quote [ David Maxwell?s hobby has become essential to the field. ]

quote [ As soon as it's your turn, you'll have op-amps and 1n4148 diodes injected straight into your bloodstream, apparently ]

quote [ Could shrunken heads from the Amazon hold the key to curing cancer? One man thought so?and spent a lifetime trying to prove it. ]

quote [ The year was 1827, and little Hiram was so excited to be getting a little brother. His father, David Harrison Davis, and his mother, Catherine Blydeburgh, had moved their family from England shortly after Hiram was born. ]

quote [ In his lectures, Konner also characterized humans as ?serially monogamous,? a nod to the fact that across cultures, humans tend to maintain strict or merely social monogamy with a series of partners. ]

quote [ I don?t doubt the veracity of these stories, but I am deeply skeptical of the way they are often framed: to maximize the inherent strangeness of the Japanese. Americans, after all, are also having less sex and committing suicide at a higher rate and dying alone and doing kinky cosplay, yet I don?t get the sense reading these stories that these trends are indicative of the fathomless mysteries of the American soul but rather the product of identifiable material and social circumstances. ]

quote [ They know what you did this summer. ]

quote [ Unpublished notes show he believed ancient structures held key to the apocalypse ]

quote [ A humble Scotsman saw something strange in the water?and daringly set out to catch it?only to have lecherous out-of-towners steal his fame and upend his quest. ]

quote [ Will Google?s self driving cars simply not recognise London?s Black Cabs? Will any yellow car in the UK be classified as a taxi by the infallible algorithm? Will Google refuse to believe I?m human simply because I don?t know what a Twinkie is? ]