No one had ever dared to scold him like this. This little and fearless woman had a fiery temper.She dared to express thoughts and did everything in opposition with him. But it was strange that not only did he feel disgusted, but on the contrary he felt very interested. He suddenly ...
In 1987, a group of geneticists published a surprising study in the journal Nature. The researchers examined the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) taken from 147 people across all of today's major racial groups. These researchers found that all modern humans descended from one of two br...
and there was no one to till the ground; but a stream would rise from the earth, and water the whole face of the ground— then the Lord God formed
The story of an adopted, professional black British woman (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) who tracks down her white, working-class birth mother (Brenda Blethyn) came with its own themes and ideas. But it also allowed Leigh to refine interests he had been exploring for years, such as the ...
They are not places. And lest one is tempted to put them in the “person” category, which of course means only human persons, one is reminded that to do so would fundamentally contradict humans’ self-aggrandizing view of our own species. So other animals remain a forgotten category; in ...
Perhaps some history will help: The term “Semite” was invented by European philologists in the 18th century to distinguish languages from one another by grouping them into “families” descended from one “mother” tongue to which they are all related. In this context, languages came to be ...
“What if the Neverseen overheard everything about Della’s memory and her mom’s death?” Sophie asked anxiously to no one in particular. Silence descended upon the room, proving that everyone else was worrying about the same thing.
The woman goes with the first man who throws her money, and rejects no one. When she has gone with him, and so satisfied the goddess, she returns home, and from that time forth no gift however great will prevail with her.” (Source) Sounds like a woman’s status is elevated rather ...
A young woman in a rural near future USA comes into contact with a piece of technology that allows a signal to pass between her time and another one farther in the future after a series of disasters wiped out much of the human race. At first she thinks it’s just a job, but when ...
I needed Google to help with this one… There were countless negatives to 2018, but there was alsoso much good. 2018 showed us how very generous and thoughtful people can be. It taught us about the magical power of connection. And it introduced us to one of our most-beloved humans on ...