The first cell with a surviving lineage to get organised. There could have been countless other 'attempts' that, for one reason or another, failed to get established, or died out before they could leave a trace in the fossil record.

About a week after that went viral - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/05/amazon-s3...

And even that Bill was refused assent as Parliament asked Queen Anne to do so as they wanted to make some changes to it.

The enteric nervous system certainly evolved first!

I can't remember a time when I didn't know the word, but then I grew up near London so used the Tube regularly as a child.

I like how the phrase "I didn't say she stole my wallet." changes meaning completely depending on which word(s) you emphasise.

It's fun to spell out 7 the different meanings you can get:

- I didn't say she stole my wallet. Tom saw it happen and he's the one who said she stole my wallet.

- I didn't say she stole my wallet. You're making up something I never said.

- I didn't say she stole my wallet. Maybe I suspected her, but I never actually said it.

- I didn't say she stole my wallet. Someone stole it, but I don't know who it was.

- I didn't say she stole my wallet. She took it, but for safekeeping after I forgot it at the restaurant.

- I didn't say she stole my wallet. I did see her steal a wallet, but it wasn't mine.

- I didn't say she stole my wallet. She stole my money but left the wallet exactly where it was.

It's a great example of how written speech doesn't capture all the nuance of spoken words. Well, italics helps, but hearing it makes a bigger impact.

I believe this is because/relates to English being a 'stress-timed' language; others (such as Hindi) have 'emphatic particles' that emphasise the word they're attached to, and make more use of words like 'too' in 'I too would like some water' for this effect.

People think of "Tuesday night" as the night that falls at the end of Tuesday, however the majority of it from an astronomy perspective tends to fall after midnight (particularly with daylight savings time), hence it's referred to as the 2nd.

Beat me to it, I was going to go for "X Is All You Need Papers Considered Harmful"

And the dual of it, "X is harmful papers are all you need".

I know at least one affected engineer there.

You do know Boris hasn't been in charge since last July, right?

The bill was introduced by Boris Johnson.

And they are free to let it die..

He is still MP and has considerable influence in the Conservative party.