New Orleans – Insight Sciences

GoodEggs fixes food system

September 29, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Systems Science

GoodEggs raises $8.5M to fix our food system one egg at a time
Rebecca Grant, venturebeat.com

If you are a nut for raw nuts, a grass-fed guru, an organic oracle, a local-food loon, or a farmers market fiend, today is a good day.

GoodEggs has raised $8.5 million to expand its local grocery delivery service nationwide.

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GoodEggs raises $8.5M to fix our food system one egg at a time (venturebeat.com)
Supply Chain Innovators: Good Eggs-farm-to-fridge delivery platform (supplychainventures.typepad.com)
American Meat – An Inside Look at Sustainable Farming in America (articles.mercola.com)
What Those Food Labels Really Mean: ‘Free Range,’ ‘Cage Free,’ and ‘Grass Fed’ (onegreenplanet.org)

The best states to be a locavore

April 28, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Systems Science

The Top Locavore States In The U.S.
BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com

You might think you know the capitals of eating local, but this list will prove you wrong.

These days, it’s hard to find a foodie who doesn’t also claim to be a locavore, or someone who eats locally-produced food. But it’s a lot easier to e…

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The Highs and Lows of a Locavore (crawfishandsatsumas.wordpress.com)
Eat Local, Grow Local, Support Local (lovinglismore.com)
Get the Skinny: Simple Swaps for Eat Local Challenge (wgno.com)
Farmer’s Market Tutorial 3 – 10 Tips for Efficient Shopping (solefoodkitchen.com)
Eating Local (spoonfeast.com)
Just ask… (arkansaslocavoreexperiment.wordpress.com)

Congeners and cheap booze hangovers

December 20, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management

Why Cheap Booze Makes Your Hangover So Horrible
Brent Rose, gizmodo.com

You. You’re out drinking with your friends, matching them round for round. They’re sippin’ fancy whiskey, but you’re saving money, sticking with the well specials. So why is it, halfway through the night, you’re suddenly hit with a brutal headache…

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What Different Countries Eat the Morning After to Cure Hangovers (gizmodo.com)
On Yak-a-mein soup, a.k.a, ‘Old Sober’ (eurekalert.org)
World’s 10 best drinking nations (cnn.com)

Bugs are the new sushi: Bug eating break throughs

May 22, 2010 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Ethnographic Methods, Health Informatics, Systems Science

A number of bug food related ventures from small dinners to larger mail order businesses are popping up in the NY and Rhode Island areas. Take http://www.smallstockfoods.com/ a company providing bug food consulting and catering. Buggy fare has been featured at the Audubon Insectarium in New Orleans and at events like BugFest at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and Bug Bowl at Purdue University in Indiana.

Bug Eaters Try to Get Some Buzz – WSJ.com

Bed Bug Pictures – Showing the Bed Bug Epidemic (blogpestcontrol.com)
Top Bed Bug Infested City Named, My Cleaning Products Posts a Guide How to Get Rid of Bed Bugs Without the Big Bucks and Use of Chemicals (prweb.com)
New Ordinance Holds Landlords Responsible To Kill Bed Bugs, My Cleaning Products Offers Complimentary Sample of Bed Bug Bully To Avoid High Exterminator Fee’s (prweb.com)
Ants and the Apocalypse: It’s not the end of the world to eat bugs (indianalivinggreen.com)
Shark Sushi Plate: Big Fish Eat Little Fish (technabob.com)
Dance like a piece of sushi (lostateminor.com)
Eating Pretty: 30 Photos of the Slickest Sushi Restaurants on the Planet (curbed.com)
Bed Bugs in Phoenix? (bulwarkpestcontrol.com)

BP, blowout preventers, and crowdsourcing

May 6, 2010 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Systems Science

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via http://oilspill.labucketbrigade.org/ Louisiana Bucket Brigade, a non-profit organization based in New Orleans, has launched a database built on the Ushahidi platform (which aggregates text messages, calls and e-mails into a visually mapped and searchable database) to track the effects of the Gulf oil spill to direct first responders to where help is most urgently needed.