Saturday, October 31, 2015

Nanotechnology will revolutionize the food system (and other familiar sentences)

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There appears to be a large literature using the same words to say that "nanotechnology" is an "enabling" technology tha...
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Friday, October 30, 2015

Neurosurgeon and presidential candidate Ben Carson is asked about his endorsement of dubious Mannatech supplement company

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Presidential candidate Ben Carson was asked during debate this week about his ties to Mannatech, maker of a dubious nutrition supplement ba...
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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Yelp experiments with warning labels for restaurants that have low health inspection scores

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A 2014 post in this blog noted that food safety problems are fundamentally about lack of public information. If consumers had magic sungl...
Wednesday, October 21, 2015

An Idaho farmer reflects on health, advertising, and the dairy checkoff

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USDA https://www.flickr.com/photos/usdagov/ CC BY-ND. Rebecca Lampman lives and works with her husband and three children on their 250 ...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Angus Deaton wins the Nobel in economics

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Angus Deaton earlier this month won the Nobel Prize in Economics (or, more formally, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Me...
Sunday, October 18, 2015

Calling on universities and professional associations to greatly reduce flying

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For several years now, some academic friends and I have been reflecting on frequent flying in university communities during a time of cli...
Friday, October 16, 2015

Ethanol mandate fails to help the environment

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A report (.pdf) this week from the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture argues that over-reliance on corn-based ethanol in the ...
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