• Certain areas of Mars have the same weather every year. (Keats' Telescope)

  There are specific times of year and locations on Mars which have experienced the same dust storm patterns every Mars year since we began observing with the first MGS MOC approach image in July 1997.

  C'mon, that' s just neat.
• At Mixing Memory, a post about cultures with few words for numbers. It summarizes a couple of articles from Science about societies in the Brazilian rainforest where they only have words for "one, two and, many" or "five words for different general numeralities." The Saphir-Wharf hypothesis shows up! That's always fun to see. Also, this, which I thought was awesome. Sven would love it:

  The picture I'm trying to paint with these two sets of studies is just how messy research on language and thought really is. [...] Figuring out whether language, as opposed to other cultural and/or environmental variables are responsible for differences in cognition is damn near impossible to do with any certainty. But the research is fun anyway.

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