I have come across some fascinating, though, practically speaking, useless information. Oliver Curry, a scientist at the Darwin@LSE research center at the London School of Economics, was charged by the TV channel Bravo to study where the human race is heading in the next 1,000, 10,000, and 100,000 years. Curry's study revealed good news and bad news, but you'll be relieved to know that both are completely inconsequential to anyone living right now.

The study suggests that the year 3000 will find humanity at its peak. The average person will be about 6.5 feet tall, live to be 120 years old, and have coffee-colored skin as a result of interbreeding. Folks will be more attractive overall; men will have squarer jaws, deeper voices, and RamBone-sized penises while women will have developed perkier breasts and smooth, hairless skin.

Sounds nice, doesn't it? Well, don't get too comfortable. Things start going downhill for Brad and Angelina's great great great great great great great grandchildren after that. A mere 9,000 years later, Curry anticipates that humanity will have suffered significantly from their dependence on technology. Reliance on medical technology will result in delinquent immune systems and we will be subject to all sorts of genetic diseases.

We will also suffer socially from the wealth of technological advancements. Every man having become an island, his interactive skills will be like that of an acne ridden sixth grader in husky fit corduroys. The ability to feel basic human emotions -- love, empathy, trust, etc. -- will be all but gone.

By the year 102,000 AD, as a result of increased sexual selectivity, the human race will have split into two subspecies that will resemble post-apocalyptic versions of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DaVito in "Twins.??? One will be tall, athletic, svelte, and brilliant while the other will be squatty, unhealthy, and dimwitted.

Like I said, none of this is in anyway pertinent to my life or yours -- especially since the world is going to end on the last day of the Mayan calendar in 2012 -- but it's kind of fun to know. I just figured I'd pass on the joy of useless knowledge.