Humankind will have to eat maggots and other bizarre superfoods to avoid malnutrition, according to a new report.
UK researchers say traditionally-eaten plant-source foods, like barley, maize, fruits and vegetables, and animal-source foods, like meat, fish and eggs, are innately exposed to various acute and chronic stresses .
These include pests and disease, as well as environmental changes brought on by human-driven climate change.
The solution is to farm maggots (insect larvae) of the black soldier fly, house fly and mealworm beetle, at a mass scale for human consumption, they say.
Insects are well-known to be packed full of protein, nutrients, potassium, magnesium and three times more fatty acids than omega-3 in salmon.
Add ground insects to pasta and burgers to overcome food supply issues, scientists say Future foods could feed isolated communities and overcome trade issues, a new paper has said
State-of-the-art, enclosed and modular photo-bioreactors (PBR) to produce chlorella and spirulina algae.
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Maggots and insects should be ground up and put into pasta to tackle food supply problems, Cambridge University academics have said. Future foods which are more resilient to climate change and disasters could be used to make up for shortfalls in more traditional forms of protein, the researchers argue.
But overcoming public reticence to eat insect larvae and algae could be a challenge - with adding it to more familiar foods like pasta and burgers one possible solution.
April 22, 2021
From nuclear weapons to biowarfare to cyberattacks, humanity has much to overcome. Martin Rees and Frederick Lamb discuss the obstacles we must face as we look forward to humanity’s future on Earth.
What is the fate of humanity – and other living creatures – on planet Earth? In the 21st century, we humans hold the key. Image via NASA.
The American Physical Society met virtually this week, and – on April 19, 2021, at a press gathering – the U.K.’s Astronomer Royal Martin Rees and astrophysicist Frederick Lamb discussed some of the serious obstacles humans must overcome, in order to move forward in this century. Rees commented:
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Discover the stupidity of AI emotion recognition with this little browser game
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Tech companies don’t just want to identify you using facial recognition they also want to read your emotions with the help of AI. For many scientists, though, claims about computers’ ability to understand emotion are fundamentally flawed, and a little in-browser web game built by researchers from the University of Cambridge aims to show why.
Head over to emojify.info, and you can see how your emotions are “read” by your computer via your webcam. The game will challenge you to produce six different emotions (happiness, sadness, fear, surprise, disgust, and anger), which the AI will attempt to identify. However, you’ll probably find that the software’s readings are far from accurate, often interpreting even exaggerated expressions as “neutral.” And even when you do produce a smile that convinces your computer that