The biggest review ever done of what humans ate for two million years was published in 2021, and it has not made it onto a single plate graphic.
Three researchers, two at Tel Aviv University and one in Portugal, went through about 400 studies and pulled out 25 separate lines of evidence, from our genes to our guts to the bones in the ground.
The stomach says hunter, with an acid at a pH of 1.5, stronger than most predators' and close to a scavenger's, strong enough to kill the bacteria in meat that was eaten over days and weeks.
The fat says hunter, stored in tens of billions of small cells the way a carnivore stores it, unlike the fewer, larger cells of a fruit-eating ape.
The genome says hunter, with stretches of DNA shut down in humans to suit a fat-rich diet where the same stretches in the chimpanzee were opened up for sugar.
The gut says hunter, with most of its length given to the small intestine that absorbs meat and fat, and a colon a fraction of the size of an ape's.
The children say hunter, weaned at 2 to 3 years where a chimpanzee suckles for 5, because a mother with meat to hand can feed a toddler something other than milk.
The tools say hunter, with spear points and butchering blades for nearly two million years, and the grinding stones for seeds turning up only near the very end.
The rubbish says hunter, with camp sites full of elephant, hippo and mammoth bone, and the prey getting smaller over time as the giants were eaten out.
The bones say hunter, with nitrogen readings in Neanderthals and early modern humans that sit above the wolf and the hyena, at the very top of the food chain.
Put together, every line points the same way: from Homo erectus, about two million years ago, humans lived as hypercarnivores, and only turned to plants in numbers when the big animals ran out, in the last stretch before farming.
Two million years on meat and fat, and about 12,000 on grain, which is under 1% of the time we have been human.
The plate graphic puts the grain at the base and the meat at the tip, which is the whole history of the species printed upside down.
@unclebobmartin As the tooling gets better and voice interactivity improves, I have a feeling that software development is going to turn into having a conversation with your computer.
David Friedberg reveals France's public spending is 57% of GDP: greater than that of communist countries
"This chart is a measure of public spending as a percent of GDP; Rand Group Research published it. And you can see the comparison of France's public spending as a percent of GDP, to the peak public spending as a percent of GDP of major communist nations, Soviet Union during, communist Romania, Venezuela under Chavez, and then communist China."
"It certainly been a socialist state, right? That's my point. I think this is such a precious lesson for the West to look at. We all think that there's some political problem with Macron or whoever it was."
"The more the government spends, the worse the conditions get for its people, not the opposite. And then the people riot and revolt and say that the government's not spending enough and the government needs to be doing more."
"Take a guess where the US is today. Federal government spending is $7.4 trillion, state and local government spending is $4.6 trillion. You add those two together, it's $12 trillion out of a $33 trillion GDP. US public spending is roughly 36% of GDP. France today is the same as the US, it's about 120% debt to GDP."
"France today is operating its national government spending deficit is 5.4% of GDP. The US is actually 6.2% of GDP. France is I think probably the first to go because they're only growing their economy at half a percent while the US is growing 2.3%."
"So we're still kind of hanging on because we have some degree of economic growth that's allowing us to kind of hold things together."
"But I would argue that we are facing the same sort of fiscal cliff that leads to this extraordinary social unrest as France, all the economic measures are aligned, we're at the same rate, we're at the same set of problems."