Tuesday, August 2, 2011

About Keyboards in Different Languages

In English, we have the QWERTY keyboard. But the Latin languages use what is called the AZERTY keyboard and Germanic languages the QWERTZ keyboard. Just never dawned on me.

Monday, July 4, 2011

that wrinkled fingers are like tire treads!

When your fingers wrinkle when wet, it is an evolutionary adaptation to give you better grip -- like tire treads! I thought that was pretty cool. http://content.karger.com/ProdukteDB/produkte.asp?Aktion=ShowPDF&ArtikelNr=328223&Ausgabe=0&ProduktNr=223831&filename=328223.pdf