Video-game ban lifted
I wonder sometimes about the US. Their continued slide to right-wing conservative-fundamentalism continues (and there's a mouthful I just don't believe I just said). The state of Missouri had sought to ban violent video games from minors because they would be harmful to minors. The ruling came down on the side of the video-games producers. I agree with them. I also agree with the contention that kids should not be exposed too much unsupervised violence. Violence is a part of our world. Even if we go back to the 'utopian' days of the 1950s in North America. Violence was prevalent then too. Just not in mainstream media. However, it's not the place of the courts to raise our children. The comment by the St. Louis County counselor, that "It means the kids can rent video games without their parents' permission" is a load of hog-wash. If parents aren't aware of what their kids are doing, they shouldn't be parents. It's part of the damn job.
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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