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Tuna, Mercury, Restaurants vs. Supermarkets

A study published in this month’s issue of Biology Letters investigated how much mercury was in restaurant tuna sushi versus supermarket tuna sushi, and correlated this to the species of the tuna via DNA [...]

Hard of hearing? Prone to combustion?

Hard of hearing? Prone to combustion? Well then, researchers at the Shiga University of Medical Science in Japan have just what you need! Using super secret technology from the future, or something like that, they’ve invented a smoke alarm that will wake you up by blowing synthetic wasabi fumes into the air. Supposedly, it’ll wake up the average Joe (or should I say, the average Hiroto) in about 2 minutes 30 [...]

Atlantic Bluefin may be off the menu…

o it seems that sushi made from Atlantic Bluefin may be off the menu after [...]

When your other choice is chicken nuggets…

So it turns out that high school kids like sushi, too. Probably not surprising considering that schools feed them an onslaught of frozen food that would probably make an older, more culinarily experienced audience’s stomach churn. Finally, many decades after it’s introduction to the Western diet, sushi will take its (rightful?) place along side pizza, chicken nuggets, and taco [...]

Sustainable Sushi

The Chicken of the Sea just got a little more [...]

Sushi --- Storing your data since 2009!

So just how much do you love sushi? Enough to put your important files on it and strap it to your cell [...]

Sushi Science ... Tuna may not be what you think

So we all know we’re not supposed to eat endangered species, and we all hope we’re eating what we think we’re eating. Well, according to a study performed by Columbia University and the Museum of Natural History and recently published in the scientific journal PLoS One that may not always be the case, especially when it comes to our delectable little friend the [...]