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Raisins are a food that picky eaters won't touch.

Can a Picky Eater Change Her Ways?

Most expand their culinary horizons as they get older, but a few people hold fast to limited diets of familiar things like macaroni and cheese

Joel McCrea, Dean Stockwell, and Ellen Drew in Stars in My Crown

Five Films About Faith

Movies that question your beliefs, from Steve Martin to Bengalese film to a nostalgic look at the old West

Consider food—and food-themed gifts—this holiday season.

Last Minute Food-Themed Gift Ideas

Food, jewelry, toys and books for those hard-to-shop-for people on your gift list

Three great picture books from 2011

A Trio of Outstanding Picture Books

Three more books to add to the Best of Childrens Books 2011 list

Gestational diabetes is a risk for older pregnant women.

The Gestational Diabetes Diet: Taking Carbs from a Pregnant Lady

The last thing a pasta-loving pregnant lady with a sweet tooth wants to hear is that she should cut out carbs

The foamy head of a Ramos gin fizz

Raise a Glass to Cocktail Science

Harvard scientists examine the science behind mixology and may help you build a better cocktail

A bakery in Puglia

Inviting Writing: What Do You Call That Cookie?

It is nearly impossible to find anything on the Internet when you have only a phonetic spelling from a foreign language

Sullenberger with his daughters in 2001 -- pre-fame

No Way to Treat a Hero

Would Chesley Sullenberger really want to be FAA Administrator?

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The Problem With Eureka

The son of Charles Darwin, a scientist in his own right, knows where the true secret to success lies

Jeremy Irvine and Joey in War Horse

Determining Who Made the Most Movies

Some directors make more movies than others. A lot more

Tail vertebrae from a previously known Alamosaurus specimen (A), compared with a newly-discovered Alamosaurus tail vertebra (B) and a tail vertebra from the large titanosaur Futalognkosaurus (C).

Alamosaurus Gets Pumped Up

New fossils give a body size boost to what may have been North America’s largest dinosaur, Alamosaurus

Political cookbooks come from all sides of the spectrum.

The Edible Is Political: Cookbooks from Both Sides of the Aisle

The cookbook has been a campaign tool for the women’s suffrage movement, John F. Kennedy and now Ron Paul

The future of your wallet

When a Smartphone Becomes a Wallet

They won’t go mainstream for a few years, but mobile wallets are finally starting to pick up steam in the U.S.

John Gillespie Magee Jr.

70 Years of “Slipping the Surly Bonds”

Whether you love it or hate it, John Gillespie Magee’s “High Flight” remains the most enduring of aviation poems

Gingerbread men

The Gingerbread Man and Other Runaway Foods

The tale of the gingerbread man is part of a genre of folklore about goodies gone wild, specifically “The Fleeing Pancake” stories

Charlize Theron (top) and Julia Roberts in competing Snow White movies.

Snow Whites, Asteroids, Bugs and Other Moments of Seeing Double at the Movies

What happens when filmmakers want to make the same film?

Only in Quebec, the tourtiere -- a holiday meat pie.

Tourtière: Québecois for Christmas

For French-Canadians, the must-have holiday food is a spiced meat pie

Shrimp and rice grits.

Rice Grits: Southern Comfort Food From Flaws

Nearly all of the intact grains were exported, but Carolinians developed a fondness for the faulty brokens, or middlins, that stayed at home

A plate of pizzelle

Inviting Writing: Must-Have Holiday Foods

Tell us, by Friday, December 9, what lengths you’ve gone to for your favorite celebratory dishes

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Thinking About the End of Film

Film is dying, according to several reports. Or maybe it isn’t. Alexander Payne, among others, chimes in

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