Word of the Day

Hey, how was your day? Did you learn anything new? No? Well, here's an interesting and slightly disturbing fact about turkeys. Male turkeys only look at the females' heads for mates. So a turkey will have sex with a turkey head on a stick! Guess where I learned that? In drama class yesterday! What are they teaching kids these days? Ok, now on to the actual purpose of this post; my new segment called Word of the Day. Everyday –or if I'm feeling lazy, not everyday– I am going to pick one word that I heard that day that I find interesting or weird. So the Word of the Day today is paleoanthropology. Directly from Wikipedia, here is the definition:

Paleoanthropology (English: Palaeoanthropology; from Greek: παλαιός (palaeos) "old, ancient"), anthrōpos (ἄνθρωπος), "man", understood to mean humanity, and -logia (-λογία), "discourse" or "study"), which combines the disciplines of paleontology and physical anthropology, is the study of ancient humans as found in fossil hominidevidence such as petrifacted bones and footprints.

Cool, huh? It's fun to say too. Paleoanthropology. Pal-e-o-an-thro-pol-o-gy. Paleoanthropology. Paleoanthropology. Ok, now it's starting to loose its meaning. You know how after you say a word too many times it just starts to sound like a bunch of... sounds? Now, you are probably wondering why I chose this word. To be honest, there is no reason. It was totally random. It just happens to be Mary Leakey's 100th birthday and she was a paleoanthropologist. But of course, if you were on Google at all today you would already know this. Isn't Google just great for random facts like that? I hope one day my birthday will be celebrated on Google. Millions of people playing games, or seeing animations, or learning about new things just because Google did a tribute to your birthday. So what do you think your Google tribute would look like? Please leave a comment and tell me what you think you'll be famous for. Sincerely, Sam