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How slow can a mammal be and still have respiratory functions?

A Kourier has to establish space on the pavement. Predictable law-abiding behavior lulls drivers. Th...

think that if Hiro was so convinced in his own mind that he was unworthy of her, maybe he knew somet...

See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can...

at Florence which included diplomatic missions to various European courts. Imprisoned

Florence which included diplomatic missions to various European courts.

The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental funct...

Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can a...

She likes us,” said Umbo. “I know, I could feel it too,” said Rigg. “She’s really glad to have us he...

money I could hardly think of it. “Go on, take it.

Everyone knew what he was thinking. Certainly there were demons in the world. But they were like Teh...

All stories are true,” Skarpi said. “But this one really happened, if that’s what you mean.” He took...

What do you know of poetry?” Ambrose said without bothering to turn around. “I know a limping verse ...

I’d heard he had started a fistfight in one of the seedier local taverns because someone had insiste...

He hesitated, then lifted his head and sniffed. “Have you been drinking?” The question was more curi...

Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn’t talk about him for fear he might hear you and deci...

over his own dark Cealdish beard. “Nothing like your marvelous facebear,

we who determine how quickly time passes.

I’m with the fool in the psalm. You thought we could get on without you; no – you didn’t care whethe...

Seems to me-" Lee said, feeling for the words, "seems to me the place you fight cruelty is where you...

You going to be a scientist when you grow up?” That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which i...

The Specters feast as vampires feast on blood, but the Specters’ food is attention. A conscious and ...

A few minutes after he arrived, Lee was talking to a group of astronomers eager to learn what news h...

this is the greatest good to man, to discourse daily on virtue, and other things which you have hear...

But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depr...

virtue does not spring from riches, but riches and all other human blessings, both private and publi...

a life without investigation is not worth living

though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through h...

Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precise...

Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome.

Never make a decision until you have to.

If all the evidence in the universe turned in favour of creationism, I would be the first to admit i...

Less abject but more shocking was the letter from the Founder of the Calvary Tabernacle Association ...

As J. B. S. Haldane said when asked what evidence might contradict evolution, 'Fossil rabbits in the...

Isaac Asimov's remark about the infantilism of pseudoscience is just as applicable to religion: 'Ins...

The search for the purpose of life has puzzled people for thousands of years. That’s because we typi...

You also know you’re surrendered when you don’t react to criticism and rush to defend yourself. Surr...

Not darkness, for that implies an understanding of light. Not silence, for that suggests a familiari...

And Wolfram knows about cellular automata?” “Oh, my goodness, yes,” said Anna. “He wrote a book you ...

The sky above the island was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel—which is to say it was...

He had a collection of science-fiction films on DVD and Blu-ray discs, and although he said he’d see...

Mr. Lockery—my biology teacher—says if dinosaurs were magically brought forward in time today, we’d ...

All right,” he said. “Since you asked, Webmind is an emergent quantum-computational system based on ...

Execution is everything. Even if you start a business with the wrong idea or too many competitors, y...

Image perception makes a big difference. That's one of the things I tell entrepreneurs today. Fine, ...

Strange clothes you wear, Child of the Dragon. Has the Wheel turned so far? Do the People of the Dra...

Taren Ferry folk had a reputation for slyness and trickery. If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry ma...

believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.

One thing that most comic artists avoid is showing decisions. They show action, sure, and they show ...

All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the co...

Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

People have come to the erroneous conclusion that if they’re not willing to start something separate...

It’s okay. Let your ego push you to be the initiator. But tell your ego that the best way to get som...

The challenge, it turns out, isn’t in perfecting your ability to know when to start and when to stan...

This is an addictive pastime. You take no real risk, touch the world, and it responds. Repeat.

Initiative and starting are about neither of these. They are about “let’s see” and “try.” If there’s...

Starting isn’t like that. Starting something is not an event; it’s a series of events. You decide to...

I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance…and if you have anxiety about initiating a proje...

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth.   Not going all the way, and not starti...

Call me Richard. That’s my real name. Call me that.

He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation’s equivalent of that old saying a...

that this is Russian-A flu, not the more dangerous Swine flu.

His name is Legion. He is the king of nowhere.

A man’s life was five dogs long, Cortland believed. The first was the one that taught you. The secon...

Kindle, isn’t it?” the waitress asked. “I got one for Christmas, and I love it. I’m reading my way t...

Semantics is about the relation of words to thoughts, but it also about the relation of words to oth...

Dear White Fella When I am born I’m black When I grow up I’m black When I am sick I’m black When I g...

legal investigation. As Clinton noted, “My goal in this deposition was to be truthful, but not parti...

Climate change. Urbanization. Biotechnology. Those three narratives, still taking shape, are develop...

As we ride the elevator Gale finally says “You're still angry.”“And you're still not sorry,” I reply...

Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to set...

How about you, Mockingjay? You feel totally safe?” “Oh, yeah. Right up until I got shot,” I say.

We hand the meat over to Greasy Sae in the kitchen. She likes District 13 well enough, even though s...

Deep in the meadow, under the willowa bed of grass, a soft green pillow lay down your head, and clos...

Deep in the meadow, hidden far away A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray Forget your woes and let your ...

I noticed the plants growing around me. Tall with leaves like arrowheads. Blossoms with three white ...

And when again it’s morning, they’ ll wash away. Here it’s safe, here it’s warm Here the daisies gua...

His face and arms are so artfully disguised as to be invisible. I kneel beside him. “I guess all tho...

I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence.

So, here’s what you do. You win, you go home. She can’t turn you down then, eh?” says Caesar encoura...

When you can do that, little Wren, when you can accept the wearing down and the eroding, then you ca...

Let me tell you something you haven’t learned yet, something you learn only by living awhile. As you...

In 1991, though, began an uprising that would propel those reptilian Republicans from a tiny splinte...

he saw in Populism the first glimmerings of some of the great intellectual upheavals of the twentiet...

There’s a reason you probably haven’t heard much about this aspect of the heartland. This kind of bl...

We’re all free agents in this noncoercive class system, and Brooks eventually concludes that worryin...

Difficulty of subsistence made the invaders reduce the numbers of the army to a point at which it mi...

(My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter...

Photoshop is just like makeup. When it’s done well it looks great, and when it’s overdone you look l...

You could put a blond wig on a hot-water heater and some dude would try to fuck it.

I understand why we do that now. It’s a help, not a threat. It’s something to remind you how importa...

Jack looked out the window as they passed the Mormon temple, just outside the beltway near Connectic...

The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.

The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to ...

One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold.

so that it may grow fatter and

the sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water

of their passions in the same object at that particular time.

these groups followed some solitary passer-by, hurrying his steps; one after another the doors were ...

I never changed after that. I sought for nothing in the one great source of change which is humanity...