September 22, 2016 at 01:26AM

Today I Learned: 1) Korean has two ways of counting! It has one set of words for counting objects, as in "one tree, two trees, three trees", etc. It has another set of words for the mathematical objects of numbers, as in something you'd put on a number line. Interestingly, the latter set of numbers sounds *really suspiciously* close to Chinese words for those numbers. 2) Rounded to the nearest thing, I know nothing about the Aztec political system. Today, I read a bit about the Aztec political system, and with it, a bit about Aztec culture. My source is a blog post about a book by Inga Clendinnen, which can be found at http://ift.tt/2cnCszv. I still don't know *much* about Aztec culture or politics, but my new impression is that Aztec civic, political, and religious life was largely based around the production of intense, Carvinal-like communal experiences. If this particular soure is to be trusted (and is correct), the Aztecs were masters of using ritual for effect, and the kinds of religious rituals they underwent on a regular basis were addictive in their intensity and civically justified as critical for the continued function of the world without disaster (i.e., keeping the sun rising and the rain coming without flood). Really, though, I recommend reading the link above -- at this point, I'm giving at least a fifth-hand account. 3) Two Linux console tricks. 1) I finally learned how to access multiple command line prompts on a headless Linux system. 2) When using 'less', you can scroll sideways with the sideways arrow keys.