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 fossil record...
Weidensaul, Scott: A World on the Wing
Researchers have found that in advance of their flights, migrant birds can bulk up with new muscle mass without really exercising, something humans would...
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 excess of...
Yong, Ed: An Immense World
Philosophers have long pitied the goldfish in its bowl, unaware of what lies beyond, but our senses create a bowl around us too—one that...
Jeremy Clarkson: Round the bend
Très bien – a plumber in a tux – Citroën Berlingo Multispace
„It’s also true, of course, that Parisian women are very elegant, but I...
Smith, Will: Will
Are you paying attention to the wall? Or are you paying attention to the brick? Whether it was acing the tests to get accepted...
Friedman, Thomas L.: From Beirut to Jerusalem
But in order to make that state economically viable, the Maronites appealed to France to include in it not only their traditional Mt. Lebanon...
Best Remembered Poems
Francis William Bourdillon
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
The night has a thousand eyes,And the day but one;Yet the light of the bright world diesWith...
Perry, Imani: South to America
Or Dolly Parton, an honest-to-God multimillionaire who grew up a poor mountain woman. She says, “It takes a lot of money to look this...
Antonelli, Alexandre: The Hidden Universe
As a consequence, species are now probably disappearing faster than any time in human history. On every island, every continent, every coral reef, a...
Brandreth, Gyles D.: Elizabeth
The Prince once asked me, ‘How on earth did Shakespeare manage it? I am Prince of Wales. Shakespeare wasn’t, but he knew exactly what...
Dorff, PhD, Rabbi Elliot N.: The Jewish Approach to Repairing the World
Tikkun olam—repairing the world. Quite a task! Yet this is precisely the goal that the Jewish tradition sets for our lives. This gives us...
Conover, Ted: Cheap Land Colorado
The local expert on cold-calling is Matt Little, charged by the social service group La Puente with “rural outreach.” Matt has let me ride...
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’ was their...
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 my strange...
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 authority the...