Past Articles by Kristofor Husted
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Want To Forage In Your City? There's A Map For That Apples, oranges and ... squirrel? A new interactive map pinpoints more than a half-million locations around the world open to foraging for typical and not-so-typical free foods. |
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Want To Forage In Your City? There's A Map For That Apples, oranges and ... squirrel? A new interactive map pinpoints more than a half-million locations around the world open to foraging for typical and not-so-typical free foods. |
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Want To Forage In Your City? There's A Map For That Apples, oranges and ... squirrel? A new interactive map pinpoints more than a half-million locations around the world open to foraging for typical and not-so-typical free foods. |
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Drought Puts The Squeeze On Already Struggling Fish Farms The year's dry, hot weather forced aquaculturists to spend a lot more to keep their fish healthy and fed. For US catfish farmers, though, already suffering from competition with Asia, the drought has been an especially hard blow. |
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No More Shame: Boxed Wine Now Comes In A High-End Fashion Purse Boxed wine suffers a reputation for being cheap and generally lousy. Plus, a box can't really compete visually with a sleek glass bottle. So a Swedish company has reshaped the box into a purse, for easy transport and improved lines. |
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Seattle's First Urban Food Forest Will Be Open To Foragers A community group in Seattle is transforming a 7-acre plot of land into a forest of fruit trees where neighbors will be encouraged to forage and meet each other. |
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The High Price Of Caring For A Loved One With Alzheimer's Caring for loved ones with Alzheimer's disease can drain families' bank accounts. But there is also a high emotional price to be paid. The administration's federal budget would fund more support for family caregivers. |
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Can Gardening Help Troubled Minds Heal? Psychiatrists have long claimed that gardens hold healing powers for mental illness. Now, scientists are exploring a new field called horticultural therapy for everyone from troubled youth to veterans. But just how gardens affect the brain remains mainly a mystery. |
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Family Acceptance Key In Preventing Gay Youths From Considering Suicide Strong family support can help protect gay and lesbian teens from considering suicide, a study finds. A previous suicide attempt is an important, predictive risk factor for trouble. |
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Does Offering Smaller Portions At Restaurants Help People Eat Less? Asking for less food isn't something most people think about when ordering from a menu. A new study suggests that asking people if they want less food and, in turn, fewer calories, before they order is key. |
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Tick Tally Reveals Lyme Disease Risk Researchers counted more than 5,000 ticks to calculate the risk of Lyme disease in the Eastern U.S. Turns out the risk is high in the Northeast and nearly zero in the South. |
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Here's A Pie In Your Eye: A Brief History Of Food Fights Whether throwing it, dumping it or serving it, protesters have used food to express their discontent with public figures for centuries. The delivery of 500 tacos to a Connecticut mayor's office is just the latest incarnation. |
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Alice Waters: Picture Perfect As The Constant Gardener A portrait of the Chez Panisse chef was recently unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery. If Waters could have her way, she says kids would grow their own food and cook it for breakfast, lunch and snacks all year round. |
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A Permanent Home That Allows Drinking Helps Homeless Drink Less Homeless people may stand a better chance of improving their health when offered a permanent place to live without a requirement for sobriety, the results from a Seattle center suggest. |
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How One Former Vegan Learned To Embrace Butchering To connect better to community and food, one twenty-something has trained to become a butcher. |
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Virtual Victuals: A Gamer Turns Video Game Food Into Real Food Mushrooms and cherries first taught gamers what food can do in games. Now, one gamer has taken the food from the virtual world and put it on the dinner plate. |
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Marathon Runners Face Low Risk Of Cardiac Arrest Participation in long-distance running events has doubled over the past decade, and race-related cardiac arrests have increased, too. Even so, the risk is low, a study finds. Undiagnosed, pre-existing heart conditions are the biggest source of trouble. |
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Nicotine Patches Up Early Memory Loss In Study Nicotine patches helped improve memory for patients on the road to dementia or Alzheimer's disease. But doctors didn't find the change meant they people did better on everyday problems. |
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No Surgery Required For Some Stabbing, Shooting Patients More hospitals are watching and waiting instead of operating on some patients with gunshot or stab wounds, a new study finds. Exploratory surgery, long the norm in such cases, may be safely skipped some of the time. |
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The Perfect Champagne Pour: It's A Science, Not An Art   When it comes to champagne, scientists have found it's best to chill it and tilt it to preserve the fizz. |
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Build-A-Bear Workshop Recalls Colorful Hearts Teddy Bears Build-A-Bear Workshop has recalled three products in the past year. The most recent one? The Colorful Hearts teddy bear eyes could come loose and pose a choking hazard for children. |
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What The World Eats For A Better, Luckier 2012 On New Year's Eve, don't open the front door in Denmark, look out for falling furniture in Italy and chew lightly when eating black-eyed peas in the South of the U.S. |
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Transplants Bring New Faces In 2011 Surgeons make full-face transplants a reality for people with severely disfigured faces. Three such operations were performed successfully in Boston this year, a turning point in the field. |
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Journal Retracts Key Study Linking Virus To Chronic Fatigue Syndrome The journal Science has withdrawn a study from 2009 that suggested an obscure virus causes chronic fatigue syndrome. The findings raised patients' hopes for effective treatments. But scientists who raced to confirm the viral link failed to do so. |
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To Party Like Rock Stars, They Suggest Buying Their Booze This year saw musicians, athletes and actors launching their own lines of beer, wine and mescal. The list includes the boy band Hanson, which premiered an India pale ale called MMMHop. |
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When Smugglers Try To Transport Drugs In Cheese From nacho cheese to watermelons to macaroni, drug smugglers sometimes turn to food to get their illicit cargo across the U.S. border. |
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Bedbug Infestations Are A Family Affair Bedbugs' eagerness to mate with their kin is one reason their populations have taken off so dramatically, new research suggests. Inbreeding comes naturally to them, and it doesn't seem to hurt their offspring much, as is the case with most other creatures. |
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To Kill Or Not To Kill Horses That Others May Eat? President Obama has signed a bill to reopen slaughterhouses for horses. While some animal welfare groups say the facilities are inhumane, others say the alternative is no better. |
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Tainted Nectar? Consumer Group Warns Of Arsenic In Fruit Juice Dangerous levels of arsenic and lead have been detected in juices found in many supermarkets. Consumers Union is calling for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to set a new standard to protect kids. |
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End Of An Era: Lipitor Goes Generic Two new generic brands of cholesterol-lowering medication threaten sales to Pfizer's number one selling drug - Lipitor. Good news? More people can afford it now. |
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Photographer Captures Plight Of The Tiger Fewer than 3,200 tigers exist in the wild. Photographer Steve Winter traveled to Asia to document their perilous situation. |
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GAVI To Make HPV Vaccine Available In Developing Countries About 88 percent of cervical cancer deaths occur in developing countries. The deaths can be prevented by an HPV vaccine, which will be available to some women for the first time in 2012. |
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Emergency Room Closures Hit Minorities, Poor Hardest When a California hospital closes its emergency room, many residents may feel the effect. And according to a new report, hospitals whose patients tend to be black or on Medicaid are more likely to shut down their ERs than others. |
