“I think there is a difference between Slate and Salon. I think we both serve important functions on the Internet. As more and more Websites disappear, I'm thankful Slate is still around because it makes things less lonely.” ThinkingStillsImportantLiteratureDifferencesInternetLonelyFunctionDisappearWebsiteSlateSalons Author:David Talbot
“Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary.” IfsThinkingGivingStillsI CanFeelingsPainMotherCan DoSleepForgetLevelsBrainEmpowermentFunctionIncrediblesScaryVocabularyBeing A MotherGrumpy Author:Anna Friel
“The trade of chemist (fortified, in my case, by the experience of Auschwitz), teaches you to overcome, indeed to ignore, certain revulsions that are neither necessary or congenital: matter is matter, neither noble nor vile, infinitely transformable, and its proximate origin is of no importance whatsoever. Nitrogen is nitrogen, it passes miraculously from the air into plants, from these into animals, and from animals into us; when its function in our body is exhausted, we eliminate it, but it still remains nitrogen, aseptic, innocent.” StillsMatterBodyCertainAnimalTeachCasesAirOvercomingFunctionImportanceRemainsTradePlantNobleInnocentExhaustedChemistAuschwitzRevulsionNitrogen Book:The periodic table Source: The periodic table
“The American psychologist Julian Jaynes, in a controversial study on the origin of consciousness, argued that the bicameral mind - in which one of the hemispheres becomes specialized in silent reading - is a late development in humankind's evolution, and that the process by which this function develops is still changing.” MindStillsReadingProcessConsciousnessStudyDevelopmentEvolutionLateFunctionSilentHumankindControversialPsychologistHemisphere Author:Alberto Manguel
“When the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life. Similarly, though ahamkara (egotism) is slain in the perfect man, yet enough of its vitality is left to make him carry on the functions of physical life; but it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.” MenWorldStillsEnoughBodyLeftPerfectStruggleFunctionSufficientVitalityEgotismGoatsTrunksPerfect ManSigns Of Life Book:Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120 Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120