#vegetarian #vegan #evolution Originally shared by Sean P. O. MacCath-Moran +Eve Volve: "Meat allowed us to evolve" Really? I think you're mistaken to believe this is a certainty, but what causes you to believe this is so, +Eve Volve ? As I understand it, there have been healthy, thriving vegetarians and vegans for as long as there have been humans. Some were so due to moral or ethical concerns, others due to resource utilization issues, others due to cultural taboos. All other factors being equal, the veg(etari)ans have thrived, and continue to do so. For some more recent historical examples of vegans, we can look at Pythagoras, the "Pythagoreans" (as vegans were called for the following 1300 years), along with a plethora of like-minded contemporaries (e.g. goo.gl/lgDBL ). Buddhists, Jainists, et al., have been doing grand as veg(etari)ans since around the 6th century BCE. Prior to this, there's compelling reason to believe that most people were veg...
Paolo Scarabelli fantastic! haven't heard of it.. it was discontinued? really? omg.. it looks amazing.
ReplyDeleteSome of those features, and the idea of an open desktop platform, are still alive in the Compiz environment for linux, which has several neat 2D and 3D effects.
ReplyDeleteJessica Meyer after it was presented in 2003 Apple threatened to sue Sun over the project of they ever commercialized it.
ReplyDeleteSun continued it's development for a few years, but then they run into financial troubles and pulled the plug.
Too bad because it looks really functional, and at that time it was really ahead even of Apple.
I installed Compiz, Leonardo Jones , but it seems mostly eye candy, Looking glass was an innovative concept of desktop. I love the idea of stacking the application windows as books, or turning them to write notes.
ReplyDeleteIf it were developed in the tablet/touch screen era, I bet it could have been a huge success, in 2003 hardly anyone had a computer fast enough to run it smoothly.
There was another similar project called Metisse, but it seems inactive too.
ReplyDeleteI would love to have a 3d desktop.