meal

Consider the diet of animals in a size-adjusted fashion: if we scale a meal by the weight of the creature eating it, we can intuitively understand how much a cat / bird / bug / whatever is eating in relative terms.

May 31, 2021

Beasts, Culture, Education, Environment

animal, bird, meal, nutrition, sparrow

Background: Animals have varying caloric requirements: usually, larger/warmer ones need to eat more. The Issue: When a small animal eats a small portion of food, it’s hard to intuitively understand how much food that is at a human scale. For example, if a sparrow eats a single sesame seed, is that equivalent to a human…
New fad diet that allows you to eat ANYTHING YOU WANT! But there’s a terrible price to be paid. Steel yourself against the most appalling horrors of existence before reading further.

Sep 25, 2017

Diet & Food, Health

Diet & Food, fad diet, Food, freedom fries, french fries, gourmand, gourmet, meal, purple cheese, purple hamburger, white rice

Background: Even the most un-choosy eater cares at least somewhat about the visual appearance of food. A food item that looks “off” somehow will trigger a natural aversion to spoiled food. Proposal: This aversion to bizarre looking food can be used to help people maintain a healthy diet! The process is as follows: certain foods…