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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Greer, Germaine: The Female Eunuch
Five years ago it seemed clear that emancipation had failed: the number of women in Parliament had settled at a low level; the number...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Chalíl Džibrán: Prorok
O manželství
„Buďte spolu, dokud bílé perutě smrti nerozpráší vaše dny.
Buďte spolu i v mlčenlivé paměti boží.
Ale ať jsou ve vaší pospolitosti prostory
a nebeské vánky tančí...
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...
Václav Machek: Etymologický slovník jazyka českého
hurá ... z tureckého 3. sg. urá (bij) od urmak (bíti)
máma... elementární reduplikační projev mluvidel, ale bez významu, ten mu dali teprve velcí
medvěd ......