Somewhere there are probably figures on this, but my impression is that during the present century people have been inventing new "National ___ Day"s at an alarming rate.
The present one was initiated in 2012 by "corporate trainer Judy Beaver. She chose it because it was her mother's birthday, and she wanted to honour a lady who was evidently a stickler for correctness in written expression." (I'm not making any of this up, and I don't think Crystal is.)
The only other moment of fun is a mention of the "Wicked Bible" (1631), one of a number of early KJV editions named for amusing printing errors. This one apparently included among the Ten Commandments: "Thou shalt commit adultery".
Somewhere there are probably figures on this, but my impression is that during the present century people have been inventing new "National ___
Day"s at an alarming rate.
The present one was initiated in 2012 by "corporate trainer Judy Beaver.
She chose it because it was her mother's birthday, and she wanted to
honour a lady who was evidently a stickler for correctness in written expression." (I'm not making any of this up, and I don't think Crystal is.)
The only other moment of fun is a mention of the "Wicked Bible" (1631),
one of a number of early KJV editions named for amusing printing errors.
This one apparently included among the Ten Commandments: "Thou shalt
commit adultery".
Of course there is no longer any evolutionary (reproductive)
advantage to earning more money, but I wonder if before wide-spread contraception there was some measure selection pressure on this.
On 2024-03-08, Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> wrote:
Of course there is no longer any evolutionary (reproductive)
advantage to earning more money, but I wonder if before wide-spread
contraception there was some measure selection pressure on this.
I vaguely remember that Swedish birth records from the 19th century
show that rich women had more children. Sorry, I can't cite a
source. (I may have read it in PLoS Biology or Medicine.)
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