Day: March 23, 2017

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Hamburgers Are Bigger Than Ever, but the Meat Has Always Been Questionable

Fernando Kaskais

  by Quinn Myers From ‘pink slime’ to bug burgers, a look at the quintessential American meal For most of the world, the symbol most associated with America isn’t the bald eagle, George Washington or even the stars and stripes—it’s the hamburger and fries. But how much has this simple meal — a ground-beef sandwich with fried potatoes — changed since its glory days of the 1950s? Let’s find out. The Ingredients 1950s: According to Andrew Smith, author of The Encyclopedia of Junk Food and Fast Food, the quality of hamburger meat was so bad in the early 20th century that by the 1950s, customers needed … Continue reading Hamburgers Are Bigger Than Ever, but the Meat Has Always Been Questionable

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What do slaveholders think?

Fernando Kaskais

Labourers in Vidharbha region in Maharashtra, India. Photo by Sanjit Das/Panos  image edited by Web Investigator It is everywhere illegal yet slavery persists in many corners of the global economy. How do its beneficiaries justify it? by Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick is a professor of sociology at the University of San Diego. His latest book is What Slaveholders Think (2017). I liked Aanan as soon as I met him. My field notes read: ‘What a nice guy, you can just see from his face.’ Open-faced and conversational, he was enthusiastic about the explosive growth in his quarry operations and excited to show me around. … Continue reading What do slaveholders think?

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The Strange Blissfulness of Storms

Fernando Kaskais

Is there a biochemical reason that extreme weather makes us happy? BY SARAH SCOLESILLUSTRATION BY RED NOSE STUDIO Ifelt pretty sure something was wrong when the deer began running toward me. I knew something was wrong when a pine branch flew by my head. The air went dark and a noise like a train barreled through the forest, the actual wind coming after the sound of itself. The trees all swayed in the same direction, and then came the slap of thunder. I felt more than saw the huge shelf cloud, a wall of black striped with electricity, surge forward … Continue reading The Strange Blissfulness of Storms

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Microwave Towers & Faster Downloads: The Hidden Health Impact of Wireless Communications

Fernando Kaskais

by Benjamin Nowland, New Dawn Waking Times Imagine you arrive home after work to discover a new microwave antenna tower stationed at the edge of your backyard fence? How would you respond? If you’d had non-existent mobile phone reception for years prior (or if you were a techie ‘hooked on faster downloads’) then you might find reason to celebrate! You might respond as an ambivalent disempowered citizen, “I really wonder about those things but there isn’t much I can do about this anyway.” You may be in the growing group of empowered action-takers. You’ve either experienced microwave radiation sickness attributable to … Continue reading Microwave Towers & Faster Downloads: The Hidden Health Impact of Wireless Communications