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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 721c136 | Poverty may be powerful enough to swamp the influence of variants in our DNA. | Carl Zimmer | ||
| 2c77163 | To learn more about parasites, check out Parasite Rex, by Carl Zimmer. There are many, many books on the subject, but his is one of the most accessible jumping-on points you're likely to find. Welcome to the war. | Mira Grant | ||
| 18d8139 | Reviewing the records of two million recruits, Feyrer and his colleagues also checked the natural iodine levels in their hometowns. Nationwide, the researchers found, the introduction of iodine raised the average IQ by an estimated 3.5 points. And in the parts of the country where natural iodine levels were lowest, Feyrer and his colleagues estimated that scores leaped 15 points. It may be hard to believe that such a straightforward change .. | Carl Zimmer | ||
| b61f72f | The problem is not that dolphins are dumber than we thought, but that our anthropomorphism inevitably makes it hard to understand an intelligence other than our own. | Carl Zimmer | ||
| dec6b5a | Influenza. If you close your eyes and say the word aloud, it sounds lovely. It would make a good name for a pleasant, ancient Italian village. | Carl Zimmer | ||
| 7cd3ab7 | Human rhinoviruses may help train our immune systems not to overreact to minor triggers, instead directing their assaults to real threats. Perhaps we should not think of colds as ancient enemies but as wise old tutors. | Carl Zimmer | ||
| f8915fe | What is striking about them is that the father-leaning disorders tend to produce autistic symptoms. The mother-leaning disorders tend to produce schizophrenic ones. | Carl Zimmer | ||
| 1eef09e | They found that the fetal cells from their sons reached their brains, sprouted branches, and pumped out neurotransmitters. Their sons helped shape their thoughts. | Carl Zimmer | ||
| f43df0f | Scientists have found that when test monkeys spent five minutes learning how to use a rake, some of the neurons that responded to touching their hands began behaving in a new way. They began to fire in response to stimuli at the end of the rake, not on the monkey's hand. Other neurons in the brain respond to things that appear to lie within arm's reach. Training the monkeys to use the rakes caused these neurons to change--reacting to object.. | Carl Zimmer | ||
| 3ddeb70 | When Europeans colonized Africa, they helped trigger giant epidemics by forcing people to stay and work in tsetse-infested places. In 1906, Winston Churchill, who was the colonial undersecretary at the time, told the House of Commons that one sleeping sickness epidemic had reduced the population of Uganda from 6.5 million to 2.5 million. | Carl Zimmer | ||
| 2e6925b | tap out a single grain of salt from a shaker. You could line up about ten skin cells along one side of it. You could line up about a hundred bacteria. Compared to viruses, however, bacteria are giants. You could line up a thousand viruses alongside that same grain of salt. | Carl Zimmer | ||
| a0dcc61 | There were clear differences in how the young men responded to being called a bad name. For some, the insult changed their behavior. For some it didn't. The deciding factor in how they reacted wasn't how emotionally secure they were, or whether they were intellectuals or jocks, or whether they were physically imposing or not. What mattered--and I think you can guess where this is headed--was where they were from. Most of the young men from .. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| be8cbe4 | wondered about what he said and then thought hard. I could never be a dick, not to Gretchen anyway, so I guess I was doomed; doomed to go for this girl that didn't go for me. But that was OK as I long as I did everything I could. | Joe Meno | ||
| c53f0d4 | The world of evil is only as evil as we allow it to be. | Joe Meno | ||
| 239f29b | Our worlds are so momentary. We are along all our lives and then go off that way as well. | Joe Meno | ||
| def96c6 | Kuda my ukhodim, kogda umiraem? Kha-kha. Skazhi ei, Billi. Billi ulybaetsia. -- My prevrashchaemsia v tikhii golos v ch'em-nibud' ukhe i shepchem emu, chto vse budet khorosho. | Joe Meno | ||
| dd76fcf | Maybe, he thinks, as he's riding on through the snow, maybe this is why she's leaving. Maybe she fell in love with me when we were kids. And now: and now: and now: we're not kids anymore. | Joe Meno | ||
| 1b8f45e | And he says, "I'm trying to figure out what's wrong with me. And I think I realized that I'm average, that there's nothing remarkable about me. And I wanted to know if this is something other people think about." | Joe Meno | ||
| de2b376 | Mir polon zla rovno nastol'ko, naskol'ko my eto emu pozvoliaem. | Joe Meno | ||
| af6c382 | V nashikh ezhednevnykh gazetakh chasto vstrechaiutsia ob'iavleniia, reklamiruiushchie uslugi professional'nykh ekstrasensov, obladaiushchikh unikal'noi sposobnost'iu obshchat'sia s usopshimi. Ob'iavleniia, kak pravilo, raspolagaiutsia na toi zhe stranitse, gde razmeshchaiut svoiu reklamu predpriiatiia avtoservisa i sluzhby znakomstv. V ofisakh etikh kontor net prakticheski nikakoi mebeli. Eto -- tikhie serye pomeshcheniia, splosh' zastavlen.. | Joe Meno | ||
| d17fc89 | As a boy, all I ever wanted was this: a life dedicated to art; every idea, every breath an artistic gesture. And here is this girl before me, blowing on her hands to keep warm. And why am I so worried it's not going to last? | Joe Meno | ||
| f670c38 | He wants to say: First of all, you were wrong about pop music. And art and all of pop culture. And all kinds of things. Because all of it matters. Even if it is awful. Everybody knows all the bad movies and the bad songs on the radio. Because it's the only thing anybody has in common anymore. It's all anybody has. So you were wrong about that and you were wrong about us and you were wrong about me, but he doesn't actually say any of this ou.. | Joe Meno | ||
| a02cc68 | C. On that cloudless Saturday morning, Madeline wakes up and sees Jonathan lying beside her, then decides that she's probably going to end up loving him forever. | Joe Meno | ||
| 5f6a0d8 | We're adults," he says quickly. "I'm only here to work. I won't bother you or anything." "Fine," she says. "Great." "Great," he repeats. "We're too good of work friends anyways." "We are?" "I mean, we're probably too much alike," she says. "Yeah, it would be too weird. If things didn't work out." "These things never work out," she says. "Exactly," he says. "Exactly." "Right," he adds. "Exactly." "And who needs all the weirdness?" | Joe Meno | ||
| 7c28889 | Kristin nods, marching ahead of Clark, who gazes as the impossible smallness of Kristin's ankles and feet. Years later, while imprisoned for drug charges, he will think of those tiny feet and know he is forever doomed for having lied to her, for having harmed something so delicate, so defenseless, so small, so weak. | Joe Meno | ||
| 9fdb0a4 | I really do. It's the first time I don't have to think at work, you know. It's really simple. You just answer the phone and put in people's orders. It's pretty laid back. You don't like it?" "No. I feel like it's killing my brain." "Maybe that's why I like it. I don't mind not having to think." | Joe Meno | ||
| 416e422 | Listen, I'm going to give you some advice, not because I think you need it, but because I feel like I've earned it. The right, I mean. To give advice. Here it is: don't hold onto things. It's a problem the men in my family have. It's taken me a long time to figure this out. Me, my father, my grandfather, we collect things. We collect miseries. It's what we do. But sometimes the best thing to do is to just let things go. To let them pass. | Joe Meno | ||
| d22eda0 | Joe metio la mamo en el bolsillo trasero de sus pantalones vaqueros y saco una hoja de papel doblada de un cuaderno de espiral. -Aqui hay una lista de cosas que necesitaras. Lo anote en el estacionamiento. Keri desdoblo el papel y leyo la lista dos veces, tratando de tener una idea de lo que de ella se esperaba. TRAER: Repelente de insectos, vaqueros, camisetas, sudaderas varias, al menos una con capucha, una camisa de franela (obligatoria).. | Shannon Stacey | ||
| bb29bf0 | I was just going to stand here and watch it happen. I wasn't going to say a fucking thing. Why? Because what did it matter? What did any of it matter? | punk | Joe Meno | |
| 674c86e | What lasts? What lasts? What lasts? What lasts? What lasts? And so he stares for an hour or so at all her notes, at the poorly sketched drawings for an art movement that has now come to an end, and realizes how there are all these moments, moments just like this one, there are all these moments, and how everyone lives their lives in these short, all-too-short moments. There are all these moments and what's so interesting, what makes them be.. | Joe Meno | ||
| 3f686f9 | 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. But don't think you're looking any different in anyone else's mind. | Joe Meno | ||
| e987b7c | Slow as your own dubious grace. | Joe Meno | ||
| 0300b8e | Stephen Hawking the reputation of being the smartest person alive. Most of us agree. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| e3decf3 | Lately I've felt the burden of time more and more, all too often dwelling on everything I've missed. I can laugh at peasants and townies chained all their lives to a tiny corner of the earth while I roam its face and see its wonders, but when I go down, there will be no child to carry my name, no family to mourn me save my comrades, no one to remember, no one to raise a marker over my cold bit of ground. Though I have seen great events, I w.. | Glen Cook | ||
| 0d9ad31 | Only if we completely acknowledge that what man requires today is God's life: the quickening of the spirit: will we then perceive how vain is any work performed by ourselves. | Watchman Nee | ||
| a9f0f8a | Closer at hand, the wheeling gulls were as surly and lackadaisical as the day promised to make most men. | Glen Cook | ||
| abf3813 | He who has ascended the cross and refuses to drink the vinegar mingled with gall is the one who knows the Lord. Many go up to the cross rather reluctantly, still thinking of drinking vinegar mingled with gall to alleviate their pain. All who say--"The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not drink it?"--will not drink the cup of vinegar mingled with gall." | Watchman Nee | ||
| 7a27e2a | We recognize already that regeneration of the spirit is the paramount need of man. | Watchman Nee | ||
| 9950263 | Neither our psychology nor that of the unbelievers can impart life to them. Unless the Holy Spirit Himself performs the work, all is vain. | Watchman Nee | ||
| afb2dfd | Emotion must go through the cross (Matt. 10.38-39) in order to destroy its fiery nature, with its confusion, and to subject it totally to the spirit. The cross aims to accord the spirit authority to rule over every activity of emotion. | Watchman Nee | ||
| d47e06b | The idea of waste only comes into our Christianity when we underestimate the worth of our Lord. | servant-leadership worship | Watchman Nee | |
| 2b62dfa | It is because we know God's will that we may say to Him: "God, we want You to do this thing, we are determined that You do it, You cannot but do it." | Watchman Nee | ||
| a4bba8a | It is not a matter of how many loaves we have in our hands, but whether or not God has blessed them. | Watchman Nee | ||
| b816471 | Man's failure is not due to his weakness, but to his not accepting God's strength. It is not in his inability but in not allowing God to enable him. He cannot do it, but why not let God deliver him? This is what the Lord stresses here. The things which are impossible with men are possible with God. Our Lord wanted to prove to the young ruler what God can do, but he, instead, went away with the conclusion that the thing was impossible to him.. | Watchman Nee |