JLRoberson: that was my birthday, in itself a reminder of mortality

Was the Stone Age Actually the Wood Age? www.nytimes.com/2024/05/04/s...

Was the Stone Age Actually the Wood Age?www.nytimes.com Neanderthals were even better craftsmen than thought, a new analysis of 300,000-year-old wooden tools has revealed.

Okay, but this is wildly infuriating: "as tall as an NBA centre", "half the length of a pool cue" - just state the size of the things! I'll even cope if it's expressed in feet or inches, the NYT being American and all. These comparisons are daft for such easily comprehensible length measurements.

Each day the @nytimes.com fills two Olympic sized swimming pools with size and measurement analogies.

Jerusalem Post hot on its heels, though

that was my birthday, in itself a reminder of mortality