vegetables
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A Robotic Vertical Garden You Can Build With Hardware Store Materials
Vertical farms are all the rage, yet these systems are often expensive, messy and utterly impractical for most urban dwellers. The Robotic Urban Farm System (RUFS) by Better Living Through Robotics improves on nearly every shortfall of the typical system: it uses very little water, no soil, and is made from accessible, affordable parts, with…
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Adorable Dog Balances 100 Different Fruits And Vegetables On Its Head
This is so ridiculous that it’s kind of fun. Maymo, the lemon beagle in the video, is so great at balancing things on his head that he can wear 100 different kinds of fruits and vegetables as hats. The more colour, the better.
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The Inside Of Fruits And Vegetables Look Like Galaxies And Alien Guts
I love Andy Ellison’s Inside Insides blog, a world of wonder where he posts the guts of food as taken by an fMRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scanner. This display of reverse fireworks — or a nuclear chain reaction — is broccoli. Some of them look like alien guts, like this kiwano.
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Fruits And Vegetables Are More Aware Than You Think
You might not think that spinach knows what’s up, but the produce in your fridge is still alive and aware. Which is creepy. But kind of awesome. According to new research, fruits and vegetables still have circadian rhythms up to a week after being harvested. And they respond to light patterns by producing chemical compounds…