Families often want to spend more time outside. Hundreds of studies have shown the benefits of the great outdoors. From overall happiness to academic achievement to mental and physical health, time spent outside correlates with higher quality of life. That being said, the REI-inspired family happily hiking through a national park may seem daunting, outContinue reading “The Power of Picnics”
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What Makes us Human? Catching Fire by Richard Wrangham
A friend recently recommended Catching Fire by Richard Wrangham. In it, he lays out a convincing thesis that cooking and food processing were instrumental to human evolution. The message boils down to humans have big brains because we have small intestines. We can have small intestines because cooked food is more efficiently digested so weContinue reading “What Makes us Human? Catching Fire by Richard Wrangham”
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