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A new study visualizes the effects of drug use on your brain using SPECT scans. Interesting — though the footnote “colors do not have significant meaning” dilutes the impact quite a bit.

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Still, it’s an improvement over what we were taught in the 80s:

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A wonderful (and quite detailed) visualization of the wide world business of sugar water. (via)

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Forget GDP, China now drinks more beer than either the US or Europe, and is growing by 10 percent a year.

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Bacon!

In: Food

10 Aug 2010

Who doesn’t love bacon?

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Commodity prices are on the rise again. The Economist picked a pretty recent base year for this graph of wheat, orange juice, and coffee prices – a longer trend would have shown the big ups and downs of the past few years.

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Asia remains the cheapest place to enjoy a burger. China’s recent decision to increase the “flexibility” of the yuan has not made much difference yet. A Big Mac costs $1.95 in China at current exchange rates, against $3.73 in America. [...] In other words the yuan is undervalued by 48%.

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Global Food System

In: Food

22 Jul 2010

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A contest from Good magazine produced a number of different designs. The winner will be announced next week.

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A collection of interactives from the FT:

Drill down maps of each region:

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Grape varieties, and production stats:

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Coffee Lovers

In: Food Humor

2 Jun 2010

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Alcoholism

In: Culture Food Science

27 May 2010

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This makes so much sense.

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