10 Commandments
Here's an interesting one I just found while browsing CNN. An Alabama Judge installed a 5000-lb monument of the 10 commandments in the Alabama Supreme Court building in 2001. He didn't consult with anyone. A suit was filed afterwards, to have it removed. He's fighting it. In the US, the government is not supposed to promote any religion - it's supposed to be unbiased. The judge was asked if he would be in favour of installing a monument of the Koran ... his answer: "This nation was founded upon the laws of God, not upon the Koran. That's clear in the Declaration [of Independence], so it wouldn't fit history and it wouldn't fit law." I just have one question: how did this moron become a judge? Let's see here - God-10 Commandments-Koran ... God has as much to do with the Commandments as with the Koran.
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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