al-Jazeera
While hackers have successfully taken down the English version of al-Jazeera, the Arabic site continue to function. Word is that the English site will be back up sometime soon. Makes you wonder why the pro-US hackers would want to keep the English world from reading about the Gulf War from an Arabic perspective? Yes, they were pissed at al-Jazeera airing footage of US POWs ... but CNN, NBC, ABC and FOX have been airing footage of Iraqi POWs and no one lost their temper. If you can't get through to al-Jazeera's English site, check out what was captured by the Memory Hole before the site went offline.
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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