Do Your Ears Hang Low?

I’m a big Star Trek fan. I particularly love the original series before all its various reincarnations.

I find the character of “Spock” to be, shall I say, “fascinating.”

In particular, Spock’s ears were (IMHO) a work of cosmetic genius. They had the same all-too-human tendency to grow ever so slightly – sometimes they were a little more pointy and at other times and in other seasons or films they appeared to be lower, thicker and broader.

Was the changing-of-the-ears an intentional mimic of his part human DNA or was it an oversight by some continuity person?

Either way, his ears continued to grow just as ours do throughtout our entire lives – about 0.22 millimeter per year, at least that’s according to a study performed by the Royal College of General Practitioners in Great Britain. Might I add that it is only the flesh portion of the ear that continues to grow and not the ear canal, which is composed of cartilege and bone.

This then begs the question: Why do ears continue to grow as we get older? Could it be the simple response of gravity pulling our ears downward or is it nature’s way of providing a natural “ear horn” to assist diminished hearing!

Whatever the reason it is indeed fascinating!

Two more births to celebrate…

If you are a follower of horoscopes, what insight can you shed on two men who were born on the same day – only hours apart, but both having had a huge historical impact on mankind, but in different ways?

Last night, at the newly renovated Ford Theatre in Washington, D.C., President Obama took to the stage, whose lights had been darkened since the assasination of President Lincoln, and spoke these words about the 16th leader of these UNITED states, “Despite all that divided us -- North and South, black and white -- he had an unyielding belief that we were, at heart, one nation, and one people.”

And, at the same time, Google had chosen Charles Darwin, the father of “evolution” to best express the importance of the day.

Two men separated only by hours, both remembered for their 200th birthdates. Both sending messages to this generation that we are all different but yet the same.

As Commander Spock, of the original Star Trek of the 60’s would say, “Fascinating.”

Indeed it is.