Search results

I remember reading somewhere that the original indian digits represented each number by acute/right angles. So "1" was an upside down "V", two was a "Z", three was a reversed capital sigma, etc It got rather silly round 5, 6 and 9, so I'm not sure whether this was true or wishful thinking by...

I can think of a lot of factors that influence life expectancy outside of diet, climate and genetics. For example: 1) France and Japan have very high antibiotic use; it's quite probable that adults will have taken antibiotics every year of their lives. In contrast, the UK tries to limit...

I have no intention of retiring until my health forces it. Hopefully I will die at my desk!

Is Latin really the root of romance languages? M R Harper posits that Latin is a synthetic language and not the root of the Romance languages. He points out that Latin has a neuter gender, unlike any Romance language (that I know of anyway), and that Latin declines nouns - and again I know of...