Ben Reade

Food

This Kitchen Smells Like Bacon and Pine Needles

01.06.17

By Edith Salminen
Food

Why Researchers Are Spending £177,088 and Three Years Studying Deep-Fried Mars Bars

10.19.15

By Phoebe Hurst
Food

Why Scotland Needs Its Own Food Lab

09.13.15

By Ben Reade
Food

Can Americans Learn to Love Scottish Food?

06.10.15

By Alex Swerdloff
Food

Eating Toadstools and Buried Lamb Near the Arctic Circle

09.24.14

By Ben Reade
Food

You Should Be Cooking with Blood

04.23.14

By Ben Reade

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Music

More Genres (And Artists) I Would Add to the ‘Dad Rock’ and ‘Cigarette Mom’ Musical Canon

Dad Rock and Cigarette Mom genres often boil down to a simple concept: mainstream music that white people like. Here’s more of that.

3 hours ago

By Lauren Boisvert
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Music

North Carolina Man Must Pay Back the Millions He Acquired in First-Ever Streaming Fraud Case

Michael Smith used AI-generated songs and bots to scam millions from streaming platforms since 2017, and now must face the music.

4 hours ago

By Lauren Boisvert
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Life

Norovirus Turns Cruise Ship Into a Poop-and-Vomit Wonderland. Here’s How This Keeps Happening.

Cruise ships may be affordable and accessible, but the trade-off is spending your vacation on a giant floating petri dish of disease.

6 hours ago

By Luis Prada
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Life

NASA’s Hubble Caught a Comet Breaking Up in Real Time, and the Images Are Wild

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers captured detailed images of a comet as it began to tear itself apart.

6 hours ago

By Luis Prada
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Life

Scientists Discovered a New Dinosaur Species in South Korea, and It’s Named After a Cartoon

Paleontologists in South Korea have identified a new dinosaur species and named it after a beloved Korean cartoon character.

6 hours ago

By Luis Prada