The Passion
The Mel Gibson film to be released Feb. next year, has already received its share of condemnation -- mostly from people who haven't seen it, but are willing to jump on the bandwagon and denounce anything that looks at the life of Christ. Here's an article from the New York Post, that got a review copy of the film and invited a panel consisting of a Rabbi, a Professor, a Priest, and a random person (a Baptist) to view the film -- their comments after seeing the film is on the site.
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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