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Jeff Rotman / jeffrotman.com How Many Fish Are in the Sea?
Counting fish is a daunting but essential task in protecting aquatic ecosystems—and now artificial intelligence, autonomous submarines, and drones can help.
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Larry Crowe / AP Kelp Is the New Kale
The global seaweed harvest is worth more than all the world's lemons and limes.
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Yuya Shino / Reuters The Salt Wars
A look at the many conflicts over the precious, tasty mineral that humans need to survive
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Charles Krupa / AP The Mystery of Kombucha Culture
The fizzy, fermented tea is not the cure-all that its devotees want it to be, but it still might have health benefits.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters When Jewish Law Met Processed Food
The quest to keep kosher has shaped America’s grocery stores.
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Al Behrman / AP As American as Fried Chicken
The dish, like the nation that popularized it, has a complicated, often contradictory history.
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Baloncici / Shutterstock Can Edible Ice-Cream Containers Reinvent Food Packaging?
The environmental cost of boxes, cans, and jars has sparked a movement to change how food is stored.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Photo Who Invented the Cherry Tomato?
The fruit's origin is a culinary mystery.
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Sara Hylton / Reuters Is Beer Made With Roast Chicken Tasty?
Independent brewers are playing with ancient ingredients to invent new flavors.
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Chris O'Meara / AP The Secret History of Citrus
The fruit isn't as commonplace as it seems—at one point, it even inspired the Mafia.
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Jack Kurtz / Zuma Press / Corbis A History of the Greatest Food Heists
From the Hamburglar to boosted almond trucks
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters The World’s Most Popular Drug
Why caffeine has such a hold on the brain and body
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters Rethinking the Calorie
The simple weight-loss formula—burn more energy than you consume—may actually be holding us back in the fight to curb obesity.
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Kineticorp The Novelist Who Reconstructs Car Crashes
The tools of the trade: Animations, toy trucks, and a stuffed feral pig on wheels
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Inside a Radioactive 'Health' Mine
There are only half a dozen radon health mines in the United States, and all six of them are located within twenty minutes' drive of each other in western Montana.
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Air America: The Dramatic Aerial Photography of Michael Light
"If you keep going up and up, the world becomes quite circular and alien. You see the world quite literally as a planet."
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Ron Blakey What Did the Continents Look Like Millions of Years Ago?
An artist-geologist renders the history of the Earth with maps.
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Between Broadcast and Community: The Design of Virtual Spaces
“I think blogging probably became popular simply because it became possible to scroll vertically in web pages.”
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How the Polar Bear Lost Its Power, and Other Animal Tales
"I don't know whether you saw the YouTube video that Obama put out to accompany his big climate speech in June, but I was surprised: there wasn't a single polar bear image in it."
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Let There Be Night
"People think they know darkness, and that they experience darkness everyday, but they don't, really."
