There are two kinds of light — the glow that illuminates and the glare that obscures. — James Thurber
Woody Allen interview for Whatever Works
Woody Allen insists he's not a big thinker, a hard worker or even funny. Nothing could be further from the truth By Adam Higginbotham12:11P...
Perfect Yin is stern and frigid; Perfect Yang is bright and glittering. The sternness and frigidity come forth from Heaven, the brightnes...
Cinthio's Tale: The Source of Shakespeare's Othello
Shakespeare's primary source was a story in Giraldi Cinthio's Hecatommithi, published in 1565. The following is an 1855 translation by J. E....
John Donne Meditation 17 Devotions upon Emergent Occasions "No man is an iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continen...
Student at Oxford University apologises for leaving unborn children on pool table
An Oxford University student has apologised after leaving sperm on a pool table. Shocked students at the university’s posh Jesus College wer...
Lack of outdoor life blamed for high rate of myopia among East Asian kids
From: AFP May 04, 2012 10:12AM SNUBBING the outdoors for books, video games and TV is the reason up to nine in 10 school-leavers in big Ea...
As Its Single Ranks Swell, Japan Wonders 'Where's the Love?'
As Its Single Ranks Swell, Japan Wonders 'Where's the Love?' By LUCY BIRMINGHAM / TOKYO Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012 Dai Nakajima wouldn't mind...
NASA's Kepler Mission Confirms Its First Planet in Habitable Zone of Sun-like Star
12.05.11 NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the "habitable zone," the region where liquid water could exist on a pla...
We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon. Konrad Adenaue
A Blow to Europe's Far-Right: Denmark Reshapes Its Immigration Policies
Posted by WILLIAM LEE ADAMS Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 3:00 pm When the Liberal-Conservative coalition led by Lars Lokke Rasmussen came ...
Question Everything. --Why?
Youth has nothing to do with birthdays, only with livedness of spirit, so even if your hair is grey, Daddy, you can still be a boy. Jean...
Logic will get you from A to Z. Imagination will get you everywhere. --Albert Einstein
Revealed! Six facts about the female orgasm
While female orgasm has been the subject of so many myths and folk beliefs, scientists are trying their best to know more about the mystery ...
There is a seemingly ceaseless stream of studies that reduce each gender to a vaguely irritating stereotype. The men fear commitment, the wo...
The Senate has passed the debt deal.
The U.S. House of Representatives on Monday voted 269-161 to approve a deal to raise the debt limit in a bill that would cut government spen...
Why Americans Hated the Debt Debate and Why It’s Not Going to Change
Mutually Assured Revulsion: Why Americans Hated the Debt Debate and Why It’s Not Going to Change By MICHAEL SCHERER Tuesday, August 2, 2011...
Robot Apocalypse News of the Week: Machines That 'Dream'
By Chris Gayomali on July 29, 2011 Read more: http://techland.time.com/2011/07/29/robot-apocalypse-news-of-the-week-machines-that-dream/...
a commonplace book for discoveries, observations, quotations, etc.
Why an Antarctic Glacier Is Melting So Quickly
Posted by BRYAN WALSH Monday, June 27, 2011 at 1:03 pm From the outside, the science of warming-related sea level rise doesn't seem that...
In a Tokyo Hotel: Is forbitten to steal hotel towels please. If youare not person to do such thing is please not to read notis. In another J...
It is ... a highly ironical and pathetic circumstance that the world has discovered how to say everything everywhere at the very same moment...
「ブログリーダー」を活用して、Aduersariaさんをフォローしませんか?