Thus even random patterns can be interpreted as compelling evidence if they relate to our preconceived notions.
A thousand years without a bath.
That’s why doctors instinctively package themselves in nice shirts and ties and it’s not advisable for attorneys to greet clients in Budweiser T-shirts. In
Michael Jordan once said, I’ve missed more than nine thousand shots in my career. I’ve lost almost three hundred games. Twenty-six times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I...
1943 Bohr was tipped off by the Swedish ambassador in Copenhagen that he faced immediate arrest as part of the plan to deport all of Denmark’s Jews.
One of the things your unconscious mind does for you - and it's a great gift - is it gives you extra courage to view the outer world and it does that by giving you an extra-special view of yourself.
Touch is our most highly developed sense when we are born, and it remains a fundamental mode of communication throughout a baby's first year and an important influence throughout a person's life.
We unfortunately seem to be unconsciously biased against those in society who come out on the bottom. We
They required three thousand Jews, the man said, and the line had apparently held 3,004.
People expect good luck to follow bad luck, or they worry that bad will follow good.
Born, barred from teaching and worried about the ongoing harassment of his children, also immediately sought to leave Germany.
Annoyed that although outlawed in Rome, astrology was nevertheless alive and well, Cicero noted that at Cannae in 216 B.C., Hannibal, leading about 50,000 Carthaginian and allied troops, crushed the m...
Paleontological evidence suggests that the early farmers had more spinal issues, worse teeth, and more anemia and vitamin deficiencies—and died younger—than the populations of human foragers who prece...
If a lecture was not interesting or proceeded too slowly or too quickly, they would jeer and become rowdy.
First no one knew exactly how to interpret,
Today we call our subspecies Homo sapiens sapiens, or Wise, Wise Man.
The Drunkard’s walk: how randomness rules our lives / Leonard Mlodinow.
It is always heartening when a fundamentalist of any religion professes a belief in evolution,
One of the most surprising forms of nonverbal communication is the way we automatically adjust the amount of time we spend looking into another's eyes as a function of our relative social position.
Volatile green lion in the central salt of Venus and distill. This spirit is the green lion the blood of the green lion Venus, the Babylonian Dragon that kills everything with its poison, but conquere...