Apparently it's ponderball time.

Is convergent evolution a possible argument for extraterrestrial life to local life? Or would the environments just be way different?

"There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of our time...The hours should be instructed by the ages, and the ages explained by the hours." - Emerson.
I thought this was nicely layered - I especially like that key difference in using the words 'instructed' and 'explained'

"...for when it comes to smells, our language is poverty stricken." - is that perhaps why when it comes to describing subtleties of wine and cigars and beer, words that seemingly have no relation to those things are used (taste being closely related to smell)?

From Grapplearts, a survey of Kimura variants, some insights on using an omo plata, and the lovely, innovative 10-finger guillotine. Interesting history tidbits in the first couple, too.