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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Lao-c‘: Tao te ťing
"Moudrý vládce není dobrotivý
zachází s lidem jako se slaměným psem!" (14)
K tomu Wang Pi: "Kdyby varhany chtěl hrát samy od sebe, nebyly by hráči...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Milan Kundera: Nesmrtelnost
Když se ukáže, že Paul léta tajil žaludeční vředy
"I když byl Paul pravděpodobně nadprůměrně ješitný, přece, říkala si Agnes, jeho postoj odhaluje rozdíl mezi...
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...
Chris Stringer: Lone Survivors
The origin of modern Homo sapiens must have been a relatively recent and restricted one in Africa, based on marked similarities between recent humans...