Marshall, Tim: Prisoners of Geography
Take, for example, China and India:
two massive countries with huge populations that share a very long border but
are not politically or culturally aligned. It...
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...
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...
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...
Mounk, Yascha: The People vs. Democracy
But once a country was both affluent and democratic, it proved incredibly stable. Argentina had experienced a military coup in 1975, when its gross...
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...
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...
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...
Turnbull, Colin: The Forest People
It seemed that the girl was very ill with dysentery but was not yet dead. The Pygmies express various degrees of illness by saying...
Best Remembered Poems
Francis William Bourdillon
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
The night has a thousand eyes,And the day but one;Yet the light of the bright world diesWith...
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...
Engebrigtsen, Ada I.: Exploring Gypsiness
The Roma did not understand our problem. ‘Just say that your car has broken down, say you have no petrol, just lie’ was their...
Fritjof Capra: Tkáň života
O bakteriích
„Jak píše Margulisová: „Není pravda, že jsme nechali bakterie daleko za sebou na evolučním žebříčku. Jsme jimi obklopeni a skládáme se z nich.“...
Kurt Tucholsky: Drei Minuten Gehör
Danach
„Denn jehn die beeden brav ins Bett.
Na ja... diss is ja auch janz nett.
A manchmal möcht man doch jern wissen:
Wat tun se, wenn se...
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...
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...