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Did Cooking Give Humans An Evolutionary Edge?

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112334465&ft=1&f=1007 In Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, primatologist Richard Wrangham argues that cooking gave early humans an advantage over other primates, leading to larger brains and more free time. Wrangham discusses his theory, and why Homo sapiens can’t live on raw food alone. I thought this was a real interesting story about food. […]

Ibuprofen – Consider This

“After looking at racers’ blood work, he determined that some of the ultramarathoners were supplying their own physiological stress, in tablet form. Those runners who’d popped over-the-counter ibuprofen pills before and during the race displayed significantly more inflammation and other markers of high immune system response afterward than the runners who hadn’t taken anti-inflammatories. The […]

Crossfit.com

Cruise Director got his pic on the Crossfit.com homepage.  Check it out.  More pics and stories from the Alaska Trip here: http://climbing.visualadventures.com/adventures/juneau-alaska

Good Eatin’ fer Cheap

LisR and I just came across these specials after hiking Ice Lake (a not to miss hike) yesterday.  We thought they were so good we had to share them. Voodoo Lounge (In the Beaumont Hotel, upstairs) is having half price apps from 5-6:30 pm.  Yummy stuff.  You can get a plate of muscles for like […]