December 2011
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Sentinelese people →
The Sentinelese (also Sentineli, Senteneli, Sentenelese, North Sentinel Islanders) are one of the Andamanese indigenous peoples of the Andaman Islands, located in the Bay of Bengal. They inhabit North Sentinel Island which lies westward off the southern tip of the Great Andaman archipelago. They are noted for vigorously resisting attempts at contact by outsiders. The Sentinelese maintain an...
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The Mystery Behind Anesthesia →
A video screen shows a man in his late 60s lying awake on an operating table. Just outside the camera’s view, a doctor is moving his finger in front of the man’s face, instructing him to follow it back and forth with his eyes. Seconds later, after a dose of the powerful anesthetic drug propofol, his eyelids begin to droop. Then his pupils stop moving. Only the steady background...
Trinity College Notebook by Isaac Newton →
This is a notebook Newton acquired while he was an undergraduate at Trinity College and used from about 1661 to 1665 (see his inscription). It includes many notes from his studies and, increasingly, his own explorations into mathematics, physics and metaphysics. It was judged ‘Not fit to be printed’ by Newton’s executor and was presented to the Library by the fifth Earl of...
“I would love yo make more movies. That is a FUCKING HARD JOB though, dude. Just...”
– Louis C.K. lays out his dream plan in a Reddit Q&A
Have one's cake and eat it too →
The expression vuoi la botte piena e la moglie ubriaca (“you want your barrel full of wine and your wife drunk”) is used in Italy with an equivalent meaning.
