Prometea - cloned horse
Well, congratulations science. An Italian lab has just cloned a horse. I'm mixed about this. There are the benefits to science - the further refinement of cloning technologies, etc., and the potential benefits to humankind - bringing back extinct species, etc. ... but, it seems like we're moving at a breakneck speed down the cloning path without fully understanding the long term implications of the technology. As history has shown us, we usually leave a mess behind that future generations will need to clean up. For more on cloning, companies that do it, ethics discussion, etc, check out this link.
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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