Attenborough, David: Life on Earth
Using this method we can estimate that the Last Universal Common Ancestor of all life on earth – commonly known as LUCA, and basically...
Bageant, Joe: Deer Hunting with Jesus
When the middle-class citizens of Winchester or of the new suburbs of America—the 20 percent or so of Americans whose lives most closely resemble...
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...
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...
Clarkson, Jeremy: Driven to Distraction
Whee, it’s a tax-dodging style guru’s dream ride (Nissan Navara)
“In theory what you try to do in PR is raise awareness and shape public...
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...
Hakl, Emil: Hovězí kostky
"Trvalo dost dlouho, než mi došlo, že jsou jenom dva druhy lidí – chudý a bohatý. Chudý jsou lidštější, ale nudný – furt melou...
Tenenbom, Tuvia: Catch The Jew!
I again need religious people to offer me a break from the heady, humorless secular high class.
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Here’s an item called Shikshukit. What is it?...
Robert Wright: The Moral Animal
But it has taken only around 5,000 generations to turn a wolf into a chihuahua — and, at the same time, along a separate...
Dorff, PhD, Rabbi Elliot N.: The Jewish Approach to Repairing the World
Tikkun olam—repairing the world. Quite a task! Yet this is precisely the goal that the Jewish tradition sets for our lives. This gives us...
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...
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...
Antonelli, Alexandre: The Hidden Universe
As a consequence, species are now probably disappearing faster than any time in human history. On every island, every continent, every coral reef, a...
Brandreth, Gyles D.: Elizabeth
The Prince once asked me, ‘How on earth did Shakespeare manage it? I am Prince of Wales. Shakespeare wasn’t, but he knew exactly what...
