In sheer numbers, the brain is just beaten by the Milky Way with its 200 billion or more stars, but they are spread across 100,000 light years, not packed into a one-and-a-half-litre capacity skull.
—Alun Anderson. The World in 2002. “Brain Work.” The Economist magazine.
—Alun Anderson. The World in 2002. “Brain Work.” The Economist magazine.
...in a recent poll by the Pew Foundation, Russians, by a margin of 57% to 32%, preferred to rely on strong leadership rather than democracy to deliver good government.
—The Economist magazine. December 10, 2011. “The Cracks Appear.” Leaders. Page 13.
