What was she doing working in a big museum, anyway, when she really should be tucked away in some semidetached house in the suburbs with a pack of squalling brats? Who was this husband she was alleged...
What the hell was your pal Bertin demanding? he asked. Sipping syrup?It’s a cocktail he prefers when he gets, ah, overly excited.A cocktail?Of sorts. Lemon–lime soda, vodka, codeine in solution, and a...
Trying to fulfill earthly desires was like carrying water to the sea; a never- ending task, and an ultimately useless one.
The British geographer Linda Newson produced a magisterial study of the demographic catastrophe in Honduras during the Spanish period, entitled The Cost of Conquest: Indian Decline in Honduras Under S...
She learned her first two signs five weeks later, on—let’s see here—June 4, 1967. They were hug and me. On June 6, she spontaneously signed Hug me Jennie to Mrs. Archibald, her surrogate mother.
Our modes of speech are bred in the bone, madam. We cannot escape them any more than we can the colour of our eyes.
J. P. Morgan once said, If you want something too much, you will not succeed in getting it.
In his groundbreaking book Guns, Germs, and Steel, biologist Jared Diamond poses the question: Why did Old World diseases devastate the New World and not the other way around? Why did disease move in...
I can scarcely believe the cruelty of the last century. It staggers the soul.
Here we are, two of the world’s experts on chimpanzee behavior, and we have no idea how to control this one animal. And he laughed bitterly. For the first time in my life I felt at a total loss. I had...
He said we didn’t merit a family all by ourselves. I’m not sure I would go that far, but it’s an interesting thought. And an idea influenced, no doubt, by the existence of Jennie. In the end, you see,...
Europeans killed many native people directly without the assistance of disease. In some instances, they intentionally used disease as a biological weapon by, for example, giving Indians smallpox-infec...
But when I open them up, I find that they’re equal! And they both have achieved the same destiny: my zinc gurney. Why, then, did he tire himself out poring over so many books? Boh! Take my advice, jou...
Are you surprised? He doesn’t believe in any power greater than himself. And we all know he’s God-like anyway—in his own mind, at least.
A humane research environment for chimpanzees is very, very expensive. I’m sure Miller would have been much happier if we’d locked all the chimps in four-by-five cages. When we lost our funding, we ha...
I'm pretty much a 9-to-5 kind of guy. I usually get to work about 8 in the morning, and I work until 4 or 5, and sometimes I work on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Pretty much I keep the same hours as...
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Specimens, wait until they’ve been examined, then put them back. Bone librarian—a most apt description. How many visiting scientists
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