Patrick Davidson once made yogurt from a paper clip, water and some ear wax... I don't know how or why, but it made MacGyver cry.
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Patrick Davidson once made yogurt from a paper clip, water and some ear wax... I don't know how or why, but it made MacGyver cry.
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Maybe so. But yogurt does good things for the digestion.
I read about this group of nomadic herdspeople, in central Africa I think, that eat nothing but beef and drink cow milk. Their blood profile is better than all the rest of ours, and they don't have any weight problems. Seems like fat in our diets is not the enemy.
Still, I'm puzzled by the concept of nomadic herdspeople. Do they just follow the cattle around, or are they actually driving the herd to specific destinations?
And word on the street is that Chuck Norris is a good guy, and Van Damme is, well, not.
Chuck Norris' tears cure cancer. Unfortunately, he has never cried.
Yeah, I'm actually not so big on the whole "Chuck Norris is such a badI'm a real wanker for saying this.I'm a real wanker for saying this.I'm a real wanker for saying this.I'm a real wanker for saying this.I'm a real wanker for saying this. that..." bit. I just think that one is one of the better lines.
But anyway, everybody knows that Burt Reynolds owns 'em all.
[Emory tag team] No. They live in small collectives of packed earth homes surrounded by thicket walls. They travel considerable distances to periodic market gatherings with neighboring clans before retreating to their homes at nightfall for defense against the lions and other predators that roam their native lands. [/Emory tag team]
The Maasai are a classic example. Now that I think of it, the Fulani are probably the ones you originally mentioned. They ORIGINALLY were nomadic, but truly are not these days. Both the Maasai and Fulani are classic examples of people who have elevated rates of lactose tolerance (ability for adults to digest milk) in areas where lactose intolerance is otherwise the norm (NOTE: most of the world is lactose intolerant). Both groups had similar traditional diets (meat, milk). FWIW, lactose intolerance is affected by a specific gene, so this is usually a great case to discuss how humans are affected by changes in gene frequency or structure over time (i.e., evolution). The examples are pretty much basic stuff in intro to biological anthropology classes.
Of course, if you take in yogurt, you let the bacteria break down the sugar lactase!
Cheers,
Lavabe
Thanks ... but you have to pay tuition to get my on-line/iTunesU stuff, at least for now.:( I just saw that Duke is making an investment on "innovative teaching" hires across the curriculum in the next couple of years. They absolutely have the right idea, especially as iTunesU gets more popular. Among the benefits, it'll make things easier for you to get material on-line.
Having said that, there's always the outside chance that I might be up visiting the lemur folks in Durham (when I'm not visiting devildeac). I'll let you know if I'm up in Durham/Raleigh/Greensboro (man I hope in Greensboro) sometime soon. Sometimes on-tap courses are more fun than those on-line.;)
Cheers,
Lavabe