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After tomato plants were taken back to Europe from the New World in the early 1500s, people in various places considered the fruit poisonous for the next two centuries. The reasoning behind the fear of tomatoes came from several sources:1. Rich people ate tomatoes and then died. Their fancy pewter plates were later found to be the reason.2. Scientists of the time classified the tomato as a deadly nightshade and a mandrake -both scary terms. 3. Tomato leaves smell awful, so one researcher pronounced the entire plant toxic.4. Scary-looking worms infested tomato plants. An article at Smithsonain's Food and Think blog explains each of these concerns, which lingered far into the 1800s, plus a bonus video containing a scene from Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. Link (Image credit: Flickr user Kicki Holmén)

John Brownlee at Fast Company: There are two reasons. One is practical; the other spiritual, about the way we look at what technology represents to the future. Let’s start with the practical. ... "It’s too hard to work with. Wood is alive."

If a dalek once thought it was a soufle-baking girl, then it's totally possible that one might one day believe it is The Doctor. When that day comes, Megan Murphy knows exactly how the impersonator will dress -no matter which incarnation the dalek decides to impersonate.Link Via The Mary Sue

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From the Occupy Gezi Pics tumblr: "A young girl in a Burger King restaurant on Sunday, after she managed to escape the tear gas outside. The caption reads: 'Spring will come again. I promise you.'" A young girl in a Burger King restaurant on Sunday

Ice cold Coke in a bottle is wonderful, but the Colombia division of the ad agency Ogilvy & Mather has gone even further. It made and served bottles of Coke made of solid ice. I'd love to try that!You can watch a promotional video at the link.Link -via Unconsumption

(Video Link)So this little fox may not have been smart enough to keep its head out of the jar, but at least he knew that these humans might just be kind enough to help him out of his predicament. While I'd like to think he'd learn his lesson about trying to lick the good stuff out of the bottom of jars, John still gets his head caught in our giant plastic jar of cheese puffs all the time, so I can't say I expect more from the fox.Via Geekosystem

Some not so good news coming out of Milan, Italy today with a judge sentencing Dolce & Gabbana designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana to 20 months in jail for tax evasion.  Reuters reports: The case dates back to an investigation that began in 2008, when authorities unleashed a tax avoidance crackdown as the financial crisis began to bite. But the probe that ensnared the two designers is one of the few high-profile cases to come to trial so far. The judge on Wednesday ruled that the pair sold their brand to Luxembourg-based holding company Gado in 2004 to avoid declaring taxes on royalties of about 1 billion euros ($1.3 billion). The pair have always said they are innocent. “Everyone knows that we haven’t done anything,” Gabbana tweeted in June 2012 after the trial was ordered. But Gabbana’s only reaction so far on Wednesday was to tweet a close up photograph of the branch of a colorful citrus tree, just seconds after the verdict.