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The Huge Difference Between Food In The 1950s And Today

What’s the biggest difference between food back in the 1950s and today? Portion size. According to the CDC, meals are four times bigger now compared to what they once were, and as a result, people are 12kg heavier. Yeesh! No wonder we’re all so fat.


Science

Why Eating When You’re Depressed Makes You Eat More

In Austin Powers, Fat Bastard explains that he eats when he’s depressed, and he’s depressed because he eats. It turns out these kinds of vicious circles of eating are due to a drug-like hit-and-comedown response in your brain, activated specifically by rich foods.


Gadgets

See The No-Stick Ketchup Bottle Of The Future In Action

Getting ketchup out of a bottle is a massive unsolved engineering problem. Plastic squeezy bottles, upside down bottles, tapping the 57, just shove a butter knife in there — none really does the job. But the wonderful nerds at MIT might have done it with their new non-stick LiquiGlide bottle.


May 23, 2012
Gadgets

We Have So Many Questions About This Self-Cooking Egg Grenade

Russian design agency Kian has come up with a curious new design concept that’s part egg carton, part cooking innovation. The “Gogol Mogol” — named after a Russian egg dish with many variations, the most common being egg yolks whipped stiff with sugar — is a self-cooking individual egg carton made from recycled paperboard, featuring multiple layers of conducive material.


May 21, 2012
Science

Scientists Say Manly Men Eat Red Meat

We know eating red meat can kill us and make us feel happy but the real reason guys eat it? It makes them feel manly. According to scientists, red meat is synonymous with masculinity making it desirable for guys who view themselves as masculine.


May 20, 2012
Science

Is Hating Coriander Genetic?

There are a small, but vehement, group of people that hate Coriander with a passion. But it turns out that they might not be fussy; instead, they might just be unlucky enough to be beneficiaries of a curious genetic mutation.


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Inflatable Meat Balloons Are The Perfect Decorations For Your Next BBQ

The incredibly unique decorations were created by a Chicago-based design shop called ODL for a New York-based butcher shop called Japan Premium Beef. Each balloon takes about three hours to make, including the painting process that turns the latex creations into believable cuts like porterhouses, T-bones and filet mignons.


May 17, 2012
Geek Out

Is There A More Awesome Combination Than Pizza And Animated GIFs?

If you’ve ever had one of those days where you’re blindly poking around the internet, wondering what value the world wide web really has to offer, this is your answer. Visionary Andrew Salomone has created a tutorial on making animated GIFs and pizza at the same time.


May 16, 2012
Gadgets

Spork Chops Are Perfect For Those Who Suck At Using Chopsticks

You’re in a Japanese restaurant. Or a Chinese restaurant. Or a Korean restaurant. Or any restaurant that uses chopsticks as its main conduit for food. It smells so good! But you’re sweating, your hands are shaking, you’re starving because you can only get one rice morsel at a time with those damned wooden sticks.


Science

Steak Specialists Discover A New Cut Of Beef

Turns out that what happens in Vegas no longer stays in Vegas — and that’s a good thing. A self-proclaimed Meat Geek has teamed up with the University of Oklahoma to devise the first new style of steak in years.