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Alex Assali fled Syria eight years ago. He finally made it to Germany last year. Now Assali can be found on the streets of Berlin distributing the food he cooked for the homeless.

Researchers from the University of Hawaii and Cornell University are asking you to send them long-lasting recipes. They want to help NASA determine an extremely durable menu to keep astronauts fed, should the agency send people on a four-month journey to Mars.

The National Coalition for the Homeless says about 30 cities have some kind of ban on distributing free food. In San Antonio, a homeless advocate says the city is turning what she does into a crime.

Author Eric Deggans dissects coverage of events such as Hurricane Katrina, the Trayvon Martin case and the 2012 presidential election to build an argument that Americans lack the right vocabulary for talking about race. And the echo chambers of our fractured media landscape, he adds, don't help.

Rose George spent several weeks aboard a container ship to research Ninety Percent of Everything, her book about the shipping industry. She writes, "There are more than one hundred thousand ships at sea carrying all the solids, liquids and gases that we need to live."

Food insecurity was already high in Detroit before the pandemic; now it's increased. Ederique Goudia and Raphael Wright are among those trying to help.

A Hawaiian firm has become one of the first to launch deep-sea fish farms. In waters some 200 feet deep, Kona Blue is raising fish in giant netted cages. The company says this type of large-scale, open-ocean aquaculture may be the answer to the world's over-fishing woes.

American mothers as a whole do not breast-feed their babies as much as medical professionals would like. Health experts say African-American moms are less likely to nurse than whites and Hispanics. The federal government, some hospitals and nonprofits are trying different strategies to close the breast-feeding gap among black women.

The presiding judge in the case of a brain-damaged woman in Florida rules that the feeding tube keeping Terri Schiavo alive can be removed, despite efforts by congressional Republicans to delay the removal.

Pope John Paul II is being fed through a nasal tube in order to boost his calorie intake, the Vatican says. The announcement followed the pontiff's unexpected brief appearance at his window over St. Peter's Square in Rome, during which he tried, but was unable, to speak.