RADIOACTIVITY & BANANAS

"If you carry a produce truck full of banans, you might encounter some problems."



source: http://chemistry.about.com/b/2011/07/10/bananas-are-radioactive.htm

Spicy food

Your soup can taste like you

Source:
http://www.japanprobe.com/2007/07/15/japanese-theme-park-opens-ramen-bath/

Smell experience

Guided by your nose in cities, design and urban planning experienced in a deeper way.
The city enters yours while breathing. And when you open your mouth, your smell is actually solicited too.
Nicola Twilley talks with Victoria Henshaw about fragrances and cities:
http://www.ediblegeography.com/smell-designing-sheffield/

Check this post and all its links!

Erwin Wurm- Gilbert & George : "Drinking Sculptures"

Photo © Ottomura

Erwin Wurm's "Drinking Sculptures" (2011) at Middelheim Museum, Antwerp

See also Gilbert and George Drinking Sculptures:

Gilbert and George, a Drink

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/audio/2007/feb/15/gilbert..george.discuss.drinking.sculptures

Washing out your mouth with soap

Image courtesy of Stockbyte/Getty

Washing out mouth with soap is a form of physical punishment. It is most commonly administered to children for actions such as cursing, lying, or talking back. It is considered symbolic of cleansing out a dirty mouth but is used primarily because some people feel that the foul taste of soap is an effective deterrent to unacceptable behavior. It was a common method of punishment in the first half of the 20th century but has declined in popularity significantly since the 1960s. Historically, it has been practiced primarily in the United Kingdom, Australia and United States. Today it is a controversial practice, with some parents, child experts, and other persons who spend time around children practicing and/or advocating for it, others refusing the practice, and some even opposing its use by others. Opposition to this punishment has grown in recent decades as its use has declined.
from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washing_out_mouth_with_soap


For nice words coming out of your mouth, try this:
Boil 2.5 cups of water. Add in 1 teaspoon of fresh mint leaves, 1 teaspoon of rosemary leaves, ad 1 teaspoon of anise seeds. Let this boil for about 20 minutes. Once it is cooled, you've got your mouthwash!
http://planetgreen.discovery.com/food-health/homemade-natural-mouthwash.html



See also:
Bitter and sweet and behavior
http://descouleursdanslabouche.blogspot.com/2011/05/envy-and-bitterness-in-mouth-one-flavor.html


ALERT:
http://www.ausfoodnews.com.au/2011/11/04/mouthwash-recalled-over-bacterial-contamination-fear.html

Breeding hybrid fruits

Making hybrids. Scary though interesting ideas.
Like the Pomato (Potato + Tomato) which roots and fruits are both growing common edible on the same tree.

Feeding tomatoes with the same food we eat (fish, meat, various other rootstocks) is an other interesting idea but brings up more SciFi memories.




The daughter of a strawberry & a pineapple:
the Pineberry



Source:

http://www.fruitsinfo.com/hybrid-fruits.php
http://www.theawl.com/2011/09/hybrid-fruit-will-kill-us-all
http://americanpomological.org/registrars.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904900904576552543026705926.html?mod=djemITP_h

Counter cultural movements can be told through their stomachs

Food provided during Occupy Wall Street, oct 16th 2011

The history of counter cultural movements can be told through their stomachs. Sustenance is an oppressed group’s most basic demand, and protesters have often employed it to help voice their beef with the mainstream. The rising cost of bread and salt helped set off the French Revolution. Salt was a key element in Gandhi’s nonviolent protest against the British. Sixties-era communards gathered around recipes like “Heart in Surprising Sauce” or “Brotherhood Spirit in Flesh Soup.” Even Coca-Cola took on a symbolic role during the lunch counter sit-ins of the 1960s. Before it was reclaimed by the modern-day Republican fringe, the Tea Party was, of course, an 18th century protest against tea taxes.

Source:
http://www.good.is/post/watch-your-mouth-the-protest-food-of-occupy-wall-street/
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2011/10/the-long-marriage-of-vegetarianism-and-social-activism/

Poop powered bike

Bowel movements can put wheels in motion. Here subtly designed, TOTO Bikes.
The toilet motorcycle will take off on a month-long journey from Kyushu to Tokyo. The toilet bike can chat to you while you’re doing your BIOGAS business on a variety of subjects like fortune-telling, stocks, or even the weather...

 

Source:
http://tototalk.jp/
via

See also:
http://descouleursdanslabouche.blogspot.com/2011/01/alimentation-vs-couche-dozone.html
http://descouleursdanslabouche.blogspot.com/2011/04/color-royal-horse-shit.html

Toilet tweet

Environ toutes les 5 minutes, un tweet est émis depuis les toilettes : ###

Graines, noyaux. Drogues et poisons.

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Test d'héroïne, morphine, codéine, opium...

Si vous êtes gardien de prison, agent de la paix ou sportif de haut niveau, évitez les graines de pavots dans vos recettes préférées. Elles pourraient vous valoir votre poste en cas de contrôle sanguin ou test d'urine surprise.

La consommation de pavot quelques jours avant le test trahira votre consommation d'héroine, morphine etc.

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Crâne sculpté dans un noyau de pêche.

Crânes sculptés dans des noyaux de cerise

Les pépins de pomme, poire etc sont des ß-bloquants, ils ralentissent votre rythme cardiaque. Avec la bonne quantité absorbée, votre coeur pourra ralentir jusqu'à 0,5 bpm.
De même pour les noyaux de cerise, pêche, abricot, prune, amande amère... qui contiennent eux aussi du cyanure...

Pour information, l'iguane des Galapagos peut, lui, consciemment contrôler le rythme de ses battements de coeur sans avoir recourt à quelconque ingestion.




Source :
Guide pratique de toxicologie, Franz-Xaver Reichl
http://www.amazon.fr/gp/search?index=books&linkCode=qs&keywords=280414626X
http://www.fda.gov/

Images :
http://www.shamey.com/pit/pit.htm
http://www.testdrogue.fr/test-urinaire/18-heroine-morphine-bandelette.html

Envy and bitterness in the mouth: one flavor for a feeling

"Before Indians share good news—first rank in an examination, a job, a promotion, birthdays, anniversaries, engagement, marriage, birth of a child, purchase of a car or flat—we distribute sweets. Why? Simple. To prevent people's tongue from getting sour with envy. To prevent bitterness from forming in their mouth." Devdutt Pattanaik

Mangez equilibré

Interprétation des données actualisées par différents centres de recherches sur les nutriments favorables à la meilleure santé mais aussi (suivant la force de gravité sur les ballons, ce qu'il faudrait surveiller pour rester en forme...)
Par David McCandless et Andy Perkins

Excellente Source : http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/snakeoil-scientific-evidence-for-health-supplements/

à noter : Les commentaires mentionnent quelques imprecisions mais l'idée est là et le projet superbe.