Baghdad Express
As the inevitable slide towards war occurs, new stories surface to keep us occupied. Nothing much is happening yet, so the media fills the pages with stories like what might happen (see Time magazine's take on how the war may be fought) - like this article from MIT's Technology Review. Saddam was once, a long time ago, going to build a subway system for Baghdad - it got cancelled. So whatever happen to the tunnels? Could they still exist? Developed into underground storage facilities to hide his 'terror' wepons of 'mass destruction.' This is a creative article that will keep you sated until the war start. What the US will find after they take control of Iraq will probably be just dull, boring and sandy.
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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