It’s important to personal development to strive to learn something every day.  Here are a few of the things I know this week that I didn’t know last week.

• There are these enormous rocks in Death Valley (called sailing stones) that (by means unknown) move across the desert leaving trails in the sand.
• Anthropologist Louis Leakey believes that the foul body odor of humans could be part of early man’s survival.  Predators avoided eating people because they smelled so bad.  I worked with this guy a few years back who proudly refused to use soap or deodorant.  It’s funny that a predator wouldn’t eat him, because he smelled like warm bologna.
• After Philip K. Dick died, some fans created a PKD android that mimicked his mannerisms, sported face recognition software, and quoted the writer’s work.
• No American has technically died of old age since 1951.  That was the year the government eliminated that classification on death certificates.
• John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness (1987) is part of a thematic film trilogy, including The Thing (1982) and In the Mouth of Madness (1995).