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How Does McCormick Pick the Top Flavors of the Year?
Ten years ago, the spice company identified chipotle as a taste on the rise. They're back at it again with new predictions for 2013
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When Cane Juice Meets Yeast: Brewing in Ecuador
The sugarcane trail takes the author across the Andes, into liquor distilleries and from juice shack to juice shack as he pursues fermented sugarcane wine
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Korea’s Black Day: When Sad, Single People Get Together And Eat Black Food
Each year on April 14, singles in South Korea drown their sorrows in a bowl of black noodles
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What Makes the Trout in Ecuador Look Like Salmon?
Aiming to catch a few trout for dinner, the author decides to try his luck at one of the region's many "sport fishing" sites
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Tourists’ Photos Could Help Scientists Understand Whale Sharks
Every year, tourists take approximately a bazillion pictures. Most of them never wind up anywhere but someone's hard drive, never seen again, but some of those pictures might actually be useful. Especially if they're of whale sharks
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Thailand—Where it Never Snows—Wins Snow Sculpture Contest
The festival, billed as an international gathering point that "evokes a pristine snow fantasy," attracts around 2 million people each year
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Captive Sea Turtles Extract Their Revenge by Making Tourists Sick
Captive sea turtles in the Caymans can ruin a tourist's visit with a nasty dose of bacteria, viruses, fungi or parasites
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How to Revive a Lost Language
By the year 2100, the human race will have lost about 50% of the languages alive today. Every fourteen days a language dies. There are some success stories
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Bike, Bark, Bite, Blood: The Perils of Cycling in Rabies Country
An unfortunate run in with a mutt in Ecuador turned into a trip to the doctor's to be treated for rabies, a surprisingly fatal disease
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A Football Team With No One to Play Against
Listen closely around the public parks of Quito, Ecuador, and you just might hear that familiar sound: "Hut hut hike!"
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Tour the Grand Canyon From Your Computer With Google Street View
Now, thanks to Google, you don't need a plane ticket or hiking boots to experience some of the Grand Canyon's geologic magic
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Strange Ball in a Strange Place: Watching the Super Bowl in Ecuador
America's Biggest Game brings excitement, curiosity and some boredom to Ecuador
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Quantum Physicists Show What Time Travel Could Look Like
Quantum physics professors at the University of Ulm in Germany, have created a mathematically-accurate visual approximation of the hypothetical Gödel model of the universe. That is, they show what it would look like if you could simultaneously see past, present, and future versions of physical objects. Sandrine Ceurstemont of New Scientist, who compiled the video [...]
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Much Ado About Nothing at the Equator
Just north of Quito stands a grand and glowing tribute to one of Ecuador’s proudest features: the Equator. The problem is, it was built in the wrong place
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SpaceX Wants to Fix Boeing’s Faulty Batteries, Possibly to Embarrass Them
Elon Musk has been critical of Boeing in the past
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Parking Meters, Originally Meant to Keep Traffic Moving, Need an Update
The long history of the parking meter - innocent seeming towers behind much of today's driving woes
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Things to Do in Quito While Nursing Achilles Tendonitis
With its clean public parks, brewpubs, museums and tapas bars, Quito is a fine place to spend a week recovering from an injury
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This Is What Being a Google Maps Editor Is Like
Google maps is back on the iPhone, and thank goodness because the whole world could basically not function without it. But how does Google Maps get made?
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Ecuador, Land of Malaria, Iguanas, Mangoes and Mountains
The author leaves Peru behind and crosses into Ecuador, where he encounters his first sign of a mosquito
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Scientists Don’t Quite Know How This Cat Managed Her 200-Mile Trek Home
Holly the cat's 200 mile journey home has scientists wondering just how animals navigate
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