On the not-quite sixth day of Christmas, a researcher gave to “we” … six lousy french fries — and a salad grown organically… Eric Rimm, professor of the departments of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and real-life Grinch recently was quoted in a New York Times story, “You Don’t Want Fries With That.” According to[Read More…]
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US and Canada: National Potato Day 2018 – Love a potato on this day!
A horrific moment of truth…
Just for fun: Which potato variety resembles your personality best?
And now the folks who run the website Uquiz.com claim they can match you up with one of the 5,000+ known potato varieties in the world… In order to determine which one of these fits your particular personality type best, you need to answer 7 basic questions – about your preferences regarding your ideal vacation, your ideal meal, your style, how[Read More…]
If there had been internet in 1951, this ‘potato’ dress would have broken it…
What’s the first image that comes to mind when you think of Marilyn Monroe? There’s of course the iconic white dress that billows out over a subway grate while she cheekily attempts to hold the fabric down. Or the one where she’s sitting and enveloped by a massive white tulle skirt. Or the one where she’s in the slinky red[Read More…]
Passion in action: Preaching potatoes…
Fry spy…
The Kleaner…
Bargaining chip…
Only Moms…
Vet steals potatoes…
Surprise, surprise…
Engineer builds self-powered driving potato…
Engineer Marek Baczynski took what is a common science class experiment – lighting a light bulb with a potato – to the next level, and built what could be the world’s first autonomous potato… A single potato doesn’t generate a lot of electricity, but if you collect that slow trickle into a capacitor—a sort of battery—you get enough of a charge[Read More…]