Why perfect-looking produce can be less than ideal. She is right. We want our produce to look like supermodels: sleek, unblemished and perfectly proportioned. But I am discovering that our preference for these idealized fruits and vegetables might have negative consequences for our taste buds and our health. “Produce porn” is what David Mas Masumoto calls it. He is an organic farmer near Fresno, Calif., whose peaches are widely considered to be some of the most delicious in the country. He and his family recently published “The Perfect Peach: Recipes and Stories From the Masumoto Family Farm” (Ten Speed Press).
“Salability defines what is good,” Masumoto told me. “And the easiest way to sell product is to make it a commodity defined by the visual. She places most of the blame squarely on us, the consumers. “Research shows that food gets rejected at point of sale if it’s bruised, not if it’s unripe or has poor flavor, “ she says. But Masumoto is hopeful there is a growing market for his produce with special needs. To This Day Project - Shane Koyczan. Passenger lands plane after pilot falls ill. NEW: The passenger did a "beautiful landing," says instructor who guided him inA mayday was sent out after the pilot fell ill at the controls of the two-seater planeThe passenger, who had no landing experience, had to put down the plane in the darkThe pilot later died, police said; his death is not being treated as suspicious London (CNN) -- The small Cessna plane glided over eastern England on Tuesday evening with exactly two people on board: the pilot and a passenger.
Nothing seemed out of the ordinary until the pilot suddenly fell ill at the controls. He made an emergency call to Humberside Airport, but the next step was already clear: The passenger would have to land a plane for the first time. On the fly. Two flight instructors were called to give the passenger an impromptu flying lesson, Humberside Airport spokesman Blair Jacobs said. Are pilotless passenger jets within reach?
__i18n_ovi.service.map. __i18n_ovi.service.map. "There was other things (going) against us, really. Arizona Man Cured of Lifelong Crying Seizures, 350 a Month. <br/><a href=" US News</a> | <a href=" Business News</a> Copy Chris Murto's silent seizures started when he was a baby, and his doctors thought he was just having night terrors. "He rarely slept more than two hours at a time," mom Maura Murto, 59, of Sedona, Ariz., said. "He would wake up and look startled, then begin to cry. " By the time he was in kindergarten, he would get tense and stiffen up and look terrified, but it always happened when he was asleep.
"His face would grimace and a slight tear would roll down his cheek," she said. Doctors diagnosed a rare type of benign tumor -- a hypothalamic hamartoma (HH) -- that would eventually cause up to 350 seizures a month by the time he was 13, and put him on medication, sometimes 25 pills a day. But today, at 29, Murto is seizure-free, thanks to Barrow Neurological Institute at St. "When someone said seizures, I thought grand mal with someone on the floor," his mother said. Instructions. Judge tells living man that he’s still legally dead | The Sideshow.
An Ohio man couldn't convince the court to overturn his legal death ruling (AFP) Life can be tough, especially when a judge says you’re dead in the eyes of the law. That’s exactly what happened to Ohio resident Donald Eugene Miller Jr. on Monday when a judge upheld a 1994 court ruling declaring the 61-year-old legally dead. The Courier reports that 19 years ago, a court in Hancock County declared Miller legally dead eight years after he disappeared from his rental home.
As a result, Miller has lost his Social Security number and his driver’s license. Judge Allan Davis called it a "strange, strange situation," but he also said the court cannot budge in its decision. "We've got the obvious here,” Davis said. Each state can make its own laws regarding declaring someone legally dead. Miller said he is a recovering alcoholic and abandoned his rental home while in the throes of his addiction.
"It kind of went further than I ever expected it to," Miller told the court. Amish girl ordered to resume chemotherapy. The girl, who has only been identified by her initials, S.H., has leukemia, but her parents decided to end her chemotherapy in exchange for "natural medicines. " CLEVELAND — An Ohio hospital can force a 10-year-old Amish girl with leukemia to resume chemotherapy over the protests of her parents who decided to stop treatment, an appeals court ruled. Akron Children's Hospital asked the judge to appoint a guardian for the girl after doctors became worried when her parents stopped treatment in June after only one of five prescribed rounds of chemotherapy. Her family was told that the girl has an 85 percent survival rate with treatment but would die within the year if she does not receive it.
Maria Schimer, a lawyer and a former nurse, is expected to be appointed the medical guardian for the girl, according to the ruling released on Friday. The girl has only been identified by her initials, S.H. Related: As US struggles with health reform, Amish go own way Join MSN News on social. Could Your Brain Be Hacked? The Venus Project. Mind the gap, get over it: Japan hands.
Falcons say star WR Julio Jones is lost for season. FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) -- The Atlanta Falcons' fears were confirmed on Wednesday when a second medical opinion found star wide receiver Julio Jones' foot injury will cause him to miss the remainder of the season. Coach Mike Smith said Jones will have surgery on Monday, but the Falcons still did not release details of the injury. Jones, the NFL's leading receiver, injured his right foot in Monday night's 30-28 loss to the New York Jets. Smith had said Tuesday the first reports were not encouraging. Jones wanted a second opinion and was examined Wednesday in Charlotte, N.C., by foot specialist Dr.
Robert Anderson. ''Unfortunately, Julio's appointment with the doctor today confirmed our initial findings,'' Smith said in a statement released by the team. Anderson repaired a broken bone in Jones' right foot before his 2011 rookie season. The loss of Jones is a devastating blow to the Falcons, who are 1-4 and entering their bye week. ''We've all kind of been there before,'' Ryan said. Primate brains follow predictable developmental pattern. In a breakthrough for understanding brain evolution, neuroscientists have shown that differences between primate brains -- from the tiny marmoset to human -- can be largely explained as consequences of the same genetic program.
In research published in the Journal of Neuroscience, Professor Marcello Rosa and his team at Monash University's School of Biomedical Sciences and colleagues at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil, used computer modelling to demonstrate that the substantial enlargement of some areas of the human brain, vital to advanced cognition, reflects a consistent pattern that is seen across primate species of all sizes. This finding suggests how the neural circuits responsible for traits that we consider uniquely human -- such as the ability to plan, make complex decisions and speak -- could have emerged simply as a natural consequence of the evolution of larger brains. "We found that the larger the brain is, the larger these areas get," Tristan said.
Bomber Kills 13 Children At Iraq School Playground. Boy hops plane to Vegas, apparently alone and without ticket. NEW: The TSA says the boy went through security with all other passengersA child, apparently without a ticket, boards a flight from Minneapolis to Las VegasMid-flight the Delta crew becomes suspicious of the child's "circumstances"The 9-year-old is thought to have been at the airport the day before as well (CNN) -- A flight to America's adult playground, Las Vegas, had an unusual passenger last week: a 9-year-old boy traveling on his own, apparently without a ticket. The boy went through security with all other passengers, the Transportation Security Administration said in a statement, but officials are still trying to figure out how he did it -- and how he then got on the flight.
Patrick Hogan, a spokesman for Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, said the crew of Delta Flight 1651 "became suspicious of the child's circumstances" during the flight from Minneapolis to Las Vegas. Delta said it takes the incident "very seriously" and is working with authorities.