The basement. Katz
Advance planning. The advance in advance planning is always redundant. All planning must be done in advance.
[Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those things would be of any use.
The Pacific is about a foot and a half higher along its western edge—a consequence of the centrifugal force created by the Earth’s spin. Just as when you pull on a tub of water the water tends to flow...
Taxonomy is described sometimes as a science and sometimes as an art, but really it’s a battleground.
Romans park their cars the way I would park if I had just spilled a beaker of hydrochloric acid on my lap.
Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.
Nowadays, and speaking very generally, geological time is divided first into four great chunks known as eras: Precambrian, Palaeozoic (from the Greek meaning old life), Mesozoic (middle life) and Ceno...
Lucy constituted only 28 per cent of a half skeleton (and only about 20 per cent of a full one).
London isn't a place at all. It's a million little places.
In this he was like most Midwesterners. Directions are very important to them. They have an innate need to be oriented, even in their anecdotes. Any story related by a Midwesterner will wander off at...
In the first few days, I failed to distinguish between collar and color, khaki and car key, letters and lettuce, bed and bared, karma and calmer. Needing
In some odd way that you don't understand and can't begin to articulate you feel and acquaintance with it--a familiarity on an unfamiliar level. Somewhere in the deep sediment of your being some long-...
I had a hangover you could sell to science,
Thoreau was an idiot.
Ugsome,
Slubberdegullion,
Second, you are alive. For the tiniest moment in the span of eternity you have the miraculous privilege to exist.
Four times I was honked at for having the temerity to proceed through town without the benefit of metal.
It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of...