Day 1,484: till, hunter-gatherer, jostle, Colombian exchange
What may cut down on time-wasting queues also minimises what some people love about shopping: the human interaction at the till, the hunter-gatherer instinct as they jostle at the meat counter, the Columbian exchange between fellow foodies at the spice rack.
Artwork of the day
A figurine featuring the New World's independently invented wheel. Among the places where wheeled toys were found, Mesoamerica is the only one where the wheel was never put to practical use before the 16th century.
Word of the day
till: the drawer in a cash register (= a machine which records sales in a shop, and in which money is kept) or the cash register itself
hunter-gatherer: a member of a society that lives by hunting and collecting wild food, rather than by farming
jostle: to knock or push roughly against someone in order to move past them or get more space when you are in a crowd of people
Columbian exchange: was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, precious metals, commodities, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the New World (the Americas) in the Western Hemisphere, and the Old World (Afro-Eurasia) in the Eastern Hemisphere, in the late 15th and following centuries.
Quote of the day
“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain
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