Best And Worst Geek Holiday Decor: From Santa Cthulhu To Fetus Baubles

Want to give your home some nerd cred for the holidays? Good news: geek decorations are better than ever — but some terrible crap is also being marketed to nerds. We rounded up the best and worst geek holiday decorations. More »

Best Diet Aid Ever: Science Fiction's Grossest Food Moments

If you're worried about overeating today, and need a good appetite suppressant, check out our video compilation of the scariest food moments from science fiction. Behold, the nastiest stuff that scifi has ever cooked up, or regurgitated back out. More »

Tasty Foods That Would Rather Eat You for Dinner

Thursday is Thanksgiving in the US, a time when families gather around the table and chow down on tasty treats. But, when it comes to being eaten, some foods are less agreeable than others; some would rather eat you. More »

Fantastical Food Technologies That Bite Back

This past weekend, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs showed us how even the most well-intentioned culinary devices can go awry. We look at other foodie technologies that prove deadly, dangerous, or will at least wreck your appetite. More »

The Joy of Cooking Human Flesh

Soylent Green may be made of people, but it’s also delicious. Human meat finds its way onto many a future dinner table and in a vast array of culinary delights. Whether you’re snacking on other folks to survive or just because you like the taste, we've found plenty of cannibalistic dishes to appease your appetite for human flesh. More »

Vat-Grown Meat About to Hit Your Local Market

In five years, you'll be eating a hamburger that no animal died for. Instead, that burger will have been grown from a tiny sample of cells in a plant-and-mushroom bath. The cow who donated the cells will be frolicking in a meadow somewhere, having long forgotten the annoying poke from a tissue engineer with a syringe. At a meeting in Norway of the In Vitro Meat Consortium late last week, scientists and entrepreneurs gathered to discuss the future of "cultured meat," or meat that's essentially grown like cultures in a lab (pictured here). This meeting, the first of its kind, signaled the beginning of a viable industry around the production of vat-grown meat. More »