Yuval Noah Harari: Sapiens – A Brief History of Humankind
In Homo sapiens, the brain accounts for about 2–3 per cent of total body weight, but it consumes 25 per cent of the body’s...
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...
Harari, Yuval Noah: Homo Deus
In 1974 the first World Food Conference was convened in Rome, and delegates
were treated to apocalyptic scenarios. They were told that there was no...
Deutscher, Guy: The Unfolding of Language
Some linguists believe that Homo erectus, some 1½ million years ago,
already had a language that was rather similar to what I have called the...
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...
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...
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.” But we...
Seddon, Christopher: Humans
At the present time, we are living in
a warm interglacial period: MIS 1. This was preceded by the glacial MIS 2,
which lasted from 24,000...
Ramadan, Tariq: Islam, the West and the Challenges of Modernity
“Our problem is one of spirituality.
If a man comes to speak to me about the reforms to be undertaken in the Muslim
world, about political...
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 closely resemble...
Jaroslav Seifert: Nejkrásnější bývá šílená
Počitadlo
„Tvůj prs
je jako jablko z Austrálie
Tvé prsy
jsou jako dvě jablka z Austrálie
Jak mám rád toto počitadlo lásky!“ (20)
Píseň o malých dívkách
„Co je krásnějšího na...
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...
Margaret Mead: Growing Up in New Guinea
“Children are taught to talk through the men’s and older boys love of playing with children.
There is no belief that it is necessary to...
Robert Wright: The Moral Animal
But it has taken only around 5,000 generations to turn a wolf into a chihuahua — and, at the same time, along a separate...
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 ve smyslu
preskriptivním,...
Osip Mandelštam: Verše
"Jak pomalí jsou koně v kroku
a lucerny jak bez ohně!
Ti cizí lidé po mém boku
snad vědí, kam si vezou mě.
Jsem ukolébán jejich silou.
A zima...