I tried meat grown in a lab. It tastes like ... well ... meat. I guess it is meat, but it's not grown the normal way. Scientists extract meat cells from an animal and then grow them in a bioreactor, much like ones you see in a brewery. There, the cells divide again and again until you get ... meat. If you want to try some, you'll soon be able to. But not in Florida or Alabama. "Why should politicians get to decide for everyone? If I want to try something, it should be my choice." There, politicians banned it. Other states now may ban it, too. "We appreciate that ban," says Bill Bullard. ...
I have never really understood the passion for hunting. Whenever I see an animal or a bird in the wild, it does not cross my mind to kill it. I have even been charged by an elephant without wishing ...
“You look like Van Gogh. Why don’t you cut off an ear?” With such cruelty I stopped the verbal diarrhea of a painter who was complaining, incapable of swimming with sharks in formalin. I admit ...
Like all proper banana republics, the Olive Republic of Greece has jailed some elected members of Parliament and charged them with criminality, as obscure and vague an accusation ...
Investigators who"d raided a dilapidated Roma camp in central Greece last week in search of illegal drugs and firearms didn"t expect to find a pale-skinned four-year-old ...
If caught reading the wrong book in the Soviet Union you weren’t interrogated, you were imprisoned. On many occasions people were simply murdered. Of course, there was ...
Mixed martial arts is one of the world’s fastest-growing sports, and many say it is already more popular than boxing. Yet MMA's sociological and historical significance ...
This is the time of year when we celebrate the national religion of consumerism. Future archeologists might presume we were propitiating some kind of subterranean god by ...
What will the much-ballyhooed Occupy Wall Street movement do when it’s officially declared to be on life support? If you believe the Los Angeles Times, the OWS movement is going ...
On July 18, 2011, Sean Hoare was found mysteriously deceased by London police. This is notable for two reasons. The first reason is that Hoare was a primary whistle-blower in the ...
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Pierre Bergé Design Sale, Brussels, Belgium, June 9 Tom Dixon, Marcel Breuer, Alberto Giacometti, The Lalannes, Line Vautrin, Serge Mouille, Pierre Jeanneret, Joe Colombo, and ...
10 Picks for the Week Centre Pompidou-Metz Paris’ gorgeous center of modern art, The Pompidou, has opened its first extension—in Metz, a small city 170 miles east of ...
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