The Wal-Mart Economy
Here's a Toronto Star article forwarded to me by friend (thanks Naj). We've seen the newscasts featuring many small towns pleading for a Wal-Mart store to be opened in their area, but what are the real effects of Wal-Mart on the economy, and on society as a whole? This article contends that they're pretty bad for the economy and society. It's a bit slanted towards the left, and demonizes Wal-Mart, and while all of the negative press may not be warranted, there is some truth to it to what the article speaks to. I know from a business perspective, Wal-Mart is noted for its bullying tactics when dealing with suppliers. You either do things their way, or you're out of business - sometimes you're damn either way. Read however, and make up your mind on your own.
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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