Category: food
“Seeing” Sounds and “Hearing” Food: The Science of Synesthesia
Disposable America, A history of modern capitalism from the perspective of the straw.
The invention of American industrialism, the creation of urban life, changing gender relations, public-health reform, suburbia and its hamburger-loving teens, better living through plastics, and the financialization of the economy: The straw was there for all these things—rolled out of extrusion machines, dispensed, pushed through lids, bent, dropped into the abyss.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/06/disposable-america/563204/
These tree-planting drones are firing seed missiles to restore the world’s forests
The drones first fly over an area to map it, collecting data about the topography and soil condition that can be combined with satellite data and analyzed to determine the best locations to plant each seed. Then the drone fires biodegradable pods—filled with a germinated seed and nutrients—into the ground.
