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Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They far...  
Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.  
It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the ...  
It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks;...  
Mistakes are at the very base of human thought feeding the structure l...  
Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains wor...  
Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther...  
Statistically, the probability of any of us being here is so small tha...  
The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without th...  
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about...   Science
The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidd...   Science
The uniformity of earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, i...   Science
We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.  
We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying an...