Matrix Revolutions
I've seen the movie. And I need to see it twice more probably. I've heard quite a few grumblings about the movie. People didn't like it. I loved it. A lot of people will not (have not) like the ending. My first reaction was -- 'is that it?' But then I started thinking about it. I think that's the mark of a good movie. It doesn't give you everything. It leaves something there for the myth to build on -- for the story to continue on. I think Revolutions leaves a rich world, with many potential stories for the future.
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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