Suffering is not as easy as it looks.
Overheard...
A commonplace book: an old-fashioned literary diary for recording interesting items from reading you've done. I use mine to record snippets from reading, conversation and life in general. (The early 2003 entries are from a period some years ago -- before the blog age -- when I tried an online commonplace book as a straight web page.)
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Thursday, February 11, 2016
In essence, the planet runs on a cycle of water-splitting by photosynthesis to form oxygen and the production of water by respiration.
Paul G. Falkowski in Life's Engines: How Microbes Made Earth Habitable
Paul G. Falkowski in Life's Engines: How Microbes Made Earth Habitable
Sunday, February 07, 2016
Today, not carrying a smartphone indicates eccentricity, social marginalization, or old age.
Jacob Weisberg, The New York Review (February 55, 2016)
Jacob Weisberg, The New York Review (February 55, 2016)
Wednesday, February 03, 2016
It was impossible for any one to open his grief to a neighbor and to concert measures to defend himself, as he would have
had to speak either to one whom he did not know, or whom he knew but did
not trust.
Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War
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