Speech Recognition
After decades of trying, and countless products hitting the market, but not quite hitting the mark, the speech recognition problem seems to be on the brink of embracing a solution. And just in time too. The internet is becoming multimedia rich, and text searches are only one way of obtaining information. Businesses mean while, are also moving to implement VOIP solutions, that will make it possible for voice data to be stored off the PBX. Think of the possibilities when you can not only search text databases for information, but your query could also tap into stored voice dialogue. And just when you thought you were hitting information overload.
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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