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Food / Travel Future

Bacteria Du Jour: Scientists Turn To Microbes And Algae For The Future Of Food

At universities and startups around the globe, researchers are searching for microbes, bacteria, fungi and algae that could serve as a substitute for ingredients like eggs, milk, meat, and flour.

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Society

Where Dementia Patients Live Their Parallel Lives — With Staff Playing Along

People with dementia are often patronized and their movements restricted — like in prison, some say. Gammeloase, a retirement home in Germany does things very differently. For Germany’s Die Zeit, Anna Scheld asks whether this approach is sustainable and whether it could be replicated elsewhere.

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AfD Watershed, 5 Reasons For The Far Right Rising In Germany

Though Angela Merkel has secured a fourth term with Sunday’s election, the populist party Alternative for Germany will be the first far-right party since 1961 to enter parliament.

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Geopolitics Syria Crisis

Syrians Search For DIY Alternative Energy Sources

With power outages and deep shortages, some civilians are finding new ways to heat homes and cook meals, by using the natural resources around them — and even bomb craters.

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Food / Travel

This Culinary Movement Has Legs: Insects On The Menu

Worms, crickets and the like are showing up at fine European eateries. But this is not just a gastronomical fad, as population growth means finding new sources of protein in unlikely critters.

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Society

Dumpster Diving Behind A French Bakery – The Freegan Movement Takes Off In France

LYON – Those familiar with the Freegan movement know that dumpster diving to find food to eat is nothing new. But organizing free food distributions to denounce food waste is a novel form of Freeganism – as practiced by the activists from the Gars Pilleurs organization founded by two young men from Lyon, east-central France. […]

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