Why genes & hormones can't explain our behavior

Why anti-depressants are so damn annoying

A man's morals indicate the type of god whom he worships.

وَأَوَدُّ أَنْ أَحيا بفِكْرَةِ شاعرٍ
فأَرى الوُجُودَ يضيقُ عَنْ أَحلامي

إلاَّ إِذا قَطَّعْتُ أَسبابي مع الدُّنيا
وعِشْتُ لوَحْدتي وظَلامي

في الغابِ في الجبلِ البعيدِ عن الورى
حيثُ الطَّبيعَةُ والجمالُ السَّامي

لكِنَّني لا أَستطيعُ فإنَّ لي
أُمًّا يَصُدُّ حَنَانُها أَوهامي

وصِغارُ إخوانٍ يَرَوْنَ سَلامَهُمْ
في الكَائِناتِ مُعَلَّقاً بسَلامي

فَقَدوا الأَبَ الحاني فكنتُ لضُعْفِـ
ـهِمْ كهفًا يَصُدُّ غَوائلَ الأَيَّامِ

ويَقِيهمُ وَهجَ الحَيَاةِ ولَفْحَها
ويذودُ عنهم شَرَّةَ الآلامِ

فأَنا المُكَبَّلُ في سَلاسلَ حيَّةٍ
ضحَّيتُ مِنْ رَأَفي بها أَحلامي

وأَنا الَّذي سَكَنَ المدينَةَ مُكْرَهًا
ومشى إلى الآتي بقلبٍ دامِ

- أبو القاسم الشابي

هالقصيدة كالها بعد وفاة والده

Schistosomas (a parasite) can steal the MHC antigen from the host and use it to hide from the immune system

أكو نوع من البروتينات إسمه MHC موجود على سطح كل خلايانا. هالبروتين يستخدمه جهازنا المناعي حتى يتعرف على خلايا الجسم وما يهاجمها.

طفيليات البلهارسيا (Schistosoma) تسرق هالبروتين من خلايا الجسم و—حرفيًا— تلبسه بشكل تمويه حتى الجهاز المناعي ما يتعرف عليها وما يهاجمها

Jacob wrestling with the angel
By Gustave Doré

Grow up in your first 6 years of life taking a whole lot of baths with someone and you are not going to discover a romantic passion for them when you're 20 years old. They're going to feel like a sibling to you for the rest of your life.

- Robert Sapolsky, explaining complex ideas in a casual way

We are so easily manipulated as to who counts as "US" and who counts as a "THEM". And one of the brilliant things militaries all over the world do, whether you're talking about clans with warrior classes or state militaries, is a brilliant understanding of how to make non-relatives feel like they're a band of brothers, and how to make "THEM" seem so different they hardly count as human.

- Robert Sapolsky

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هذا مؤلف Watchmen و V for vendetta و the killing joke 😂

When you google a symptom, you don't necessarily get the most common or the most likely diseases; you get the diseases with the greatest number of links from other Web sites.

- Every Patient Tells a Story

لما تدور أعراضك بكوكل، ما رح تحصّل المرض الأكثر توافقًا وية أعراضك؛ ببساطة رح تحصل المرض "المشهور" أكثر.

لهذا مرات لما تدور على "ألم بالمفاصل" رح تظهرلك أمراض نادرة وخطيرة قبل الأمراض العادية والشائعة

Everybody hates the jews, your mom is in the majority

- New Girl

Leonardo da Vinci became known in Milan not only for his talents but also for his good looks, muscular build, and gentle personal style. “He was a man of outstanding beauty and infinite grace,” Vasari said of him. “He was striking and handsome, and his great presence brought comfort to the most troubled soul.”

Vasari described how Leonardo took a lizard captured by an assistant, pasted a beard and wings on it, and kept it in a box to frighten his friends.😂

- Leonardo da Vinci's biography