She looked over his shoulder
For vines and olive trees,
Marble well-governed cities
And ships upon untamed seas,
But there on the shining metal
His hands had put instead
An artificial wilderness
And a sky like lead.

A plain without a feature, bare and brown,
No blade of grass, no sign of neighborhood,
Nothing to eat and nowhere to sit down,
Yet, congregated on its blankness, stood
An unintelligible multitude,
A million eyes, a million boots in line,
Without expression, waiting for a sign.

Monday, March 2, 2009

Humans: A species on the brink

You know how national geographic and animal planet always have programs with this title? Well it turns out that like 20,000 years ago they could have made one about us. The average population of humans during the pre-Neolithic era (I don't actually know what that means, but it's before 12,000 years ago) was fucking 2,000 adults! throw in some old people and babies and we're at maybe 5,000 worldwide. Holy shit! There are many endangered species with numbers in this range. Granted that we didn't have a huge population of intelligent and selfish super-primates fucking with us. But still.

Oh, and it turns out that this fact explains why babies are adorable.
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