How Carrots Help Us See The Color Orange

One of the easiest ways to identify an object is by its color -- perhaps it is because children’s books encourage us to pair certain objects with their respective colors. Why else would so many of us automatically...

Vision's Three Would-Be Kings

Here is a great backgrounder on the 3 Vision party candidates shooting to become Vancouver's next mayor."Voters won't go to the polls until November, but the contest to become the mayoral candidate for Vancouver's...

Eating Fruits And Veggies To Reduce The Risks Of Cancer

"Remember when your mom told you to eat your vegetables? When you couldn't get up from the table until you'd finished your broccoli, peas and carrots? When there was no dessert until you ate your green beans? It seems that mom might have been on to something. That's because...

Snow, carrots, Ugly Betty and more

Discover the goings on inside handbag.com (UK's biggest website) and inside a London surburban house, via one of handbag's brilliant editors

Baby Carrots Aren’t Babies At All …

I think I feel better about eating them now that I know they aren't babies...!But the other thing I note from this story is how hideous it is that carrots are/were discarded for being the "wrong" shape. I would like...

Canadian with nothing better to do can watch a turkey cooking

"Turkey TV will hit the air holiday Monday featuring nothing but a 10-pound roasting turkey surrounded by carrots, tomatoes and fresh greens in front of a traditional wood-fired oven. Highlights of this riveting new...

Sight worries? Try looking beyond carrots

"Carrots may not really help you see in the dark, but brightly coloured yellow and green vegetables do have similar sight-enhancing properties, a study published yesterday says. According to the Journal of...

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