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Is the future of food simply nutrition?

"In a world already engaging in panicked speculation about the end of Chipotle guacamole, the possibility that food will become a luxury item and humans will have to find an alternative, more resource efficient means of nutrition does not seem too far-fetched."

http://casemagazine.net/recently/our-daily-soylent-future-of-food

Our Daily Soylent: The Future of Food by Philip Menchaca When I learned that Soylent, a food substitute created in Rob Rhinehart's Silicon Valley blender, began shipping to U.S. consumers this month, I had only one thought: they can pry my food from my cold, dead hands. Admittedly, having spent the afternoon boiling a ham bone, I was ov…

"I try to craft the perfect response. One for women everywhere. This is a teaching moment; what will be a lesson the boys will never forget. I’m a Smith grad, a social worker, a Simone de Beauvoir reader. And I have no clue what to say. You’re a pig. F**k off. Grow up. With every response I think of, I picture them reading it aloud, laughing and calling me prude or uptight, then texting the next girl in the address book. No text can convey how I feel."

Show Us Ur Ti***es By Anna Hogeland “U should send us a pic of ur titties,” reads a text message from my hometown area code. I don’t recognize the number. On the off chance this is actually for me from someone I know, I ask who it is. They tell me who they are: a group of boys from high school, platonic friends with w…

Thea Hogarth on MOOCs, net neutrality, and the many paradoxes of online education.

"As education begins to migrate online, it won't necessarily change its audience if students have to pay a premium to internet companies to access educational content."

http://casemagazine.net/recently/2014/5/13/internet-school-online-education

Internet School By Thea Hogarth It’s a typical college class. The students lumber in and the professor plops her books down on the podium, which the microphone picks up a bit too clearly. She – the professor – begins to make some opening announcements as the students get settled. She implores them to do the reading…

Roxane Gay on bell hooks and Queen Bey.

"It's quite the contradiction to want to overthrow the patriarchy but to also believe that, even now, the patriarchy is so omnipotent that women are incapable of making empowered decisions when they make decisions that don't toe the feminist party line."

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/12/beyonce-bell-hooks-slave-terrrorist?CMP=twt_gu

Beyoncé's control of her own image belies the bell hooks 'slave' critique | Roxane Gay Roxane Gay: Women have to believe that we can hold different points of view without labeling each other bad feminists

In America, most recorded violence is committed by men. Olivia Haber-Greenwood argues that such violence is the result of an acculturated sense of entitlement and unease with threatening of masculine power.

"Violence is a public act, even when it occurs on an intimate level, and is always engaging with larger cultural norms about how to behave, how to be a man, and how to be a woman. "

http://casemagazine.net/recently/wherearethegunwomen

Where Are the Gunwomen? May 7, 2014 by Olivia Haber-Greenwood Why is it that men are so much more likely than women to commit violence? I was just looking at the comprehensive list on wikipedia of every school shooting since the 1800s. I don’t recommend doing this. I don’t know why I was doing it myself. But I was. And the…