quote [ ?Jolly Jane? Toppan overcame a miserable Dickensian childhood to become a medical professional patients adored. She was also slowly murdering them one by one. ]

quote [ The glorious stained-glass windows that illuminate the historic Gothic cathedrals of Europe are monuments to illiteracy. To be sure, one purpose of the glass in landmark cathedrals like Canterbury and Chartres was to flood cold naves and transepts with rays of warming light. ]

quote [ when employees analyzed the data, they discovered something amazing. Even as hundreds of thousands of users expressed their disapproval of News Feed, their behavior indicated the opposite. People were spending more time on Facebook. Even the anger against News Feed was being fueled by News Feed, as the groups organizing against it went viral because Facebook told you when your friends joined the uprising.
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Zuckerberg seemed to take a lesson from his first public crisis, possibly the wrong one. He had pushed out a product with serious privacy issues?issues his own people had identified. Yes, a crisis did erupt, but quick action and a dry-eyed apology defused the situation. People wound up loving the product. ]

quote [ Out of all places to stick your head into, a particle accelerator would rank among the worst. Yet, on that fateful day of 13 July 1978, thirty-six-years-old Russian scientist Anatoli Bugorski just had to. ]

quote [ If you call its name, it flinches. After all, the best defence against witch-finders is a population that doesn?t believe in witches. ]

quote [ For hundreds of years, there were rumors of a shipwrecked treasure on the Oregon coast. But no one found anything, until an unlikely hunter began digging. ]

quote [ If passing term limits were a trial, you would all have to recuse yourselves for a colossal conflict of interest. ]

quote [ Importantly, unless you do something dumb that makes you vulnerable to being drawn into the mook-manorial economy against your will, such as saying something that can be used against you while in a position of authority in an important institution, the IoB is an opt-in conflict arena. ]

quote [ It?s a name that had me instantly transfixed, like something Wes Anderson had dreamt up for his next film. The Independent Order of the Odd Fellows ? a secret society for ? odd people? Why had I never heard of it? Never one to resist the pull of a promising rabbit hole, I would soon discover that the international fraternity I?d accidentally stumbled upon had existed for centuries, possibly longer, and at one point during America?s ?Golden Age of Fraternalism?, grew larger than the Freemasons. ]

quote [ TERRY-Thomas had arrived. It wasn?t exactly overnight but most people thought so. It was 1946 and he was compèring a revue at the Prince of Wales Theatre. ]