So the chips are candied, the ground beef is made from chocolate, and the cheese is made from a shredded mango sorbet that gets shredded into liquid nitrogen to look like cheese.

This is a dish called crispy shredded beef, which has a lot of crisp, a lot of shred, and not a lot of beef.

And what looks like two big heaps of leaves, is actually two single leaves that get shredded up by the harsh desert conditions over time.

A third of the people we passed it to, they shredded it, they came to us and said, Mr. Experimenter, I solved X problems. Give me X dollars.

This disaster requires a continued commitment for the long term rehabilitation and reconstruction of the social and economic fabric that has been shredded in all the countries affected by the tsunami.

Vik Muniz makes art from pretty much anything, be it shredded paper, wire, clouds or diamonds. Here he describes the thinking behind his work and takes us on a tour of his incredible images.

He picks up a spoon, picks it up, scoops out some Shredded Wheat and milk, holds the spoon level as he translates it, moving all these joints simultaneously, to his mouth, and he doesn't drop any milk.

This translates into a higher proportion of plastics in the remnants of shredded end of life automobiles a contaminated mixture of plastics and non plastics that is usually disposed of through some combination of landfilling, incineration, and secondary recycling.

Moreover, even amid the shock and grief fueled by images of the bombing and the many victims with shattered, shredded limbs, Americans found at least a little bandwidth to comprehend that bombs are still a feature of daily life in Iraq and Syria.

It's like the front door of the office is like a Cuisinart, and you walk in and your day is shredded to bits, because you have 15 minutes here and 30 minutes there, and then something else happens and you're pulled off your work, and you've got to do something else, then you have 20 minutes, then it's lunch.