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The Rise of Nanofoods
separsons writes "Researchers are altering foods at the nanoscale level, changing their tiny molecular structures to enhance certain properties. (New Scientist has a more detailed look.) For example, one group of scientists found a way to hide water within individual droplets of oil, making low-fat mayonnaise taste like the real thing. The process can make spices spicier, potato chips healthier, and make diet food taste just like full-calorie snacks. Nanotech can even help combat global malnutrition. But the process is certainly controversial, and food manufacturers are being tight-lipped about exactly what nanofoods they're working on. So can nanotech create a healthier world, or is it just frightening Franken-food?"
Food purity is the new "I don't have a TV".
How to solve most of our problems: 1.Lots of nuclear plants. 2.Cure aging.
Except that I didn't turn down the huge variety of beers I tried and never came to like.
Here's a theory: if you eat/drink something enough times, you will eventually *have to* start liking it, simply by force of habit/nostalgia. In this trivial sense, maybe people do like beer, but they don't like it in the sense that they like other foods/drinks that you don't have to trick yourself into liking.
I'd rather not waste effort tricking myself into liking unhealthy stuff that I have to pay a premium for, TYVM.
Information theory is life. The rest is just the KL divergence.
Uh-huh. And the non-alcoholic beers just "happen" to not taste *exactly* right to you, *forcing* you to take the *inconvenient* step of drinking a beer that gets you high, or maybe helps you relax a li'l...
Bullshit.
Information theory is life. The rest is just the KL divergence.