trivia versus trivial.......

ok, so sometimes the things one reads on line have an air of 'breaking news'.....something so important as to catch our attention away from the less worthy of information out there.......and then there is the junk mail that goes into the alternative bin that is surely beneath my contempt......and occassionally one discovers details so compelling as to leave me completely changed.......or somewhat altered.......or at least nudged.......such is this i read in writer's almanac.....It's the birthday of primatologist Jane Goodall, born in London, England (1934). When she left secondary school, she took a few secretarial courses and set off for Africa to study chimpanzees. In the first few months she was there, she made enough important discoveries to get long-term funding from Louis Leakey. In the '60s she went back to Cambridge for a Ph.D. Her advisor said that her work was too subjective, and that the names she had given the chimps—names like Flo, and Fifi, and David Greybeard—were unprofessional. He told her to assign each of the chimps numbers instead. She didn't say anything, but when she handed her dissertation in, the chimps still had names. They awarded her the degree anyway.........i will leave the particulars about what touched me about this piece to your imagination...........