The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
by David Deutsch · 30 Jun 2011 · 551pp · 174,280 words
former, and to contrast our civilization with the alternative as epitomized by ancient Easter Island. The Ascent of Man had been commissioned by the naturalist David Attenborough, then controller of the British television channel BBC2. A quarter of a century later Attenborough – who had by then become the doyen of natural-history
A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson · 5 May 2003 · 654pp · 204,260 words
remarkably little known to us—including the most mighty of them all, the great blue whale, a creature of such leviathan proportions that (to quote David Attenborough) its “tongue weighs as much as an elephant, its heart is the size of a car and some of its blood vessels are so wide
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. It may take a lichen more than half a century to attain the dimensions of a shirt button. Those the size of dinner plates, writes David Attenborough, are therefore “likely to be hundreds if not thousands of years old.” It would be hard to imagine a less fulfilling existence. “They simply exist
The God Delusion
by Richard Dawkins · 12 Sep 2006 · 478pp · 142,608 words
at random from this anonymous and lavishly distributed work, we find the sponge known as Venus’ Flower Basket (Euplectella), accompanied by a quotation from Sir David Attenborough, no less: ‘When you look at a complex sponge skeleton such as that made of silica spicules which is known as Venus’ Flower Basket, the
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almost certainly began in very much the same way, and spread initially at the same high speed. My main authority for the cargo cults is David Attenborough’s Quest in Paradise, which he very kindly presented to me. The pattern is the same for all of them, from the earliest cults in
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too must do these things. It is striking that similar cargo cults sprang up independently on islands that were widely separated both geographically and culturally. David Attenborough tells us that Anthropologists have noted two separate outbreaks in New Caledonia, four in the Solomons, four in Fiji, seven in the New Hebrides, and
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wood. There were dummy planes on the ‘runway’ to act as decoys, designed to lure down John Frum’s plane. In the 1950s, the young David Attenborough sailed to Tanna with a cameraman, Geoffrey Mulligan, to investigate the cult of John Frum. They found plenty of evidence of the religion and were
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year on 15 February his followers assemble for a religious ceremony to welcome him. So far he has not returned, but they are not downhearted. David Attenborough said to one cult devotee, called Sam: ‘But, Sam, it is nineteen years since John say that the cargo will come. He promise and he
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We Be Good Without God? quotes the same admirable retort by a John Frum disciple, this time to a Canadian journalist some forty years after David Attenborough’s encounter. The Queen and Prince Philip visited the area in 1974, and the Prince subsequently became deified in a rerun of a John-Frum
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and physical secretaries of the Royal Society, the Astronomer Royal (now President of the Royal Society), the director of the Natural History Museum, and Sir David Attenborough, perhaps the most respected man in England. The bishops included one Roman Catholic and seven Anglican bishops – senior religious leaders from all around England. We
Content Provider: Selected Short Prose Pieces, 2011–2016
by Stewart Lee · 1 Aug 2016 · 282pp · 89,266 words
The World about Us and Life on Earth, sympathetic portrayals of the natural world, produced by your brilliant BBC, surely the pinnacle of human achievement. David Attenborough avoided clumsy anthropomorphism or the tendency to attribute morality or consciousness to creatures such as Franzi and I, who are essentially automatons driven by need
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Farty’s empire-building ambition in what was a publicly owned arena would be a betrayal of everything the BBC stood for, worse than the David Attenborough baby polar bear scandal and when those actors all mumbled in that historical drama last year. If I wasn’t already dead I would kill
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economic circumstances”. Last week, I found myself watching a repeat of the May meeting of President Obama and the naturalist and former BBC programme director David Attenborough. Slowly and patiently, Attenborough made the case for nature. Its value was beyond the monetary. It was where our imaginations lived. And once it was
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loathed – nerdy science fiction, sexless literary detective stories and hardcore gay action? Where are Dick and Dom or Horrible Histories, educating children by stealth, and David Attenborough, who did the same to generations of adults? And where am I? Like it or not, and I am not sure that I do, I
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off for their breakfast. Social cohesion isn’t helped either, of course, by the culture secretary’s anti-BBC plans to kill off Doctor Who, David Attenborough and the stay-at-home mums’ ecstasy-generation CBeebies heartthrob Mr Bloom, who provides private spring-onion-based fantasies that glue many a failing marriage
Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming
by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby · 22 Nov 2013 · 165pp · 45,397 words
. James Chambers's Attenborough Design Group (2010) is a simple example of how this approach might translate into a design project. Chambers asks, What if David Attenborough had become an industrial designer rather than a wildlife filmmaker, who, still fond of nature, established the Attenborough Design Group to explore how animal behavior
The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis
by Elaine Morgan · 3 Jan 2011 · 197pp · 53,476 words
, I would like to thank the following (inclusion in this list does not imply any degree of agreement with the aquatic hypothesis): Leslie Aiello, Sir David Attenborough, Michael Chance, Bruce Charlton, Michael Crawford, Stephen Cunnane, Richard Dawkins, Frans de Waal, Christopher Dean, Daniel Dennett, Derek Denton, Robin Dunbar, Derek Ellis, Peter Rhys
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some species of frogs and toads. They are commonest in marine creatures: seahorses, for example, only lay their eggs at full moon. And when Sir David Attenborough decided to film horseshoe crabs he had to take into consideration not only the right season of the year to turn up on the beach
The Breakup Monologues: The Unexpected Joy of Heartbreak
by Rosie Wilby · 26 May 2021 · 227pp · 67,264 words
innocence of my nerdy nature-loving childhood. ‘As the seasons change and the rain comes, the grasses spring up once again.’ Bloody hell…It’s David Attenborough in the sex lab. Before I get too engrossed in the fast-motion shots of greenery emerging from the desert plains, my visual panorama alters
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it is taking hours, not helped by my procrastination. I give him four out of ten, one point less than the woman. During the next David Attenborough clip, I fleetingly remember a chapter from the book What Do Women Want? The author, New York Times journalist Daniel Bergner, interviews a female scientist
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…’ ‘I quite liked him!’ ‘You did! Although on average I think the arousal is just slightly higher during the female clips.’ ‘…and what about during David Attenborough?’ ‘Haha, oh we don’t measure during the control clip.’ ‘Oh that’s a shame.’ ‘I recorded this data with a pair of twins, both
This Is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook
by Extinction Rebellion · 12 Jun 2019 · 138pp · 40,525 words
will have is a fight to survive and a lot of violence. It’s only recently that voices such as that of British broadcaster Sir David Attenborough have talked of the collapse of civilizations and societies, or what food insecurity will mean for us, and for generations to come. In February 2019
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money and food to keep them invested in society. When people cannot feed their families, then the façade of law and order evaporates. When Sir David Attenborough talks of the collapse of civilizations, this is what it means: violence that most of us in the privileged West cannot even comprehend. There is
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at Parliament Square. Our hands were held together with love and superglue, the moon shining over Westminster Abbey. Courting in the middle of a rebellion. David Attenborough’s climate-change programme was being screened by Extinction Rebellion, the ghostly scaffolding sheeting at the Palace of Westminster a backdrop used as a projection
The Unpersuadables: Adventures With the Enemies of Science
by Will Storr · 1 Jan 2013 · 476pp · 134,735 words
further facts become apparent about John Mackay. One, he likes to speak in questions. Two, he has a bit of a thing about David Attenborough. ‘I know a question David Attenborough wouldn’t ask,’ he says at one point. ‘If creation is true, what would the evidence be?’ Of all the questions ever, this
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’s not an amusing diversion, but a serious threat to scientific reason.’ John recalls the meeting with a contemptuous sigh. ‘He was trying to be David Attenborough,’ he says. ‘I think it’s because he’s been getting so much flak. People are sick of him. Do you know, if Dawkins is
The Way of the Gun: A Bloody Journey Into the World of Firearms
by Iain Overton · 15 Apr 2015 · 436pp · 125,809 words
books, that caught my attention. Because there stood a line of DVDs, and one leaped out. Boddington on Cheetahs, it read. But this was no David Attenborough–style film; rather it was highlights of the fastest animal on earth being taken down by a hunting rifle. Others stood beside it: Boddington on
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