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    Fancy Upcycled Meals

    Through WastED, Food Scraps Are Turned into Gourmet Meals. As a society, there are many food parts that go to waste even though they are fully edible—in an attempt to raise awareness on wasted food, Blue Hill opened up a ...
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    Genetically modified foods will power the next green revolution, says futurist Stewart Brand.

    Picture a parent roaming the supermarket aisles in 2050, scanning labels carefully for the all-important words “genetically modified ingredients”—to make sure everything that goes into the shopping cart is guaranteed to be GMO. “They won’t accept any of that dangerous ...
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    Magic Leap

    A startup is betting more than half a billion dollars that it will dazzle you with its approach to creating 3-D imagery. Logically, I know there isn’t a hulking four-armed, twisty-horned blue monster clomping in circles in front of me, ...
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    Diet Advice That Ignores Hunger

    TOWARD the end of the Second World War, researchers at the University of Minnesota began a legendary experiment on the psychology and physiology of human starvation — and, thus, on hunger. The subjects were 36 conscientious objectors, some lean, some ...
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    The Research Is Clear: Long Hours Backfire for People and for Companies

    Managers want employees to put in long days, respond to their emails at all hours, and willingly donate their off-hours — nights, weekends, vacation — without complaining. The underlings in this equation have little control; overwork cascades from the top of the ...
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    Molly Crockett: “The Neuroscience of Moral Decision Making”

    Imagine we could develop a precise drug that amplifies people’s aversion to harming others; on this drug you won’t hurt a fly, everyone taking it becomes like Buddhist monks. Who should take this drug? Only convicted criminals—people who have committed ...
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    Good gut, good health?

    New nutritional therapies are aimed at boosting the variety of microorganisms that live in your GI tract, says neuroendocrinologist Mark Heiman. Mark Heiman recently picked up a watermelon radish at his local farmer’s market in New Orleans and immediately had ...
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    Obesity Prevention Source – Paying the Price for Those Extra Pounds

    Excess weight harms health in many ways. It increases the risk of developing conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, osteoarthritis, and some cancers, to name just a few, and reduces the life span. Treating obesity and obesity-related conditions costs billions ...
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    DXN VERIS: AN EVOLUTION IN MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS

    DxN VERIS from Beckman Coulter, offers laboratory managers a veritable one-stop shop for molecular diagnostics. DxN VERIS integratessample introduction, nucleic acid extraction, reaction setup, real-time PCR amplification and detection, and results interpretation into one system which saves on space, time ...