An interesting Deep Dive might be made examining how the establishment of an international standard of weights and measures was the first step toward the current system of globalisation of commerce. I remember in one of my early historical anthropology classes in Uni learning that standardised weights and measures was one of the great underpinnings of civilisation, and one of the very first things governments of places like ancient Sumer and the Hittite Empire and Old Kingdom Egypt involved themselves in. God-Kings with huge cults of priests, temples and pyramids, and one of the most important tasks of the priestly/scribal class was to make damn sure the bakers weren't shorting the loaves.
I love these shorter posts! The long ones got saved up for the occasional Saturday morning coffee binge, but these ones are perfect rewards for clearing out my inbox in the morning.
Either way, please never stop the dad joke photo captions.
An interesting Deep Dive might be made examining how the establishment of an international standard of weights and measures was the first step toward the current system of globalisation of commerce. I remember in one of my early historical anthropology classes in Uni learning that standardised weights and measures was one of the great underpinnings of civilisation, and one of the very first things governments of places like ancient Sumer and the Hittite Empire and Old Kingdom Egypt involved themselves in. God-Kings with huge cults of priests, temples and pyramids, and one of the most important tasks of the priestly/scribal class was to make damn sure the bakers weren't shorting the loaves.
Avogadro is one of my favourite words - next to gubernaculum and the "c" word (in top spot, of course).
I love these shorter posts! The long ones got saved up for the occasional Saturday morning coffee binge, but these ones are perfect rewards for clearing out my inbox in the morning.
Either way, please never stop the dad joke photo captions.