I've Got Summink to Say

  Simple Minds - Book of Brilliant Things As I mentioned some way back I think along with Asperger's I also have ADHD, which I prefer to call cognitive meandering, apparently the two traits occur together remarkably frequently.  Which leads me into the topic of tonight's post, two National Geographic articles on the Yupno People of Papua New Guinea. The Point of Pointing Having read the first article, the method the Yupno use to point seems to have some of the brightest minds in America stumped so I thought I'd give a plastic Cockney's take on it. As far as I can work out Papua New Guinea was first settled by modern humans around 45,000 years ago during the Pleistocene (Ice Age). Now the Yupno are few in number and live in the centre surrounded by mountains. Obviously to get there, they would have had to climb these mountains and descend again once they reached the summit.  Presumably this would have been done by a small band of men and women following the same route fo