Family
I picked up a copy of the National Post Saturday edition for my daughter, cause she needed the inserted Saturday Night magazine for something for school. I browsed it and found this amusing article on ISO certification: "Are We Certifiable?" by Peter Carter. It's about certifying your family (no - not that way) ... about standardization. From that, to another newspaper article: "For the kids, it's cool," in the Saturday edition of the Toronto Star. The article is about children in gay and lesbian families - the parents are same-sex. While the kids are OK with it, and the parents are OK with it, others seem to have big problems with it. People don't seem to realize that good or bad parents come down to the individuals involved. It says something about people willing to take on the challenge of raising kids and choosing to do so, instead of the many 'accidental' parents there are out there.
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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