Sapiens Harari

Yuval Noah Harari: Sapiens – A Brief History of Humankind

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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

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Très bien – a plumber in a tux – Citroën Berlingo Multispace „It’s also true, of course, that Parisian women are very elegant, but I...
Humans: from the beginning

Seddon, Christopher: Humans

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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...
Homo Deus

Harari, Yuval Noah: Homo Deus

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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...

Friedman, Thomas L.: From Beirut to Jerusalem

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But in order to make that state economically viable, the Maronites appealed to France to include in it not only their traditional Mt. Lebanon...

Greer, Germaine: The Female Eunuch

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Five years ago it seemed clear that emancipation had failed: the number of women in Parliament had settled at a low level; the number...

Barrett, Lisa Feldman: Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain

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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...
The Unfolding of Language

Deutscher, Guy: The Unfolding of Language

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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

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The earth has experienced five mass extinctions before the one we are living through now, each so complete a wiping of the fossil record...

Yong, Ed: An Immense World

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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...

Jaroslav Seifert: Nejkrásnější bývá šílená

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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...

Paul Davies: Podivné ticho

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„Totéž samozřejmě platí pro všechny konspirační teorie. Mnoho lidí je přesvědčeno, že „vláda“ „pravdu“ o UFO zná, ale z jakýchsi hanebných důvodů ji skrývá. To je...

Perry, Imani: South to America

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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...

Conover, Ted: Cheap Land Colorado

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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...

Antonelli, Alexandre: The Hidden Universe

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As a consequence, species are now probably disappearing faster than any time in human history. On every island, every continent, every coral reef, a...

Weidensaul, Scott: A World on the Wing

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Researchers have found that in advance of their flights, migrant birds can bulk up with new muscle mass without really exercising, something humans would...