InterNetWorking [PDF]
An article from MIT's Technology Report. A new breed of software and services is emerging to tap and exploit the social network. The concept is simple. You have friends -- and you know what their interests are -- but what about your friends, friends. And your friends, friends, friends? What if you could tap into this internetwork of friends to do everything from get work, increase sales, get advice, share knowledge -- or just get new friends? Or, from a business perspective, being able to mine your knowledge workers to exploit the knowledge scattered across your organization -- think of the consulting dollars you would save! Gives the age old saying of "it's not what you know, it's who you know" a hell of a lot more credence.
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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