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Josie Garthwaite

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What We Know About the Earliest History of Chocolate (Smithsonian)

February 13, 2015 by Josie Garthwaite

The tools and flavors have changed, but the work of roasting and grinding fermented cacao beans, and mixing them with a few simple ingredients to create a divine food, is a practice that goes back to early Mesoamerican civilizations.

Categories: Lifestyle, Science, Smithsonian • Tags: cacao, California, chocolate, food, history, Mesoamerica, San Francisco, Startups

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Outside the Box: Eight No-Wrap Gift Ideas (The New York Times)

December 22, 2012 by Josie Garthwaite

Less than a week before Christmas, you can still find gifts that are both enjoyable and on the greener side.

Categories: Environment, Lifestyle, The New York Times

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Recycling Basics (Whole Living)

July 1, 2007 by Josie Garthwaite

Bottom line: Recycling reduces heat-trapping emissions at every stage, and there’s no better time than the present to step up the effort.

Categories: Environment, Lifestyle, Whole Living

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Coyotes now inhabit every state in the country except Hawaii, eating mostly rodents, rabbits, and fruit.

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Desert tortoises in the Mojave are able to survive a year or more without water and live for as long as 80 years.

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A nearly 10-foot-long relative of the centipede called the Arthropleura splashed through Inner Mongolia's swampland 298 million years ago.

— "Into the Permian Woods"

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