Three Blind Phreaks
Speaking of hackers -- these guys aren't -- they're phreaks. Bad boys. But what an amazing story they are. Three brothers, born blind, and turning to phones and computers as a way of first filling curiousity, then surviving, and finally, for just doing it because it gave them power. They're not nice -- but they inspire admiration in even those that despise them. For years, the Badir brothers, Arabs, living in Israel, give the authorities a run for their money -- and took in a whole lot of cash with their illegal acts of phone and computer crime. Then one day, the law caught up to them.
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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