The Chinese scientist knows 20 000 characters. To be able to read the Chinese literature it is enough to know 1000. With knowledge of 200 characters you can understand 40% of the literature, road signs, restaurant menus, websites or newspapers. To start learning it is simple enough to remember only 8 characters.
Watching how one hundred years of dog breeding “improvement” actually ruined perfectly beautiful, athletic, and useful dogs, turning them into a caricature of themselves full of health problems, is really sad. Just look at the deformation endured by the bull terrier above these lines.
Image Credit: J. Morse (Arizona State U.), K. Davidson (U. Minnesota) et al., WFPC2, HST, NASAExplanation: Eta Carinae may be about to explode. But no one knows when – it may be next year, it may be one million years...
Good ways to hide things and money.
Fans were absolutely thrilled when they learned that Fox was bringing the “X-Files” back for a limited run next year. That means everyone would get a chance to see their favorite paranormal partners together again.
