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Cooking Stimulated Big Leap In Human Cognition
Slashdot ^ | August 12, @06:09PM | Hugh Pickens

Posted on 08/12/2008 4:23:21 PM PDT by Soliton

"For a long time, humans were pretty dumb, doing little but make 'the same very boring stone tools for almost 2 million years,' says Philipp Khaitovich of the Partner Institute for Computational Biology in Shanghai. Then, 150,000 years ago, our big brains suddenly got smart. We started innovating. We tried different materials. We started creating art and maybe even religion. To understand what caused the cognitive spurt, researchers examined chemical brain processes known to have changed in the past 200,000 years.

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TOPICS: Food; Science
KEYWORDS: civilization; culture; evolution; food; godsgravesglyphs; humanity; intelligence
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To: Mike Darancette
Humanity began when we learned to BBQ.

and ended

21 posted on 08/12/2008 5:33:55 PM PDT by Soliton (> 100)
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To: Soliton

I am talking about the millions of years being bunk, not about cooking. Figured you’d know that.


22 posted on 08/12/2008 5:34:07 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: ModelBreaker
And I thought this thread was going to be about Martha Stewart or Julia Child. :)

Martha Stewart is Julia's child!

23 posted on 08/12/2008 5:35:21 PM PDT by Soliton (> 100)
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To: Soliton
confident that it will go no farther because of my stance on ID and the Shroud of Turin.

Yer not allowed to expect the Buffalo Wing Inquisition, surprise being one of their chief weapons and all.

24 posted on 08/12/2008 5:35:49 PM PDT by Hoplite
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To: Soliton

Soliton’s inclusion of Southern Comfort (80 or 100 proof?) in the recipe is a professional touch. Does his process evaporate the alcohol, or does it remain?


25 posted on 08/12/2008 5:36:31 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Secret Agent Man
I am talking about the millions of years being bunk, not about cooking. Figured you’d know that.

I don't know. Good brisket takes a long time.

26 posted on 08/12/2008 5:37:35 PM PDT by Soliton (> 100)
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To: Soliton

And further, man did not eat animals until after the flood. God showed Adam how to make a burnt offering, but they didn’t eat the offering. We know that mankind was to eat the seed-bearing plants of the garden. After the fall of man, God told Adam now he’d have to work hard to grow crops to eat. We further know that mankind was able to eat animals after the flood when God told Noah that now everything that lived on the earth would be meat (in addition to the plants they always could eat).


27 posted on 08/12/2008 5:37:47 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: 1rudeboy

80 proof reduced by half. Persimmon jelly too.


28 posted on 08/12/2008 5:38:53 PM PDT by Soliton (> 100)
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To: Soliton
Reduced meaning diluted? Or after the process of reduction?

Silly question, but I have to ask.

29 posted on 08/12/2008 5:42:06 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

Simmer until volume reduced by half to thicken. Hey! are you the competition?


30 posted on 08/12/2008 5:44:52 PM PDT by Soliton (> 100)
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To: Soliton

I was wondering when Soliton would ask . . . LOL, no.


31 posted on 08/12/2008 5:46:02 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

Submissions closed yesterday at noon.


32 posted on 08/12/2008 5:48:21 PM PDT by Soliton (> 100)
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To: Soliton

I live in Chicago, where Buffalo wing sauces are prepared by buffoons. (I’m sure there are some good ones out there, but I haven’t come-across any).


33 posted on 08/12/2008 5:50:54 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Soliton
it will go no farther because of my stance on ID

Standing on an id sounds uncomfortable. I prefer to stand on my ego. : - )

Best wishes on the wings. Do those ancestors proud!

34 posted on 08/12/2008 5:59:28 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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To: 1rudeboy

My family is grown, but we take a trip together every year. If we travel on Saturday, I have to make sure that our hotel or campground is near a Catholic church for my wife and the best wings in the area for all of us for Sunday.

I went to middle and high school in Chicago. I played hockey for Hinsdale Central. I have had upside down marguritas on Rush street, but never any wings there.


35 posted on 08/12/2008 6:05:26 PM PDT by Soliton (> 100)
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To: aposiopetic

Are you wearing a Freudian slip?


36 posted on 08/12/2008 6:06:34 PM PDT by Soliton (> 100)
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To: 1rudeboy

I thought about it and I was there on business a few years ago and we had some good wings at the Cubby Bear ( not the one at Wrigley field


37 posted on 08/12/2008 6:11:21 PM PDT by Soliton (> 100)
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To: Soliton
I didn't swim, because I didn't feel like Hinsdale Central kicking my ass. So I played water polo instead.

Buffalo wings (and I am certainly not an expert about them) in Chicago are invariably overcooked, and prepared by someone who thinks "good" and "hot" are synonymous.

38 posted on 08/12/2008 6:12:26 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Soliton
Id on't know, but can you imagine how many pages Sigmund would have written just on some hypothetical hidden meaning of Buffalo wings?
39 posted on 08/12/2008 6:31:46 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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To: Soliton
We started innovating. We tried different materials. We started creating art and maybe even religion.

Interesting… The theory of gravitation doesn’t deal with ‘stories’ about ‘religion and art’ but we always read that evolution and the theory of gravitation should be taught side by side as factual based science. It seems to me that there are actual differences between these two theories when one theory does discuss the actual formation of ‘religion and art’ as related to another ultimately mindless adaptation in the animal world.

BTW, I have won many local chili cook offs and even placed regionally (St. George Island, Fl) and it has always been a lot of fun. Good luck with the Buffalo wing sauce you created.

40 posted on 08/12/2008 6:59:55 PM PDT by Heartlander
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