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9 Best Articles in 2021
Travel + Leisure
Stuck at Home? These 12 Famous Museums Offer Virtual Tours You Can Take on Your CouchTravel + Leisure
3 min read · 2020-03-13 · Going into a self-quarantine can have many complex issues and complications beyond having enough food and supplies for two weeks. In terms of entertainment, it…
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culture
The New York Times
The End of Meat Is HereThe New York Times
7 min read · 2020-05-21 · If you care about the working poor, about racial justice, and about climate change, you have to stop eating animals.
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environment
society
Margins
Doordash and Pizza ArbitrageMargins
8 min read · 2020-05-17 · There is such a thing as a free lunch
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The Economist’s 1843 magazine
Death of the calorieThe Economist’s 1843 magazine
20+ min read · From 2019 · For more than a century we’ve counted on calories to tell us what will make us fat. Peter Wilson says it’s time to bury the world’s most misleading measure
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fitness
The New York Times
The Health Benefits of CoffeeThe New York Times
5 min read · Jun 14th · Drinking coffee has been linked to a reduced risk of all kinds of ailments, including Parkinson’s disease, melanoma, prostate cancer, even suicide.
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As recently as 1991, the World Health Organization listed coffee as a possible carcinogen.
The most common ill effect associated with caffeinated coffee is sleep disturbance. Caffeine locks into the same receptor in the brain as the neurotransmitter adenosine, a natural sedative.
thecounter.org
Lab-grown meat is supposed to be inevitable. The science tells a different story.thecounter.org
Sep 22nd · Headlines have overshadowed inconvenient truths about biology and cost. Now, new research suggests the industry may be on a crash course with reality.
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But the question isn’t whether companies can culture animal protein in the lab—drug companies have been doing that for decades. It’s whether that approach can actually feed a meaningful number of people.
He didn’t understand how costly biomanufacturing techniques could ever be used to produce cheap, abundant human food.
If we want to save the planet, we should double down on cultured meat.
The Guardian
The invisible addiction: is it time to give up caffeine?The Guardian
~15 min read · Jul 6th · The long read: Caffeine makes us more energetic, efficient and faster. But we have become so dependent that we need it just to get to our baseline
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the “quarter life” of caffeine is usually about 12 hours, meaning that 25% of the caffeine in a cup of coffee consumed at noon is still circulating in your brain when you go to bed at midnight. That could well be enough to completely wreck your deep sleep.
Sleep quality is just as important as sleep quantity.”
It’s so pervasive that it’s easy to overlook the fact that to be caffeinated is not baseline consciousness but, in fact, an altered state. It just happens to be a state that virtually all of us share, rendering it invisible.
Guardian Environment
50 simple ways to make your life greenerGuardian Environment
20+ min read · 2020-02-29 · Expert tips on how to be kinder to the planet – from cooking and cleaning to fashion and finance
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environment
better living
POLITICO
The great nutrient collapsePOLITICO
~15 min read · From 2017 ·  Rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are not only causing global warming, they are actively harming the Earth’s food supply by depleting the nutrients in plants. Politico Pro agriculture reporter Helena Bottemiller Evich digs deep to explain how plants are in danger of becoming junk food. The air’s elevated levels of carbon dioxide are depleting crops’ minerals and vitamins and increasing their carbohydrate content. getAbstract recommends this article to people concerned about the falling nutritional content of the food on their plates. 
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Cutting Out Even a Little Salt Can Have Big Health Benefits
The New York Times
Factory farms of disease: how industrial chicken production is breeding the next pandemic
Guardian Environment
When Outdoor Diners and Homeless People Meet, Restaurants Struggle to Cope
The New York Times
Plant-Based Food Companies Face Critics: Environmental Advocates
The New York Times
The Death of Ronald McDonald
VICE
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Guardian Environment
Factory farms of disease: how industrial chicken production is breeding the next pandemicGuardian Environment
6 min read · Oct 18th · At least eight types of bird flu, all of which can kill humans, are circulating around the world’s factory farms – and they could be worse than Covid-19
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more than 20 billion chickens and nearly 700 million pigs being farmed at any one time
Visual Capitalist
The World’s Top Coffee Producing CountriesVisual Capitalist
9 min read · Oct 1st · In many cities around the world, there’s a café on every corner, so it comes as no surprise that coffee is one of the globes’ top commodities. As the third most consumed beverage globally, after water…
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The New York Times
The 2021 Restaurant ListThe New York Times
3 min read · Oct 11th · The 50 places in America we’re most excited about right now.
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Grub Street
The Espresso Martini Is the Hottest Drink on the Planet. Bartenders Hate It.Grub Street
3 min read · Oct 7th · “No more! Please! No more espresso martinis!”
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The New York Times
Plant-Based Food Companies Face Critics: Environmental AdvocatesThe New York Times
5 min read · Oct 15th · Some analysts say they cannot determine if plant-based foods are more sustainable than meat because the companies are not transparent about their emissions.
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Bustle
Noom Is A Dieter's DietBustle
~12 min read · Oct 4th · The popular weight-loss app promises a nonrestrictive eating plan based in psychology. Can it really deliver?
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health
The New York Times
Stanley Tucci’s Passion Was Acting. Now, It’s Food.The New York Times
7 min read · Oct 2nd · The actor’s new memoir “Taste” explains how a bout with cancer took his passion for ragù and risotto, but also Cuban-Chinese stews and minke whale, to new heights.
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VICE
The Death of Ronald McDonaldVICE
6 min read · Oct 4th · At one point, the fast food mascot was more recognisable than Jesus Christ. What happened?
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NPR
For Stanley Tucci, food is like religion — and cancer almost took it awayNPR
4 min read · Oct 5th · Tucci's entire world, since childhood, has revolved around food. He was devastated when treatment for cancer put him on a feeding tube for six months. Now cancer-free, he has a new memoir, Taste.
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podcasts
New Scientist
Tomato is first CRISPR-edited food to go on sale in the worldNew Scientist
1 min read · Sep 24th · A tomato with higher levels of a nutrient linked to reduced stress can now be bought in Japan – it is the first CRISPR-edited food in the world to be launched commercially
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