Google
Who would have thought? There's more to Google than meets the eye as this article from MIT's Technology Review proves. If you're like most people, you just go to Google, and type in your search - blindly. But, if you take a few minutes to learn how to use the search engine, you might actually get more value out of it. It's like every piece of software - it will do as much as you want it to do, and not much else. Of interest to me was the find that there is a Google Labs site, where you can find, among many other goodies, papers written by a lot of Google folks over the years. Other points of interest from the article: Froogle, Cookin' With Google, Googlism, and Googlefight. Checking out Google's other services will reveal a wealth of other information rich Google sites.
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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