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Also Credited As:Thomas Cruise Mapother, IV
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|Actor, Producer, Writer, Music, Executive
|Thomas Cruise Mapother, IV on July 3, 1962 in Syracuse, New York, USA
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Thomas Cruise Mapother IV was born on July 3, 1962, the only son of a hardscrabble family that would grow to include three sisters. Mapother III was an electrical engineer, abusive and prone to losing his jobs, which forced the family to move several times a year to look for work. Cruise was born in Syracuse but lived in Louisville, KY; Winnetka, IL; and Ottawa, Ontario before his mother finally had enough of her "bullying" husband. She left Mapother (and his last name) in 1974, taking her children back to her hometown of Louisville. Cruise was enrolled in a total of 15 schools during his nearly 12 years of education, and his constant outsider status - coupled with a diagnosis of the then little understood disorder, dyslexia - made school life a constant challenge. His mother worked three jobs to support a family of preteens, with many a Christmas coming and going without presents. Her determination to survive rubbed off on her hard-working kids, and her future movie star son would often cite her as a source of personal inspiration. Cruise spent his freshman year at a seminary boarding school in Cincinnati, OH on a scholarship. Despite appreciating the respite of stability he received at the seminary, he concluded that the priesthood was not for him. He settled with his mother and new stepfather in Glen Ridge, NJ, and started to pursue athletics at his new school until he suffered a knee injury during a wrestling match. In response to being sidelined, Cruise turned to the drama department, having been a lifelong movie fanatic and the family comedian. He was a natural, appearing in school productions of "Guys and Dolls" and "Godspell." With can-do determination, Cruise dispensed with high school during his senior year and instead headed to New York City in 1980, where he landed a job as a busboy and began hitting the audition circuit.
Still reeling from the 18-year whirlwind that was his life up to that time, Cruise's intensity and hunger for success left an overwhelming impression on commercial casting agents looking for fresh-faced, non-threatening teens to represent their products. Within a year, the peripatetic Cruise was in Los Angeles, where he met Paula Wagner, an agent at Creative Artists Agency who would subsequently guide his film career. After making his feature debut in a small role in the notorious Brooke Shields vehicle "Endless Love" (1981), Cruise gained attention for a supporting role as an increasingly lunatic cadet in "Taps" (1981). He had originally been cast in a small three-line role in the film, but the director was so taken with his intensity, that he bumped Cruise up to a more visible role alongside stars Sean Penn and Timothy Hutton. In 1983, a mere three years after bussing tables, Cruise burst onto the scene with four major studio features. His rough and tumble roots took hold as one in a pack of "Greasers" in Francis Ford Coppola's "The Outsiders," a melodramatic adaptation, but memorable for its gaggle of up-and-coming heartthrobs including Rob Lowe, Matt Dillon and Patrick Swayze. Cautious not to limit her client to typecasting as an angry rebel, Cruise's agent focused on his athleticism and boyish charisma with a role opposite "older woman" Shelly Long in "Losin' It" (1983), a middling coming-of-age comedy. "Risky Business" (1983), however, turned Cruise into an overnight sensation. In his portrayal of an anxious, affluent suburban teen poised precariously on the brink of adulthood, Cruise created a resonant protagonist for young Reagan-era audiences. He even put on some extra pounds to emphasize the softness and vulnerability of the character who flirts with illicit capitalism. In his star-making scene, Cruise, clad in a button-down Oxford shirt, boxer shorts, and Wayfarer sunglasses, played air guitar and danced wildly to Bob Seger's anthem, "Old Time Rock 'n' Roll." Audiences lapped it up, the Golden Globe Awards recognized him with a nomination, and it was enough to woo co-star Rebecca De Mornay, who embarked on a two-plus year relationship with the breakout star.
Cruise performed well in a more naturalistic mode in "All the Right Moves" (1983), a sober high school football drama which pitted him against hot-headed coach Craig T. Nelson, and fared modestly at the box office - a brief but full frontal nude shot of Cruise did not hurt returns either. His next move was not as wise for a growing sex symbol - growing his hair long and donning green tights for Ridley Scott's colossal fantasy flop, "Legend" (1985). Already ready to break the mold, however, Cruise solidified his star status and established his onscreen persona with the film most heavily identified with him: "Top Gun" (1986). With flying sequences cut to the rhythms of pop tunes, the film functioned as both a Navy recruiting ad and a glossy romantic adventure between Lt. Maverick and his Top Gun instructor, Charlie (Kelly McGillis). No longer the engaging boy-next-door, Cruise's Maverick was a prototype for Cruise roles to come - a cocky loner who plays by his own rules, confronts a crisis, and is then triumphantly transformed by his success. While "Risky Business" might have made him a known commodity, it was "Top Gun" that made him the biggest movie star in the world.
Cruise selected his next roles and planned his career carefully, teaming with talented directors and co-stars for "The Color of Money" (1986) and "Rain Man" (1988). The former, Martin Scorsese's sharply made, nicely textured sequel to 1961's "The Hustler," cast him as a talented but arrogant small-time pool hotshot opposite Paul Newman's Fast Eddie Felson. They made an eclectic pair, with Cruise's boisterous All-American boy versus Newman's seasoned con man, and though the older stud picked up the Best Actor Oscar, he was clearly passing the mantle to the younger stud. Off-screen, the actor fell in love and married actress Mimi Rogers in what was seen as an odd pairing, not due solely to the couple's age difference. The marriage lasted less than three years (1987-1990) but Rogers' legacy lived on through Cruise's lifetime affiliation with Scientology, which she introduced to her husband. In 1988, Cruise broadened his serious dramatic credentials with director Barry Levinson's "Rain Man," playing another self-centered hot shot who begrudgingly forges a relationship with his autistic brother (Dustin Hoffman), only to find it changes his entire outlook on life. Hoffman shone as the idiot savant and again, a Cruise co-star took home the Oscar, but Cruise was equally important to the Oscar-winning Best Picture equation and Hoffman pointed this out to anyone who would listen.
Time spent working with the politically-active Newman on "The Color of Money" had a profound consciousness-raising effect on Cruise, who next chose Oliver Stone's anti-war "Born on the Fourth of July" (1989) to counter his contribution to the jingoistic "Top Gun." For Stone's "Fourth of July," he earned a Golden Globe win and an Oscar nomination for a hard-hitting portrayal of paraplegic Vietnam veteran activist Ron Kovic. Cruise stumbled a bit with his next two projects, but "Days of Thunder" (1990) did introduced him to the next love of his life, Nicole Kidman, and inaugurated a long-term association with screenwriter Robert Towne. Scalded by critics, it still raked in $166 million worldwide. In December 1990, the co-stars were married, making the then unknown Aussie actress a star overnight. But there was no upside to "Far and Away" (1992), a goofy period romance also co-starring Kidman and directed by Ron Howard. Cruise returned to box office clover by successfully confronting an iconic Jack Nicholson in Rob Reiner's court-martial drama, "A Few Good Men" (1992). Cruise's wunderkind lawyer bent on toppling his corrupt bosses in "The Firm" (1993) could have been a brother to his "A Few Good Men" character. Despite a stellar supporting cast including Gene Hackman, Hal Holbrook and Holly Hunter, he carried the smooth adaptation of John Grisham's giant bestseller, tackling the deceptively difficult character with a vibrancy that led to box office success. The same year, Cruise and his agent Paula Wagner formed Cruise/Wagner Productions in an effort to garner the actor more creative and financial control over his projects. The production company negotiated an exclusive partnership with Paramount Pictures; a rarity at that time.
Cruise raised eyebrows - and more than a few hackles - by accepting the central role of the vampire Lestat in Neil Jordan's "Interview with the Vampire" (1994). Many balked at the idea of the All-American playing the decadent, ambisexual European predator of Anne Rice's novel. Rice herself was the harshest critic, as she traveled about the country trashing the casting decision while on a book tour. Sporting blond locks and blue contact lenses over his green eyes, Cruise eventually won Rice's approval, and the film earned mixed reviews while doing brisk business. In 1996, Cruise/Wagner Productions rolled out their first feature, the post-Cold War espionage "Mission: Impossible" (1996). Based on the nostalgic 1960s TV show, the project had languished in various development hells before Cruise became involved, and rumors abounded of his clashing with director Brian De Palma over budgetary and story matters. Nonetheless, despite international location shooting, high-tech stunts, computer-generated visual effects and last-minute rewrites by an assortment of writers (including Towne), "Mission: Impossible" came in on time and under budget at approximately $67 million, with Cruise deferring his $20 million actor's salary. Though many critics deemed it an extravagant but cold vanity production with a confusing storyline, most admired the cinematic technique, and the mixed reviews did not inhibit ticket buyers, proving the actor could attract crowds to a movie that did not even have to make sense.
The sweetly offbeat romantic comedy "Jerry Maguire" (1996), in which he played the shallow, back-stabbing sports agent, provided a sort of mid-career breakthrough for Cruise. For years he had portrayed irresistible smoothies, turning the world on with his smile while piloting fighter jets and driving race cars. Though it was a classic Cruise performance, bursting with the usual cocky charm, there was an added dimension of desperation and a new maturity to his screen persona. He had played characters who were up against the ropes before, but perhaps never so convincingly. This time, critics and moviegoers reached consensus, and Cruise garnered a Golden Globe win and his second Best Actor Academy Award nomination. Three years would pass before he returned to the screen, though in 1998, he and Wagner produced "Without Limits," screenwriter Towne's biopic about fabled long distance runner Steve Prefontaine (Billy Crudup).
Cruise took himself out of the blockbuster game at the height of his career to work on a series of riskier, more artful ventures, beginning with director Stanley Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut," in which he starred opposite his wife for the first time since "Far and Away." The couple relished their time working with the cinematic genius who was known for his perfectionist, obsessive filmmaking vision. Little did they or anyone else know that the erotic thriller would be Kubrick's final work. The film was controversial for its sexual content, requiring editing to achieve an NC-17 rating in the U.S. Despite the fact that critics were divided over its merit, "Eyes Wide Shut" was a significant notch in Cruise's artistic belt and well worth the tens of millions of dollars he gave up as the 18-week shoot ballooned to 52 weeks over 15 months. Following the arduous shoot and mixed reaction to "Eyes Wide Shut," Cruise took on a pivotal role in Paul Thomas Anderson's ensemble drama "Magnolia" (1999). Playing a cocky sex guru who runs seminars designed to empower men, the actor offered a charismatic turn that was alternately chilling and humorous, earning him another Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination.
Cruise segued back to leading parts in more mainstream work, reprising his heroic role as Ethan Hunt in the big-budget, special effects-laden "Mission: Impossible: II" (2000), directed by John Woo. The international espionage thriller centered around the containment of a deadly virus and grossed over $420 million dollars. With the actor's lucrative production deal, he enjoyed a $75 million pay day. Next, Cruise reunited with Crowe for a remake of the perception-bending Spanish film "Abre los ojos" (1997). It was during the making of that film, titled "Vanilla Sky" (2001), that Cruise endured a very public and acrimonious split from Kidman as he entered into a relationship with "Vanilla Sky" co-star Penelope Cruz. Cruise and Kidman later amicably worked out their divorce battles for their two adopted children's sake, but the initial split was bitter, with Cruise simply stating "Nic knows what she did" as his explanation for divorce just shy of 10 years of marriage.
"Vanilla Sky" opened to mixed reviews, seen as a competent and often compelling puzzle with a somewhat unsatisfying endgame. Cruise's performance as a successful publisher who finds his life taking a turn for the surreal after a car accident with an obsessive lover, was seen as appropriately intense, but perhaps a little over-the-top in his efforts to subvert his pretty boy looks with Hollywood-made scars. He returned to his more familiar, heroic territory with Spielberg's "Minority Report" (2002), a crackerjack collaboration filled with skillful action sequences and a thought-provoking expansion of sci-fi author Phillip K. Dick's premise of a future where police use precognitives to prevent murders before they happen. Playing Detective John Anderton, the head of the special unit who finds himself the subject of a manhunt after the psychics predict that he will commit a murder, Cruise was in top form on the run from his own officers. And as usual, Cruise insisted on doing almost all of his own stunts, lending even more authenticity to his action star status.
Cruise turned in one of his more nuanced performances for director Ed Zwick in "The Last Samurai" (2003), playing Capt. Nathan Algren, an alcoholic veteran of Custer's battles with Native Americans who travels to Japan to help Westernize the Imperial army, only to be captured by a rebellious samurai leader (Ken Watanabe). Although the film followed the slightly patronizing white-man-embraces-and-improves-indigenous culture template, Cruise's initial anguish and subsequent reclaiming of his soul was skillfully and subtly conveyed by the actor, earning him a Golden Globe nomination. His hot streak continued unabated with another of his finest roles, the coldhearted assassin Vincent, who hijacks a L.A. cabbie (Jamie Foxx) to drive him on his deadly rounds in "Collateral" (2004). Wearing a grey wig and beard stubble, Cruise used his trademark intensity to his advantage in a rare villainous role, while his inherent charm also gave the character a compelling quality.
In 2005, Cruise's personal life began to overshadow his professional career in a PR nightmare that would taint the leading man's reputation for years to come. After breaking things off with Penelope Cruz, for better or worse, he replaced his publicist of 14 years, Pat Kingsley, with his older sister Lee Anne DeVette, an active Scientologist. Since 1990, Cruise had been a proponent of the often mysterious, Hollywood-based Church of Scientology founded by science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard, having credited his studies there with "curing" him of the dyslexia, among other benefits. Cruise's affiliation had been generally accepted as a movie star eccentricity - that is, until he used his faith to back an attack on "Endless Love" co-star Brooke Shields, who had recently released a biography that described taking antidepressants to relieve her postpartum depression. Based on the Scientology belief that psychiatry is a "pseudo science" that "kills," Cruise publicly criticized Shields and suggested that vitamins would have been a suitable treatment for her diagnosis. Shields - not to mention legions of mothers, mental illness sufferers and the psychiatric community - were outraged.
The incident was followed by a curiously timed announcement that Cruise and actress Katie Holmes - who was 16 years younger than Cruise - were madly in love, though neither could give a direct answer to just when they had met and how long before declaring undying love to one another. Cruise's uncharacteristically animated antics and the couple's often unconvincing physical interaction fueled speculations that the romance was a massive publicity stunt, intended to offset the Brooke blunder and highlight the stars' upcoming summer film releases: Cruise, in the Steven Spielberg-directed "War of the Worlds" and Holmes in "Batman Begins." Cruise made a bizarre appearance on Oprah Winfrey's talk show (syndicated, 1986-2011) to proclaim his love for Holmes, jumping on the host's furniture and dragging a seemingly reluctant Holmes before the cameras. Holmes, who had been quoted years earlier as saying that as a girl she dreamed of marrying Cruise, presented him with a career achievement award on the MTV Movie Awards. Both appeared separately before David Letterman to further spin their love story. By all accounts, it was showy, uncharacteristic behavior for the actor who had a highly professional reputation onscreen and off. Rumors persisted that Holmes was one of several actresses who had basically auditioned for the role of Cruise girlfriend, in exchange for instant A-list ascension. There was no denying the speed with which the relationship took off, what with meeting in April 2005 and marriage proposal in June. The hard sell of how much "in love" they were with one another effectively backfired with a very skeptical public.
Much to the dismay of everyone involved with "War of the Worlds" - particularly Spielberg, who knew focus was no longer on his film; but on its star's latest public hijinks - Cruise continued to defend his attack on Brooke Shields in a sharply worded exchange with "Today Show" (NBC, 1952- ) co-host Matt Lauer. During the infamous exchange in which he continually called Lauer "glib," he aggressively derided psychiatry as a "pseudo-science," provoking a formal rebuke from the American Psychiatric Association. Around the same time he was also reportedly instrumental in opening up the secretive church and inviting journalists to sample its practices. Holmes began taking Scientology courses, and suspiciously dumped her Hollywood handlers in favor of his. Nearly lost in all of Cruise's public appearances was the release of "War of the Worlds" (2005), the fourth film adaptation of the classic H.G. Wells story. A mostly masterful exercise in cinematic suspense and terror, the film was buoyed by a strong performance by Cruise as Ray Ferrier, a working class deadbeat dad who must protect his two children during a horrific alien invasion. In spite of the media brouhaha - or perhaps because of it - "War of the Worlds" was Cruise's top-grossing film up to that time at over $590 million dollars worldwide.
The media saturation lasted beyond the run of the summer blockbuster, especially when it was announced in October that Holmes was pregnant with his child. In November, Paul Bloch replaced DeVette as Cruise's publicist, and though the move was reportedly made to enable his sister to focus on managing her brother's philanthropic affairs, it was perceived as damage control in light of the hit Cruise's image had taken since her installment. For a spell, Cruise's outlandishness seemed quelled until an episode of the animated series "South Park" (Comedy Central, 1997-), which satirized Scientology and made not-so-veiled jokes questioning Cruise's sexuality - a persistent rumor that had dogged the actor since he sued several parties in 1998 and 2001 for publishing allegations of his homosexuality. Under pressure from its parent company Paramount - also Cruise/Wagner Productions' parent company - Comedy Central yanked the episode after only one airing, lead to speculation that Cruise exerted his power behind the scenes; an assertion that was publicly denied. The show's fearless creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker were not afraid to call out Cruise on his power play, which was being dubbed "Closetgate" by the Los Angeles Times. They even took out ads, proclaiming tongue-in-cheek that they themselves were "servants of Xenu" and that the "million-year war for Earth" had only just begun, presumably now that their show had been screwed with backdoor deals.
After months of fawning and speculation, Cruise and Holmes - dubbed "TomKat" by a smug media - had a baby girl named Suri on April 18, 2006. The high-profile pregnancy was followed by the virtual disappearance of Holmes from public and an absence of baby photos, inspiring conspiracy theories that perhaps Holmes was not, in fact, pregnant. Meanwhile, Cruise began making the media rounds for his next film, "Mission: Impossible III" (2006). The third installment in the franchise depicted a retired Ethan Hunt (Cruise) living a slower-paced life while training new IMF agents until he is called back to action to do battle with Owen Davian (Philip Seymour Hoffman), an international weapons dealer who may turn out to be Hunt's toughest adversary yet. The film's opening weekend receipts fell short of expectations and a USA Today/Gallup poll showed that only 35 percent of those surveyed held a "favorable opinion" of the actor, the vast majority voicing disapproval over his Scientology proselytizing and the incident with Brooke Shields.
Citing an apparent wane in Cruise's popularity, Paramount Pictures announced an end to its 14-year relationship with Cruise/Wagner Productions on Aug. 22, 2006. In a bombshell heard round the world, Sumner Redstone, Chairman of Viacom, (Paramount's parent company), declared Cruise's recent conduct had "not been acceptable to Paramount." Hollywood insiders surmised that Paramount's decision was purely financial, as the Cruise/Wagner cut of box office and DVD sales was well above the norm and affecting the studio's profits. Meanwhile Cruise/Wagner Productions claimed that they had recently landed financing from a private investor and had been planning to split from Paramount anyway. In September, another bit of coincidentally-timed publicity took attention away from Cruise's business woes when Vanity Fair gave the public their first view of Suri in a Cruise family photo spread, shot by famed celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz. In November, the couple were finally wed in a ceremony in Italy, and news of the wedding was paired with another happy ending - Cruise/Wagner Productions had struck a deal with MGM to run the ailing United Artists Films.
Back at work and with his nuclear family firmly in place, Cruise seemed poised to put the previous 18 months of turmoil behind him and resume his status as one of the most powerful men in Hollywood. The first release from CEO Wagner and producer Cruise was Robert Redford's "Lions for Lambs" (2007). Cruise took a co-starring role as an ambitious senator in the highly-anticipated film, which sought to explore tough issues about the war in Afghanistan through three interconnected storylines. Despite the timely subject matter and the additional star power of Redford and Meryl Streep, "Lions for Lambs" came and went without much fanfare. Cruise then delivered a finely tuned comic performance in a small, but memorable role as a foul-mouthed studio executive in "Tropic Thunder" (2008), which earned him a surprise Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He then had his first starring role in a major studio release in some time, playing real-life Nazi conspirator Claus von Stauffenberg, who plots with other high-level members of the German Resistance to assassinate Adolf Hitler, in "Valkyrie" (2008), directed by Bryan Singer. Though Cruise was seemingly perfect - he was a dead-ringer for Stauffenberg - there were considerable risks playing the part, namely trying to make a Nazi empathetic onscreen while rehabilitating his shattered public image off-screen. Cruise returned to more familiar territory with "Knight and Day" (2010), playing an international super-spy forced to flee the United States with a dangerous piece of technology, while receiving a helping hand from an unsuspecting Midwestern woman (Cameron Diaz). Despite the requisite media blitz, appeal of its two stars and the promise of slam-bang action, "Knight and Day" fizzled at the box office amidst mixed critical reviews.
At the time, it seemed as though Cruise's star had forever fallen, as the damage from the controversy spawned by his "Oprah" visit and bizarre defense of Scientology appeared to be permanent. With nothing left to lose, Cruise went back to his most widely recognized franchise to reprise IMF agent Ethan Hunt for "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol" (2011), directed by Brad Bird. This time, however, the results were extraordinary; not only was the fourth "Mission" the best reviewed, but it also raked in the most international box-office dollars. In "Ghost Protocol," Hunt and his IMF team members are labeled terrorists intent on starting a global nuclear war after a bomb destroys the Kremlin, forcing them on the run. The fourth installment was widely praised for its exciting action and eye-popping visual effects, but most importantly, the actioner's success marked a badly needed resurgence for Cruise, who found himself back on top once again. For his next film, "Rock of Ages" (2012), an adaptation of the hit Broadway musical about the glory days of 1980s hair bands, Cruise played front man Stacee Jaxx, though his rekindled star power was not enough to turn the maligned film into a hit. Meanwhile, news broke in June 2012 that Cruise and Holmes were divorcing after five years of marriage. While the shocking announcement spread like wildfire across the Internet, both Holmes and Cruise maintained that it was a personal matter in order to protect their daughter. The end of the year saw Cruise returning to his action roots as "Jack Reacher" (2012), a highly skilled ex-military cop drawn into a case involving a deadly shooting spree. Clearly planned as the first entry in a new potential franchise for Cruise, the violent thriller was based on a series of popular crime novels by Lee Child.
In 2013, Cruise dove all headlong into science fiction, starring in the highly stylized futuristic movie "Oblivion," with Olga Kurylenko and Morgan Freeman as mysterious characters tied to his protagonist's fate. While the production wasn't a huge hit, it appealed to many fans of the genre, particularly for Cruise's solid performance and its impressive visuals. That year, he also filmed the action-heavy alien-fighting tale "Edge of Tomorrow" (2014) with Emily Blunt, with its original title, "All You Need Is Kill," altered to the less-violent alternative.


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Recipe by Chef John
"This simple broccoli salad kicks up ordinary broccoli with some lemon and red pepper flakes."
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1 1/2 pounds
fresh broccoli
3 cloves
garlic, mashed into a paste
2 tablespoons
lemon juice
2 tablespoons
rice vinegar
1/2 teaspoon
Dijon mustard
1 pinch
red pepper flakes, or to taste
1 pinch
salt and ground black pepper, or to taste
1/3 cup
olive oil
Great, simple recipe! I had a package with both broccoli and cauliflower combined, so I added both to this recipe, and it was delicious. I also added a bit of sweet to the vinegarette to balance the flavor a bit (agave syrup). I wanted to also comment on Chef John's video presentation. He has a wonderful down-to-earth way about him and I picked up a lot of good tips about broccoli preparation in general from this video. Thanks for the recipe, Chef John!
This salad sounded good when reading the ingredient list, but I did not like it. Wished I would have.
66 Ratings
This was fantastic! Cut the olive oil in half because I thought it might be too oily. It was great like that. It's a definite keeper for us. 3 of us ate it all up it was so delicious with a little bit left for hubby's lunch tomorrow. Follow Chef John's video.
I just have to add to my review: we have made this several times since my last rating and I LOVE this stuff!! I follow the video exactly for cutting it and putting it in cold water to stop the cooking. I do cut the oil though, because it would be way too oily if we did not. When I make it now I have to make extra we love it so much. I have never been a fan of broccoli in the past and do not really care for it raw. But I have become a fan of broccoli because of this recipe. It is simple to make and the red pepper flakes give it a nice appearance and pizzazz if making it for company.
I would have given this five stars but it had too much olive oil for my taste. Next time I will cut the olive oil in half. Other than that, the flavor was really good.
So simple, yet so good! This really perks up regular 'ol broccoli and delivers a nice amout of sweet and heat. I did cut back on the olive oil a bit but other than that didn't change a thing. This is excellent warm or cold and would be great over green beans or brussel sprouts as well. I liked the dressing so much I added a little sugar and it was perfect over a mixed green salad. Thanks Chef John!
Nice, easy, and tasty. I only used a couple tablespoons of olive oil, and let it sit in the fridge for an hour. Served with grilled salmon kabobs, and the orzo with basil and parmesan from this site.
Who knew something so simple could be so good? This has such a fresh clean taste. The dressing is a bit more acidic than I like but that's just me. I added about 1/2 tsp honey to balance it out. We'll have this often! I bet this would be great with asparagus, too. Tomorrow night!
I bought 2 bags of broccoli cauliflower mix. I steamed them for 4 minutes, dumped in a bowl and put right in frig for an hour, took them out mixed with dressing and let sit at room temp 30 mins-no peeling slicing draining or straining-plus the veggies retain more of their nutrients
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Easy Broccoli Salad
Serving Size: 1/4 of a recipe
Servings Per Recipe: 4
Amount Per Serving
** Calories: 223
** Calories from Fat: 168
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I am going to target everything we do on a daily basis with this Instructable in hopes that we can pare down our lifestyles to something that can be considered sustainable, both financially and ecologically.
Step 1: Change Your Attitude
Don't get me wrong, I love the freedoms that being an American affords, but the abuse of these freedoms destroys so many more lives than the ones it enhances. We must change our state of mind so that our percieved luxuries include less waste and reliance on the suffering of others. But let's not get preachy. Let's get practical.
Electric breadmakers have become cheap and they make great bread for a fraction of the cost of bakery bread. Plus you can use less salt/sugar and add healthy grains if you like (I use 1/2 bread flour and 1/2 bread mix with some oat bran mixed in - quick, easy, cheap and delicious) :)
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You can use the healthy ingredients you choose, and you only need to run the oven for one hour, instead of using the bread machine every time for a tiny loaf.
Around 2 mothns ago walking around I found a laptop in the garbage YES A LAPTOP, It was wet and all that, but I took it home; it didnt have a hard drive and the screen was cracked... I inserted a HD then connected it to a monitor and it was good to go!!! actually is the one I am using right now and the best part is that it is faster than the one I had before!!
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Hope y'all are having a nice weekend. Heres a recent video of mine... It was highly requested, and although I'd never attempted welding aluminum with anything but a TIG machine or a massive 500 amp push-pull gun, I decided to wing it and hope for the best.
What did I find? Contamination. A LOT of contamination... The wire was clean and the metal was clean, so, best I can figure thats coming from the drive rolls (steel, with grease/crap, and steel on them), and the STEEL liner in the gun.
But aside from that, it worked... great! I had some problems but it was still far more successful than stick welding aluminum, atleast when I tried that a while back. I loosened the tension (greatly) and only had feeding issues when the wire burned back and I pusled the trigger hoping to pop it loose (DONT do that, :blush: ). I also noticed that this wire has a tendancy to burn back when you stop the weld, so I yank the gun back to increase the Contact-Tip-To-Work-Distance, thus preventing the wire from "sticking".
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MIG Welding Aluminum Without a Spool Gun (Video)
You prob picked up some metal thru the steel liner. Even the spool guns have steel drive rolls and some are knurled. If you used a Teflon liner you would have better luck as its cleaner and makes the wire slide thru easier. I ran a Miller Delta Weld 452 for years with alum wire and the regular mig gun at work, but i used 1/16" wire. I did a similar match up a few years back and was almost ready to sell my spoolgun and i got a few more birds nests so i quit. The weld looked the same on both mig gun and spool gun but i couldn't deal with the bird nesting...BobBob Wright, Grandson of Tee Nee Boat Trailer Founder
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Awesome job Chuck, I like your enthusiastic personality, Keep up the good work. It surely helps a lot of people get in to this awesome trade.
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Good try but without a clean liner and drive roll its pretty tuff. I've been trying to weld aluminum with a 100 spool gun at work on mm 140 for about a yr I can do a little with it its got to be on 10 and 10 . It has given me a lot of practice with 4043 it will even bird nest finally figured out you have to cut the end of your wire ever time you start a weld or it doesn't strike a arc quick enough to burn the wire so it just stops the wire for a second and it crimps it enough that it starts that bird nest. I hate picking those bird nest out of that spool gun.
06-23-2013, 06:26 AM #5turbo38t Guest
Is that pure argon? Teflon liner and u groove rolls will help tons. I don't think the contamination is from the liner or wheels though.....I'd be more suspect of gas coverage. I used an MM250 in short circuit a couple years back with the standard V drive rolls and liner with success. The biggest concern was getting the proper tension and using a short 6' gun and keeping it straight. I was however able to get the little curlie cues...Dave


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Lewis Hamilton's emotions got the better of him this week as he discussed his impending exit from McLaren in an interview.
Sunday's Brazilian Grand Prix will be Hamilton's final race for the team that has been behind him since he was 13, as he prepares to drive for Mercedes next year.
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An rigorous case can be made for the proposition that modern humans cannot be native to this planet.
Hominid eye sockets and nasal areas were much larger than those of modern humans. The huge eyes of hominids and dinosaurs and even a few leftover creatures like lemurs and tarsiers, were adaptations to a very dark sort of a world. In the case of dinosaurs, the large eyes pertained in carnivores and herbivores alike
Humans by way of contrast have the smallest relative eye size of advanced creatures.
If you want to believe that humans evolved from hominids on this planet, you need to believe that some hominid/human-wannabee:
Lost his fur coat while ice ages were going on.
Lost 99% of his sense of smell while trying to make it as a land prey animal
Lost almost all of his night vision at a time when night was the only time of day to be had.
You say that doesn't sound like a formula for success?
If, on the other hand, you prefer to believe that God created modern man fully formed on this world, then there is a question as to whether God would create a creature on a world for which the creature was spectacularly ill-adapted. There's nothing in the Bible about God being stupid....
There actually is a reasonable thesis to be had for human origins, but it does not involve this planet.
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Sep 7 2013: In the long history of the debate of where we come from, I tend to take one side of the debate. I am here now and that is more important than where I came from a long time ago.
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Those smarter than I am can debate this issue until they are blue in the face. As for me, I have greater issues to ponder. But yes, on occasion I do wonder if we came from some place other-worldly.
Sep 8 2013: Your outlook is understandable. You would need to be certain that we're not headed anywhere though. Millions think we are eternal in some form or another, if they're right then you may have a problem.
Sep 8 2013: Peter,
Why do we "need to be certain that we're not headed anywhere"? Based on your many comments, it seems that believing in an eternal life, changes your perception and experience of the life adventure here and now. Why do you say that one who does not believe in some kind of eternal life may "have a problem"?
In another comment thread Peter, you wrote:
Peter Law
21 hours ago: "I agree Scott. Truth is all around us, we get blinded to it by our own perceptions"
Do you ever think that predicting a "problem" for people who do not believe as you do, may be your own perception?
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Sep 9 2013: Hi Colleen.
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My comment count is 2400, yours is 8300. So I must assume that you believe it is good to comment. My beliefs have remained fairly constant, as have yours.
My perception is indeed just my perception, as is yours. Many agree with yours, many agree with mine. Isn't that what TED is all about; an exchange of ideas ?
So, again, my perception is that there is a storm coming. Sure, I may be wrong, but nevertheless I believe the reasonable thing is to warn people. Then it is up to the individual to decide what, if anything, to do with the information.
The problem only arises IF My perception is correct. Your perception may be the correct one, if so then there is no problem, there's not much to hope for in the long run either.
:-)Sep 9 2013: Peter,
This discussion topic is..."An rigorous case can be made for the proposition that modern humans cannot be native to this planet."
I agree with you, in that you have indeed been consistent....good point. My point, is that I do not believe those of us who do not share your beliefs have a "problem", as you suggest in your previous comment, and in most of your other consistent comments.Sep 8 2013: I feel the same way Everett....I am here, now, and that is what I focus on. Speculation about where I came from is always fun, and it's also good to consider the evidence we have at this time.....here and now:>)
Mike Colera
Sep 7 2013: After a second thought.... Does this mean the there is truth in that "Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus"?
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It would explain a lot in my life.
Barry Palmer
Sep 5 2013: By your definition of the word "rigorous", I am sure you are correct.
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The more I read hear at TED, the more I become convinced that all of us, even those who are most rational, believe what we want to believe.Sep 11 2013: So.
Most likely that is true. We destroy wherever we go, or wherever we are.
Ecologies, life species, each other.
I guess we are still trying to find our way and continue ignoring the way we do things.
We don't have civilization on earth, though some or even many continue to refer to our
existence on this planet as "civilization" when it is anything but civilized.
We don't fit, mesh or exist here in union with nature, whether that nature is this planet
and all its life-forms or nature, meaning the universe.
We are not from here and wherever we may come from it was probably running away from
the dying we had produced.
Rather than "all ecologically-minded people should exterminate us," as Bryan Below wrote, we should kill ourselves.
But hey, that is what we are doing. Case closed, problem solved............eventually.
A catastrophic event that is.
Sep 11 2013: "We don't fit, mesh or exist here in union with nature, whether that nature is this planet
and all its life-forms or nature, meaning the universe."
We don't fit in here. We did fit in quite nicely in our original home world:
Paul Lillebo
Sep 8 2013: There's a great difference between speculation and "a rigorous case." I see a lot of the former and none of the latter in your argument. It can't be taken seriously by anyone knowledgeable about human origins and the massive and growing evidence of our gradual development from earlier hominids (we are also hominids).
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As Lejan tried to explain to you below, analysis of DNA commonalities have now shown us clear evolutionary relationships among thousands of species of plants and animals, not just humans. Evolutionary distances between any species have been shown to fit well with the fossil evidence for common descent. I'm afraid that the notion of a god or troll or whoever using a kit of parts with similar (or dissimilar) genetic characters to fashion different creatures runs up against modern genetic knowledge, and comes a cropper.
Sep 8 2013: Neanderrthal DNA turns out to be roughly halfway between ours and that of a chimpanzee and all other hominids are further removed from us than that. What you'd call a broken chain...
Sep 8 2013: Theodore,
You are describing evolution.....are you not? A little bit of this.....a little bit of that.....half way between this and that? I suggest that what you refer to as "a broken chain" is actually different levels of evolution.
More technical if you wish..."Evolution is the change in the inherited characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. Evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organisation, including species, individual organisms and molecules such as DNA and proteins.[1]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EvolutionSep 9 2013: Humans and chimps are distant cousins, placed in separate genera (Homo and Pan), though chimps are our closest living relatives. We both descend from an anthropoid species that probably lived 5-7 million years ago. Neanderthals, on the other hand, were our very close cousins, our lineages only diverged about a half million years ago. They were so close that there is firm evidence that the "modern" humans that invaded Europe around 40,000 years ago interbred with the Neanderthals, and many persons of European heritage carry Neanderthal genes to this day. Neanderthals are placed in our own genus Homo as H.neanderthalensis, and some anthropologists even consider them near enough to place them as a subspecies of modern humans, as Homo sapiens neanderthalensis.
The upshot of this is that the Neanderthals were a good deal like modern humans. We know they buried their dead ritually, suggesting they had notions of a spirit world and an afterlife, which is a uniquely human concept. Don't confuse them with brutes.Sep 9 2013: Actually Neanderthal DNA is so close to human DNA that we can detect hybridization between our two sub-species. When we look at the evidence we see that they're close to us. We also find species stretching back to our common ancestor with Chimps, think of Homo erectus, Homo habilis, Australopithecus afarensis, and Ardipithecus ramidus.
Sep 9 2013: The basic Neanderthal/human non-relation:
Humans and hominids don't even come from the same place:
Common genes between humans and Neanderthals are best explained as an original designer or designers using a few of the same low-level genetic parts for dissimilar projects. The Neanderthal has been ruled out as a plausible ancestor for humans because the genetic gap is too wide and the idea of interpreting common genes as evidence of interbreeding does not pass any sort of a test for logic.
For interbreeding to have happened, a male Neanderthal would have to have raped a woman and then, rather than cooking and eating her as usual, kept her alive long enough to bear a cross-species child; raised that child to reproductive age; and had him/her breed back into human populations without anybody catching on. That is ridiculous.
What Neanderthals actually looked like:
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Sep 7 2013: "Does it involve Zacharia Sitchin and the Twelfth Planet?"
No. It doesn't involve anything outside of our own solar system. One of Sitchin's followers, Lloyd Pye, comes to the same conclusion I do as to the human/hominid non relation. What I tell people is to watch the thing to the point at which he starts talking about Sitchin, and then turn it off:
Nadav Tropp
Sep 5 2013: Night vision was removed when our shiny new brain began requiring many more hours of sleep for maintenance, and fire allowed us to see short distances in the dark.
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Jaw musculature was removed because cooked food and butchering knives remove the need for a strong jaw. This allowed our skull to grow to facilitate more brain instead.
Fur was removed because of a combination of fire and clothing for warmth, both less vulnerable to parasites which fur attracts.
The foot grew less hardened because of use of shoes, which negate the need to walk barefoot through the wild, and easily exceed the natural design.
We have no built-in weapons for the reason that even a simple spear or stone axe is easily superior to anything in nature's arsenal.
Humanity is actually superbly adapted. Its all about the large brain.
Without it, we're nothing. With it, we just don't need things other animals can't get by without. Though the fossil records indicates quite clearly that the natural solutions and the man made ones all co-existed before the man made ones won out. The fossil record suggests humanity has been using stone tools and discovered how to cultivate fire more than a million years ago, plenty of time for evolution to catch up.
The evolutionary theory explains the lot of it just fine. There's no need to turn to extra-terrestrial origin stories with no evidence to back them up.
Sep 5 2013: Why would monkeys or hominids hunt at night?
Considering the effect of limited relative mobility, the limiting visual aspects of 'night vision' , necessity to recognize fruits and other plants...
"The hominids evolved from the Old World monkeys as trichromats, suggesting that trichromacy may have a very important role in primate evolution. "
What possible benefit or advantage would a 'nocturnal' hominid gain while acknowledging the obvious pitfalls?
In addition, and again if I'm not mistaken...
The pineal gland has been there since the beginning for hominids/early man, maintaining adherence to its current wake/sleep cycle with adaptive capabilities in the young to adjust to seasons.
"Hominids first started occupying areas with few shade trees some 1.7 million years ago. This is also the time when long limbs and an external nose appeared. Both are assumed to be adaptations to help dissipate heat, said Dr. Richard Klein, an archaeologist at Stanford University. Loss of hair and dark skin could well have emerged at the same time, so Dr. Rogers' argument was ''completely plausible,'' he said."
The 'parasite vulnerability' theory to support both evolution of clothes along with the loss of fur carries little weight. This logic would imply that monkeys and just about every other furry animal should be like humans. Wearing clothes and fire was not the catalyst, those are intelligent effects result of cognitive evolution.
"The fossil record suggests humanity has been using stone tools and discovered how to cultivate fire more than a million years ago, plenty of time for evolution to catch up.." Nadav Tropp
Please elaborate... what are you implying?
Language and Tool-Making Skills Evolved at the Same Time
Sep 6 2013: On the night issue, if anything, its advantageous to be active during the day.
Lions, leopards, hyenas and other large African predators are all most active at night. Hunting during the day makes it less likely to need to deal with them. Easy identification of eatable plants also helps.
In fact, humans are known to have practiced endurance hunting, which specifically requires prey items to get heatstroke before you do (another reason to get rid of your fur), and requires daytime heat.
As for fur, its primary function is to keep you warm. Once you have clothing and fire for that, you don't need fur, especially considering that cloths can be taken off during the heat. Ask any engineer, its keeping things cool that's a problem, not the other way around.
As fur does attract parasites, its actively bad to keep it around if you don't need it for insulation. As death due to hypothermia (again, not a problem for homo sapiens in Africa) is worse than parasites, a lot of animals still keep theirs.
As for what I'm implying with co-existance, let me explain via example.
Once you get your hands on a knife and fire to butcher and cook meat, as well as eat tough roots, you don't need a strong jaw. A strong jaw requires a fair bit of musculature, which is both energetically expensive in terms of upkeep, and due to skull design limits growth of the brain in future generations. Therefore, evolutionary pressure to get rid of the strong jaw due to the use of tools and fire. As evolution takes time to work, you have a period of co-existence of knives, fire, and a strong jaw, despite the jaw now being obsolete. The fossil record supports this.
The same is true for any number of adaptations. Human evolution was shaped, partially, through fire and early tool use.
Language is harder to pin down, as the fossil record doesn't display it. There are plenty of theories here as well, but they all have less evidence.Sep 7 2013: "1 day ago: Night vision was removed when our shiny new brain began requiring many more hours of sleep for maintenance, and fire allowed us to see short distances in the dark."
The huge eye sockets you see in hominid and dinosaur remains correspond to huge eyes, adapted to a world in which the entire middle part of the light spectrum was missing:
Turns out our solar system was originally in two parts, a bright part and a very dark part, and Earth was in the very dark part.
Schools teach that planets form up from swirling masses of solar material. That being true, you'd expect the spin axes of the planets in our own system to all be roughly perpendicular to the plane of the system. Our sun, Jupiter, and Mercury in fact do look like that, but the others don't.
Sun 7.25 (to the Ecliptic)
Mercury ~0.01
Venus 177.4
Earth 23.439281
Moon 1.5424
Mars 25.19
Ceres ~4
Jupiter 3.13
Saturn 26.73
Uranus 97.77
Neptune 28.32
Pluto 119.61
The explanation which the data suggests is as follows:
Our sun, Jupiter, and Mercury with their near zero axis tilts, amount to an original system.
Uranus and Venus are special cases with their own separate stories.
Mars, Earth, Neptune, and Saturn with their roughly 26-degree axis tilts must have comprised a separate small system which was captured by our sun as a group. This would result from flying into the plane of the sun's system in the form of a Herbig/Haro string at a 26-degree angle from the South. Those planets kept the ~26-degree tilt as they began to orbit as they do now.
Saturn would have been a brown dwarf star and planets (Earth/Mars) orbiting a dwarf star typically do so inside the heliosphere of the dwarf star. Radiant energy would bounce back from that heliosphere to all points of the planet so that you wouldn't freeze, but you'd be living in a deep, dark purple sort of a world.
Nadav Tropp
Sep 8 2013: You've completely lost me.Sep 9 2013: Therefore, since we are not from this planet, we are an invasive species, and all ecologically-minded people should exterminate us.
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Sep 9 2013: They tried...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZbmywzGAVsSep 9 2013: Mr. Holden, please fill-in the blank: Homo Sapiens originated in our Solar System on a mysterious planet called ________________.
Sep 9 2013: Ganymede. Nothing terribly mysterious about it.
Cosmos in Collision is not an anti-evolution tract per-se, but it contains what is likely the biggest argument against evolution which has ever come down the road. The book demonstrates that our solar system was originally in two parts: a part consisting of our sun, Jupiter, Mercury, and possibly whatever the asteroid used to be; and a part consisting of Saturn, Neptune, Mars, Earth, and probably Uranus.
Both sides of the thing had living systems based on the same DNA/RNA information scheme, and involving complex quadruped creatures based on that scheme. If you want to believe all of that evolved, you need to believe it all evolved almost exactly the same way, twice....
Sep 9 2013: Oh, yeah, is that the Ganymede discovered by Galilei which orbits Jupiter? So even though all known Homo Sapiens live on Earth you say they originated there? Since the idea stands in opposition to the entire body of scientific and Biblical evidence how is that you say it is not terribly mysterious? Should I get my tinfoil hat from the shelf?
Sep 9 2013: It may really be that the format of TED is not adequate for discussing this one... TED strikes me as interesting for several reasons but it doesn't have forum/BBCODE capabilities and the 2K-byte limit is clunky.
Again humans have the smallest relative eye size of advanced creatures and are adapted to a bright world. The Earth in past ages was a very dark world, hence the huge eyes of hominids and dinosaurs and other ancient creatures. The combination of lack of fur, lack of a decent sense of smell, and lack of the kinds of eyes needed for Earth in ancient times rule this planet out as an original human home world.Sep 9 2013: Minus the other gas giants, Jupiter would have been in a much closer orbit in ancient times, and Ganymede would have been a very bright, warm, wet, and safe sort of a world.
I've mentioned this here before... Schools teach that planets form up from swirling masses of solar material. That being true, you'd expect the spin axes of the planets in our own system to all be roughly perpendicular to the plane of the system. Our sun, Jupiter, and Mercury in fact do look like that, but the others don't.
Sun 7.25 (to the Ecliptic)
Mercury ~0.01
Venus 177.4
Earth 23.439281
Moon 1.5424
Mars 25.19
Ceres ~4
Jupiter 3.13
Saturn 26.73
Uranus 97.77
Neptune 28.32
Pluto 119.61
The explanation which the data suggests is as follows:
Our sun, Jupiter, and Mercury with their near zero axis tilts, amount to an original system.
Uranus and Venus are special cases with their own separate stories.
Mars, Earth, Neptune, and Saturn with their roughly 26-degree axis tilts must have comprised a separate small system which was captured by our sun as a group. This would result from flying into the plane of the sun's system in the form of a Herbig/Haro string at a 26-degree angle from the South. Those planets kept the ~26-degree tilt as they began to orbit as they do now.Sep 9 2013: Saturn would have been a brown dwarf star and planets (Earth/Mars) orbiting a dwarf star typically do so inside the heliosphere of the dwarf star. Radiant energy would bounce back from that heliosphere to all points of the planet so that you wouldn't freeze, but you'd be living in a deep, dark purple sort of a world, ideal for hominids but not for humans.
Again a sense of smell is crucial for land animals, particularly prey animals, but not for aquatic mammals. Elaine Morgan's "Aquatic Ape" thesis is the best theory ever yet put forward for human adaptation. Morgan describes a fairly long list of traits which we share with the aquatic mammals, and which are rare or non-existent amongst land animals. It's never gotten any traction in academia for two reasons, there is no fossil evidence of such a development, and there's never been a body of water on this planet which would be safe for humans to live in. Wonderful theory, all it really needs is another planet to happen on...
A view from Ganymede, some tens of thousands of years ago:
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r53/icebear46/image059_zps10faf866.pngSep 9 2013: Ice Ages go back a couple hundred thousand years, human evolution and the loss of our fur coats has been happening over a period of 5 million years.
There wasn't strong selection pressure to keep a powerful sense of smell, so it slowly began to fall into dysfunction, it isn't mysterious or unusual. The same things happen to other species.
We never had night vision, unless you were under the impression that our closest relatives according to a Earth-native theory of human origins was cats or snakes.
The reason we could afford to lose what we did lose was because we made up for it in enhanced vision and intelligence.Sep 6 2013: we can't say for sure when we lost our fur, it is an assumption that it was during the ice age.as for night vision, it has been suggested that there were times when the skies were darker due to ash in the air. there are many potential explanations for most of the human changes. it doesn't seem to be either go or aliens to me.
Lejan .
Sep 6 2013: How does your rigorous case explain the shared DNA pool by hominids and humans?
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And what does a predator needs highly developed fur, smell and night vision for in exchange for such brain capacity, creativity and tool making abilities?
Our todays tools deliver a deadly bullet at pitch-black night from a helicopter only guided by the temperature signature of a living target. And not to smell the cordite and jet fuel fumes that much proved even advantageous to the pilots ...
So whats your point?
Sep 7 2013: "How does your rigorous case explain the shared DNA pool by hominids and humans?'"
A few of the same low-level genetic parts being used by original designer(s) for separate projects. Likewise you'll find a few of the same low-level C-language math functions used in both banking software and rocket telemetry software; that doesn't mean that NASA's software is hacked from that of JP Morgan.
Lejan .
Sep 7 2013: If NASA's software would deviate in its C-language math function by only 1,23% (as humans do in their Single Nucleotide Polymorphism in their DNA base pairs compared to chimpanzees), we wouldn't talk about hacked software at all, as we were talking about the same computer program already.
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Given the instability of the banking sector, I hope the given comparison was chosen randomly and without any real background ... :o)Sep 5 2013: Ted,
There are a lot of good arguments opposed to your thesis that humans came from somewhere else, but
way back when there was a theory that aliens came and mated with locals and that union formed our current
species. The author pointed out rock carvings in Peru as I remember. There was a counter point made by another author that theorized that advanced humans came back in time and where trapped in prehistoric times and mated with the locals and that union formed our current species.... I guess we would have dominate genes.
So, if we came to be 6000 years ago on the banks of the Tigris River,or some mutation 5 million years ago, a passing Vulcan spaceship or some errant astronauts, you make a point, mankind doesn't seem really well suited for the current events of the day...Sep 5 2013: yeah, and 98% of DNA is identical out of pure chance
Sep 7 2013: Not pure chance: similar design as I've noted elsewhere. For many years, numerous parts were interchangeable between VWs and Porsches.
Sep 7 2013: ah, so humans and other animals were manufactured using the same off the shelf partsSep 5 2013: If modern man is so spectacularly ill-adapted hasn't he done well to subjugate the whole planet. Maybe God knows a thing or two about designing creatures after all.
Sep 7 2013: Man has taken this place over despite being ill adapted to it, at least originally. Try watching one or two episodes of the "Naked and Afraid" thing on the cable channels.
Other than that, you're right about God, and humans were splendidly adapted to their original home; it's just that the original home was not here...Sep 5 2013: Maybe humans evolving intelligence allowed for the sense of smell to be replaced by more easily interpreted, referenced, associative , and relevant stimuli, such as sight. Considering our current addiction to relativity, amounts in relations(numbers), geometry and so forth...
I'm confused with the following reference:
"Lost almost all of his night vision at a time when night was the only time of day to be had."
Maybe our apatite for recognizing patterns and creating associative models of memory, especially with regards to that of visuospatial, outweighed any environmental conditions. Implying, that unlike other animals of the time, depth perception was of most importance... removing the evolutionary change towards stereoscopic vision.
Maybe we emerged apex predators for many reasons, mainly intelligence resulting in the sense of smell to decrease for we don't need to smell 'predators' from long distances, or to determine edibility for example.
Maybe we didn't remain in forests or similar environments that constantly restrict our fields of view, creating the necessity to accurately determine depths at greater distances. Again, increased night vision often results in stereoscopic vision.
Maybe, unlike our chimp ancestors or monkeys in general... we didn't spend all of our time in the trees or heavily shaded environments, resulting in the loss of our fur.
Maybe we lost the fur as a result of migration and being subject to varying climates resulting from either environmental changes or demand of calorie intake. We require a fare amount of calories, especially relating to cognition, implying that 'hunting' may have increased our frequency of experiencing various climates while following migrations.
Maybe our ancestors intentionally stayed relatively close to liquid water during the coming and going ice ages, suggesting that much time was spent in shallow waters while foraging for food. Replacing fur with relatively high levels of body fat.
Sep 7 2013: "1 day ago: Maybe humans evolving intelligence allowed for the sense of smell to be replaced by more easily interpreted, referenced, associative , and relevant stimuli, such as sight."
Any land prey species would go extinct within a week with our sense of smell. An aquatic mammal, on the other hand, doesn't really need a sense of smell any better than ours. Elaine Morgan's "Aquatic Ape" thesis is the best theory ever yet put forward for human adaptation. Morgan describes a fairly long list of traits which we share with the aquatic mammals, and which are rare or non-existent amongst land animals. It's never gotten any traction in academia for two reasons, there is no fossil evidence of such a development, and there's never been a body of water on this planet which would be safe for humans to live in. Wonderful theory, all it really needs is another planet to happen on...


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