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Food App Review of the Week: Clinq

Clinq Developer: Arnold & Pearn Cost: $0.99 Runs on: iPhone Website: http://arnoldandpearn.com Version: 1.0 It always amazes me how creative apps can be. I’m sure there are 1,000 cocktail apps that can show you how to make a Manhattan, but I have yet to see one that informs the way Clinq does. In short, imagine a how-to cocktail guide created…
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Need Fiber? Let Me Print You a Cookie

In the not-too-distant future you will be able to program in the food you want and watch it printed out right in front of you—Jetson style. Technically, this can already be done. Jeffrey Lipton, a doctoral candidate at Cornell University’s Creative Machines Lab and chief technology officer of Seraph Robotics, have already demonstrated how this works. Using data and a…
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Celiac News: Diagnosis Up & Bread Back on the Menu

Researchers from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota found that between 2000 and 2010, the number of new cases of celiac disease increased from about 11 people per 100,000 to about 17 people per 100,000. This accounts for roughly 1 percent of Americans by their estimates. On the opposite side of the coin is bread, which is a bane for…
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Omaha’s Lost Restaurants: A Matchbook Retrospective

(written by Matthew Hansen-reprinted with permission from The Omaha World-Herald) Rich Yost was tidying the boxes in his basement when he happened upon his own personal chunk of Omaha restaurant history. He had forgotten almost completely about this, forgotten that he had collected tiny, free artifacts for decades and pasted them on a posterboard and displayed them proudly for visitors….
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Food App Review of the Week: Karen Martini

Karen Martini Developer: Karen Martini Media Cost: Free (+ in-app purchases) Runs on: iPhone Website: www.karenmartini.com Version: 1.0 Watch out, the Australians are coming! This past weekend golfer Adam Scott became the first Australian ever to win the Masters Golf Tournament and less than two weeks earlier, renowned Australian chef Karen Martini introduced her first app for the iPhone and…
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