Haha. I hadn't thought about it from that angle. It does make me feel a bit better about it.

I didn't realize this until I was touring the Parthenon. I had assumed it had slowly crumbled over the centuries. It's definitely a strange emotion to know that it likely would still be glorious if not for people fighting.

> money that gets automatically deposited in there

Not everyone has direct deposit, and some people may opt-out in order to get control of their finances. Plus, direct deposit was probably less common when the envelope system was invented.

But yes, on the extreme end, you would withdraw all of your money every check or month to put into envelopes. Then deposit back what you need for online transactions.

Realistically, with a little bit of foresight and math, you could only withdraw what you need to.

And India makes a profit as the middle man

No. I haven't read anything about that. All the genetic evidence points to Eastern Asia. North-East Asian genetics makes sense for the land bridge. South-East Asian genetics contributes to the boat theory.

For cultural similarities, I'd chalk that up to coincidence. People are people, so I can accept some similar behaviors and beliefs emerging in different places.

Disputed. The safest theory is they crossed the Bering Strait on foot when it was dry. It looks like this actually happened a few times. However, there are some really old artifacts in South America that question that timeline, because it would mean people had to cross from Asia and then get to South America really fast.

There's also a theory that they used small boats to travel along the shore from Asia, along the Bering Strait when it was not fully flooded, and down the western coast of America.

The book 1491 does a good job of covering the different theories.

Or 2 stones an hour in a 12 hour shift. Or 4 stones an hour in a 12 hour shift 6 months at a time. Placing a stone every 15 minutes doesn't seem so impossible, especially if there is a queue of stones ready to go.

For you album listeners, I made a web app that will play a random album from your Spotify collection.

https://www.bandtr.com/

There's a 200 pound difference between lions and cougers. A little bit misleading to call what we have in America a lion.

I was quoting from a blog, and almost left that one off the list. It looks like ancient Egyptian evolved to Coptic, which is still spoken by priests, and mixed with Arabic to get Egyptian spoken Arabic.

There's a little ambiguity here, so I'll answer as best I can, but it might also be good to refine the question a little bit.

First, "history" started with writing, so "prehistoric" is anytime before writing, which means up until about 6 thousand years ago.

There are languages still spoken today that are that old (eg Egyptian, Sanskrit, Greek, Chinese). So just based on the fact that those spoken languages are practically prehistoric, then that would count as language elements from prehistoric times.

Further, even newer languages like English can trace words back to Indo-European. Looking at Wikipedia, Indo-European goes back 5k years, so I don't think it's a stretch to say that it retained some elements from prehistory.

Mostly right. Realistically, her daughters and further lineage were all the same for a few generations until a new mutation occurred.

Slight tweak to this, she was the only one whose mtDNA is still around. The other women of her generation would have also been passing on their mtDNA at the time. However, those other lines didn't make it to the present, for whatever reason.

I love listening to full albums, but I hate having to choose, therefore, I made a web app to shuffle a Spotify collection by album!

https://www.bandtr.com/

What historical figure should I compare Rudolph to at the end of the song, Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer?

So nothing important happened to humanity at the end of the ice age and the pyramids he shows are all fake. Got it.

Just learned recently that Cholula is one of the oldest cities in Mexico

Probably not because they couldn't feed themselves

I don't know of any sources for this specifically, but it certainly seems plausible, especially with the recent discoveries about other ancient stories being true.

Netflix just released Ancient Apocalypse, which talks about things like this as a result of exiting the last ice age. It's interesting, but definitely take it all with a grain of salt. It's got a little bit of Ancient Aliens flavor in it.

That's ground-penetrating radar. The trick is you have to scan the land before you know if something is there, and there's a lot of land.

Also I don't know the technical limitations of that kind of radar.

> But I'm certain that both of them just retained popularity because they do sound sexual.

Absolutely. I imagine they even started because they sounded sexual. I'm positive everyone in the area snickered the first time someone ever said "balls to the wall".

Different city, great book though.

I also recommend The Lost City of Z for anyone who is interested in modern jungle exploration.

You figured it out. There are so many aspects of software to balance, that it depends on what you are focused on as to what the best way forward is. And in many cases it's not the best, just good enough.

If it's your only book, yeah it's lacking. It doesn't teach how to be a good developer. But as a self-taught coder, having a reference like that was useful to increase my code quality and readability.