Why does Bush hate the Kyoto Accord?
OK, Bush is an idiot. He's in the pocket of businesses concerned more with the short term bottom line than with the long term viability of their companies and the planet they make their living out of. The gyst of it is Bush feels the Kyoto Accord is a waste of time and effort, and would rather have businesses voluntarily reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Hello? Does this man even pretend to live in the real world? Yes he does actually. But he really does believe that the Kyoto Accord is bad. He really does think that the environment isn't in such bad shape. How does one combat a belief such as that? And he does think he's right, and that eventually those that are trumpeting the warning will see his light. His latest efforts, after failing to bully Canada into abandoning the agreement is to make the call to Russia. Last year Putin was actually indicating he will sign on - this is noble coming from Russia, who has so much to loose economically for signing on. But the pressure is now on for Russia to drop the accord as the US wants.
The first chef
First came fire ... and then, as the camera shifts to the soon to be late-village idiot, you're left wondering -- just what was going through that mind -- and food is put on the fire, for the first time, and cooking is accidentally discovered by humanity. The first chef is ridiculed by grunts, then the local thug tries a sample of the burnt carcass, and soon, everybody gets queued at the McDonalds drive-thru. What happened? Richard Wrangham of Harvard believes there's more to cooking than evolutionary history would have you believe. Wrangham points out that there is no way homo sapiens could survive on just raw food. Raw food just doesn't give up calories as easily as cooked food -- and raw food makes the digestive system expend more energy to get at those calories. Cooking on the other hand breaks complex molecules down, allowing the digestive system to make easy work of them -- and cooking also softens food, allowing the body to get to the calories with less effort...
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