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“It was as if there were an unspoken agreement on the mountain to pretend that these desiccated remains weren’t real—as if none of us dared to acknowledge what was at stake here.”
― Into Thin Air
― Into Thin Air
“The end-Permian or Permo-Triassic extinction was the biggest of the Big Five, an episode that came scarily close to eliminating multicellular life altogether.”
― The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
― The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
“you’re a carnivore, you’re a carnivore, so what’s the merit of fine distinctions?”
― Spillover: the powerful, prescient book that predicted the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.
― Spillover: the powerful, prescient book that predicted the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.
“When the Next Big One comes, we can guess, it will likely conform to the same perverse pattern, high infectivity preceding notable symptoms. That will help it to move through cities and airports like an angel of death.”
― Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
― Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
“partial script was composed of ten signs, representing the numbers from 0 to 9. Confusingly, these signs are known as Arabic numerals even though they were first invented by the Hindus (even more confusingly, modern Arabs use a set of digits that look quite different from Western ones). But the Arabs get the credit because when they invaded India they encountered the system, understood its usefulness, refined it, and spread it through the Middle East and then to Europe. When”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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