Hard to believe this guy is 70…
For a long time, the consensus of scientific opinion was that modern man descended from a single species, Homo sapiens. Neanderthals were thought to be a distant cousin that died out. But in the past decade or so, DNA testing has proffered an alternate hypothesis that is now all but irrefutable: that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens interbred. You can read about it here. LINK
Good advice on how to be chosen for the job you want…
How many words are in the English language?
Last week, citing the Oxford English Dictionary, I said that there are 171,476 English words in current use. But after thinking about it, that number seemed awfully low. So I did a little research – and I found estimates all over the place, some as high as a million. It depends on how the “count” is done. The OED counts only “full” entries. Other sources count different versions of the same word (plurals, tenses, spelling), obscure and obsolete words, etc. So the answer to the question “How many words are in the English language?” appears to be: Nobody really knows.
In this recent video posted on BusinessMadeSimple.com, Donald Miller explained that he likes to eat lunch alone because that’s when he gets his best ideas. LINK
I buy that. I rarely have business lunches because I’ve found that they are like basketball games. All the important action happens in about 5 minutes. It’s much more efficient to have 15-minute meetings in my office. What’s even better than those short meetings in my office are Zoom meetings. Zoom (and like technologies) is amazingly good. You can see all the participants. And when someone speaks, their face enlarges – drawing your attention like it does when someone speaks at a “live” meeting.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. A polar bear’s skin is black. Its fur is actually clear, but, like snow, it appears to be white.
Orangutans…the baby sitter
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, there are 171,476 English words in current use.
If you’ve ever struggled to pronounce a French word, you’ll enjoy this.
The revenue from gambling is greater than the revenue from movies, cruise ships, recorded music, theme parks, and spectator sports combined.