Wallace-Wells, David: The Uninhabitable Earth
The earth has experienced five mass extinctions before the one we are living through now, each so complete a wiping of the...
McGuire, Bill: Hothouse Earth
What I mean by hothouse Earth, then, is not an ice-free planet, but a world in which lethal heatwaves and temperatures in...
Smith, Will: Will
Are you paying attention to the wall? Or are you paying attention to the brick? Whether it was...
Engebrigtsen, Ada I.: Exploring Gypsiness
The Roma did not understand our problem. ‘Just say that your car has broken down, say you have no petrol, just lie’...
Al Aswany, Alaa: The Yacoubian Building
Then he would bring his speech to an end by cursing Abd el Nasser, who had introduced free education, or quote as...
Lamott, Anne: Bird by Bird
In seventh and eighth grades I still weighed about forty pounds. I was twelve years old and had been getting teased about...
Attenborough, David: Life on Earth
Using this method we can estimate that the Last Universal Common Ancestor of all life on earth – commonly known as LUCA,...
Bageant, Joe: Deer Hunting with Jesus
When the middle-class citizens of Winchester or of the new suburbs of America—the 20 percent or so of Americans whose lives most...
Barrett, Lisa Feldman: Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain
Why did a brain like yours evolve? That question is not answerable because evolution does not act with purpose—there is no “why.”...
Kolbert, Elizabeth: The Sixth Extinction
If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in...
Mounk, Yascha: The People vs. Democracy
But once a country was both affluent and democratic, it proved incredibly stable. Argentina had experienced a military coup in 1975, when...
Peterson, Jordan B.: 12 pravidel pro život
V Mapách významu jsem přišel s myšlenkou, že dávné mýty a náboženské
příběhy, zejména ty, které vzešly z rané orální tradice, jsou morální...
Moji milí: Sbírka romské narativní prózy
Blížil se den, kdy jsem měla nastoupit do první třídy, babička měla
zrovna práci ve vedlejším městě. Nemohla se mnou tedy jít v...
Palán, Aleš: Jako v nebi, jenže jinak
Dneska nedělá zemědělství ten, jehož táta a děda byli sedláci, dneska
dělá zemědělství ten, kdo umí udělat papíry. Protože papírování znamená dotace.
Tohle je...
Napieralski, Mikolai: God Willing
Normal, well-adjusted people don’t usually relocate to the middle of
the desert. It takes a certain kind of disposition to end up out...
Smil, Vaclav: Growth
Recently it has been possible to claim that 90% or more of all the
extant information in the world has been generated over...
