Caution: Never open extremely moldy cheese in the kitchen. Do not sniff the moldy item. Wrap all moldy trimmings and moldy cheeses in plastic wrap and place in a covered trash can. - Dan Brickley

'There is kindness in this world. There is compassion and decency. In a universe of death and suffering, there are things that make existence worth our while. In the heart of each person there is a penchant to make one's environment a better place. There - Dan Brickley

Not a fantastic response; however, it does at least provide something to work from if people decide to go and GPS them all manually a la OpenStreetMap. - Earle Martin

This language has always fascinated me. There's a great wikipedia article about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.... Perhaps even more interesting than the lack of counting is the lack of defined kinship relationships: "The Pirahã culture has the simplest known kinship system of any human culture. A single word, baíxi (pronounced [màíʔì]), is used for both mother and father, and they appear not to keep track of relationships any more distant than biological siblings." - Nick Lothian

There is some speculation that the lack of the two concepts is related: there is a theory which (in my understanding) basically states that humans can't understand what they don't have words for. - Nick Lothian

Nick, you might be thinking of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... (in stronger flavour...). - Dan Brickley