Big Brother?
Yes, there really is a Big Brother, and he looks out for Uncle Sam. Read the Wired.Online article about the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court - a secret government court made up of seven judges that decides whether to grant the FBI eavesdropping permission. Last year they granded a whopping 1,228 eavesdropping orders. Since the organization's inception in 1978, they've never turned down an FBI request. The FISA never has to reveal the details of the evidence brought before them, the files are sealed and not even those facing convitions against them are allowed to see what evidence was brought against them at the FISA. Scary? Well, considering the the FISA orders go beyond a common wiretapping order, to include physical searches of property, yes. Considering the number of orders increased last year by 30% .. yes, damn scary.
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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