Published on: 2025-04-20 05:39:24
FROSTBITE: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves, by Nicola Twilley Consider the improbable fact of the supermarket banana. In “Frostbite,” an exploration of the vast system known as the cold chain, the journalist Nicola Twilley follows the banana through a “seamless network of thermal control.” This series of refrigerated trucks, rail cars, shipping containers and warehouses ends in the ripening room, with its temperature gauges and gas immersion baths, all to meet our
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-07 22:21:44
As Americans fret about what their future looks like amidst Donald Trump's heightening trade wars, the people of China have a suggestion: get used to sweatshops. A wild AI-generated post depicting schlubby Americans toiling in dingy factories has gone viral on Chinese social media before leaking out onto US trending tabs. It pokes fun at Trump's so-called "reindustrialization" gambit to bring factories back to the US — and anyone foolish enough to believe the billionaire's policies will benefit
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It's well-established that, on the whole, Americans die younger than people in most other high-income countries. For instance, an analysis from 2022 found that the average life expectancy of someone born in Switzerland or Spain in 2019 was 84 years. Meanwhile, the average US life expectancy was 78.8, lower than nearly all other high-income countries, including Canada's, which was 82.3 years. And this was before the pandemic, which only made things worse for the US. Perhaps some Americans may th
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DNA EVIDENCE SAYS FIRST AMERICANS CAME FROM ASIA Natives Americans are believed to have descended from Asian people who arrived in North America via the Bering Strait. The DNA of ancient American bog people is closer to the Japanese than Americans. Glenn Hodges wrote in National Geographic: “In recent years geneticists have compared the DNA of modern Native Americans with that of other populations around the world and concluded that the ancestors of Native Americans were Asians who separated f
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A federal judge has temporarily blocked Elon Musk’s Department of Government of Efficiency from accessing Americans’ personal data at the Social Security Administration. On Thursday, District Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander argued that, while Musk’s minions claim they are on a mission to root out fraud and abuse at the agency, they haven’t provided any evidence of their claims, nor have they shown why it requires access to millions of Americans’ sensitive information. “The DOGE Team is essentially
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In the past decade, Americans have become increasingly aware that climate change is harming the health of people in the US, according to a new survey. The survey, which was conducted in December and released Friday, also shows increased trust in physicians, climate scientists, federal agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Environmental Protection Agency, local public health departments and the World Health Organization for providing information about the health ha
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