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Romanians flocking to burger joints in their post-communist gorge may soon be subject to a junk food tax intended to reduce national obesity rates and fill government coffers.
Hirings in manufacturing and health-care industries boosted the national payroll in March though companies were more likely to take on temporary workers than full-time employees.
The recent earthquake in Chile was the fifth largest ever recorded and the U.S. Geological Survey is investigating damaged buildings there to better understand our own California.
U.K. law prohibits selecting the sex of your child unless serious medical issues are involved and this has Brits flocking to the U.S. to balance out their families.
Long denied by the government, former engineers and spies of Area 51 speak out publicly about working at the secret source of UFO folklore.
New U.S. airport security measures mark the end of broad national and racial profiling in favor of intelligence-based screening criteria.
The headline in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution sums up the story’s coverage in countless other news outlets: “CNN’s ratings continue to fall; Fox News has best quarter in network history.” The […]
But not fast enough. It’s huge news that the latest employment report (pdf) shows that the country has finally started to add jobs. It’s the first substantial increase in the […]
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The writer talks about whom he most enjoys cooking for, drinking with Mario Batali in Spain, and whom he’d serve if he could cook for anyone.
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Coming up with the inspiration for new recipes starts with shopping and ends in kitchen experiments.
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Proposals to tax sugary sodas are good — but plans to remove salt from restaurants are “moronic.”
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The writer talks about the virtues of eating locally grown food and what foods he considers guilty pleasures.
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Why a meat-eating Japanese chef limits herself to vegan cooking, and how the foodie culture has spread.
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How a food lover can eat healthily and be environmentally responsible.
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What do you do when you’ve got guests on the way and barely any time to prepare for them? The New York Times cooking columnist comes to your rescue.
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How at-home cooks can stock their pantry with vital ingredients, avoid bad kitchen habits, and make better meals.
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The New York Times blogger on his first food memories, and how he got into cooking.
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A conversation with the author and New York Times cooking columnist.
When I read that Republican National Committee staffers had expensed nearly $2000 worth of “meals” at bondage-themed Hollywood nightclub specializing in simulated lesbian sex, I knew it couldn’t be an […]
We’re delighted to start our blog, Hybrid Reality, on Big Think. The blog is part of a multi-year research project examining human/technology co-evolution. We explore the implications of our complex […]