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...
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...
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...
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...
Daniil Charms: Dobytku smíchu netřeba
Truhla
„Člověk s tenkým krkem vlezl do truhly, zaklapl víko a začal se dusit. „Tak,“ povídá si ten člověk s tenkým krkem, zatímco se dusil,...
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...
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...
Jaroslav Seifert: Ruce Venušiny
Svatební cesta
„Kdyby nebylo těch pošetilých polibků,
nejezdili bychom na cesty svatební.
Kdyby však nebylo svatebních cest,
k čemu by potom byly Wagon lits?
Nádražních zvonků věčný strach,
ach Wagon...
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...
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...
Armstrong, Karen: A History Of God
Like art, religion has been an
attempt to find meaning and value in life, despite the suffering that flesh is
heir to. Like any other human...
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...
Frankl, Viktor E: Man’s Search For Meaning
For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it
only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s dedication to a cause
greater...
Francis Fukuyama: Konec dějin a poslední člověk
Současná liberální revoluce „představuje ... další důkaz toho, že se zde uplatňuje jakýsi fundamentální proces ... něco jako světové dějiny lidstva směřující k liberální...