March 2010
February 2010
“Truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction has to make sense.”
– Lykke Li (via quote-book) (via egocentricoeu) (via bendertherobot) (via booklover)
Turkey: Archaeological dig reshaping human history
“Schmidt has uncovered a vast and beautiful temple complex, a structure so ancient that it may be the very first thing human beings ever built. The site isn’t just old, it redefines old: the temple was built 11,500 years ago—a staggering 7,000 years before the Great Pyramid, and more than 6,000 years before Stonehenge first took shape. The ruins are so early that they predate villages,...
“I suddenly understood what a lot of feminists have been saying for many years,...”
– Illuminating image from CPAC 2010 | twink on a mission
“A good writer writes well about what he knows.
A great writer writes even...”
– Alicia Law (via quote-book) (via simplyadreamer) (via booklover)
“Doctors were accustomed to alcohol poisoning by then, the routine of life in the...”
– The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition. - By Deborah Blum - Slate Magazine
