From 1996 to 2006, more than 79 percent of the animal studies published in the scientific journal Pain included only male subjects.
“As I said, one of my favorite questions to ask an era is: What portion of the population can be murdered by a different portion and have the murderer suffer no meaningful consequences?”
― Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age
― Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age
“In 2014, Mexican authorities seized 15,397 firearms, ranging from machine guns to pistols, and submitted them to the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) for tracing. The agency found that 11,061 of them—71 percent—originated in the United States.”
― This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto
― This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto
“Stories with definitive endings don’t necessarily reflect a belief that the world makes sense, but they do reflect a belief in the power of art to make sense of it. What one finds in Jewish storytelling, though, is something really different: a kind of realism that comes from humility, from the knowledge that one cannot be true to the human experience while pretending to make sense of the world.”
― People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
― People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
“You do a lot of math when you’re broke.”
― Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
― Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
“there are only so many targets for drugs in the body (around eight thousand potential places for drugs to work, by one estimate),”
― Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
― Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
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