try.” If there’s no clear right answer, perhaps the thing you ought to do is something new. Something new is often the right path when the world is complicated.

A graduate of Oxford University with a degree in

and her answer to it because she’s driving the conversation. In

Big cats, too. They’re faster, tougher, and brighter than anything that existed seventy million years ago. Everything is always ramping up, always escalating.

Perfume companies ought to bottle the smell of crisp bacon. Forget pheromones. I’ll bet a woman with a little spot of bacon grease behind her ears would attract every male within a five-mile radius.

In females, the author has found the application of pure carbolic acid to the clitoris an excellent means of allaying the abnormal excitement.

If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix’d in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will...

mass indoctrination of uneducated young men with such ideas is in itself a lethal danger to society and to international order.

That Crawford Tilinghast should ever have studied science and philosophy was a mistake. These things should be left to the frigid and impersonal investigator for they offer two equally tragic alternatives to the man of...

He is intelligent enough to get a job that would earn him good money, but too clever to want one.

Ah, Death, the spectre which sate at all feasts! How often, Monos, did we lose ourselves in speculations upon its nature! How mysteriously did it act as a check to human bliss – saying unto...

at points in our lives, we have to choose the hills we’re willing to die on.

Could we ever switch to this or any of the many other rational systems? Unlikely: tradition is difficult to overcome.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. H. L. MENCKEN

From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment.

Go to a goddamn priest if you wanna be lied to. I’ve seen too many of your kind slip back inside to fool myself. If you wanna think you’re a new man, hell, that’s fine....

intrusive government and layer upon layer of regulatory red tape. When

At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state of mind. At these moments they usually take stock of the past and...

You’re my change of skin / my summer-winter-fall / I spring to follow you / this loss is beautiful.

Met een gezicht alsof hij bij voorbaat schuldig is.

A Guardian investigation concluded that between 10,000 and 20,000 people died as an ‘indirect’ result of the US bombing, that is, through hunger, cold and disease as people were forced to flee the massive aerial...

THE MALE JOURNEY t some point in time, a man needs to embark on a risky -journey. It’s a necessary adventure that takes him into uncertainty, and it almost always involves some form of difficulty...

He came in and took a piss in my hotel bathroom without even closing the door as I’m standing right there. I’m like, “Alright. You’re comfortable.” It was like we knew each other for four...

Tally wondered if you could talk somebody out of their brain damage.

Look at Rose Bertin. From an ordinary seamstress to the milliner

So many people, if the truth were known, live their lives on two levels. The principles they fight about are often at odds with the complicated and often frustrated lives they live. This is why...

that this is Russian-A flu, not the more dangerous Swine flu.

Let me tell you something you haven’t learned yet, something you learn only by living awhile. As you get older, you find that life begins to wear you down. Doesn’t matter who you are or...

The great differentiator going forward, the next frontier for exponential growth, the place where individuals and organizations will find a new and sustainable competitive edge, resides in the area of human connectivity.

there is anything that isn’t music. ” —William Stafford

I am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain,” said he. “Results without causes are much more impressive.

The moment you stop smoking, everything that goes wrong in your life is blamed on the fact that you’ve stopped smoking. Now when you have a mental block, instead of just getting on with it...

One common mistake we see new entrepreneurs especially tech entrepreneurs making is focusing too much on product

But whenever I see it happen, I always want to say the same thing. Good luck. Because you still have a woman in front of you, my friend. And you are still a man. It’s...

Sweet allowed her pregnancy to get the better of her and simply sat down. Reenie’s lips set into a straight, emotionless line. Mawu no longer talked back, the words she did speak taking on an...

Von gesellschaftlicher Annäherung konnte nicht die Rede sein, menschliche Qualität wurde nicht einmal erwogen, Geist oder auch nur jede originelle Form der Äußerung erweckte sofort Argwohn, Beförderung über eine zugestandene Grenze hinaus kam nicht in...

In fact the problem Leopardi is facing is speculative and metaphysical, a problem in the history of philosophy from Parmenides to Descartes and Kant: the relationship between the idea of infinity as absolute space and...

Never believe anything you hear at a woman’s tit.

We’ve lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy—or wait and wait,...

in time to come be shaped by the human mind.” Asked

Nesse’s research focuses on the evolutionary origins of depression. Why does depression exist at all? If it’s stayed in our gene pool for so long, he argues, there must be some evolutionary benefit. Nesse believes...

Cooking wasn’t so bad, I thought. In fact, it was a lot like sex. Sometimes it didn’t seem like such a good idea in the beginning, but then after you got into it …

Jules Tygiel’s Past Time: Baseball As History

A Kourier has to establish space on the pavement. Predictable law-abiding behavior lulls drivers. They mentally assign you to a little box in the lane, assume you will stay there, can’t handle it when you...

Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person’s eyes.

More than half described Christians as literalistic, anti-intellectual, judgmental, self-righteous, and bigoted.

Time and again, we let the fear of loss overpower rational decision-making and often make ourselves worse off just to avoid a potential loss. Psychologists call this loss aversion, and it means we often tend...

Polybius managed to attach himself to the clan and person of Scipio Aemilianus, grandson of one of the two losing consuls at Cannae,

My goal in this deposition was to be truthful, but not particularly helpful.

I argue here and throughout this book that if we engage students in real writing tasks and we use technology in such a way that it complements their innate need to find purposes and audiences...