“Researchers in the U.K. have developed a vegetable called "super broccoli" designed to fight heart disease. Not to be outdone, researchers in America have developed a way to stuff an Oreo inside another Oreo.” WayHeartAmericaFightingStuffDiseaseVegetablesResearchersHeart DiseaseBroccoliOreos Author:Jimmy Fallon
“In the vocabulary of certain radical theorists contradictions are given the status of some deadly disease to which their opponents alone can succumb. But contradictions are the very stuff of life. If there had been a little dash of contradiction among the Gadarene swine some of them might have been saved from drowning.” IfsLittlesHas BeensMightCertainGivenStuffDiseaseSavedRadicalOpponentsContradictionVocabularyMight Have BeenDrowningTheoristsSwineDeadly Diseases Book:Anthills of the Savannah Source: Anthills of the Savannah
“Nineteen hundred and three will bring great advances in surgery, in the study of bacteria, in the knowledge of the cause and prevention of disease. Medicine is played out. Every new discovery of bacteria shows us all the more convincingly that we have been wrong and that the million tons of stuff we have taken was all useless.” Has BeensShowsThreeCausesStuffMillionsStudyTakenDiseaseHundredDiscoveryMedicineUselessSurgeryPreventionNineteenBacteriaNew Discoveries Author:Thomas A. Edison
“If you have a disease and suddenly start getting ads for cures for that disease and it's an embarrassing disease - all that kind of stuff it just gets into that zone of autonomy or privacy where you feel a sense of freedom to be who you want to be.” IfsWantFeelsKindStuffDiseaseCuresPrivacyZoneAdsEmbarrassingAutonomy Author:Tim Wu
“The Internet, you know, 10 or 15 years ago sort of felt like the wild West. You could go out there and do anything and search for things, and, you know, find out about stuff. Now always in the back of my mind, you know, whether it's email or whatever else, it's like, well, is this going to show up somewhere? Is someone going to keep track of this and, you know, know I was searching for - maybe it's an embarrassing disease, maybe it's a weird hobby?” KnowsYearsMindWellsShowsFeltStuffInternetDiseaseYears AgoWestTrackHobbiesEmbarrassingEmailOf My MindWild West Author:Tim Wu
“This is all very fine, but it won't do-Anatomy-botany-Nonsense! Sir, I know an old woman in Covent Garden, who understands botany better, and as for anatomy, my butcher can dissect a joint full as well; no, young man, all that is stuff; you must go to the bedside, it is there alone you can learn disease! Comment to Hans Sloane on Robert Boyle's letter of introduction describing Sloane as a 'ripe scholar, a good botanist, a skilful anatomist'.” KnowsMenWellsYoungScienceStuffUnderstandingFineDiseaseGardenLettersYoung ManNonsenseCommentScholarJointsIntroductionDescribingRipeOld WomanAnatomyButchersBotanyCovent Garden Author:Thomas Sydenham