quote [ Can casting away from established society to inhabit sea-based colonies save us from the problems of modern life—or are we bound to repeat our mistakes? ]

quote [ Are there any fish in the picture? Then press the fish doorbell. ]

quote [ They start hurling the epithets when they haven't provided enough data-specific nouns and active verbs-to get their idea across. ]

quote [ Two women gave birth on the same day in a place called Come By Chance. They didn’t know each other, and never would. Half a century later, their children made a shocking discovery. ]

quote [ benefits to be gained if the American and Soviet scientists were to unite their efforts […] if these feats were intended to unite rather than divide. ]

quote [ There are many real-world consequences of failing to consider that situations can often be improved by removing rather than adding. ]

quote [ This month marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Baudelaire’s birth, the French poet famous for his descriptions of the flâneur: a man of the crowd, who thrived in the metropolis’ multitude. Following Baudelaire through 19th-century Paris, Matthew Beaumont discovers a parallel archetype — the convalescent hero of modernity — who emerges from the sickbed into city streets with a feverish curiosity. ]

quote [ In southern Spain, however, the team’s first marine garden suggests potential average harvests could be about 3.5 tonnes a hectare. While the yield is about a third of what one could achieve with rice, León points to the potential for low-cost and environmentally friendly cultivation. “If nature gifts you with 3,500kg without doing anything – no antibiotics, no fertiliser, just seawater and movement – then we have a project that suggests one can cultivate marine grain.” ]

quote [ “The beauty of the missed-call behavior was that it was already pervasive,” said Wagoner, who became the company’s CEO. It had become so commonplace as to vex the country’s telecom operators: missed calls clogged up over 30% of phone lines but generated no revenue. ]

quote [ Natural cyan might one day replace synthetic dyes ]