—Carpe diem. ¿Quién sabe lo que nos traerá el mañana?
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Parasitology is one of the lower-paying of all the medical specialties. To go into the field, you have to truly care about helping people.
Our brains did not evolve to help us comprehend the true meaning of things, only to understand their mechanical workings. Knowing the true meaning of reality does not contribute to one’s ability to su...
Issued a muffled cry and slashed with the knife, but it rent only
Imprecation
Complex farming societies were able to thrive in even the toughest rainforest areas. Human ingenuity is boundless.
Chest. Everything looked strange and slow. Vernon bent over him. He felt him give his chest a big shove, and he felt his arms being raised. All at once the pressure seemed to break, and he coughed vio...
Animals surely would be in Heaven, otherwise Heaven would not be Heaven.
Zero-sum games deal with resources that neither increase nor decrease in amount—they only shift from one player to the other.
You see, when someone says it’s impossible,’ I have this very bad habit, I can’t help myself, I immediately contradict that person in the most positive terms possible. A very bad habit, but one that I...
While doing a survey in the area, he came across what looked like the remains of a small pre-Columbian village scattered about an ancient lava bed, called Angamuco, once a settlement of the fierce Pur...
When all else has been discarded, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
What? This cleric wants to give Jennie religious instruction? How peverse! I explained that he was really a harmless old man who Jennie was quite fond of. Dr. Prentiss found the whole idea diabolical....
We didn’t use food as a reward. As some previous ASL researchers did. Jennie’s reward was making herself understood. That is, she was rewarded like a human child would be rewarded. We wanted to replic...
Trying to fulfill earthly desires was like carrying water to the sea; a never- ending task, and an ultimately useless one.
This idea that animals in nature are uncorrupt and peaceful, while man is corrupt, violent, and unnatural, is sheer, unadulterated, unmitigated, onehundred-percent crap.
There’s a respected theory in astronomy called Panspermia, Glinn finally continued. It holds that life may have spread through the galaxy in bacteria or spores carried on meteorites or in clouds of du...