In a facinating interview about “building sound,” I found this incredible quote:
Knowing about how things work only increases our feelings of wonder and awe about them, just as keeping things mysterious only causes us to argue and opinionate.
“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
An excellent article from the Old Grey Lady about the state of our diet in America. It’s a retrospective on food science and studies from the last 30 years, and is as liberating as it is enlightening. One choice paragraph from near the beginning of the lengthy [...]
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex won the National Book Award for nonfiction, and wins the Rob Gonzalez Book Award™ for being just plain awesome.
To set the scene, the book dives into the history of whaling. In particular it chronicles the rise and fall of Nantucket island, the [...]
Displaying the stiff-upper-lip spirit that built an empire, he uttered the words that are every air passenger’s worst nightmare: “Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get it under control. I trust you are not in too much [...]
My new favorite web site. The current feature History of Religion in 90 seconds. So cool.
An article in the International Herald Tribune. An exerpt:
KINTBURY, England In the autumn of 68 B.C. the world’s only military superpower was dealt a profound psychological blow by a daring terrorist attack on its very heart. Rome’s port at Ostia was set on fire, the consular war fleet destroyed, and two prominent senators, together [...]
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