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Was Civilization Just an Excuse to Get Drunk?
By Dave Thier - AOL News
(Nov. 9) -- Anthropologists and archaeologists have been arguing for decades over why human beings ever moved from the idyllic lives of hunter gatherers to the painful toil of sedentary agricultural life. But some scientists have come up with an explanation that just about anyone can understand: We just wanted to get lit. Brian Hayden at Simon Fraser University in Canada says that the decision to settle down and grow cereal grains was motivated primarily by a desire to turn those grains into beer, not to eat them. Hayden has examined neolithic societies that lived in the Levant of Southwest ...
Are Computers Really Bad for Kids?
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyMany parents have become hard-wired into thinking that computers are bad for children. But are they? New research suggests that it's actually a mixed bag. My son came home from school the other day and showed me a short story he'd written. It was a lovely tale -- full of violence and warfare and even a metaphysical postscript in which you, as reader, realize that you're actually in "hell." In short, it had all the appropriate stuff you'd expect from the imagination of a 9-year-old boy. I told him that I really liked his story, but that he needed to work on making his handwriting more legible. ...
Note to Butchers: Leave the Head On
By William R. Snyder - AOL NewsA grassroots movement is a powerful force. (See: the Obama campaign, American Revolution and the "Napoleon Dynamite" fanbase). And put the local food crowd in that category, too. Unless, of course, your source of local food is living next door to a Cheetos factory. As the mantra of "know what you eat" catches on, it's great to see the public rediscovering farms just outside the city limits.But, the local food movement is falling short in one category: meat. The idea of knowing the foostuff's source is important and something us huntin' folk have been appreciating for centuries. Looking at a ...
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