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SXSW festival explores the heights of creativity in digital event, sets 2022 dates

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Braving the new online world in true style, South by Southwest (SXSW), the premier destination for creatives across the globe,...

Business

SXSW 2018 names 140 advisors for Accelerator Pitch Event

Tim Hinchliffe4 years ago

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The 10th annual SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event announces over 140 advisory board thought leaders of technology startups from around the globe for SXSW 2018....

Business

PermitZone officially launches to ease pain of securing building permits after winning industrial tech pitch at SXSW

Tim Hinchliffe5 years ago

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Coming fresh after winning $15K at SXSW's Industrial Technology Pitch Competition, PermitZone officially launches to help bring building permit acquisition...

Business Technology

Old school vs new school fundraising: How for-profit companies are helping non-profits in the digital age

Guest Contributor6 years ago

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Ted Decareau is the founder of Doofl, a mobile fundraising app in which users make fun “dares” or challenges with...

Technology

Three things that were different about the start-ups of SXSW 2013

Sara Morgan9 years ago

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Start-ups at 2013's SXSW weren't like the those of 2012.Entrepreneurs are building more than just social apps & they're coming from more diverse backgrounds

Entertainment

Big Motive’s Smart TV app shows what smart engineers can do #websummit

Piers Dillon Scott9 years ago

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We speak to the founder of Big Motive, whose Smart TV app, Motivision, allows users to make live purchases & will be launched at SXSW in March 2013.

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Mobile

Instagram arriving on Android “very soon”

Darren McCarra10 years ago

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Instagram, the hugely popular photo-sharing and filtering app, currently only available on iOS, is arriving on Android "very soon", having passed 27 million registered users in recent days.

Social Media

Google Circles: Google announces it’s creating a social network, again

Piers Dillon Scott11 years ago

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Google is in the process of developing a new social network called Google Circles, the search engine announced at South by Southwest Interactive today. It has long been rumoured that Google was working on one or a number of social networks and this announcement may be the result of the long mooted Google Me and Google Loop projects.

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As agricultural technology and processes advance, allowing for new sources of protein, it seems that society’s appetite for plant based food is on the rise.

In fact, Food Drive reports that plant-based food retail sales were worth $7 billion in 2020, showing a 27% growth rate overall for products that specifically replace animal-derived options, according to SPINS data released by the Good Food Institute and the Plant Based Foods Association (PBFA).

To explore this societal change to our diets, and the potential impact it might have on our psychology, we spoke with Dr. Uma Naidoo, Faculty Member at Harvard Medical School, an author, a Professional Chef, Culinary Instructor and Nutrition Specialist.

We kick off the show by hearing from Dr. Naidoo about how witnessing her grandmother cooking homemade meals using ingredients grown in her back garden influenced her career in psychology and nutrition.

We also discuss the philosophy around food, and how our diets reflect different beliefs, and why it is important to respect others’ beliefs and dietary choices. Dr. Naidoo explains that as a chef she was taught to respect food, and not demonize it, regardless of your own personal beliefs and choices.

She also highlights some impressive companies working in this space such as The Very Good Butchers who refer to themselves as “bean butchers.” Alongside other companies innovating new methods to produce protein sources for plant based meats, such as seaweed and algae via cellular agriculture.

Dr. Naidoo also explains the need for more research around the potential psychological benefits that plant based meats can offer.

She draws on the example that we know a plant rich diet leaning on lentils, beans, nuts and seeds can be very beneficial to mental health, but suggests it is still too early to assume that plant based meats might have the same effect.

Moreover, Dr. Naidoo also states that, even if you consume plant based meats from fast food chains, it is better to make them at home as these chains often use processed vegetable oils that are very inflammatory for the gut and can negatively affect mental health.