German police are hunting three bandits who held up a self-service strawberry farm with a pistol and a knife — for a five-pound basket of strawberries
A former night-shift cook at a Denny’s Restaurant in Illinois is in hot water after allegedly getting creative in the kitchen. Anthony Lindhorst, of Waterloo, is charged with five counts of aggravated battery for allegedly lacing brownies with marijuana and mixing his semen into the restaurant’s sauce. Lindhorst is accused of serving the brownies to co-workers and the tainted sauce to two customers
Chemical giant Monsanto has confirmed it will withdraw from its attempt to grow genetically modified (GM) canola in Australia. The announcement comes just days after the company’s international arm announced it was pulling out of GM wheat trials in the United States and Canada
Pizza Party is a free, text based CLI for ordering Domino’s pizza via Quikorder, or for throwing pizza parties. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License, runs under most *nix shells, and can order pizza with only a few keystrokes. Includes video of actual ordering
Study of the use of green tea extracts for polishing the magnetic heads in hard-disk drives has yielded a compound that works three to four times faster than conventional compounds. If the findings can be reproduced in an industrial setting, the compound could reduce the cost and environmental impact of hard-drive manufacturing
A truly extraordinary cure for some forms of blindness is being proposed. The idea is to add light-absorbing pigments from spinach to nerve cells in the retina, to make the nerve cells fire when struck by light. Eli Greenbaum’s team at the Oak Ridge National Laboratories in Tennessee has been exploring this possibility for several years. In their latest experiments, the researchers have shown that adding plant pigments to human cells makes the cells respond to light
Carlos Machuca, a tamale-maker, killed his drinking buddy, cut up his body and boiled him in herbs, according to police who fear he may have been turning him into tamales. Officers found a man’s mutilated corpse in the living room and body parts simmering in saucepans on the patio
Regular doses of worms really do rid people of inflammatory bowel disease. The first trials of the treatment have been a success, and a drinkable concoction containing thousands of pig whipworm eggs could soon be launched in Europe. At the moment the concoction cannot be stored for long, so doctors or hospitals would have to prepare fresh batches of the eggs for their patients. But a new German company called BioCure, whose sister company BioMonde sells leeches and maggots for treating wounds, hopes it will soon solve the storage problem
If you’re going to make a Halloween cake then why not go all out make a replica of a Gray’s Anatomy illustration of a complete thoraxic cavity.
The plan was for each organ to be made out of a different kind of cake and to secrete a different color of fluid when it was cut into. Previous heart cakes have bled fresh, homemade raspberry sauce. This year I made raspberry, strawberry, kiwi, mango, and blueberry sauces. Sadly, the organs didn’t bleed as well as I had hoped when I cut the cake, as each organ was relatively small and couldn’t hold much sauce. Also all the moving around after filling the organs made it hard to keep the sauce contained in the little cavities I hollowed out. The heart bled pretty well, but the other organ fluids weren’t very dramatic.
Of course, with all the organs on top of it, virtually no one ever actually saw the fact that there was a complete spinal column underneath all the cake so some might say there was a bit of wasted effort there, but I say if you’re going to make an edible, anatomically correct chest cavity dessert tray, you might as well do it right!
The Swiss government approved draft legislation to end a ban on absinthe, the mythical herbal liqueur beloved of turn-of-the-century artists and blamed for driving some of them mad
The coming Australian food revolution is all about one-stop, guilt-free indulgence, according to the researchers who are already hard at work designing it. Health, convenience and enjoyment are the main consumer drivers behind sweeping changes in the healthiness, composition, flavour and quality of foods grown and produced in Australia
Teachers in a German school were treated in hospital after gobbling up an anonymously donated chocolate cake, unaware it was laced with hashish
Greens MP Ian Cohen is reporting that the independent
NSW Advisory Council on Gene Technology has become nothing more than a rubber stamp for companies seeking to grow commercial-sized GM crops, despite legislation enforcing a three-year ban
Australia has established a new sugar research body, Co-operative Research Centre for Sugar Industry Innovation through Biotechnology, that will study using sugar for biodegradable plastics, medical drugs and biofuels
Coca-Cola has stated that it is to end the practice of product advertising [BugMeNot] on vending machines in schools in the UK. The move follows a similar statement covering Scotland, and is seen as a response to the growing mood against product promotions aimed at children during a period of growing childhood obesity
No idea where she found it, but my sister presented me with a salted licorice Chupa Chup today. I’m guessing someone local is importing them from the Dutch marketplace. Must have more…
Morgan Spurlock, a documentary maker, decided to subsist on McDonalds food
three meals per day for 30 days and film the journey. Within a few days of beginning his drive-through diet, Spurlock, 33, was vomiting out the window of his car, and doctors who examined him were shocked at how rapidly Spurlock’s entire body deteriorated. His liver became toxic, his cholesterol shot up from a low 165 to 230, his libido flagged and he suffered headaches and depression
One of Australia’s key beef customers, South Korea, has confirmed that some United States beef is being illegally labelled and sold as Australian product. South Korea banned imports of US beef when a case of mad cow disease was discovered in Washington State before Christmas, leaving Korean wholesalers with product still to sell. Mike Heywood from Meat and Livestock Australia says as a result Australian beef is in high demand, leading to the labelling scam
A label that changes colour as fruit ripens is allowing shoppers to see whether pears are ready to eat without have to squeeze them. The system, developed at the Horticulture and Food Research Institute of New Zealand, uses a punnet that traps the volatile compounds fruit emit. As the fruit ripen, the colour of the label changes in response to changing concentrations of these compounds
Just half a teaspoon of cinnamon a day significantly reduces blood sugar levels in diabetics, a new study has found. The effect, which can be produced even by soaking a cinnamon stick your tea, could also benefit millions of non-diabetics who have blood sugar problem but are unaware of it
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