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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0c14990 | Allied air power was the greatest single reason for the German defeat. | Albert Kesselring | ||
| 7a83690 | The unity and diversity of organisms become apparent even at the cellular level. | Albert L. Lehninger | ||
| 8c232d1 | Me desperte en el sofa de mi hermana con una resaca terrible y el deseo de asesinar a mi esposa. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 6784072 | showtime! 6-0-0 the clock said--in my face, first thing | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 16066f0 | We could have been day players in an amateur porn flick. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 88166e5 | four kids clambering up her, the smile was bigger, but hassled, and she was always leaning away from one of us. I picture her as constantly under siege by her children. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 3a42d9b | She was one of those middle-aged women who thought they were fooling people. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| e0d6198 | Cells of all kinds share certain structural features. | Albert L. Lehninger | ||
| e496e7f | A system is a plan or scheme of doctrines intended to develop a particular view. | Albert Mackey | ||
| 7030926 | I painted only [in pure colours] at Arcueil and at the Luxembourg Gardens. | Albert Marquet | ||
| c229320 | Let's leave the studio and go watch what moves.. | Albert Marquet | ||
| 131aa7f | Painting, even if we call it bad, if it is what helps to keep someone alive, how can we condemn it? | Albert Marquet | ||
| 12b5efa | Simms began by presenting the facts of the story: "Kenneth L. Peters, the principal of Beverly Hills High School, announced today that the entire high school faculty will travel to Sacramento next Thursday for a colloquium in new teaching methods. Among the speakers will be anthropologist Margaret Mead, college president Dr. Robert Maynard Hutchins, and California governor Edmund 'Pat' Brown." The students hammered away on their manual type.. | Greg McKeown | ||
| 129d6e5 | WITHOUT GREAT SOLITUDE NO SERIOUS WORK IS POSSIBLE. --Pablo Picasso | Greg McKeown | ||
| 0fae60d | When I draw, 1 am as pre-occupied before a gas-jet as before a human being. | Albert Marquet | ||
| f6939ee | It is in working [ painting] that you will find yourself.. | Albert Marquet | ||
| eabcfa2 | Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice. | Albert Pike | ||
| b19fda9 | We had no problems, no conflicts," Mars500 Commander Sergei Ryazansky is saying." | Mary Roach | ||
| 4911fae | Anyone who hunts, the pair told me, eats organs. Though the Inuit (in Canada, the term is preferred over Eskimo) gave up their nomadic existence in the 1950s, most adult men still supplemented the family diet with hunted game, partly to save money. In 1993, when I visited, a small can of Spork, the local Spam, cost $2.69. Produce arrives by plane. A watermelon might set you back $25. Cucumbers were so expensive that the local sex educator d.. | Mary Roach | ||
| 84af63e | For Arctic nomads, eating organs has, historically, been a matter of survival. Even in summer, vegetation is sparse. Little beyond moss and lichen grows abundantly on the tundra. Organs are so vitamin-rich, and edible plants so scarce, that the former are classified, for purposes of Arctic health education, both as "meat" and as "fruits and vegetables." One serving from the Fruits and Vegetables Group in Nirlungayuk's materials is "1/2 cup .. | Mary Roach | ||
| 2a67327 | Liver," says Moeller. "Mixed with some other viscera. The first part that a wild animal usually eats in its kill is the liver and stomach, the GI tract." Organs in general are among the most nutritionally giving foods on Earth. A serving of lamb spleen has almost as much vitamin C as a tangerine. Beef lung has 50 percent more. Stomachs are especially valuable because of what's inside them. The predator benefits from the nutrients of the pla.. | Mary Roach | ||
| 3e1505e | Body snatching and other sordid tales from the dawn of human dissection | Mary Roach | ||
| fb0ba6e | It" is the idea of him or her that resides in us--inspired by the "Something" in them, as Pope has it, "That gives us back the Image of our Mind." Although the perception of It must be excited by some extraordinary perturbation in the looks and personality of the adored, the aura that It broadcasts arises not merely from the singularity of an original, as Walter Benjamin supposed, but also from the fabulous success of its reproducibility in.. | pygmalion pygmalionism | Joseph Roach | |
| 7036f64 | Presley was given laxatives and enemas on an almost daily basis. "I carried around three or four boxes of Fleets," Nichopoulos says, referring to the enema brand and recalling his days on tour with Presley. Getting the timing right was, he says, "a difficult balancing act." Presley sometimes did two shows a day, and Nichopoulos had to schedule the administration such that the treatments didn't kick in while the singer was on stage." | Mary Roach | ||
| daebb73 | This was the low point of Presley's career: the bulky jumpsuit and isosceles sideburns era. His colon had expanded so dramatically that it crowded his diaphragm and had begun to compromise his breathing and singing. Beneath the polyester and girth, it was hard to see the man who had performed on the stage of the Ed Sullivan Theater, his moves so loose and frankly sexual that the producers had ordered him filmed from the waist up. Now there .. | Mary Roach | ||
| 3c83d3d | People who saw the Graceland master bathroom would remark on its extravagance--a TV set! Telephones! A cushioned seat!--but the decor was in equal part a reflection of how much time was spent there. "He would be thirty minutes, an hour, in there at a time," Nichopoulos says. "He had a lot of books in there." Constipation ran Presley's life. Even his famous motto TCB--"Taking Care of Business"--sounds like a reference to bathroom matters. (T.. | Mary Roach | ||
| a9114c3 | ELVIS PRESLEY'S COLON is not on display in a glass case, but you can get a good sense of what it looked like by reading the autopsy section of The Death of Elvis. "As Florendo cut, he found that this megacolon was jam-packed from the base of the descending colon all the way up and halfway across the transverse colon. . . . The impaction had the consistency of clay and seemed to defy Florendo's efforts with the scissors to cut it out." Nicho.. | Mary Roach | ||
| 14a3e0f | Interpreting animals' eating behaviors is tricky. By way of example, one of the highest compliments a dog can pay its food is to vomit. When a "gulper," to use Pat Moeller's terminology, is excited by the aroma of a food, it will wolf down too much too fast. The stomach overfills, and the meal is reflexively sent back up to avoid any chance of a rupture. "No consumer likes that, but it's the best indication that the dog just loved it." Fort.. | Mary Roach | ||
| 8c1bba2 | But peanuts are hardly representative of the average food. Everyone knows--via "visual observation of stool samples," to use the New England Journal of Medicine's way of saying "a glance before flushing"--that chunks of peanuts make their way through the alimentary canal undigested. Nuts are known for this. Peanuts (and corn kernels) are so uniquely and reliably hard to break down that they are used as "marker foods" in do-it-yourself tests.. | Mary Roach | ||
| 47b5e23 | The difference between dog and cat is immediately obvious. While a dog almost (and occasionally literally) inhales its food the moment it's set down, cats are more cautious. A cat wants to taste a little first. McCarthy directs my gaze to the kibble that has no palatant coating. "See how they feel it in their mouth and then drop it?" | Mary Roach | ||
| 449bc89 | The terrier mix is named Alabama. His tail thumps a beat on the side of the crate. "Alabama is a gobbler real bad," Theresa says. In making their reports, the AFB techs must take into account the animals' individual mealtime quirks. There are gulpers, circlers, tippers, snooters. If you weren't acquainted with Alabama's neighbor Elvis, for example, you'd think he was blase about both foods just now set before him. Theresa gives a running co.. | Mary Roach | ||
| 261714d | Stocks passed my e-mail along to Model Gut senior scientist Richard Faulks. Faulks was dismissive not only of extreme chewing, but also of the related fad for blenderizing to increase the accessibility of nutrients. It's true saliva carries an enzyme that breaks down starch, but the pancreas makes this enzyme too. So any digestive slack caused by hasty chewing would be taken up in the small intestine. The human digestive tract has evolved t.. | Mary Roach | ||
| feec903 | Faulks was dismissive not only of extreme chewing, but also of the related fad for blenderizing to increase the accessibility of nutrients. | Mary Roach | ||
| d902848 | PARC techs also try to keep a bead on doggy interactions in the yards. "We need to know," says McCarthy. "'Are you down because you don't like the food or because Pipes stole your bone earlier?'" Theresa volunteers that a dog named Rover has lately had a stomach upset, and Porkchop likes to eat the vomit. "So that's cutting into Porkchop's appetite." And probably yours." | Mary Roach | ||
| 3bf5e01 | One thing to be said in favor of thorough chewing is that it slows an eater down. This is helpful if that particular eater is trying to shed some weight. By the time his brain registers that his stomach is full, the plodding thirty-two-chews-per-bite eater will have packed in far less food than the five-chews-per-bite wolfer. But there's thorough and there's Fletcher. Chewing each bite, say, a hundred times, Faulks said, could have the oppo.. | Mary Roach | ||
| d5e8dfb | ask him about Fletcherizing. "You're going to spend all day just having breakfast. You will lose your job!" | Mary Roach | ||
| 80eaa4c | Alexis St. Martin. In the early 1800s, St. Martin worked as a trapper for the American Fur Company in what is now Michigan. At age eighteen, he was accidently shot in the side. The wound healed as an open fistulated passage, the hole in his stomach fusing with the overlying holes in the muscles and skin. St. Martin's surgeon, William Beaumont, recognized the value of the unusual aperture as a literal window into the actions of the human sto.. | Mary Roach | ||
| 736d266 | Experiment 1 began at noon on August 1, 1825. "I introduced through the perforation, into the stomach, the following articles of diet, suspended by a silk string: . . . a piece of high seasoned a la mode beef; a piece of raw salted fat pork; a piece of raw salted lean beef; . . . a piece of stale bread; and a bunch of raw sliced cabbage; . . . the lad continuing his usual employment about the house." On the very first day of his research ca.. | Mary Roach | ||
| d52eb2f | The Salivette makes an unmistakable point: your parotid glands don't care what you chew. There is nothing remotely foodlike about superabsorbent cotton, yet the parotids gamely set to work. They are your faithful servants. Whatever you decide to eat, boss, I will help you get it down. | Mary Roach | ||
| 0174ebe | For Arctic nomads, eating organs has, historically, been a matter of survival. Even in summer, vegetation is sparse. Little beyond moss and lichen grows abundantly on the tundra. Organs are so vitamin-rich, and edible plants so scarce, that the former are classified, for purposes of Arctic health education, both as "meat" and as "fruits and vegetables." One serving from the Fruits and Vegetables Group in Nirlungayuk's materials is "1/2 cup .. | Mary Roach | ||
| 5f95688 | Our hair is as much as 14 percent L-cysteine, an amino acid commonly used to make meat flavorings and to elasticize dough in commercial baking. How commonly? Enough to merit debate among scholars of Jewish dietary law, or kashrut. "Human hair, while not particularly appetizing, is Kosher," | Mary Roach | ||
| 61adee1 | changes in the teaching of anatomy have nothing to do with cadaver shortages or public opinion about dissection; they have everything to do with time. Despite the immeasurable advances made in medicine over the past century, the material must be covered in the same number of years. Suffice it to say there's a lot less time for dissection than there was in Astley Cooper's day. | Mary Roach | ||
| 20381be | As is jalapeno--though according to psychologist Paul Rozin, Mexican dogs, unlike American dogs, enjoy a little heat. Rozin's work suggests animals have cultural food preferences too. Rozin was not the first academic to feed ethnic cuisine to research animals. In "The Effect of a Native Mexican Diet on Learning and Reasoning in White Rats," subjects were served chili con carne, boiled pinto beans, and black coffee. Their scores at maze-solv.. | Mary Roach | ||
| 1c89d9e | Good luck to Deanna Pucciarelli, the woman who seeks to introduce mainstream America to the culinary joys of pig balls. "I am indeed working on a project on pork testicles," said Pucciarelli, director of the Hospitality and Food Management Program at--fill my heart with joy!--Ball State University." | Mary Roach |