“Este tipo de ave imita las llamadas de otras aves, sonidos animales e incluso ruidos de máquinas. Se encuentra frecuentemente en áreas urbanas. Llaman frecuentemente durante las noches y pueden continuar a lo largo de todo el año a excepción de la estación de pelechar a fines del verano.”

“La palabra cenzontle viene del náhuatl cenzon-tlahtol-e, formado de centzontil (“cuatrocientos”) y tlahtolli (“palabra” y, por extensión, “canto”). Esto se debe al melodioso canto del ave en cuestión. De hecho los machos experimentados tienen repertorios de cincuenta a doscientos canciones.”

“Like most of my generation, I was brought up on the saying: ‘Satan finds some mischief for idle hands to do.’ Being a highly virtuous child, I believed all that I was told, and acquired a conscience which has kept me working hard down to the present moment. But although my conscience has controlled my actions, my opinions have undergone a revolution. I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to be preached in modern industrial countries is quite different from what always has been preached.” Bertrand Rusell@zpub.com

“I was recently reminded of some reading I did in college, way back in the last century, by a British historian arguing that the critical technology, for the early phase of the industrial revolution, was gin. The transformation from rural to urban life was so sudden, and so wrenching, that the only thing society could do to manage was to drink itself into a stupor for a generation. The stories from that era are amazing– there were gin pushcarts working their way through the streets of London.”

Gin, Television And Social Surplus@herecomeseverybody.com
History Of Gin (and Tonic)@bbc.com
Hendrick’s Gin@hendricksgin.com

“In no affairs of mere prejudice, pro or con, do we deduce inferences with entire certainty, even from the most simple data. It might be supposed that a catastrophe such as I have just related would have effectually cooled my incipient passion for the sea. On the contrary, I never experienced a more ardent longing for the wild adventures incident to the life of a navigator than within a week after our miraculous deliverance. This short period proved amply long enough to erase from my memory the shadows, and bring out in vivid light all the pleasurably exciting points of color, all the picturesqueness, of the late perilous accident.”

Texto Completo@adelaideuniversity.edu.au
Edgar Allan Poe’s Life@PoeMuseum.org
The Influence and Reputation of Edgar Allan Poe in Europe@eapoe.org

“With the benefit of hindsight, few now doubt that the housing bubble that induced most of the recent growth of the U.S. economy was bound to burst or that a general financial crisis and a global economic slowdown were to be the unavoidable results. Warning signs were evident for years to all of those not taken in by the new financial alchemy of high-risk debt management, and not blinded, as was much of the corporate world, by huge speculative profits.”

Article@The Monthly Review

“A ballistic reentry is a re-entry of an atmosphere that relies solely on drag within the atmosphere to slow the vehicle. The U.S. Mercury and Soviet Vostok spacecraft used a ballistic reentry. The U.S. Gemini and Apollo spacecraft and Russian Soyuz spacecraft use a lifting reentry, where aerodynamic lift makes for a gentler and aimable reentry, but have a backup ballistic reentry mode.”

“Lately ballistic re-entries have accidentally occurred on the Soyuz TMA-10 and Soyuz TMA-11 missions.”