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Smell-o-gram! A Concept Postcard Printer That Lets You Send the Scent of Food
Which means we're one step closer to being able to share smells over the Internet


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Mitt Romney's Dad Got Free McDonald's for Life
A little card, signed by the McDonald's founder, entitled "George W. Romney to a lifetime of a hamburger, a shake, and french fries"

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Stop that Sunburn with Strawberries
Researchers found that they can actually protect your skin against UVA radiation

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Should American Health Care Be More Like The Cheesecake Factory?
The New Yorker's serious: super-efficient chain restaurants might have a lot to teach our hospitals

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The Metal Menu of Secret Restaurant Words
Here's our favorite part from the New York Times' list of secret restaurant code words

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Cornell Is Asking You to Name Its New Grapes
There's a white wine grape and a dark red eating grape wandering around nameless. Help these guys out


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Eat Ice Cream Inside a Bio-Responsive Magnum Infinity Pleasure Pod
Step into a giant orb, eat some ice cream, and watch a projection that adapts to your body's response to the dessert

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Former McDonald's Execs Want to Make Brussels Sprouts the New French Fries
There's only one Lyfe Kitchen right now, but its founders want to make it the McD's of organic, free-range, sustainable fast food

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Man Anthropomorphizes Crustacean, Saves Old Lobster from Death
"Lucky Larry" lives to scuttle another day

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Is a Juice Cleanse as Risk-Free as It is Fun-Free? Maybe Not
In fact, cleanses can do more to harm your body than help it

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Dunkin Donuts' 'Flavor Radio' Sprays the Smell of Coffee into Korean Buses to Boost Sales
This man certainly looks surprised but unimpressed that his bus suddenly smells like coffee

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Ultramarathoner Diets, Or, What to Eat Next Time You Run for 41 Days Straight
For this 3,100-mile race, the runners need about 10,000 calories per day

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What Insanely Fit Olympic Lightweight Rower Nick LaCava Eats in a Day
He's 6' 3", about 156 pounds, and the co-founder of a chocolate company. Nice work, Sir


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Meet "The Color Diet"--Our Easy Rule for Healthier Meals
Want a simple trick for eating well? Taste the rainbow

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A Biologist Explains Why the Paleo Diet Doesn't Make Any Sense
If you're going to base a diet on evolutionary biology, you've got to go back a little further than cavemen


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Fake Fage
NPR reports that some yogurt companies are mixing additives with their normal yogurts to make them more like the Greek variety

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Ultraman-Like Robots Now Working in Chinese Restaurants
They're just human noodles, not like wires that robots eat, or anything like that
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What Should Astronauts Eat On Their Trip to Mars?
NASA scientists are working on a menu for a projected 2030 mission to the red planet, and meat and dairy won't be along for the ride

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Warren Buffett, Famed Cherry Coke Lover, Fails Blind Cherry Coke Taste Test
He drinks five Cherry Cokes a day, but mistook Dr. Pepper Cherry for the real deal

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Ikea Has Its Own Beer Now, Presumably Pairs Well with Meatballs
Nothing says "great beer" like "we also sell furniture"

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Fiat to Offer In-Car Espresso Maker for the 500L
The Lavazza espresso maker should offer a nice alternative to the classic handful o' NoDoz

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Danish People Are So Slick They Can Make Coffee In a Bag
Like java Shake 'n Bake! (Weird floating hands also courtesy of the Danes)



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Bloomberg Defends Soda Ban by Affirming Rights to Suicide, but Science Has a Better Approach
Passive-aggressive suggestions that it's within peoples' rights to kill themselves with sugar=PR gold, but a new study might have an even better idea

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Pizza Just Got Healthy with a Dose of Seaweed
So healthy you could eat it three times a day and have a well-rounded diet

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10 Foods to Avoid If You're Trying Not to Get Fat This Holiday Weekend
Sadly, the whole hot dogs/coleslaw/potato salad/pie combo isn't the best for your waistband

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Science Solves Mystery of Tasteless Supermarket Tomatoes
And we might be able to fix the problem. Imagine a world where every tomato tastes good--imagine!

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Ice Pops
And thanks to People's Pops new cookbook, you can get your hands good and sticky with the trend

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Health Care Ruling Reveals the Supreme Court's Obsession with Broccoli
The humble veggie has worked its way into the halls of power!

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We Basically Failed the New York Times Soda Pop Quiz. Did You?
The newspaper's website has a quiz to test how well you can estimate how much soda you're actually getting in your giant cups

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What Your First Date Dinner Order Says About You, Gentlemen
Who knew mac n' cheese would make you look like a mama's boy?
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Milk Brother
Designer Po-Chich Lai might have finally figured out a good way to steam milk with the power of a Bialetti stovetop espresso pot

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5 Things Women Need to Know About Calcium, But Don't
Studies reveal contradicting results, so we get to the bottom of it

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10 Foods That Help Make You Better at Sex (Not That You Need Any Help, Tiger)
And almonds. Not that you need the help...

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How New York Invented Lunch
Lunch Hour NYC is a new exhibit at the New York Public Library examining how the city has shaped the meal

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The Healthiest Meal Plan in the World (Spoiler Alert
It's backed by Science, but Science is weak on dessert
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Science Says
And Science was nice enough to figure out which kind of fat is best for your salad, too


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Snack Newsflash
The Definitive Resource for Snack Enthusiasts Throughout the World is now even more definitive

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More Food Robots Rising! Now They Have Burrito Technology
Sure, it might be a slightly tongue-in-cheek school project, but that doesn't change the fact that the burritob0t is a robot that makes burritos
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Food Robots Rising! Pizza Vending and the Inari-zushi-bot
You'd think that pizza vending would be less eerie than a tofu sushi machine, but you'd be wrong

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How Has American Grocery Shopping Changed in the Past 30 Years?
Some great infographics by NPR's Planet Money team lay it all out for us
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American Flag Stolen from Connecticut Man in Chicken Costume
That's no way to respect the Grand Opening of a Boston Market, America!

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Burger King Is Rolling Out Sweet Potato Fries (and Bacon Sundaes) for Summer
Because the summer sun is also orange? Whatever, sweet potato fries should be on sale everywhere all the time


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BBC Says Master Chef Escoffier Stole Over $3 Million in Kickbacks
Who knew that cooking food also made you good at cooking the books?
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China's State TV Station Has Discovered How Much People Love Watching Shows About Food
It helps that "A Bite of China" is a beautifully done documentary series

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Junk Food Makeover
In our column, Junk Food Makeover, we challenge culinary nutritionist Tricia Williams to recreate iconic snacks with more wholesome, better-for-you recipes

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America Ate 100 Million Taco Bell Tacos with Shells Made of Doritos in 10 Weeks
That is a lot of tacos with shells made of Doritos

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The Mystery of Mystery Dum Dums, Solved
You will never again have to wonder what that flavor is for those five seconds before you chomp the thing in half
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Listen to the Late Richard Dawson's 1967 Psychedelic Song, "Apples and Oranges"
Survey says: The late TV host had some spaced-out things to say about apples and oranges back in the day


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Tall Tea Bans, Prank Poaching, and FDA Smackdowns
This week, food keeps finding itself on the wrong side of the law