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Food
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The Burrito Bomber
Darwin Aerospace's Burrito Bomber — a fixed-wing UAV that delivers burritos to GPS coordinates via a parachute-drop system. A 2012 maker project that presaged the commercial drone delivery industry by a decade, framed as humor but technically serious.
The Hidden Truths About Calories
Scientific American on the hidden complexity behind calorie counting — how the Atwater factors used on nutrition labels are crude approximations, how cooking changes caloric availability, and how gut microbiome composition affects calorie extraction. The 'a calorie is a calorie' model is much messier in practice.
Why Supermarket Tomatoes Tend to Taste Bland
LA Times coverage of a 2012 Nature Genetics study identifying the genetic mutation responsible for why commercial tomatoes taste bland — a breeding decision made for shelf life and appearance at the cost of flavor. The gene controls sugar production in fruits, and modern tomatoes had it bred out.
The Top 10 Fastest-Growing U.S. Industries (Hint: Think Hot Sauce)
Washington Post Wonkblog's 2012 list of the fastest-growing US industries, headlined by hot sauce and other food products. A data snapshot of American economic growth patterns in the early 2010s recovery.