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Another Challenge for Ethical Eating - Plants Want to Live, Too - NYTimes.com
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“Plants are not static or silly,” said Monika Hilker of the Institute of Biology at the Free University of Berlin. “They respond to tactile cues, they recognize different wavelengths of light, they listen to chemical signals, they can even talk” through chemical signals. Touch, sight, hearing, speech. “These are sensory modalities and abilities we normally think of as only being in animals,” Dr. Hilker said.
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Just because we humans can’t hear them doesn’t mean plants don’t howl. Some of the compounds that plants generate in response to insect mastication — their feedback, you might say — are volatile chemicals that serve as cries for help. Such airborne alarm calls have been shown to attract both large predatory insects like dragon flies, which delight in caterpillar meat, and tiny parasitic insects, which can infect a caterpillar and destroy it from within.
Media Meltdown - A Graphic Guide Adventure - Orca Books
A book and a website re media education << As an educator, you understand the value of teaching your students to become media literate. Today’s world is radically different than the one most of us grew up in. It’s important for us to help kids learn to competently navigate the issues surrounding Internet safety, privacy, cyberbullying and online marketing. >>
BBC News - The great transatlantic chocolate divide
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Anyone who has performed a chocolate taste test will know that compared with its British counterpart, American chocolate has a distinctly different flavour. To many, Hershey's chocolate has a more bitter, less creamy taste than its British equivalent, and seems to have a grittier texture.
It all comes down to what exactly chocolate is.
In the UK, chocolate must contain at least 20% cocoa solids. In the US, on the other hand, cocoa solids need only make up 10%.
A Cadbury Dairy Milk bar contains 23% cocoa solids, whereas a Hershey bar contains just 11%.
Kid's Zone: Farm & Fun Food
Links to different websites, e.g., re honey, peanuts, pizza, popcorn, eggs, chocolate, etc.
Foodscapes: amazing food art by Carl Warner - Telegraph
Carl Warner is a London-based photographer who makes foodscapes: landscapes made of food. In the picture above, a pea pod boat sails away from a land made of bread and potatoes, over a sea of salmon
What the World Eats, Part I - Photo Essays - TIME
What's on family dinner tables in fifteen different homes around the globe? Photographs by Peter Menzel from the book "Hungry Planet"
Plastic Fork Diaries: Field Trip
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Go behind the scenes at unusual places where food is grown and prepared: a pumpkin farm, a chocolate factory, a bakery, even a school cafeteria. If you've ever wondered how hot a pizza oven has to get, or why turkeys have such big breasts, this is the place to be.
Infographic: Seeking Refuge -- Dec 2009 - Wall Street Journal
Shows the largest groups of global refugees, according to the UN
Tracking Water Use - WSJ.com
Infographic re how much water it takes to produce things like a cup of coffee, a pair of stone-washed jeans, a hamburger, etc... Roll over images to reveal information...
ICT Guy » Scratch Resources
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Here is my collection of resources that I’ve found useful when working with students and teachers to create scratch projects. Please use the comments to inform me of any other good resources
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