Moe Skwee Toes

Here are some interesting facts about mosquitoes (copied from a site to which I give credit at the end of this list):

-You're more likely to be a target for mosquitoes if you consume bananas. 

-Biting activity increase by 500 times when there is a full moon. 

-A mosquito's wings beat 500 times a second.                               

-The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.                                          

-Mosquitoes dislike citronella because it irritates their feet.

-Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, and blondes to brunettes.                                          

-A mosquito can detect a moving target at 18 ft away.  

-The average life span of a female mosquito is 3 to 100 days. the male lives 10 to 20 days.                                            

-Mosquitoes: lay up to 300 eggs at a time, fly across 150 miles in their lifetime, range from sea level to altitudes as high as 10,800 feet (3,600 meters), and develop from egg to adulthood in 4 to 7 days.

This all came from (http://www.thaibugs.com/Articles/amazing_mosquito_facts.htm) and is not at all in my own words. Also, the site I just credited credits another site (http://www.control-mosquitoes.com/) so if you wanna know more you should check those out. Not sure why you'd want to know more about mosquitoes but hey, whatever.

So that was fun. Kind of interesting about the banana thing. Also, something that isn't mentioned here but is on the aforementioned site, mosquitoes are apparently attracted to carbon dioxide and lactic acid. So does that mean a lactose intolerant person breath into a tree and not be bitten by mosquitoes? Just a thought.

Archaeology

Is not nearly as much as you'd think. Digging up bones and cool stuff from millions of years ago?? Wowieee!!!

Not so much. Archaeology is mostly about dating techniques and whether or not hominins are different than hominids (they are, by the way). Sure it's fascinating to figure out how we started and how we evolved and how we eventually got to where we are now but most of that fascination gets lost in the minutia of anthropological tedium. Like paperwork and walking for hours trying to find a fragment of a pinkie bone in the desert. Or putting pieces of dirt into a fancy machine and waiting for it to beep at you. That stuff really isn't so great. At least, not to me. I think I would much rather prefer to study cultures and write books and teach students than travel to Antarctica and study the remains of that observatory thing we built 100 years ago, or even than dig up human fossils in Egypt. Well, that last one would be pretty sick. So maybe I'll be a cultural anthropologist who writes books on the cultural traits of modern Egypt whoch were influenced by the ancient civilizations or something. Yeah.