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The mycorrhizal symbiosis was credited with the migration of ancient plants from the ocean to land about 450 to 700 million years ago.
“there are only so many targets for drugs in the body (around eight thousand potential places for drugs to work, by one estimate),”
― Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
― Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
“As I said, one of my favorite questions to ask an era is: What portion of the population can be murdered by a different portion and have the murderer suffer no meaningful consequences?”
― Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age
― Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age
“Augustine said, ‘We are born between faeces and urine”
― A History of the World in 100 Objects
― A History of the World in 100 Objects
“In 2014, Mexican authorities seized 15,397 firearms, ranging from machine guns to pistols, and submitted them to the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) for tracing. The agency found that 11,061 of them—71 percent—originated in the United States.”
― This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto
― This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto
“As King Lear’s Fool put it, “They’ll have me whipp’d for speaking true; thou’lt have me whipp’d for lying, and sometimes I am whipp’d for holding my peace.”
― People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
― People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
Philip’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Philip’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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14 books
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54 friends
157 books
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11 friends
2,659 books
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736 books
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12 friends
562 books
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19 friends
2,119 books
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224 friends
581 books
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17 friends
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