Category Archives: food
Kitchen of the future
Zeger Reyers’s “Rotating Kitchen,” in the Eating the Universe at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf: Rotating through 28 Feb 2010. (jg)
Carbon footprints
Trash. Albatross chick remains on the on Midway Atoll, Sept/Oct ’09, courtesy of Chris Jordan: Many more here.
Sucking at the activist teat
NYT [Insert sardonic Economist caption here.]
“Think of us like a coast guard”
Jordan Zinovich and Hans Plomp: Before warlords toppled Somali dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991, Somalia had a kind of stability recognized by the “community of nations.” As early as 1971, Somalia’s fishery was considered an increasingly promising economic resource. By 1982, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, the UK, and the USSR had negotiated fishing [...]
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Healthcare debate: generational warfare
That is why they’re bringing out the guns. It‘s not just the right-wing gothic imagination run amok (though it is that). It’s war. The healthcare debate in a nutshell: declining revenues + rising costs = growing competition for shrinking resources. And on one side of that conflict, an aging segment of the population, weaned on [...]
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They don’t have any feelings (1)
“Monkfish,” formerly known — before its makeover — as an “angler”:
Bears in the MYST
NYT infographic on ursine cryptography: Where’s Jared Diamond when you need him to reaffirm your master narrative?
Odd factoid of the day
National Pork Producers Council: [S]ince 1948, manure generated by U.S. meat-producing animals has been reduced 25 percent while production of meat has increased 700 percent. The US population increased roughly 110% in the same period.
Lynx to the past
“Lynx and logging share interests,” (Carpenter, Boston Globe, 27 Apr ’09): Strangely, it’s not an excess of clear-cutting that is the problem; this time, it’s a lack of clear-cutting that is creating environmental worries. Environmentalists may hate clear-cutting, but lynx love it—because when trees are cleared away, a dense spruce-fir thicket often crops up in [...]
I, for one, welcome our new patriarchal overlords