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Last week, I took a trip to Brighton to check out Silo, a restaurant with an interesting idea. The concept is a pre industrial food system with zero waste. Not a plastic wrapper in sight, nothing from the supermarket, no bins to fill. They achieve this...

We begin our collection of things economic, political, and environmental with a reminder from Mother Nature via Nikkei Asian Review: Crazy weather disrupting economic activity worldwide A merciless cold snap gripping the U.S., blizzards burying Japan...

Irma Rombauer said she wrote The Joy of Cooking with “one eye on the family purse.” Maybe it’s not surprising, then, that the original 1931 edition had so much to say about leftovers. Rombauer carefully inventoried all the recipes in the book that could...

Are babies America’s and the world’s most precious resource? Or are they a “burden” to be murdered in the womb, with their fetal tissue forwarded for “scientific” and commercial uses? (Editor’s Note: Journalist Anthony LoBaido has covered the issue...

British doctor George D. "Epithelialization" refers to the skin's ability to generate new cells which migrate to the surface of the exposed area to protect it from invading microbes. Until the early 1960's, wounds were typically dressed with plain gauze...