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Thinking of the earlier conversation about important advances over time...just saw this on the bookstore bulletin board

Posted by Meg (aka Mojave) Apr 30 '13, 14:11

�A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time ― proof that humans can work magic.�
― Carl Sagan

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Along the same lines (and I think I've mentioned this here before), but some mad genius caveman somewhere figured out bread. That's amazing when you - Reagen Apr 30, 14:22 5
- And less genius but probably more just determination is our way back ancestor who tamed fermentation - JD Apr 30, 15:34
- maybe someone left a skull full of prridge by the fire and went to sleep, it dried out while fermentation had started, but remember beer... - zeitgeist Apr 30, 14:44
- what abou sliced bread? that was the best thing since......unsliced bread, i guess...nm - x Apr 30, 14:30 2
  - I'd bet the original sourdough was a lucky accident and the development of yeast evolved from that. - Meg Apr 30, 14:37 1
    - yeah. probably it happened by mistake, and the genius was the person who figured out saving a piece for the next batch was what kept things rising..nm - x Apr 30, 14:48
v. nice. -- nm - b. Apr 30, 14:16

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