All in all you wouldn't be healthy or comfortable. That said some groups of people have survived even thrived on an animal-only diet.
Research suggests that traditionally the Inuit ate any number of meats including seal whale caribou and fish.
But they rarely if ever ate plant fiber. The key to their success says Harriet Kuhnlein the founding director of the Centre for Indigenous Peoples'Nutrition
and Environment at Mcgill University in Montreal was eating every part of the animal and you have to eat some of it raw.
Raw meat contains Vitamin c (which is lost when cooked) and the skin hooves and bones contain fiber.
Today the meat-heavy diet lives on in the form of the controversial Atkins Nutritional Approach.
Formulated by cardiologist Robert Atkins in the early 1970s the diet prescribes that adherents dramatically cut their carbohydrate intake.
The American Heart Association issued a statement in 2001 condemning the diet for cutting necessary sources of nutrients stating that devotees were at risk for compromised vitamin and mineral intake as well as potential cardiac renal kidney
bone and liver abnormalities. This article originally appeared in the June 2011 issue of Popular Science magazine..
What Would Happen if I Ate Nothing but Meat? A: Evidently you turn into Robert Goulet. Ever heard of gout?
The question that follows is Why would anyone want to eat only meat? There are so very many other yummy things to eat as well as meat.
I can't imagine giving up all the other stuff I love to indulge in. I'm glad
& oranges & broccoli & beets & pecans & cheese & garlic & olives & tomatoes & raspberries & blueberries & sweet potatoes & asparagus & cherries & bell peppers & spinach & green beans & lentils & sweet cream & popcorn
& whole grain spelt bread & quinoa & oatmeal & cranberries & caramel & & & & & &...The only thing that makes an all meat diet not work is cooking it.
Raw liver is stuffed full of Vit D and c. Hair is fiber (and the problem is usually over ingestation with most animals hence the owl pellet and the hairball).
however to be omnivores and omnivores we should be. While an all meat diet is possibly as is an all plant diet we do best with variety.
Betsy rossthe answer to your question is that no one would. But that's not what this article is about.
First you have to understand that this is an extremely liberal/progressive leaning magazine. Their topics are dominated by global warming gun control environmental studies gay rights left leaning political news etc.
This article is a subliminal attempt to show how vegetarian or vegan diets make more sense than an all-meat diet.
Another popular progressive topic. It's to highlight the contrast between the two different diet mentalities
and to show once again how enlightened liberals are compared to us Neanderthal meat eaters. But as you rightly pointed out no one would want to eat just meat.
The plant eaters main reason for avoiding eating meat falls into their'animal cruelty'category.
I guess they're not so picky with plant life. Save the tress eat the cabbage. lol.
Their enlightened mentality has limits I guess. Today's magic is tomorrow's technology. GGENUA...
Nowhere does it say in this article that you shouldn't eat meat just the downsides of ONLY eating meat
and how people have lived off of just meat. Your hatred toward liberals is pretty overt.
we are omnivores-we can SURVIVE on ether plant or animal food. We may not be perfectly healthy
When i saw the title i was already expecting to see some vegetarian brainwashing post about how you need plants
and meat will kill you...at least...it didnt go that far. And meat comes in soo many diff forms that you could get everything you need. birdmeat cattle pigs fish craps/lobster snails and maggots and oysters...
Its all meat. All of that protien we'd be...Superhuman...lol; i eat a lot of meat
i grew up on a beef farm so essentially to me; veal is a vegetable...lolalso curious what would a meatarian drink?
water milk meat juice or gravy...mmm...delicious gravy. heart attack alert. Anywho on a serious note:..
the article is correct if you were to take on a Meat only diet it's not exactly the best choice. you COULD do it
but we need veggies like it or not to balance out our nutritional needs. You would definately need to take vitamin supplements
. if you were to forego all other foods. ps. mineral oil helps to unclog the old GI TRACT. not too often
though or you become dependant on it. pss. Another way to unclog the GI TRACT is a solution of water
and sea salt (Has to be iodized NON) 2 teaspoons of salt to 1 quart of WARM water. maybe a pinch of lemon juice and then down the hatch.
CAUTION: if you do the salt water cleanse...DO NOT LEAVE YOUR HOUSE FOR THE DAY.
It literally flushes EVERYTHING OUT. Also always do your own research before trying anything you read on the internet
there thats my liability statement) Meat makes up 95%of my diet. I have experienced no problems so far and
Oh an frosty one last thingmy whole point is that NO ONE eats just meat. So why research this at all?
And my response was to betsy ross who asked the reasonable question'why would anyone eat only meat?'
Eat a steak and have drink or somethin'!'Jack Daniels! Goes great with a good prime rib!
Today's magic is tomorrow's technology. Well now we know why the T. Rex is extinct lol
>I've been eating nothing but meat for almost 4 years. I do like steak medium rare but
I don't always have it that way and most of the time I'm not eating the whole animal.
It's not that I don't like vegetables; I love them. It's just that I'm drastically healthier when
but that CO2 is reintegrated into either the manmade agricultural food system or the natural system.
Food production technology continues to improve worldwide as does energy production. We feed more produce more energy
They're just a cabal making fat-cat bucks looking to protect their income of major dough.
I but our system of infrastructure for food and water is tenuous. Now I don't know who GFN is
what scientists and engineers can do to continue food and energy for a massive population.
PDID any of the tea partiers get some of it? You shd ask them. Really?
is there need really a for pap like this? Is someone actually considering eating a white dwarf? If so alert the Obama administration to create an impact report
and develop a federally approved process to consume a white dwarf and possible side effects. Of course the appropriate labelling would need to be applied to the star first.
I think most people are trying to avoid foods that are too heavy anyway. A nice hydrogen nebula salad would go down a lot better.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Aldous Huxleydumb! Sooooo...what is a dwarf star compared to a black hole?
is there need really a for pap like this? Is someone actually considering eating a white dwarf? If so alert the Obama administration to create an impact report
and develop a federally approved process to consume a white dwarf and possible side effects. Of course the appropriate labelling would need to be applied to the star first.
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