Taste for meat made humans early weaners | Anna Gosline
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6921
“A taste for meat prompted early humans to wean their children at a young age. The idea explains why we now wean our infants years earlier than other great apes. […] the nutritional benefit of eating meat at a younger age would have helped children’s brains to grow and develop more quickly. Human brains grow three times quicker than those of chimpanzees.”

Forget takeout, eat a print-out | Celeste Biever
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6983&feedId=online-news_rss20
“It is not quite the stuff of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but the fare coming out of Homaru Cantu’s kitchen is just as bizarre. In Roald Dahl’s famous children’s book, chewing gum is made to taste like a three-course meal. Cantu, a cordon-bleu chef, has modified an ink-jet printer to create dishes made of edible paper that can taste like anything from birthday cake to sushi. ‘You can make an ink-jet printer do just about anything,’ says Cantu, who is head chef at the Moto restaurant in Chicago, US, and a keen advocate of the high-tech kitchen. The printer’s cartridges are loaded with fruit and vegetable concoctions instead of ink, and the paper tray contains edible sheets of soybean and potato starch. Cantu then prints out tasty versions of images he has downloaded from the web.”