New Nuclear Weapons
From Wired Online: the US has opened production of new nuclear warheads to add to its already formidable arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. Have they gone nuts down south? Apparently. It doesn't seem enough that the US already has conventional capacity to blow up just about any country in the world, they also seem to need the ability to manufacture nuclear weapons at an increased capacity. The last US nuclear warhead producing plant was closed back in the late 1980s by the FBI due to environmental concerns. Since then, the US has had only it's current capacity of nuclear weapons, as wells as 5,000 warheads in reserve. Enough firepower to blowup the planet.
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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