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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ......
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
John Updike: Tátovy slzy a jiné povídky
„Musel jsem zestárnout, aby mi došlo, že svět existuje vlastně jen pro mladé. Na tom, co rádi jedí, jakou milují hudbu, jak se oblékají...
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...