The Jobs Tunnel
The Ambassador Bridge across the Detroit River is at 92% capacity according to the Booker T. Washington Business Association. In response, a private company has been formed to expand and convert two existing railway tunnels between Windsor and Detroit, into modern transportation facilities to handle the future traffic volume. The original tunnels we built 90-years ago, and enlarged in 1993 -- the new expansion will be able to handle, in addition to the 24 trains a day today, high-rack auto carriers, 9.5-foot-tall rail containers, and about 7,600 transport trucks daily. It's called the Jobs Tunnel because it will help save up to 12,000 automotive jobs, while creating about 1,450 full-time construction jobs during the 5-year construction window.
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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