Technology Forget takeout, eat a print-out IT'S not quite the stuff of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , but the fare coming out of Homaru Cantu's kitchen is just as bizarre. In Roald Dahl's famous children's book, chewing gum is made to taste like a three-course meal. Cantu, a cordon-bleu chef, has modified an ink-jet printer to create dishes made of … 51¶¯Âþ
Health Interview: The heart healer Pekka Puska was born in Vaasa, northern Finland, in 1945. He was director of the North Karelia Project in eastern Finland from 1972 to 1997. Between 2001 and 2003 he was director of the department of non-communicable disease prevention at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. He has a PhD in epidemiology and has … Opinion
Hotly contested 1 Hockey stick hoo-ha The term "hockey stick" was adopted by Michael Mann of the University of Virginia in 1998 to describe temperature changes over the past 1000 years, as identified from proxy data such as ice cores, tree rings and isotopic analysis of coral. This followed a largely flat line for 900 years (the … Features
Life Human Bones: A scientific and pictorial investigation by R McNeill Alexander AN academic anatomist once told me that his subject was very boring because there was nothing new to say about it. He was wrong, and Human Bones beautifully illustrates why. The combination of Aaron Diskin's stunning photographs and McNeill Alexander's lucid text inspires the description of the 213 bones that make up our skeleton, from … Books & Arts
Life Exploring Animal Behavior in Laboratory and Field edited by Bonnie J Ploger and Ken Yasukawa Books & Arts
Feedback Boy shakes and girl shakes JOHN GRAY – he of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus fame – is branching out into the slimming business. Last week found him in a hired room at London's Natural History Museum launching his Mars and Venus Supershakes, which he claims are gender-specific slimming drinks. Fat men … Regulars