When guys in camouflage pants and hunting hats sat around in the Four Aces Diner talking about fearsome things done out-of-doors, I would no longer have to feel like such a cupcake.
The New York Times, with what was threatening to become a customary lack of prescience, forecast that it would never be a serious competitor for radio because “people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn’t time for it.”34.
In 1580, when William was sixteen, Campion passed through Warwickshire on his way to the more safely Catholic north. He stayed with a distant relative of Shakespeare’s, Sir William Catesby, whose son Robert would later be a ringleader of the Gunpowder Plot.
It cannot be said too often: all life is one. That is, and I suspect will forever prove to be, the most profound true statement there is.
To build the most basic yeast cell, for example, you would have to miniaturize about the same number of components as are found in a Boeing 777 jetliner and fit them into a sphere just five microns across; then somehow you would have to persuade that sphere to reproduce.
Even today our knowledge of the ocean floors remains remarkably low resolution.
I ordered a pint of Cooper’s Draught and retired with it to a table overlooking the square. And there I sat for a good few minutes doing nothing at all, not even touching my glass, just savoring the pleasure of sitting down and finding myself in a far country with a glass of beer and cricket on the TV and a roomful of people enjoying the fruits of a prosperous age. I could not have been happier. After.
Leeuwenhoek himself occasionally got carried away with his enthusiasms. In one of his least successful experiments13 he tried to study the explosive properties of gunpowder by observing a small blast at close range; he nearly blinded himself in the process.
We have better maps of Mars than we do of our own seabeds. At.
Despite the ambiguities I have just confessed to, most of me wants very badly not to die just yet, and I am sure the majority of writers and scientists working in this area agree.
All that is gone. Nowadays we have nothing but meaningless names. Look at Starbucks and their cup sizes – Venti, Trenta, and Wanko Grande or whatever.
Settling down also brought a huge increase in “human commensals” – mice, rats, and other creatures that live with and off us – and these all too often acted as disease vectors.
It was interesting, I thought, that the memorial to Tip was grander than the memorial to the men who took part in the dam-busters raids, but then I remembered that this was England and Tip was a dog.
Simeon Potter notes that when James II first saw St. Paul’s Cathedral he called it amusing, awful, and artificial, and meant that it was pleasing to look at, deserving of awe, and full of skillful artifice.
Where everyone stinks, no one stinks.
That was the golden age of moss collecting.
The distance from the surface of Earth to the middle is 6,370 kilometres, which isn’t so very far. It has been calculated that if you sunk a well to the centre and dropped a brick down it, it would take only forty-five minutes for it to hit the bottom.
By modern standards the whole of greater London, including Southwark and Westminster, was small. It stretched only about two miles from north to south and three from east to west, and could be crossed on foot in not much more than an hour.
Even in walking across the room you will very slightly alter your own experience of time and space.
At all events, rather less is known about Lucy than is generally supposed. It isn’t even actually known that she was a female.