#volume

Camels can go many weeks without drinking anything at all. The notion that they cache water in their humps is pure myth—their humps are made of fat, and water is stored in their body tissues. While other mammals draw water from bloodstreams when faced with dehydration, leading to death by volume shock, camels tap the water in their tissues, keeping their blood volume stable. Though this reduces the camel’s bulk, they can lose up to a third of their body weight with no ill effects, which they can replace astonishingly quickly, as they are able to drink up to forty gallons in a single watering.” (pp.69-70) ↗

— Michael Benanav

#bloodstream #body-tissues #body-weight #camels #death

When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon those states themselves and not upon the manner in which the system may pass from one state to the other. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#between #considered #depends #difference #different

The volume of your voice does not increase the validity of your argument. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#validity #voice #volume #experience

These days, my main guitar amps have been Magnatone. They're beautiful. Magnatones have actual tremolo, which I recently learned about guitar amps. Often what guitar amps call vibrato is really just a volume Up and Down. But Magnatone has a true vibrato, which is pitch bending. And so, it's just a lush sound. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#actual #amps #beautiful #been #bending

For the second straight year, craft beer is the fastest growing segment of the U.S. alcoholic beverage industry. In 2005, craft beer experienced a 9 percent increase in volume, nearly triple that of the growth experienced in the wine and spirits industry. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

#beer #beverage #craft #experienced #fastest

Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#helplessness #kafka #powerful #twenty #volumes

Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#content #disguises #extreme #important #lack

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself. ↗

— Roberto Burle Marx

#aesthetic #also #artist #color #complex

When not only gold but all commodities are available for the redemption of the paper currency, its volume is limited only by the value of all the wealth of the country, and it can never become insecure up to this limit. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#become #commodities #country #currency #gold

I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice. ↗

— Zack de la Rocha

#give #i #me #minimal #sacrifice