Women's Equality
I found out about this site from today's edition of the Toronto Star, that had an article about the loss of women's voices in the social, economic and policy arena of Canada. The National Action Committee (NAC) on the Status of Women had always been the voice of women in Canada, but a few years ago, the group met an untimely demise when they ran out of money. Not many women are aware of the loss of NAC. In fact, the knowledge of the demise of NAC probably doesn't leave many with concern, and this is especially alarming when women themselves respond that way -- the general concensus being that women have achieved everything that feminists have been fighting for. Those that think that way probably have their heads buried too far in the sand to realize that there is a constant need for women to lobby for equality, and their rights. Case in point is the Toronto Star article of a Quebec Court's ruling that it was unconstitutional for the federal government to use EI funds to pay for maternity and parental benefits.
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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