Movie Pirates
An articles from the Globe and Mail. Prices of DVD burners and DVD blanks are dropping. So how come movie pirating isn't on the rise? For one thing, value. Who wants to pirate a movie, when all you're going to get is only the movie? Most DVDs today come chock full of additional features that adds value to the discs. That, the dropping prices of DVDs and the difficulty you have to go through to copy DVD movies just makes it not worth the time. Goes to show you, if the music industry would stop whining and drop CDs to $5, maybe they'd stop losing sales.
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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