Prickly Painkiller: Scientific American

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Ethnographic tools examine human behavior

You, Under the Retail Microscope By Ben Steverman -, bloomberg.com Fred­er­ic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images It’s the clas­sic hol­i­day face-off. On one side, you have the wary shop­per, who is often “just brows­ing” and more and more like­ly to pur­chase only online. On the other, there’s the sales­per­son, wh… RT @BloombergNews: How stores use … Continue reading Ethnographic tools examine human behavior

Microscopic reasons to stop eating fast foods

An Electron Microscope Reveals The Hidden Horrors Of Processed Foods By Belinda Lanks, fastcodesign.com Photographer Caren Alpert wants you to take a good, hard look at what you eat. One of the most pow­er­ful tools in a sci­en­tist’s arse­nal is the scan­ning elec­tron micro­scope (SEM), which uses a beam of elec­trons to mag­ni­fy a spec­i­men … Continue reading Microscopic reasons to stop eating fast foods