Digital Video
Want to make you own home movies? Pull those digital videos from the camera, and plunk them onto DVDs? or VCDs? or just have them on the computer for playback? Well, you'll most likely need some learning, and this is a good place to start. There's lots of free tools and information available to guide you through your adventure. You could be lazy and buy some software that 'does it all' for you -- but you'll learn nothing, and won't necessarily be taking full advantage of all that's possible.
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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