Raz

I will have to catch up on class later. Mom has a 1 pm appointment and won’t be home in time.

1/25 – for the humans: The average person will grow 590 miles of hair in their lifetime, according to The Express. Presumably, this is cumulative of each hair on your body laid end to end. Nose hairs alone contribute 6.5 feet of the total. (Does the nose hair fact gross-out anycat?)

1/24 Fossil evidence shows us that, over the past 10,000 years, the average human brain has shrunk about the size of a tennis ball. But that doesn’t mean we’re any less intelligent. Our smaller brains are probably more efficient, particularly since most of us live in settled societies and don’t need to constantly be on the lookout for predators.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you

1/23 Bats save us billions of dollars a year.
Bats tend to get a bad rap. The truth is, they gobble up lots of troublesome insects. In fact, they’re so good at keeping pests away from our food crops that they save U.S. farmers alone at least $3.7 billion on pesticides every year. So bats are actually a significant factor in our agricultural economy.

1/22 – African buffalo herds make decisions by voting.
Apparently, democracy isn’t limited to humanity. For example, African buffalo herds are known to select the direction they’ll travel by voting.

One by one, the adult females of the herd will stand up, look in a particular direction, and then lay back down. Whichever direction gets the most…[Read more]