“When I straighten from my pose, he’s standing too close behind me, and he’s definitely hard.
Partner yoga is doing it for him. Or maybe he just really likes sunrises.”
Source: Left Field
“I’m about to board a sunset dinner cruise with my fake girlfriend, my brother, and my ex, who’s married to said brother.
I need a drink. Stat.”
Source: Left Field
“Teachers seeking to 'teach the controversy' over Darwinian evolution in today's climate will likely be met with false warnings that it is unconstitutional to say anything negative about Darwinian evolution. Students who attempt to raise questions about Darwinism, or who try to elicit from the teacher an honest answer about the status of intelligent design theory will trigger administrators' concerns about whether they stand in Constitutional jeopardy. A chilling effect on open inquiry is being felt in several states already, including Ohio. South Carolina, and Pennsylvania. [District Court] Judge Jones's message is clear: give Darwin only praise, or else face the wrath of the judiciary.”
Source: Traipsing Into Evolution: Intelligent Design and the Kitzmiller v. Dover Decision
“The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops.”
Source: The Hidden Connections: A Science for Sustainable Living
“We have not been created out of nothing, but from primeval "ur-matter," atoms formed billions of years ago that have for a brief while been gathered into collections that think they are us.”
Source: The Void
“some people want just, to sit back and watch the world burn.”
Source: The Codis Project: A Conspiracy Thriller
“Gwynned lies two days westwards; still further south, the weregeld calls. Mayhap with All-Father Woden's favour, my deeds may yet inspire the skalds.”
“They have to say SOMETHING. Maria Bartiromo can't exactly look into the camera and say that the Dow is down half a percent today because of random Brownian motion.”
Source: The Halo Effect: ... and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers
“[T]he salient question is whether the increasing awareness of [heart] disease beginning in the 1920s coincided with the budding of an epidemic or simply better technology for diagnosis.”
Source: Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease
“Individual organ of human brain makes individual decision for working of brain and driving behavior in humans.”
Source: Human behavior on the Internet