• Measuring the Effects of Partisanship on Pie-Eating
• Finland Bakery Sells Dried Cricket Bread, Insect-Based Food Has Protein Than Wheat Load
• Finland Baker Launches Bread Made from Crushed Crickets
• The Hidden History of Scandinavia’s Love of Cardamom
• Survey Finds That Osaka People Don’t Eat Takoyaki Octopus Balls as Much…
Big Bucks
• Countries with Walmart Vs. Countries with McDonald’s
• The World’s Largest Starbucks Just Opened in Shanghai, and We Have One Word: Wow
• World’s Largest, Most Lavish Starbucks Opens in Shanghai
• The World’s Largest Starbucks Is 30,000 Square Feet and Just Opened in China
• These 5 Giant Companies Control the World’s Bee…
Junk Food News
• Naples’ Pizza Twirling Wins Unesco ‘Intangible’ Status
• Hold the Pineapple: Naples Celebrates as Pizza Awarded Special Status by Unesco
• ISS Astronauts Make Pizza in Zero Gravity
• Astronauts Making Pizza in Zero Gravity on Board the International Space Station
• Oreo Just Revealed Its ‘Mystery Flavor…
Washer & Fridge Tips
• How Often You Should Wash Everything in Your Home, According to Science
• How Often You Should Wash Your Bed Sheets, According to a Microbiologist
• How Often Should You Wash Your Bedsheets?
• Hang These Charts on Your Refrigerator and Never Waste Food Again
• Room Temp or Refrigerate?…
Taming the Wild Avocado
• Good News: A Microwaved Egg Can’t Permanently Damage Your Hearing
• What Happens When You Microwave a Boiled Egg
• Grocer Offers Stoneless Avocados to Avoid ‘Avocado Hand’
• Millennials, Rejoice: Seedless Avocados Are Here
• Hawaii Woman Hopes to Smash Avocado Record with…
Future Food Fads
• In 2018, Kombucha Is Getting Big — And Craftier
• Silicon Valley Teens Are Trendsetting the Next Instagram-Famous Beverage
• Behold, the Latest Wait-In-Line, Instagram-Your-Purchase Status Food: Cheese Tea
• 2018 Food Trends: Here’s What Everyone Will Be Eating (and Instagramming)
• Quiz: Which Healthy Hot Win…
Weight for Santa
• How Much Weight Would Santa Gain from Eating Milk and Cookies at Every House He Visits?
• Santa Claus, Indiana Gets 20,000 Letters a Year — and ‘Elves’ Reply to All of Them
• Here Lies Santa Claus? Researchers Zero In on Bones of St. Nick
• Finally, Proof That Christmas Songs Really Do Your Head I…
Christmas Turkeys
• Which Is the Greatest City for Christmas: London or Paris?
• Mall Declares War on Infuriating Christmas-Time Slow Walkers
• What’s the Difference Between a Gift and a Present?
• Wearing an Ugly Holiday Sweater Will Score You This Amazing Airline Perk
• Want Priority Boarding On Your Alaska Airlines Flight This Holiday Season? Wear…
Crimes Against Inanity
• India’s Punishment for Plant-Eating Donkeys: Jail Time
• The Doctor Who Signed Patients’ Livers Was Silly, Not Criminal. The Law Is Asinine
• Cafe Owner Banned from Peering Through Rival’s Window
• Australian Government Upholds Dismissal of Sneaky Golfer Who Shielded His Employer-Issued Tracking Device in a Chip Bag
• Man Is Fired after Using …
Map Lust 3
• U.S. Corn Production by Percent
• Global Farming Land, USGS Survey
• Official Language Status in the US by State
• Cropland Map of the Continental US, 2012
• Land Value in Manhattan, 2006
• Fragile State Index, 2015
• This Map, with a Dot for Every American, Shows the Country’s Racial Divisio…
Accounting for Taste
• Why Does Cilantro Taste Like Soap to Some People?
• Why Asparagus Makes Your Urine Smell
• What Makes Rain Smell So Good?
• Why You Like What You Like
• The Great Ginkgo Leaf Dump Is Here
• Think You Know How Ripe You Like Bananas? Think Again
• Bananapocalypse: Genetic …
Crispy, Crackly Pickleback Pop?
• Standard Measurement Scales for Crispy, Crackly, and Crunchy Foods
• Why Do We Eat Popcorn at the Movies?
• Scientists Discover Grass That Tastes Like Salt and Vinegar Crisps
• A Brief History of the Pickleback Shot
• What Is Cold Brew Coffee — a…
Let’s Talk Turkey
• The Dreaded ‘Turkey Drop’: Here’s Why Couples Break up around Thanksgiving
• Here’s the Deal with All Those Turkeys Terrorizing the Suburbs
• Meet the Turkey’s Glamorous Mexican Cousin
• How to Win the Wishbone Wish
• Why Do U.S. Presidents Pardon Turkeys, Anyway?
• 25 Things You Didn’t Know about Turkeys
Worth the Weight?
• #WeirdThanks…itions Is the Holiday Hashtag You Never Knew You Needed
• The Most-Googled Thanksgiving Pies and Sides in Every State
• The Cranberry: America’s Founding Fruit
• The Pawpaw: The All-American Fruit the Country Forgot
• U.S. Pumpkin Growers Toast Nontraditional Demand for Frui…
Getting Cold
• Can You Freeze Eggs to Keep Them Longer?
• New Study Could Explain the Elusive Reason Hot Water Freezes Faster Than Cold
• What Does the Cold Virus Get in Return for Making Its Host Feel Grotty?
• The Real Reasons We All Get Sick at This Time of Year
• Why Some People Can’t Sleep Without a Fa…
Inward Bound
• Illustrator Perfectly Captures How an Introvert Likes to Spend the Weekend
• Humorous Cartoons That Illustrate the Perplexing Social Life of an Introvert
• 16 Tweets about Being an Introvert That Will Make You LOL
• Dinner for One: The Truth about Why We’re All Eating out Alone
• Eating Alone Is Slowly Killing Yo…
Grand Canyon, Uluru Safe for Now
• Beyond Genghis Khan: How Looting Threatens to Erase Mongolia’s History
• Amazon Tribe Clings to Traditional Way of Life
• Animal Rights Activists and Inuit Clash over Canada’s Indigenous Food Traditions
• Tribe Rejects Plan to Build Tram, Hotel in Grand Canyon
• Uluru Climb Banned fro…
Butterball, Bath, & Beyond
• Japan’s “Leftover Bathwater Drink” Wants You to Imagine Beautiful Nude Women as You Sip It
• KFC Cooks Up Fried Chicken Bath Salts in Japan
• You Can Now Smell Like Fried Chicken Thanks to This KFC Drumstick Bath Bomb
• This Ice Cream Is Flavored Like Thanksgiving Dinner Foods
• Thanksgiving-Inspired Ice…
Meals on Wheels, Wings, & Instagram
• A Japanese Convenience Store Used Drones to Deliver Fried Chicken to Fukushima
• Drone Delivers Food to Japan Town Hit by Nuclear Disaster
• How to Buy Milk at the Store in Japan, Even If You Don’t Read or Speak Any Japanese
• Meals on Wheels ‘Should Dish Out Keep-Fit Tips’ to Stave Off Infirmit…
Food Findings
• The History of Five Uniquely American Sandwiches
• How ‘Citizen Housewives’ Made Food Cheaper and Safer
• The History and Rebirth of the American Automat
• This Automated Restaurant Was Supposed to Be the Future of Dining. Until Humanity Struck Back
• The Surprising Science Behind the World’s Most Popular Frui…
Clearing up Fall Food
• Sweet Potato or Yam?
• Pumpkins Versus Gourds
• Elephants Vs. Giant Pumpkins
• The Elephants of the Oregon Zoo Gleefully Squish Some Giant Pumpkins to Celebrate the Fall Season
• How Do You Breed a 2,624 Pound Pumpkin?
• Pumpkins Evolved from a Literal Genetic (Monster) Mash-Up
• The Great Pumpkin-Pie Consp…
Licorice Sticking Point
• The FDA Just Flat-Out Called This Halloween Candy Dangerous
• The FDA Has a Warning for People Who Love Black Licorice
• Licorice Lovers Beware: FDA Warns Eating Too Much May Have Dangerous Side Effects
• Black Licorice Is Bad for Your Heart, FDA Warns
• Why Do So Many of Us Hate Black Licorice…
Around Japan 4
• Gifu’s Yanagiya — Is This the Best Restaurant on the Planet?
• Kaki: The Miracle Japanese Persimmon
• Japanese Women Rank the Otaku Obsessions They Can Most Forgive in a Partner
• City Hands Manhole Covers to Lottery-Picked Buyers
• Translation Debate: How Do You Say “Oh My God!” in Japanes…
Science Guides
• Bill Nye Had a Fixed View on GMOs. Then Something Happened
• The Earth’s Interior Is Teeming with Dead Plates
• Temperature Is Not What You Think It Is
• A Schlieren Wave Using Cellophane and a Flaming Ping Pong Ball to Make Air Visible with Bright Colors
• How Balloons Are Made fro…
Food for the Senses
• Grocery Shoppers Buy More Food When the Music Is Slower
• This Song Is So Relaxing, Scientists Recommend NOT Listening While Behind the Wheel
• More Songs’ Emotional Moods Inverted with Key Changes
• The First Batch of 2018 Colors of the Year Is Here
• What You Call a Color Depends on How You Use It
Cheese Tea & Garlic Coffee
• ‘Happy Chemical’ Discovered in Beer?
• Bubbly Ballistics: How Temperature Affects Champagne’s Signature Pop
• Colombians Have for Years Grown Amazing Coffee. Finally, They’re Drinking It
• I Put Peanuts in Coke to See What the Fuss Is About
• How Do You Use a Jar of Peanut Butter…
Funky Foodstuff
• AI Told Coca-Cola to Make Cherry Sprite. So It Did.
• The Bizarre Reason Burger King Wants to Keep It out of Russia
• The Great Wine Debate: Corks Really Are Better Than Screw-Tops, Oxford Study Finds
• Are You Ready for That Jelly? Why It’s Time to Start Eating Jellyfish
• The Gooey History of the Fluffernutter Sandwic…
Coffee Quickies
• Starbucks Closes Online Store to Focus on In-Person Experience
• Things You Might Not Know about Denny’s
• Tim Hortons Does Unthinkable, Creates Buffalo Sauce-Flavored Latte
• Start off Your Day with a Hot Cup of Buffalo Wing Coffee
• Is Egg Coffee the New Bulletproof-Style Caffeine Fix?
• Top 10 Japanese School Lu…
A Little Real America
• “Why Does Each State ~?” Google Search Autocomplete Maps
• What US States Want: Google Autocomplete, 2014
• By the Numbers: How Americans Spend (More of) Their Money
• How Americans Watch TV
• This Is What Dinnertime Really Looks Like Around the US
• The Food Each State Hates th…
Fall Guy
• Debating a Holiday
• Why the Legend of Christopher Columbus Is a Lie
• 10 Alternatives to Columbus Day Celebrated around the Country
• 10 Things You Didn’t Know about Christopher Columbus
• Today Is a Holiday in Honor of the World’s Most Remarkable Alphabet
• 12 Halloween Traditions f…
DNA and Durian
• Cancer Scientists Sniff Out the Genes Behind Durian’s Famous Stink
• We Finally Know How Durian Got So Stinky
• This Could Be How Durians Get Their Stinky Smell
• Why Does the Durian Stink? Scientists Unravel Smelly Fruit’s DNA
• What Does DNA Taste Like? An Investigation
Aging, Aji, & Cafe Culture
• Japanese Portable Alarm to Keep Laptops Safe When Working from a Cafe Smashes Crowdfunding Goal
• Modern Laundromat-Cafe in Japan Helps Customers Pass the Time
• Clothes Washing and Ironing in Japan
• Japanese People List Their Top Ten Fish, and Tuna Isn’t Number On…
38,690-Day-Old Fruitcake
• Shopping Cart Alignment Chart
• Bread Storage Alignment Chart
• The Bottom Plate
• Should You Eat a 106-Year-Old Fruitcake?
• 35-Year-Old Can Of Corn Donated To Food Bank, Which Naturally Decides To Open It
• The Hamburger on Display in a Canadian Legislature
• Seattle Mariners Fans Are Going Crazy for these Crunchy Grass…
Home Cooking
• The True Identity of Cup Noodle’s “Mystery Meat”
• New Japanese Cat Cafe Is so Stylish It’d Be Worth a Visit Even If It Was Feline-Free
• Japan’s Top Twenty Roadside Service Stops, Destinations in Their Own Right
• What Is Panko, and How Is It Different from Bread Crumbs?
• Vending Machine That Serves Homemade Gyoza Found in…
Customs & Emigration
• Decidedly American Behaviors That Are Considered to Be Rude in Other Countries
• 4 Ways Foreign Tourists Disrespect the Cultures They’re Visiting
• Garçon! Some Outdated, Embarrassing Phrases, Por Favor
• Gestures You Shouldn’t Use in Other Countries
• 11 Things That Tourists Should Never Do in Morocco, Eve…
Slime Doesn’t Pay
• Laser Beams Unveil Secrets Locked Inside Primitive Stone Spear Points
• New Study Reveals How the Neanderthals Made Super Glue 200,000 Years Ago: The World’s Oldest Known Synthetic Material
• Recreating the Glue Neanderthals Used to Make Weapons
• New Super-Glue Inspired by Slug Slim…
Something in the Air
• A Cannery That Makes the Odiferous Swedish Delicacy Surströmming (Fermented Herring)
• Inside the World’s Smelliest Factory
• Step Inside the World’s Worst-Smelling Factory at Your Own Risk
• Air Pollution in Asia – Interactive Map
• Map Showing How Many Year…