I listen to Michigan Public Radio at my internship, its great. Today is something "Science Friday" and there was the leader somebody "discovered a new species of tiny humans." My imagination went wild - tiny humans? How tiny? When I told my friend Mike, he suggested Hobbits, and then asked if they were people like our friend Cari, who is about 4'11.75" - I was very amused. But my imagination was busy creating the idea of tiny civilizations living under the sea, building tiny houses and coffee shops with tiny freeways and pizza delivery places. I imagine them tilling tiny feilds of tiny grain, and for a while, I was very excited that there were really tiny people discovered*.

But then my dreams were dashed - the tiny people lived 13,000 years ago (though modern humans came about 100,000 years ago so that is pretty recent) and they were about 3 feet tall. Thats pretty big, I was expecting them to be so small that they would fit in your hand. Now this discovery is still pretty exciting, but not nearly as exciting as my idea of "tiny humans." In reality, I think the tiny people really discovered may turn out to be a hoax.

*I know all that is not possible, but its still fun to think about