Improving industrial full-scale production of baker's yeast by optimizing aeration control.
This work analyzes the control of optimum dissolved oxygen of an industrial fed-batch procedure in which baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) is grown under aerobic conditions. Sugar oxidative metabolism was controlled by monitoring aeration, molasses flows, and yeast concentration in the propagator along the later stage of the propagation, and...

V is for vegan cookies.
Just because you're vegan doesn't mean you should be deprived of home-style, yummy-gooey cookies. We taste-tested egg-and dairy-free varieties of traditional favorites, and selected these winners. classic type top vote-getter words of praise Chocolate chip Vegan Sweeties Addictive; I'd eat the Chocolate Chip crumbs; tastes fresh from...

Won't you be my neighbor?
When I was a kid, I was obsessed with PBS and definitely played sick more than once to stay home and watch their shows all day. But, my morn didn't complain, since, after all, their programs taught me to count. And it was Mr. Rogers, along with the lovable...

Dear EarthTalk: how can we get schools to offer healthier and more eco-friendly cafeteria food to our kids? I don't have time to bag a healthy lunch every day.
Now that many schools have stopped selling sodas and other unhealthy vending machine items to their students, improving the nutritional quality of cafeteria food is on the agenda of many parents and school administrators. And luckily for the environment, healthier food usually means greener food. Some forward-thinking...

Bling, Iranian-style: Nasrin Alavi returns to Tehran to take the temperature of a country under threat.
Until a decade ago one could easily pick up a second-hand Cartier or Rolex watch from the many jewellery shops scattered around Tehran. Pawned by the newly insolvent gentry, the sight was reminiscent of pre-revolution days when, for some, a Rolex watch was a standard gift you gave to...

Company index.
21st Century Holding Co. Abiomed Inc. Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. American Tower Corp. BearingPoint Inc. Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Biogen Idec BioScrip Inc. Blackbaud Inc. Blackboard Inc. CA Inc. ...

Why Jane Austen was different, and why we may need cognitive science to see it.
Something happened to the novel "around the time of Jane Austen" (vii) argues George Butte in his compelling reintroduction of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's discourse on phenomenology into contemporary literary and film studies, I Know That You Know That I Know: Narrating Subjects from Moll Flanders to Marnie. English writers began...

The goods life: your guide to Sarasota's best shopping.
FROM CUTTING EDGE TO preppy, from local kitsch to world-renowned status symbols, Sarasota is a treasure trove of retail diversity. While the region is rich in malls, big-box stores, warehouse clubs and its own destination outlet center, it's the locally owned boutiques and galleries that give our town its...

Rock around the Bloc.
Tom Stoppard, apparently the most English of playwrights, is in fact a Czech. When he was a baby, in 1939, his Jewish family fled Czechoslovakia just ahead of the Nazi invasion, ending up in Singapore and...

Natural neighborhoods: eco- and generation-conscious: explore with janeAnne Narrin how co-housing is just the thing for every generation.
Today, I had the good fortune to meet a woman whose diminutive size might belie her stance in the world. She's a mother, a grandmother, recently a great grandmother, and a powerful activist in the evolution of sustainable communities. Many consider her a local hero. This woman, let's call...