FIRE GOOD: In his new book Catching Fire, Harvard biological anthropologist Richard Wrangham argues that it's the human need to cook our food that made us so smart and strong and socially organized. Take that, raw foods movement! Additionally, we have cooking to credit/blame for the male/female division of labor, so thank your great-great-great-to the nth degree-grandmothers for subjecting women to unequal pay for equal work. Anyone with any problems with the theories above can yell at Wrangham at his reading at Town Hall tonight. 7:30 p.m. // Town Hall // 1119 8th Ave. // $5 more ›

The fire started in the boat's laundry room and spread throughout the boat. The fire burned for five hours before being extinguished by 16 crew members, who stayed on board to fight the blaze. Eighty percent of the Pacific Glacier's crew calls the Seattle-area home. The entire crew survived the fire without incident or injury, despite the whole floating in the Bering Sea in the middle of February in a life raft or fighting a fire in an enclosed space thing. more ›