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Cookbook authors have a few options. They could write a regionally specific cookbook or a mass-market one starring ingredients that grow sustainably in lots of places (as One did). Or they could write a cookbook that samples vast biodiversity at some cost to sourceability—that’s the approach the UN cookbook took.“There are many cookbooks that could … have 90 percent of the recipes be part of your staple at home,” Cruz said. “But that serves a different purpose.” The UN cookbook is instead “almost a launching point into…

Screenshot: FoxWhen Bob inherits a storage unit, the family meets Chet (guest voice Zach Galifianakis), a former window-dresser who’s been squatting in said storage unit. Invited to crash with the Belchers for the holidays, he designs holiday displays that attract tons of attention... until he starts to come unglued, thanks to his obsession with one particular mannequin. One very off-color display (and one sex-shop visit later), the kids agree to give up their Christmas presents so that Chet can find happiness—bringing…

Wildlife officials across the Great Lakes are looking for spies to take on an almost impossible mission: stop the spread of invasive carp.Over the last five years, agencies have employed a new seek-and-destroy strategy that uses turncoat carp to lead them to the fish's hotspot hideouts.Agency workers turn carp into double agents by capturing them, implanting transmitters and tossing them back. Floating receivers send real-time notifications when a tagged carp swims past. Carp are large fish with an even larger appetite.…

It’s a fact of life for millions who live in Los Angeles and plenty who pass through: You’re going to spend hours at LAX. Awkward, restless, unproductive hours.Or you can take a walk. A long one. Thanks to a recently completed connection between LAX’s Terminal 3 and the Bradley International Terminal, ticketed travelers have the freedom to roam all nine terminals without going through TSA multiple times. (Air travel cognoscenti call this unrestricted pedestrian access “airside connectivity.”)For any traveler who is early…

Bethesda has rolled out a new patch for its sci-fi RPG Starfield, and it has some notable additions. The update introduces Nvidia DLSS support for PC players and the ability to eat and drink food found in the environment without picking it up.This patch, which was previously available to testers on Steam, is available now across PC and Xbox. For the Nvidia DLSS support, players with compatible Nvidia graphics cards can now use things like DLSS super resolution, deep learning anti-aliasing, Nvidia Reflex,…

Nearly two weeks after it hit beta, the Starfield DLSS update — dubbed 1.8.86 on Steam — is now available for the masses. Not only should it help with performance, but the update also lets you snarf food off any surface. You may not have eaten food right off the ground since you were a toddler, but there is no judgment for such behavior in space. Well, unless you brought one of those Constellation companions who complain about everything. Wait, no. That’s all of them. It’s part of their charm (?). Screenshot by…

Popular vegan egg and lab-grown-meat company Eat Just is in deep financial trouble. A WIRED investigation bringing together court records, documents, and interviews from former employees suggests that the company frequently struggled with paying its suppliers on time. Now it is being sued by a former partner for roughly $100 million and faces lawsuits from other vendors, some of which are reported here for the first time.“The biggest issue was absolute financial mismanagement,” one former senior Eat Just employee alleges.…

Xbox has a long history of making novelty consoles, and the latest one you’ll get to enjoy is the chocolate bar Xbox Series X inspired by the upcoming Wonka movie. The Wonka Xbox is designed to look like a delectable chocolate bar straight out of the fictional chocolatier’s factory. It comes bundled with a display that looks like the front of Willy Wonka’s whimsical store. Despite how delectable it looks, you can’t sink your teeth into the console, though Xbox has come up with ways to satisfy your sweet tooth.…

Good news, cats and dogs: you can now legally eat lab-grown meat. The milestone comes courtesy of a world-first permit for cultivated pet food. Czech startup Bene Meat Technologies received the inaugural license from the EU on Wednesday. The company can now produce and sell the futuristic cuisine, which is made from cells taken from living animals.  After extraction, the cells are placed in a bioreactor and grown into muscle tissue. The flesh is then formed into the desired shape. The process…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study by the University of Stirling has sought to understand why vegetarians consume non-meat animal products despite their concerns that animal agricultural production can be cruel. Vegetarians choose not to eat meat, poultry, or seafood but often consume non-meat animal products (NMAPs),…