Houellebecq, Michel: Serotonin
It isn’t hard to change your first name, although I don’t mean from a
bureaucratic point of view – hardly anything is possible...
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...
Gallo, Carmine: Talk like TED
People cannot inspire others unless and until they are inspired themselves.
“In our culture we tend to equate thinking and intellectual powers with...
Rosling, Hans: Faktomluva
Každá skupina lidí na světě, která dělala tento test, se domnívá, že
svět je mnohem hrozivější, násilnější a beznadějnější – zkrátka
dramatičtější – než ve...
Palán, Aleš: Raději zešílet v divočině
Z ptačího pohledu je to pragmatické,
ale když je člověk při zpěvu pozoruje, vidí, že do toho dávají všechno.
Pozoroval jsem pěnici černohlavou, jak...
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...
Wyndham, John: Kraken se probouzí
“Neřekl někdy někdo: ‚Tak zaniká svět, ne ranou pěstí do stolu, ale jak fňukna?’” Phyllis vypadala značně překvapená. “‘Někdy někdo!’” zvolala. “To...
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...
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...
Christian, David: Origin Story
What makes humans different from all
other brainy species is language, a communication tool that is extraordinarily
powerful because it allows us to share...
Frankl, Viktor E: Man’s Search For Meaning
For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it
only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s dedication to...
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...
McCall Smith, Alexander: The House of Unexpected Sisters
One day, of course, these differences
between men and women would disappear – there were signs of that beginning to
happen already – but...
Tattersall, Ian: Masters of the Planet
Because of the peculiar construction
resulting from their complex history, our brains are far from directly
comparable to a feat of human engineering. Indeed,...
Tabery, Erik: Opuštěná společnost
Zároveň je ale třeba si povšimnout,
že naprostá většina z našich rodáků vyrostla do historické výše díky tomu, že
byli propojení s kulturním světem....
Vance, J. D.: Americká elegie
Během jízdy venkovskou krajinou s
tetou Wee se brzy ráno zastavili na odpočívadle u silnice. Teta Wee si chtěla
upravit účes a vyčistit zuby....
