Fussy eating toddlers, not the fault of parents.

[stryder]

Two-year-old Alice does not like meat and only eats broccoli with ketchup, but scientists researching toddlers' eating habits do not blame her parents.

Instead, her fussy food preferences are - largely - down to who she is and the genes she has inherited.  They play a key role in her willingness to eat, or even try, new foods.

But parents are not completely off the hook - children's behaviour can be changed, UK research into nearly 2,000 sets of 16-month-old twins suggests.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-37642587

(I thought this might be an interesting article to some considering the vegetarian/vegan topics recently.)

[Secular Sanity]

Professor Adrian Cheok has a new solution.  He’s created a device that could help children enjoy vegetables.  It can make vegetables taste like chocolate.  It could allow people to switch to healthier food choices.  

Hmm…maybe I could become a vegan after all.

Check out some of his other applications.  Can you imagine tasting food from a restaurant by using an app on your smart phone, and then the restaurants start charging you for virtually tasting each dish?  Hackers come in. "Someone’s been tasting my porridge."  Or perhaps, parents having to restrict their anorexic daughters from the app.  Was it in that Bruce Willis movie, "Surrogates" where a guy dies from an addiction to virtual porn?  That would add new twist to future presidential statements, wouldn't it?  "I did not have sexual relations with that woman."  

What are some applications of mixed reality?

Telepresence will of course be a big example of how mixed reality can be applied. If we can transmit all five senses, telepresence would allow people to really feel like they are together. They could touch each other, or even share a dinner together, even though they may be on totally different sides of the world. Mixed reality devices can also create new kinds of communication. If you can digitally taste and smell, then you can have an app on your smartphone and virtually taste and smell a dish at a famous restaurant. Another big benefit is also of collaboration. For example, you could collaborate with one or many people, like cooking a dish together through the internet. Another application that mixed reality will lead to is new kinds of learning. For example, instead of reading a book or watching a movie about ancient Rome, you could feel what it’s like to be there and even taste and smell what it’s like to live in an ancient city. This would create a totally new kind of learning because we humans learn very much experientially.

http://mixedrealitylab.org/

http://www.city.ac.uk/news/2016/october/...new-device

[C C]

What are some applications of mixed reality?

Augmented reality (AR) is a subcategory of mixed / hybrid reality. In terms of prognostications about it from the past, AR (or one of the range of types along the spectrum it belongs to) reminds me of Jack Vance's The Eyes of the Overworld, originally published in the mid '60s. It was a kind of sequel to his internationally renown The Dying Earth, that was set millions of years in the future. The seemingly magical relics, marvels, powers, beasts, and beings of that era were actually the result of forgotten technologies of ancient cultures.

The novel's sly, narcissistic anti-hero begins a long journey back home starting with the Land of Cutz. The inhabitants there had discovered lenses which when worn and viewed through, transformed huts into opulent palaces, tattered clothing into noble attire, a meal of porridge into a royal feast, ugly men and women into beautiful people, etc. The optical devices elevated their squalid life in the mundane world to one of exalted appearances in the virtual enhancement (the "Overworld").

Since there was a limited number of lenses, two classes had formed: The elite who enjoyed the augmented reality of the Overworld; and those who became the providing servants of them so as to eventually earn their turn when one of the elite (usually seniors) passed away. That chapter played upon the farcical vanity and pretentiousness of the lens wearers and the devout subservience of the underclass, all founded upon illusion.

[Secular Sanity]

I'll have to read more about that.  It's a fascinating premise.  Wow, C C,  you have a lot of information crammed in your head.  You'd make a great dinner party guest.

[RainbowUnicorn]

Two-year-old Alice does not like meat and only eats broccoli with ketchup, but scientists researching toddlers' eating habits do not blame her parents.

Instead, her fussy food preferences are - largely - down to who she is and the genes she has inherited.  They play a key role in her willingness to eat, or even try, new foods.

But parents are not completely off the hook - children's behaviour can be changed, UK research into nearly 2,000 sets of 16-month-old twins suggests.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-37642587

(I thought this might be an interesting article to some considering the vegetarian/vegan topics recently.)

Taste as much as perception and neurology is very much a science in its infantcy
thousands of years of genetic memory to code specific response to poisons to enable survival of the species.
howmany generations has broccoli been used as a primary single taste food source for small children ?