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Mapping the crops with the most potential in a changing climate

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Tags: agriculture , climate , food , Stamen Stamen, in collaboration with Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils, mapped the potential shifts for a variety of crops. Be sure to see Stamen’s process post on the design choices behind the visual explorer.

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Running out of space to grow food

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A map shows spreading farmland over the centuries and at some point there won’t be enough land to grow food if we continue what we’ve been doing. Tags: agriculture , Associated Press , population

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Where restaurants serve Asian food in the U.S.

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You can find Asian restaurants in most places in the United States, but the type of Asian food choices varies. Tags: Asian , Pew Research , restaurant For Pew Research, Sona Shah and Regina Widjaya mapped the distributions of eight major cuisines. It’s fun to taste the area’s version of universal Chinese dishes.

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Chart used as drink label

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For Swee Kombucha, Bedow used a stacked chart as a food label to show the ingredient breakdowns for various beverages. Tags: food , ingredient , labels. The greater the area is, the more ingredient by volume there is in the drink. This project takes me back.

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Palm oils and rainforest destruction

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Palm oil is in our food, cosmetics, cleaning supplies, and biofuels, but it has no flavor or color, so we’re not really aware of how much we use — on average 8 kilograms per year. Tags: Bloomberg , palm oil , rainforest.

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Crows might understand probabilities

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For Ars Technica, Kenna Hughes-Castleberry reports : To do this, Johnston and her team began by training two crows to peck at various images on touchscreens to earn food treats. Tags: Ars Technica , birds , probability Researchers at the University of Tübingen are studying crows’ abilities to understand statistical inference.

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Carbon footprint in the city versus the suburbs

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But a consumption-based analysis assigns those emissions to the households that are ultimately responsible for them: the people who use electricity, drive cars, eat food and buy goods. Tags: carbon , New York Times , pollution. The estimates are based on research from the University of California, Berkeley.

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