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The asymmetry lies partly in the high price of eggs; in all species they’re bigger and rarer than minuscule, mass-produced sperm. (That, in fact, is biology’s official definition of a female: the one with the larger sex cells.)
The Moral Animal
Robert Wright
Be a pro. Back up your backup. Have at least one physical backup and one backup in the cloud. Have more than one of each. How much would you pay to retrieve all your data, photos, notes if you lost them? Backups are cheap compared to regrets.
Excellent Advice for Living
Kevin Kelly
And now the page before us blurs. An age is done. The book must close. We are abandoned to history. Raise high one more time the tattered standard of the Fallen. See through the drifting smoke to the dark stains upon the fabric. This is the blood of our lives, this is the payment of our deeds, all soon to be forgotten. We were never what people could be. We were only what we were. Remember us.
The Crippled God
Steven Erikson
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