Jenny

“To see what Times Square looked like before a city was there, we turn to a remarkable project called Welikia, which grew out of a smaller project called Mannahatta. The Welikia project has produced a detailed ecological map of the landscape in New York City at the time of the arrival of Europeans. The interactive map, available online at welikia.org, is a fantastic snapshot of a different New York. In 1609, the island of Manhattan was part of a landscape of rolling hills, marshes, woodlands, lakes, and rivers.”
― Randall Munroe, What If? 10th Anniversary Edition: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

“Everything—and I mean everything—fucking hurts. I feel as if I’ve been trampled. By elephants. Carrying wrestlers. Overweight wrestlers.”
― Ruby Dixon, Fire in His Blood

“THEY SAY LIGHTNING NEVER strikes in the same place twice. “They” are wrong. From an evolutionary perspective, it’s a little surprising that this saying has survived; you’d think that people who believed it would have been gradually filtered out of the living population.”
― Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

“I took the medallion out and examined it again. To be perfectly honest, I don’t think I’d have blinked if I’d seen the phrase One Ring to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them stenciled on one side.”
― Michael Angel, Centaur of the Crime