Evolution is a blind, aimless process. It can give rise to mind-boggling complexity from incredibly simple, chance beginnings but it can also appear to take steps backwards as far as ‘progress’* is concerned (if that’s the way you like to look at it). There is no real direction. Take for example average human** heights through [...]
I broke my exercise regime yesterday to watch a long block of the olympics. As I sat there chomping on snack foods, yelling at the athletes for making mistakes so subtle presenters needed to point out their existence, the gulf between what was on screen and what was on my couch grew so vast that [...]
The original Food Pyramid was released in the US in ’92. Who studied this, got all flustered and confused and then ate themselves into morbid obesity? Does anyone care about the government sanctioned diet? Is anyone changing their habits because of their politics? It serves as a general guide for the uninformed and it’s good [...]