PLOS Biology
Finally! If you've ever tried to find journal articles on the net, you've realized fairly quickly that unless you have thousands of dollars to spare, or belong to some institution that can afford a subscription, you're SOL. Well, a group of scientist are kinda sick of the journals dictating how science information can be disseminated - sick of the control over research that journals have - and they've created the Public Library of Science Biology (and will soon launch PLOS Medicine). Cool! Articles are available free of charge and in online or PDF formats. Information overload here I come!
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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