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Food

Preparing tiny (fake) food

June 24, 2011 – 9:58 am

Here’s a video of someone preparing tiny hamburgers, hot-dogs and fries (which aren’t edible). According to the video’s description, it’s a Japanese toy kitchen and cooking set (which unfortunately isn’t available anymore). What’s so incredible about this is that not just the food, but the processes during the preparation look so real. Like the frying of the fries, which really isn’t frying but just some sort of chemical reaction that creates the illusion of hot oil frying away.

As the people at Boing Boing put it: The mind boggles.

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From biggest donor to biggest recipient

May 11, 2011 – 1:44 pm

The Guardian takes a look at how people are coping with the enormous clean-up efforts after the Japanese Tsunami:

It is a phenomenal engineering and waste management challenge. The government estimates it will take three years to deal with the 25m tonnes of debris, which will have to be scrapped, burnt or recycled. This includes at least 16 towns, 95,000 buildings, 23 railway stations and hundreds of kilometres of roads, railway tracks and sea walls.

The World Bank estimates the cost at $235bn (£144bn), making it the world’s most expensive disaster. With charity pouring in from overseas, EU diplomats believe Japan – formerly the world’s biggest donor – may become the world’s biggest aid recipient this year.

 

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