The Arrogant Empire
The US is about to go to war against Iraq. Deposing Saddam is a good thing. But the US has no justifiable reason to go to war. The world distrusts - and just about hates the US. They have big guns, so most of the world smile and fear to disagree. So how did the US get into this position? And why is Bush only making it worse? Read an honest, opinionated article from Newsweek magazine. Who knew that the American media still had balls?
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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