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Researchers at the Yale School of Medicine have conducted a study associatingovereating and cocaine addiction, but its conclusion is not the one you may expect. 
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"Virgin boy eggs" or eggs boiled in the urine of prepubescent boys preferably under the age of 10 are a popular spring time snack in China’s northeast city of Dongyang located in the middle of Zhejiang Province. The eggs are believed to provide remarkable health benefits such as reducing body heat, enhancing blood circulation and reinvigorating the body.
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The quest to grow meat in a lab rather than on an animal is due to reach its climax this fall, with the first-ever culture-dish hamburger served to a celebrity taster after a $330,000 development effort.
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What disgusts humans is proving irresistible to researchers exploring the evolutionary value of revulsion.
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How do we consume data? At TED@SXSWi, technologist JP Rangaswami muses on our relationship to information, and offers a surprising and sharp insight: we treat it like food. Articles about TEDTalks: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=TEDTalks
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The “Headless Chicken Solution” proposes (quoting Olivia Solon from Wired): “removing the cerebral cortex of the chicken to inhibit its sensory perceptions so that it could be produced in more densely packed conditions without the associated distress. The brain stem for the chicken would be kept intact so that the homeostatic functions continue to operate, allowing it to grow.” The homeostatic functions are of course necessary for the rest of the chicken’s body to function.
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Erica McAlister, an entomologist at the Natural History Museum, knows that the link between sex and food is nowhere so direct as in the mating life of the sagebrush cricket: the meal with which this amorous little guy woos his sweet love is himself. To keep his lady friend engaged during sex, he turns his wings into her willing and delicious meal. “They’re quite meaty,” McAlister told the group.
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