Cooking is not a modern invention, concludes new research. It likely originated 1.9 million years ago, according to results they determined using statistical analysis and evolutionary trees.
How so? They estimated, in their analysis, how long we should spend feeding every day, based on our body sizes throughout evolutionary history. Sure, it might seem at first glance like cooking would add more time than directly eating but their results say we would need to spend almost half of our time in the 'feeding' process given our current sizes - cooking basically made food easier to chew and digest and as a result we got more caloric benefit and a smaller digestive tract.
Science 2.0 fave Dan Vergano at USA Today
wrote an article based on the
arXiv preprint written by
Panagiota Kanti, Burkhard Kleihaus and Jutta Kunz called "Wormholes in Dilatonic Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Theory".
National Geographic, which nows runs Scienceblogs.com,
has put the hammer down on anonymous blogs.
Really, that whole thing was always a little sketchy. Supposedly the rationale was that these people were going to be edgy insiders revealing things too explosive for mainstream media and maybe damaging to their careers but it mostly ended up being a way to rant about politics without accountability.
What constitutes racism?
If you have a pool of applicants for a research grant and applications with good scores were likely to be funded, regardless of race or ethnicity, can there be racism?
A recent survey of NIH R01 applications found that applications from black investigators were 13.2 % less likely to be awarded than whites while Asian investigators were 3.9 % less likely to have their work funded. This correlates to the number of applicants as well; blacks are only 1.4% of total applications while Asians are 16.2% and whites are almost 70%.
Look, we all know smoking is bad for you by now. We don't need to spend billions of dollars telling people that but an entire industry has been built around getting people to stop, and it is primarily funded by penalties on tobacco companies and taxes. It's a truly parasitic relationship but it isn't going anywhere and anti-smoking groups need smokers to stay in business. Apparently so do some researchers.
I have said many times I think people are terrifically smart; they know a lot of science, though they tend to frame it through their politics.
The numbers bear me out - science literacy in adults has tripled since I went to college but even that was framed in a "it's not enough" context by some science writers and while there are 65 million people just in the US who are interested in science, the perception by scientists is that people don't care.
45 Percent Of People Try Diets And That's A Good Thing, Even If They Fail
Declaring War On Frappuccino And Diet Soda Is Not A Valid Government Nutrition Guideline
Physician Burnout Is Common - And Informal Rationing Is One Big Cause
Cancel Culture Prevents The Best Researchers From Engaging With The Food Industry
