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Food Really Is the Way to a Person's Heart

TresSugar — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:00:00 -0700

A new book, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, argues that hot food, and not sex, is the reason human beings originally paired up in domestic relationships.

According to author and Harvard anthropologist Richard Wrangham, early marriages were really a trade off for hot food (prepared by the women) and protection (provided by the men). Evidence from primitive societies, including the fact that society tolerated women sleeping around but ostracized them if they ever cooked for men besides their husbands, is used to support the conclusion.

It seems that a domestic convention that is considered backward today actually made us move forward evolutionarily. Let's hope modern men won't use this finding as a reason to expect women to do all the cooking!

Scientists: Women Getting More Beautiful, Men Remain Same

TresSugar — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:00:00 -0700

A cadre of scientists has determined that evolution is driving women to become more beautiful while "men remain as aesthetically unappealing as their caveman ancestors."

Scientists claim that attractive couples (based on ”objective assessments of physical attractiveness”) tend to have more children and those children are more likely to be female. Those adult daughters may marry and mate with attractive men, have lots of daughters . . . and so on and so on. Over generations, the scientists conclude, women have become steadily more aesthetically pleasing.

What do nonscientists think of these findings? If the comments section of this article is any indication - not much! Responding to the claim that women are getting more beautiful, Elizabeth Payne wrote, "Not where I'm living they aint......!!!!" What does Graham Mitchell think? "Women are getting more beautiful? Yes. And alcohol is getting stronger." Ha!

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Happy Birthday Darwin - Do You Believe in Evolution?

LibertySugar — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:01:16 -0800

Darwin's fit theory of evolution has managed to survive 200 years after his death. Today, it's alive and well not only in the classroom and research labs, but also in neuroscience, literature, the dating world, and even religion (haven't you heard of evolutionary evangelists?). In fact, today's Vatican admits that Darwin's theory of evolution should not have been dismissed, as it is compatible with the Christian view of creation.

This week prominent scientists and religious leaders joined forces to call for an end to fighting over Darwin's legacy. They said militant atheists were turning people away from evolution because they use it to attack religion. The group also urged creationists to accept Darwin's theory.

Darwin maintained that all life evolved from a common ancestor. In On the Origin of Species, Darwin posited that organisms best suited to their environment would be the ones most likely to reproduce. Thus they would spread their beneficial traits to the next generation, until an entirely different organism resulted over time.

In honor of its father's 200th birthday, tell me do you subscribe to the theory of evolution?

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The Human Climax? Expert Says Evolution Is Over

LibertySugar — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:30:51 -0700

One evolutionary expert believes that the human race has stopped evolving. Modern life may have led to the extinction of natural selection. Here are some explanations for why we could be stuck with what we got:

Technological and medical advances mean it's not just the fittest who get to pass on genes.
World travel has helped homogenize the gene pool. While small gene pools can evolve quickly, a global pool prevents evolutionary change.
On average, men have had babies at a younger age recently. The gene copies of younger fathers are less likely to contain mutations.

As you can imagine the end of evolution could bring wide, albeit delayed, consequences. Gorillas and chimps could catch up to us (we'd probably have to let them out of the zoos), and medical science won't get any help from nature in cutting down the number of diseases to combat. Perhaps technology will help humans take stalled evolution into our own hands, by letting us choose the genes we like.

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Evolution Is Just a Theory: Top 10 List of Famous Creationists

CitizenSugar — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:00:00 -0700

Creationism is, pardon the expression, creating quite a stir this election. With 66 percent of the US believing that the world is less than 10,000 years old, and 16 percent of biology teachers being creationists, a vice presidential candidate who's been linked to the c-word, and even Obama rolling out faith-based merchandise, the issue of belief is big. One UK preacher says of the growth, "Science does not have to be taught in conflict with faith or religion. I believe the current debate over creationism versus evolution is beginning to draw more and people over to our side of the argument . . . evolution is a world-view that leads to futility. It's no wonder people are dissatisfied with it." Check out who else makes the list of high-profile creationists who agree with him.

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US Judge Upholds Separation of Church and Science

LibertySugar — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:35 -0700

The University of California can deny credit for high school courses that emphasize religious teachings over historic or scientific explanations, according to a federal judge. Yesterday's ruling upheld UC admission standards that do not recognize curriculum that declares the Bible infallible or that rejects evolution. The losing Christian schools and students will appeal the decision. Here are each side's positions:

The High Schools:

Denying credit is an attempt to secularize private religious schools.
It also violates freedom of expression and freedom of religion.

University of California:

The rejected material omits crucial topics in science and history.
UC is applying blanket admission standards without regard to religion.
UC has approved inclusive textbooks like Biology: God's Living Creation.

Course texts rejected include Biology for Christian Schools, whose first page says, "If (scientific) conclusions contradict the Word of God, the conclusions are wrong," and text published by Bob Jones University that, "instructs that the Bible is the unerring source for analysis of historical events." The UC attorney says, "We evaluate the courses to see whether they prepare these kids to come to college at UC."

Is it an attempt to secularize private religious schools? Whose side are you on?

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Expelled: The Movie - Ben Stein's New Creation(ism)

CitizenSugar — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:00:09 -0700

I shun all things made up, my personal f-word is fiction, so imagine my delight when I found out Ben Stein, the clever-skirting-genius host of Win Ben Stein's Money that guy in that Ferris Bueller movie, and a former speech writer for Nixon and Ford has cooked up a new documentary.

It's called Expelled and looks at the teaching of science in schools. Either I'm wildly dimwitted, naive, brainwashed, or a scootch of all three, but I assumed the movie would be about how the education system is squashing scientific thought and empirical enterprise in America. And then I watched the trailer. Mouth, agape.

Whoa! Ben Stein, savant who sat in the final round of his game show crushing anyone who dared challenge his mental prowess, has made a movie about the strangle hold Darwinism has on other schools of thought. In the trailer he says this of the treatment of academics who don't strictly subscribe to the theory of evolution, "This tells me Darwinists are afraid. They're hiding something."

I'm going to be first in line when it comes out April 18. Ben Smartypants Stein, presenting a civil case advocating for free thought that might lead to intelligent design? This I gotta see. Check out the trailer and see what I mean.

Could he be right? Are evolutionists taking over and crowding out other ideas?

Dove Evolution

FitSugar — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 20:30:00 -0800

When it comes to beauty, I feel we hold ourselves up to impossible standards. This video, part of Dove's campaign for real beauty, shows us bit by bit how beauty is constructed. It is no small feat. No wonder we have such horrible self-esteem issues and low self-confidence - look what they have to compete with.

Check out Dove's campaign for real beauty, to share your views and to see what Dove's doing to build self-esteem and make every woman feel like she is beautiful just the way she is.

To check out the flip side of all this, check out this spoof GiggleSugar found Dove Real Ugly: The man edition.

New Product Alert: Evolution Surf Three-Step Travel Set

BellaSugar — Fri, 04 May 2007 14:00:07 -0700

New from Evolution Surf is this tropical-colored Three-Step Travel Set ($440). If you haven't heard of the brand, Evolution Surf is an organic skin care line created by Kelise Riedel, wife of custom surfboard builder Clark Riedel. The products are derived from South Pacific kelp, coconut, mango, seawater, and ocean stimuli to promote health and treat skin through topical, non-invasive treatment.

Originally, the products were created to halt skin damage from sun exposure, but the line has since evolved. Kelise, with the help of a biochemist and pharmacist, now offers eye creams, facial washes, and this revolutionary three-step skincare process to exfoliate and smooth your precious skin. In just 12 minutes a day, this intense and highly concentrated healing skin care regimen can help improve skin damage from the harsh sun, sea, and sand.

I haven’t tried it, but I’d be willing to bet it works: At this price, if Evolution's products don’t turn back the hands of time, they’d have some pretty angry customers on their hands. If anyone tries it, please let me know what you think. The kit includes three 1.7-ounce jars of:

Exfoliating Bamboo Microdermabrasion Scrub
Smoothing Glycolic Coconut Crème
Healing Day & Night Nourishing Crème

Hilary Duff's Cell Phone Evolution

GeekSugar — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:00:54 -0800

After Paris Hilton's Cell Phone Evolution slideshow, I'm sure you are all wondering if there's a celeb who can top her handheld collection over the years. Well, Hilary Duff may not have more cell phones, but she sure is a smartphone lover, as you'll see in this slideshow. She once told Switched that she made the switch from her Sidekick to the BlackBerry because the Sidekick felt big and more like a toy. She also said that she enjoyed the instant messenger feature that the BlackBerry offered. Now it's time to take a peek at the slideshow to see her favorite phones over the past few years! And if you love checking out celebrity fashions, make sure you head on over to CelebStyle! Source and Flynet

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