Finding Nemo
I was taken to see the movie on Father's Day by my girls. I've always been a fan of Pixar Studio's work, and this one was no exception. The animation, the characters ... it was all well done. It's amazing the characterizations the animators could produce with fish. I highly recommend this movie for anyone with kids, as it will keep the little tykes occupied for a couple of hours. As a date movie, it would be great as well. While North Americans continue to think of animation as kids fare, it's not, and this movie, although it has a 'G' rating, is entertainment for anyone seeking entertainment. It's just plain fun!
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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