Miscellaneous

While looking up Koestler's chapters on Pythagoras, I ran across this great passage: > The sixth pre-Christian--the miraculous century of Buddha, Confucius, and Lao-tze, of the Ionian philosophers and Pythagoras--was a turning point for the human species. A March breeze seemed to blow across this planet from China

A new study shows that men who carry their cellphone in their pocket have a sperm count nearly 10 percent lower than those who don't. While men who keep their cellphone on a belt clip don't need to worry about it.

Many years ago, when I wore a younger man's underwear, I bought Arthur Koestler's green three-volume series. I call it the "green" series because, even with the physical books and the Koestler page on Amazon in front of me, I can't find

Miscellaneous Rambling Perhaps the most interesting "Today I Learned" at Reddit that I've ever seen: "TIL, in 1981, a man who had been bullying residents of a small Missouri town was murdered in broad daylight when 46 townspeople rose up against him, in an act

A Random Passage Our society needs more outdoor power tools: "The common sense of mankind has associated the search after truth with seclusion and quiet. . . . Pythagoras, the light of Magna Græcia, lived for a time in a cave. Thales, the light of Ionia, lived unmarried and in private,

H.I.F. 10 Lucrative Ideas Sold For Almost Nothing [http://listverse.com/2014/06/13/10-lucrative-ideas-sold-for-almost-nothing/]. Excerpt: "[John] Barry was paid a one-time fee of £250 (approximately $700 USD) for his work [on the James Bond 007 theme song] while Monty Norman, who received the writing credit,

Some jokes tenuously-related to drinking: Two lawyers walk into a bar in the country side, they have decided to stop there for lunch, so without ordering anything they sit down and take out Tupperware boxes from their bags and begin to eat some sandwiches from them. The bartender sees this

Some more great passages from the work of Nassim Taleb, along with some TDE commentary: "To understand the liberating effect of asceticism, consider that losing all your fortune is much less painful than losing only half of it." "Work destroys your soul by stealthily invading your brain

In North Carolina, an obese man was caught hiding 40 bags of heroin in the folds of his stomach. Something tells me he is not on heroin.