Scott Akerman

“The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvellous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“The Greenland ice sheet preserves the record of elevated levels of lead released into the atmosphere by Roman-era silver smelting. From”
― Susan P. Mattern, The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire

“One thing I’ve learned is it’s better sometimes, in the weeds, to resist the temptation to stand up and follow the compass. *”
― John Darnielle, Wolf in White Van

“A gladiator’s chance of death in any particular contest, either in the arena or later of his wounds, was about one in nine.”
― Susan P. Mattern, The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire