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1. We cannot appreciate how difficult it is for other people to say "no," even though we have been in that uncomfortable position many times ourselves.
2. Most mammals are biologically programmed to put their digestive waste away from where they eat and sleep.
3. By likening the eye to a camera, elementary biology textbooks help to produce a misleading impression of what perception entails.
4. Yet the physicist will point out that the friction on the marble is so small that its effect is negligible.
5. Because each component of an ecosystem interacts with other components of that system, action or change in one element often leads to action or change in others, which transforms the ecosystem.
6. According to psychologist Robert Ornstein, the speed of time and our perception of it is heavily influenced by how much new information is available for our minds to absorb and process.
7. His humor also has a great power to cheer us up when we are down.
8. In almost all situations, that's a very good thing: The context provides lots of information, and communication is much more efficient when it makes use of that information.
9. It is a rendering of what the writer perceives to be of most value.
10. According to the historian E. H. Warmington, this absence of silver coins suggests a trade mainly in luxury goods during that period.
11. As with other human activities, there are many ways and spatial scales at which tourism contributes to climate change.
12. Is there someone with whom you would like to have a better relationship?
13. In a businesslike fashion, the two women began figuring out how to disengage.
14. Although the victims of identity theft are usually thought of as individuals, small and large businesses are often caught out as well.
15. The answer is yes Scientific research provides convincing data to support the evidence that giving is a powerful path to lasting happiness Researchers have found that the areas in our brains that feel pleasure become activated when we give —meaning that besides doing good, donating our money or time actually makes us feel good This feeling is similar to a “runner's high,” a term created for that feel-good sensation that rushes through your body after a run They use the term “helper's high” to describe what happens to your body and your brain when you are kind to another person or give to them in some way Helping others may just be the secret to living a life that is not only happier but also healthier, wealthier, more productive, and meaningful.
16. If existing museum basements are full, yet most of the ancient world is still underwater and underground — a good part of Pompeii awaits excavation — how will the resources be found to safeguard, document, and share the importance of tens of millions of as-yetundiscovered artifacts?
17. Only humans have been able to rise above their natural antagonisms and create a society in which people from different, even formerly competing, groups can live together in peace, tolerance, and harmony.
18. Emotions give us clues about how we are being treated and what we need.
19. At greater depths — it is dark and cold there — photography is the principal way of exploring a mysterious deep-sea world, 95 percent of which has never been seen before.
20. Instead, people typically get so involved in doing a program or getting a result ―like winning a title in a dog show― or they worry so much about getting hurt, that they fail to listen to what their animals have to say.
21. Thomas Norton is best known for his long alchemical poem, The Ordinal of Alchemy (1477), which is subtitled Crede-Mihi, or Believe-Me, by which Norton, in typical alchemical fashion, implies that his work, and no other, contains the secret of alchemy.
22. The transformation of such protolanguage into language required the evolution of grammar― rules that define the order in which a finite number of words can be strung together to create an infinite number of utterances, each with a specific meaning.
23. Well, even though' things seem hectic now, they're probably going to seem even more hectic later on when you're trying to survive in the workplace and take care of all household matters in your own family.
24. For example, you may not care about whether you start your new job in June or July.
25. Being able to eat periodically, store fuel, and then use up that fuel between meals is a great advantage.
26. In such a case, these people suffer from an inevitable social and mental trauma, leading to emotional stress and a feeling that all of a sudden they have been disassociated from what once was their identity.
27. We set resolutions based on what we're supposed to do, or what others think we're supposed to do, rather than what really matters to us.
28. The idea that we are living moments of more and lives of less is supported by a recent study in which pairs of college-aged friends were asked to communicate in four different ways: face-to-face conversation, video chat, audio chat, and online instant messaging.
29. The speed with which computers tackle multiple tasks feeds the illusion that everything happens at the same time, so comparing computers to humans can be confusing.
30. We humans learned the hard way about the excesses of power in which our rulers might occasionally indulge themselves.
31. It relates to the degree to which the less powerful members of a society accept their inequality in power and consider it the norm.
32. One common Zulu greeting is sawubona (/saubona/), to which the listener replies ngikhona (/ngikona/).
33. Again, if we are comparing unemployment in urban-industrial societies, we must agree on what we mean by unemployment.
34. It is the mark of effortful activities that they interfere with each other, which is why it is difficult or impossible to conduct several at once.
35. Just as adding a drop of poison to a glass of water changes the molecular structure of that entire glass, the addition of rabbits to the continent changed the entire ecology of the nation.
36. At some time in their lives, most people pause to reflect on their own moral principles and on the practical implications of those principles, and they sometimes think about what principles people should have or which moral standards can be best justified.
37. I'm grateful to that high school girl that I was for having the sense to buy a little blank book.
38. The soldier in question, who had the character of being the bravest man in Boutteville's army, presented himself, and taking thirty of his comrades, of whom he had the choice, he executed his commission, which was of the most dangerous nature, with courage and success beyond all praise.
39. His father was, at various times, sheriff, mayor and MP for Bristol, and Thomas himself may have been either a successful merchant, or a privy councillor to that alchemically inclined monarch, Edward IV.
40. The goal of the next zone is to push out beyond that area and begin to learn new things.
41. As we invent more species of AI, we will be forced to surrender more of what is supposedly unique about humans.
42. Much of what was measured as unemployment, they said, was actually individuals who were working at home and not earning money in the marketplace.
43. Such practices are believed to put pressure on parents to yield to what the media have dubbed "pester power.
44. This bias, toward granting influence to group members who may not in fact deserve it, is similar to that described by status characteristics theory, which argues that rank differentiation in newly formed groups is partly influenced by members' personal characteristics - such as race, age, sex, and occupation.
45. However, perhaps because of how embedded steam railways are in the development of the modern world, we can say that they changed the world.
46. Frustrated, Harrison decided to show King George III H5, which he had begun working on while H4 was being evaluated by the Board of Longitude.
47. The way that we behave in a given situation is often influenced by how important one value is to us relative to others.
48. "At that moment, the cameras outside took over and out there in the yard there was a scene of joy almost beyond belief.
49. Food plays a large part in how much you enjoy the outdoors.
50. A helpful way of coping with strong negative feelings is to take them for what they are―messages from your mind and body intended to keep you safe.
51. We share meat and vegetables with the Minimum tribe, but we always argue about how to share them.
52. This reasoning was based on the fact that clocks of that time had pendulums that swung back and forth inside them.
53. The last ice age came to an end about 13,000 years ago and with that warmer, wetter conditions prevailed.
54. It is simply a coincidental correspondence between a situation about which one has intense concern and the occurrence of the event that one fears.
55. For what is distinctive about science is the search for negative instances ― the search for ways to falsify a theory, rather than to confirm it.
56. Very heavy rains, however, could carry away soil and plant nutrients, hindering the growth of vegetation, thereby leaving a reduced food supply for the animals that depend on that vegetation.
57. The term cafeteria is used because choices are similar to those in a cafeteria, in which a diner proceeds down the line and chooses those foods that he or she would like and leaves the others.
58. That's why they need avenues where they can be active, burn up that energy, and test their strength.
59. Performance must be judged in terms of what is under the control of the individuals being evaluated rather than those influences on performance that are beyond their control.
60. According to one estimate, the new diseases wiped out as much as 90% or, more of the indigenous population of the Americas.
61. It will be either direct, when the government invests the tax dollars in whatever capacity it considers to be most necessary, or indirect, when the government passes legislation that makes the desired activity more profitable.
62. Whether you're nine or ninety years old, you should constantly be learning, improving your skills, and getting better at what you do.
63. The restructuring of a problem can be caused by unsuccessful attempts in solving the problem, leading to new information being brought in while the person is thinking.
64. At that moment, I realized how insane I was.
65. The shift was made easier by the habitat in which it occurred.
66. In 1868 he was hired by a tiny advertising agency run by William J. Carlton, at that point still involved in the primitive business of placing advertisements in newspapers and magazines.
67. If you also know that -tomy refers to an incision into something, you can easily figure out that a gastrotomy must be an incision made into the stomach.
68. The hunters had followed the mammoths and other large animals eastward from Asia across what is now the Bering Sea.
69. We would need to do studies in which individuals are sampled in terms of their dream life and judges are asked to make correspondences between these dream events and events that occurred in real life.
70. The typical scenario in the less developed world is one in which a very few commercial agriculturalists are technologically advanced while the vast majority are incapable of competing.
71. Are you thinking about where to live?
72. The conflicts between the two are evident in what they created.
73. These relatively new product offerings are usually referred to as 'soft' or 'chewy' cookies, to distinguish them from the more typical crunchy varieties.
74. This is one of the bonding factors that has been forgotten because of the way in which we live today.
75. If place identity is tied to a particular industry, local residents may feel strongly attached to the definitions of place that stem from involvement in that industry, and they may resist losing that identity in favor of one based on a tourism industry.
76. That scene in which your octogenarian feels humiliated will draw on your experience of humiliation in the eighth grade, even though the circumstances are totally different and you're not even consciously thinking about your middleschool years.
77. Had I been alone, I would have walked away feeling sad for that poor gull.
78. ""For my own part," he said in an 1846 article in Graham's Magazine, "I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it.
79. Its idea was that countries should now share the burden of emissions cuts according to how historically responsible they were for the problem.
80. She wasn't sure just what had made her look over toward the rear passenger side tire at that moment, but she did.
81. They point out that even nodding the head up and down to indicate "yes" is not universal.
82. The principle of distinctiveness suggests that we make attributions about people based on whether their particular characteristics and actions are associated with specific outcomes unique to the situation.
83. The art world consists of a bundle of systems: theater, painting, literature, music, and so on, each of which furnishes an institutional background for the conferring of status on objects within its domain.
84. This process of taking an experience from the person's " inner-self' and putting it out into the world as a physical object helps the individual become distant to the experience, which in turn makes him or her feel safer about talking about what he or she has made.
85. In this stage, we can even imagine ourselves victoriously dancing on the top of that mountain, feeling successful and ultimately happy.
86. There are all sorts of signs for that thing you're looking at.
87. Sophie is clueless about what Angela wants.
88. In their work they are asking critical questions about how the body is trained, disciplined, and manipulated in sports and how some sport scientists are using technology to probe, monitor, test, evaluate, and rehabilitate the body as a performance machine.
89. As Polaroid founder Edwin Land remarked, "No person could possibly be original in one area unless he were possessed of the emotional and social stability that comes from fixed attitudes in all areas other than the one in which he is being original."
90. It would be difficult for a vision statement to provide direction to decision makers and energize employees toward achieving long-term strategic intent unless they know of the vision and observe management's commitment to that vision.
91. The customs and way of life of that area were all they ever experienced or knew about.
92. To whom it may concern at the Seoul Tourism Information Center, My name is Mathew, and I plan to visit Seoul next month.
93. This is what we really mean when we call entertainment "escapist": We escape from life by escaping into the neat narrative formulas in which most entertainments are packaged.
94. However, the human mind turns out to be significantly swayed by how potential outcomes are portrayed.
95. The researchers looked at how macaque monkeys' lips, larynxes, and tongues move when they produce sounds.
96. However, it is the responsibility of the children's librarian to inform the administration early in the budget process of needs for the next year, including a justification of why the funds are needed.
97. They didn't like this or that about the music and had the singers repeat the same line again and again, all of which sounded perfect to me.
98. My mother has been warning me not to eat burnt toast for as long as I can remember.
99. As long as you remain in that emotional situation, you're likely to stay angry.
100. Teens for Jeans Started by a non-profit organization, it is a campaign in which teenagers in the U.S. collect pairs of jeans and give them to local homeless youth.
101. Most of what foragers ate was plants, and much of the animal protein in their diet came from foods gathered rather than hunted directly: insects, shellfish, small animals caught in traps, fish and other sea creatures caught in nets, and animals killed by other predators.
102. Have you ever wondered why a dog doesn't fall over when he changes directions while running?
103. Perhaps they would automatically exercise at 65 percent of their maximum heart rate regardless of which machine they were using.
104. And he has so many teachers: his parents, other members of the family, friends, relatives―almost everyone with whom he comes in contact in his day-to-day life.
105. "Books" also may become aware of their own subconscious prejudices and learn that some of their preconceptions about what others think of them are false.
106. Some architects have decided to respond to what they perceive to be the potentially formless and anonymous nature of the city by creating buildings that are obviously strange and are intended to become urban landmarks.
107. It can help you to figure out what's really important and what isn't.
108. Sequoyah moved to Oklahoma some years later and died in what is now Texas in 1843.
109. This was a dirty, thankless job, but it was sorely needed in that community.
110. Thus, they can be thought of as being chemically similar.
111. As soon as people began to produce tools and, much later, art, some information was stored in external objects on how to make them and what they might mean.
112. Of course, coaches, when hired by such an owner, likely have sizable information about the low likelihood of being the coach at that club for the next five years.
113. She'd long since gotten roasting pans in larger sizes and hadn't cut an end off since.
114. For instance, maybe you have to figure out how to create a communication device using a hammer, tape, a hairbrush, and a bag of marbles.
115. The study also revealed the commanders had given more attention and praise to the crew members for whom they had the higher expectations.
116. The opportunity to catch fish is on that lake.
117. Contrary to what we usually believe, the best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times ― although such experiences can also be enjoyable, if we have worked hard to attain them.
118. Such common understandings may be referred to as group norms.
119. Terrified by the poor medical treatment for female patients, she founded a hospital for women in Edinburgh in which the staff consisted only of women.
120. He remembered that a friend of his dad's regretted not doing all the things he wanted to when he was John's age.
121. A tyrant is, although he does not know it, weaker than the person who, fully aware of what is happening, allows himself to be killed by tyrants.
122. As of that age, every product that they look at is studied in detail and compared with other products.
123. But while I was traveling in Egypt, I found out that there are many different kinds.
124. Lately, I was thinking about what my dream job might be.
125. The slow speed up while the fast and the superfast slow down.
126. Instead, you have the human option to talk with others and in that way to cope with what is bothering you.
127. Contrast his approach with that of the late Abebe Bikila, the Ethiopian who won the 1960 Olympic Marathon running barefoot.
128. Like sperm whales, killer whales are unusual among cetaceans in that males reach a much larger size than females.
129. We like to make a show of how much our decisions are based on rational considerations, but the truth is that we are largely governed by our emotions, which continually influence our perceptions.
130. Once you start to see praise for what it is ― and what it does ― these constant little valuative outbursts from adults start to produce the same effect as fingernails being dragged down a blackboard.
131. Specifically, the technique of having students help one another raises the question of whether students with lower ability are being helped at the expense of those with higher ability.
132. The main food crop was the wild mongongo nut, millions of which were harvested every year.
133. The question of whether a decline in the world's biodiversity will hamper, or even result in the loss of, ecosystem functions and processes has been a major issue in ecology in the past decade.
134. For that very reason, Elton John and Paul McCartney aren't in the dictionary, but both Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley, who died decades ago, are.
135. They also needed new markets in which to sell their manufactured goods.
136. It was the first conversation we'd had in which he wasn't telling me something negative about someone else in the class.
137. So be a good role model and set the stage for healthy eating at home and when you eat out as a family.
138. Today, Sarah, the girl I like, saw me playing soccer with my shirt off and said something about how skinny I am.
139. Several months later, Rourke held a series of seminars at Berkeley, in which a serious gap in his argument was uncovered, and most experts feel that there is no hope that his proof can be corrected.
140. The same is also true of social institutions, such as the family, the state, banks, churches, and so on ─ most of which are modified forms of earlier practices or institutions.
141. For music fans, the genres, artists, and songs in which people find meaning, thus, function as potential "places" through which one's identity can be positioned in relation to others: they act as chains that hold at least parts of one's identity in place.
142. Still, many believe we will eventually reach a point at which conflict with the finite nature of resources is inevitable.
143. Spend less time complaining about what you don't have and spend more time appreciating what you do have.
144. Very few individuals, probably less than one percent, had the means to study Latin enough to read books in that language and therefore to participate in the intellectual discourse of the times.
145. Regardless of the actual date, it is said that Kaldi, the goatherd, noticed that his goats did not sleep at night after eating berries from what would later be known as a coffee tree.
146. Those who donate to one or two charities seek evidence about what the charity is doing and whether it is really having a positive impact.
147. The emotion itself is tied to the situation in which it originates.
148. Gifted children of almost any age show longer attention spans — in the things they are interested in at the moment, not necessarily in what others think they should be interested in.
149. In 2007, the combined share of those who were 25 to 29years old and those who were 30 years old and over accounted for less than 50% of that year's university graduates.
150. One of the ways we determined he had nothing to do with starting the fire was by asking him some specific questions as to where he was before the fire, at the time of the fire, and whether or not he set the fire.
151. Developing countries have limited domestic savings with which to invest in growth, and liberalization allows them to tap into a global pool of funds.
152. A: Unlike samullori or nong-ak, in which there are many performers, jultagi has only a couple of performers.
153. Feelings may affect various aspects of your eating, including your motivation to eat, your food choices, where and with whom you eat, and the speed at which you eat.
154. Illness, by contrast, comes with constraint, fragility, loss and restriction, the darker dimensions of what Susan Sontag called 'the night-side of life.'
155. The term stacking the deck derives from card games in which the dealer arranges the cards to cheat one or more of the players.
156. Another thing to remember is that it's not just about how long you sleep, but also how well.
157. Think clearly about who you want to be, what you want to do, and what you want to have in the future.
158. "If a physician identifies too closely as co-sufferer with the patient, she loses the objectivity essential to the most precise assessment of what is wrong, of what can be done, and of what should be done to meet those needs.
159. If we want to catch any fish in that pond, we must come prepared.
160. If you are constantly engaged in asking yourself questions about things you are hearing, you will find that even boring lecturers become a bit more interesting, because much of the interest will be coming from what you are generating rather than what the lecturer is offering.
161. By mentally taking oneself through that circumstance and imagining what one would do in that situation, the body and mind are more likely to respond favorably, rather than to freeze, if that situation were to ever occur.
162. These test audiences, usually recruited from a targeted age or social group, fill out questionnaires after the showing about what they liked and didn't like, what they thought about the story and the characters, after which the producers, writers and directors rewrite and edit to make it more audience-friendly.
163. One of the most important things that young adults need to understand is that any time your are trying to live a normal and decent life, you will always find people that will hate you for that.
164. Ask about what she is doing that has allowed her to be successful.
165. If glaciers started reforming, they have a great deal more water now to draw on - Hudson Bay, the Great Lakes, the hundreds of thousands of lakes of Canada, none of which existed to fuel the last ice sheet - so they would grow very much quicker.
166. When a baby is born it is slapped on the back and made to cry - this much is virtually universal; but from that point on each person's life, attitudes, religion, politics - indeed, most of his world view - are shaped largely by his environment.
167. She recalled the first day of school when she had stood in that same place, in the middle of many anxious freshmen, some of whom had become her closest friends.
168. Problems can be distinguished according to whether they are reasonable or unreasonable.
169. At the end of the round of introductions, the students were asked to write down the names of as many other students as they could remember.
170. There is an order in which learning is programmed to take place; while it can be encouraged, it need not be forced.
171. Give children options and allow them to make their own decisions―on how much they would like to eat, whether they want to eat or not, and what they would like to have.
172. He realized that as a fighter pilot, he had never thought about who packed his parachute.
173. Not because I was afraid of flying, but because I was afraid of what awaited me at my destination.
174. You'll be assigned a personal adviser, have your work evaluated by experienced experts, and receive insightful suggestions on how to make it better.
175. More than half of what he said sounded like a foreign language to me.
176. Energy necessarily depends on a pre-existing polarity, without which there could be no energy.
177. "Louise and her siblings were always puzzled about the specifics of how their mother would actually accomplish such a task, which, thankfully, she never attempted.
178. According to Peter Salovey, one of the originators of the concept of emotional intelligence, it depends on whether they perceive the new behavior as safe or risky.
179. When his voice broke, he went to Rome to study and he remained in that city for about 20 years, holding appointments at various churches and religious institutions.
180. Someone had to decide when the class would be held and in what room, communicate that information to you, and enroll you in that class.
181. Moreover, a complex hormonal regulation directs the growth of hair and nails, none of which is possible once a person dies.
182. In the absence of a process that allows them to benchmark those who do things better or at least differently, teachers are left with that one perspective ─ their own.
183. For example, we may be easily biased against others by what people say about them.
184. However, not everyone is aware of how to decode non-verbal communication, and not everyone is emotionally expressive and therefore easy to ‘read’.
185. At one such preview a bootmaker criticized the shoes in a painting on which Apelles had labored long and hard.
186. Most of us have a general, rational sense of what to eat and when — there is no shortage of information on the subject.
187. He who would progress by the aid of literature must have reliable standards by which to judge his literary feelings and opinions.
188. Today we have developed reliable food sources that provide us with a food supply very different from that of our ancestors.
189. That is, the skills of the employee may be higher than those necessary for the job, resulting in what economists call underemployment.
190. Think of having piles and piles of papers, sticky notes, and spreadsheets strewn about your desk, and you get a picture of what's going on inside the brain.
191. You can use it on that day’s purchases or whenever you come back to Super Mart!
192. This conclusion is false: Heads and tails are equally likely this time, regardless of what the outcome was last time, and even if the coin came up heads the last four times in a row, the likelihood of tails this time is still only 50%.
193. When people recalled letters incorrectly, the letters they said they had seen were more likely to resemble the actual stimuli in terms of how the letters sounded than how they looked.
194. We look both ways before crossing the road despite thinking about a rather depressing holiday we took in Brazil, and we put oven gloves on before reaching into the oven despite being preoccupied about whether the cabbage is overcooked.
195. Figuring out which one to choose falls upon all of us, and it requires careful thinking and one thing that most of us feel is in short supply:time.
196. Before planting trees, we watch environmental videos and talk about how serious global warming is.
197. What interested me the most about the new house was the stable in the backyard, in which my father let me make a small space for a pony.
198. Online environments vary widely in how easily you can save whatever happens there, what I call its recordability and preservability.
199. The manner in which animals are kept and treated is considered to be largely within the discretion of the "owner," and there are few legal limits placed on how humans treat the animals they "own."
200. Incidentally, if you find yourself in this circumstance, think about it this way — if you need advice about how to go in a new direction successfully, whom should you take it from?
201. That may be the best way to look someone up in the telephone book, but you are not going to learn very much at that speed.
202. In his will, Franklin added strict instructions on how the money should be handled.
203. It is certainly true that individuals who are concerned about a traumatic event, such as the threat of the loss of a loved one who is sick, will dream about that loved one more than would otherwise be the case.
204. These are sometimes referred to as ‘false negatives’.
205. Like Lessard, highly empathic people imagine themselves into the experiences of other people to find out how to best help them.
206. At first Joan felt that anger rising in her, but it changed to gui1t almost immediately, for how could she ask her friend to leave her kids to be there for her?
207. Literature students often wonder if there is a rule about how much you should quote.
208. Theories of all sorts promote the view that there are ways by which disagreement can be processed or managed so as to make it disappear.
209. The extent to which they are found varies from animal to animal and from activity to activity.
210. Each item is on sale for that day only - and only while supplies last.
211. His paintings represent objects in great detail, but at the same time they differ from how we see reality.
212. By returning to that music with a new or fresh perspective, perhaps as a result of listening to other music, we find something new and interesting.
213. Firm reminders and warnings are best conducted privately and individually (it reduces embarrassment or threat to the student and minimises the spectator effect, both of which can fuel a challenge or counter-attack).
214. That water makes a big difference in how much they fill you up.
215. When we do, we find a story attached to that belief and compare the story in our memory to the one we are processing.
216. If markets are going to work well, individuals have to know the value of what they are buying or selling.
217. If you feel you are too short or too tall, there is nothing you can do about that.
218. If you're working in a group, this plan will also help your team focus on what to do and provide the starting point for your group brainstorming.
219. Every day, just before noon, they receive e-mails about that day's designer fashions on sale.
220. If we try to absorb too many things at once, they often conflict.
221. When asked why he didn't run, he answered, "Everyone is getting the same award, regardless of what place they come in."
222. In this field of medicine the practitioner can only diagnose, treat and prescribe effectively when quite sure of what is going on in the patient.
223. It's all part of what Robert Pyle first called "the extinction of experience."
224. The apparent complexity of a man's behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which he finds himself.
225. They can be thought of as emergency measures needed to preserve the planet’s biodiversity.
226. Similarly, when famine and civil war threaten people in sub-Saharan Africa, many African-Americans are reminded of their kinship with the continent in which their ancestors originated centuries earlier, and they lobby their leaders to provide humanitarian relief.
227. Then the thought came to the young man as to how he could find the information he desired.
228. Similarly, have you ever begun a competition for which you know you did not prepare enough?
229. Not to worry on that last point.
230. The junk would then burn up before striking the ground.
231. Suppose that a woman decides that she is not going to wear dresses—or a man that he will not wear suits and ties— regardless of what anyone says.
232. However, where the degree of competition is particularly intense a zero sum game can quickly become a negative sum game, in that everyone in the market is faced with additional costs.
233. Descriptions of the history of the Earth, the stars sparkling across the cosmos, worlds so far away we may never see them and the wonderment of what life forms potentially exist out there, contain more exotic characters and magical realms than any fictional tale.
234. This is the place where we operate from what we are comfortable with, where we know well what we are capable of and can consistently achieve expected outcomes and results.
235. Harrison was 68 years old at that time, so his son made the voyage in his place.
236. In the physical world, friends are people to whom we are attached by feelings, affection, or personal regard.
237. Resource limitation of plants is especially acute in arctic tundra systems in which plant growth is limited almost singularly by soil nitrogen availability.
238. Although Kate had something important to do on that particular Sunday, she decided to cancel her plans and volunteer to help Joan.
239. After listening to what had happened, he nodded and said, "Don't worry, Old Warrick will get you out.
240. Your own personal definition of friendship has a lot to do with what kind of friend you are.
241. Even more disturbing is that many televised acts of aggression are ones in which the aggressor experiences no negative repercussions for his or her actions.
242. It is difficult to determine the membership of these groups from sightings alone, because of the practical difficulties of observing whale behavior, most of which happens underwater.
243. Yet my grandpa loved his little home and was content with what he had.
244. If you have questions about this matter, please leave a message at (212) 555-5612, and either my wife or I will call you back as soon as we can.
245. However, the mission is most famous for what Cernan did just before leaving the moon.
246. We may turn first to the way in which the substantive concepts and theories held by scientists at any given time become a source of resistance to new ideas.
247. This was to make library services available to people for whom evening was the only convenient time to visit.
248. People who live in the middle of the United States (in states such as Kansas, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Indiana, and Wisconsin) are often referred to as “Midwesterners.” People who live in Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut are called “New Englanders.” Both Midwesterners and New Englanders have their own unique way of looking at things, but the two regions also share a great deal in common — namely, pragmatic thinking and an independent spirit.
249. For example, it is documented that if people are asked to bet on whether a coin toss is heads or tails, most bet larger amounts if the coin is yet to be tossed.
250. He has studied violin all his life and is trying to find an orchestra for which he can play.
251. Use them to pay more attention to what people around you are thinking and feeling.
252. In 1850, caught up in a rising tide of Norwegian romantic nationalism, Bull co-founded the first theater in which actors performed in Norwegian rather than Danish.
253. Nowadays, we can only see a part of what was once the greatest structure in the ancient world.
254. One of the most demanding, and at the same time inspiring, aspects of translating for children is the potential for such creativity that arises from what Peter Hollindale has called the 'childness' of children's texts: 'the quality of being a child ― dynamic, imaginative, experimental, interactive and unstable'.
255. Timothy Wilson did an experiment in which he gave students a choice of five different art posters, and then later surveyed to see if they still liked their choices.
256. 9 Can you tell your friends the truth about what you think and who you are?
257. As long as humans could not write or produce other abstract material symbols with the aid of which knowledge could be summarized, stored and conveyed effectively, there were severe limits on the amount of information people could accumulate as well as on its reliability, while there would have been a high premium on keeping information as simple as possible.
258. Although everyone would like to think that friends and family are eagerly waiting by their computers hoping to hear some news about what you're doing, they're not.
259. Be attuned to whether or not the lecturer likes to be interrupted; if not, ask your questions after class.
260. We tend to perceive the door of a classroom as rectangular no matter from which angle it is viewed.
261. 'The dictionary defines courage as a 'quality which enables one to pursue a right course of action, through which one may provoke disapproval, hostility, or contempt.
262. After a few days of refueling, the bird once again takes off after nightfall and heads to northern South America or southern Central America, where it will spend the winter.
263. Many people believe that it is critical to share similar, if not identical, beliefs and values with someone with whom they have a relationship.
264. Later, I thought about why my voice sounded better than usual in the shower.
265. Social definitions of the body are grounded in social relations and influenced by those with the power to promote agreement about what should be considered 'natural' when it comes to the body.
266. Experiments in which subjects were exposed to a homogeneous visual field for a long time led to some interesting results.
267. What Lessard demonstrated is called empathy−the ability to understand other people's thoughts and feelings and to act on the basis of that understanding.
268. As individuals go through life, they build up sets of beliefs about who they are and how the world works.
269. In his paintings, for example, yellow is linked with the sound of the trumpet and blue with that of the cello.
270. You should keep in mind the dream you want to achieve and constantly imagine yourself realizing it in as much detail as possible.
271. The temple students would then measure time by how fast the bucket drained.
272. Participants describing the film to positive listeners included more of their own opinions about what the film was trying to say.
273. Many pirates of that time wore gold hoops in their ears for superstitious reasons.
274. The researchers had made this happen by lengthening the period of daylight to which the peach trees on whose roots the insects fed were exposed.
275. The one area in which the Internet could be considered an aid to thinking is the rapid acquisition of new information.
276. This well-known paradox suggests a problem with the distinction of the aesthetic realm from that of the everyday.
277. A simple way of looking at how much you like yourself is standing in front of the mirror, liking what you see, and how you feel about what you see (without distorting your image, both figuratively and literally).
278. That scenario is asking for empathic insight into what it might have been like to grow up suffering abuse and what subsequent life experiences of the defendant might have been impacted by that abuse.
279. "The 69 days during which we tried so hard were not useless.
280. The folklore that generates during that time constitutes its tradition.
281. So, while milk is good, there is a limit to how good it is.
282. When the lions found out that no one was around, they entered the stable and attacked the cows anyway.
283. I could not figure out what was going on.
284. Our understanding of the new story becomes, at that point, a function of the old story.
285. Visual agnosia, also known as blindsight, is a neurological disorder that sheds light on how the brain makes sense of visual information.
286. The question of what zebras can gain from having stripes has puzzled scientists for more than a century.
287. Infrasound has the special characteristic of traveling well in the ground or water; in fact, the waves of an earthquake can be thought of as a form of infrasound.
288. Each habitat is the home of numerous species, most of which depend on that habitat.
289. But when we learn to say no to what we don't feel like doing in order to say yes to our true self, we feel empowered, and our relationships with others improve.
290. It is because of what psychologists refer to as "cognitive dissonance."
291. It is the front edge of a learning process that can take us from where we were toward whatever we might become.
292. They are truly interested in what you are trying to achieve and support you in all of your goals and efforts.
293. "Listen to what Stuart says," the agent, Ari Emanuel, said to him.
294. On January 10, 1992, a ship traveling through rough seas lost 12 cargo containers, one of which held 28,800 floating bath toys.
295. Then, if one person has a family with two small children and wants to use some of this money for a child-care program, the costs are automatically deducted from that employee's pool of money.
296. When customers make requests for new product features, they are usually focused on solving just one problem and are not thinking of how their requested solution will impact other product or service functions.
297. Within the small corner of the media world in which that one TV show resides, you are.
298. "You can know the name of that bird in all the languages of the world, but you'll know absolutely nothing about the bird.
299. Surely, there is the need for tight control on how much carbon we dump into the air.
300. Coaches must understand that when they make a strategy decision, it is a good or bad decision at the time it is made based on the players' abilities, the situation, and the percentages, not on whether the play was successful or unsuccessful!
301. Recent research by Juliet Zhu and J J Argo suggests that making subtle changes to the seating arrangements in meetings can have an effect on what people choose to focus their attention on.
302. Heredity plays an important role in whether you are going to feel nervous or anxious when communicating with someone else.
303. Such a context may also include important information about how to repeat desirable experiences.
304. Out of them an estimated 9% has been recycled and another 12% has been burned out in the UK alone, more than 5 million tons of plastic are consumed each year, of which only an estimated one-quarter is recycled, with the remainder going to landfills.
305. If your child sees you focusing on an object or situation in an unhealthy way, they will be more likely to focus on that object or situation in a similar fashion.
306. What's happening when we're actually doing two things at once?
307. An exclusive reliance on cold rationality as a means of understanding the world denies us access to important realms of human experience, without which we may be unable to deal with a difference effectively.
308. Fathers, on the other hand, tend to explain their distracting, risk-taking, and problem-solving behavior as purposeful preparation of their children for the real world into which the children will eventually be propelled.
309. He blocked his eyes only when questioned about where he was when the fire started.
310. They also had broken trucks from which they could charge the batteries of their head lamps.
311. Rather, your employee would think primarily about the interests of extended family members, many of whom probably would not want him to move.
312. Likewise, a painting can inspire a musician to create music in which you can almost see different colors and shapes.
313. This seemed to them the only alternative, for if they were created they would have to be put together out of some parts.
314. Loud music at the dentist's office and the "slap and stab" method a nurse may have used to give you an injection are other examples of how distraction can reduce or eliminate the pain experience.
315. They are skilled at breaking the components of a system into smaller elements, knowing something of the details of each operation for which they are responsible.
316. And what makes it overwhelming is not only that the decision is ours, but that the number of sources of information from which we are to make the decisions has exploded.
317. Externalization is the foundation from which many narrative conversations are built.
318. Most of us have a general, rational sense of what to eat and when ― there is no shortage of information on the subject.
319. That will give people more choices about how they play or enjoy sports.
320. When people attempt to judge how common something is ─ or how likely it is to happen in the future ─ they attempt to think of an example of that thing.
321. If an acceptable final outcome wasn't achieved, then such managers respond by discussing it with the employee and analyzing the situation, to find out what training or additional skills that person will need to do the task successfully in the future.
322. But probably few of them had thoughts about how this custom might relate to other fields.
323. Since crickets stop singing when someone or something approaches at night, they played a role similar to that of watch-dogs.
324. Picture the trial of a defendant who has committed a vicious crime and the defense attorney pointing to what a terrible childhood the defendant had, having been abused as a child, and suggesting that his upbringing contributed to his current violent behavior, possibly implying it was beyond his control.
325. Although they didn't have much, the children were happy and thankful for what they had.
326. Protecting species, regardless of how appealing they are, is vital to sustainability.
327. Without that involvement, the republic would die.
328. Every day, you rely on many people, most of whom you do not know, to provide you with the goods and services that you enjoy.
329. The airline's leaders held a workshop to focus on how to create a better experience for their customers.
330. These reconstructed memories can become very powerful, to a point where each partner may become confused even about the simple factual details of what actually did happen in their past.
331. Technology gives us more and more of what we think we want.
332. When Michael Jordan, the dominant basketball player of the last decade of the twentieth century, ended his second retirement from the sport, the team for which he played, the Washington Wizards, attracted sellout audiences everywhere it played.
333. Biotechnology opens up the possibility of creating the plant, animal, and human environments in which we would like to live.
334. When the indigo-dyed denim is washed, tiny amounts of that dye get washed away, and the thread comes with them.
335. Sometimes I wonder what my life would be like if I had not got on that plane to East Africa.
336. Once they get there, they concentrate on the next mogul, and over the course of the run, they end up at the bottom of what others thought was an impossible mountain.
337. Kahneman and Tversky confirmed these results with different trials in which the men on the list were more famous than the women, and, predictably, people concluded there were more men than women.
338. The progress toward defeating prejudice and discrimination ─ though still incomplete and imperfect-is a very positive indication of what makes us human.
339. "Bring him back when he is ready to be a fair king.
340. They understand that multitasking is another way of saying you are going to complete several tasks, none of which are going to be very good.
341. Children take their cues as to what is dangerous in life from the adults closest to them.
342. Regardless of whether people are asked to predict how others feel about military spending, certain types of music, or norms for appropriate behavior, they exaggerate the percentages of others who behave similarly or agree with their views.
343. Whether or not we can get a definitive answer, we can be confident in the process by which the explanations were developed, allowing us to rely on the knowledge that is produced through the process of science.
344. Studies have shown that people do not like to read instructions, and much of what we do read we either ignore or don't understand.
345. For instance, healthy relationships depend upon healthy individuals sharing personally and working mutually to develop winwin agreements on how to grow and maintain the relationship.
346. The way in which food is marketed can either affirm or conflict with such ideas and values.
347. One field study focused on how five friends between the ages of 30-36 communicated while watching TV at their homes.
348. It is important to remember, however, that this new way of painting was challenging to its public not only in the way that it was made but also in what was shown.
349. If you have ever been confused about what to do, you are not alone.
350. An open ending is a powerful tool, providing food for thought that forces the audience to think about what might happen next.
351. "In other words, too much harmony and not enough conflict makes for a story that is about as exciting as watching paint dry.
352. As improbable as this may seem, the bodily fluids of aquatic animals show a strongs similarity to oceans, and indeed, most studies of ion balance in freshwater physiology document the complex regulatory mechanisms by which fish, amphibians and invertebrates attempt to maintain an inner ocean in spite of surrounding fresh water.
353. From what we know about the accuracy of stock picking, it is reasonable to believe that he did not know what he was doing.
354. According to Derek Bickerton, human ancestors and relatives such as the Neanderthals may have had a relatively large lexicon of words, each of which related to a mental concept such as 'meat', 'fire', 'hunt' and so forth.
355. If you see this flower, then hold your nose for as long as you can.
356. However, when you can't spend money, you can always learn more about your craft online or practice with what you already have.
357. Each of us has our own personal knowledge, some of which is the result of our own highly individual combination of experience and personality.
358. There are common assumptions regarding the time and place of the meetings, the appropriate dress for these occasions, and the division of labor in which the professor has primary responsibility.
359. The same action looks different according to whether the actor is in black or in white.
360. She reported directly to me for the three years of her tenure with that company until 2015, when I retired.
361. The biggest difference between a traditional library and a living library is in what the books are made of.
362. Feminist art is linked with conceptual art in that it focuses on the inequalities faced by women and tries to provoke change.
363. Science is the study of nature, and as we learn more about how nature works, we learn more about what our existence in this universe means for us.
364. Even when specialists in some complicated field express their ideas, they don't use sentences any more complex than they do when talking about what to have for lunch.
365. Power distance is the term used to refer to how widely an unequal distribution of power is accepted by the members of a culture.
366. It also created an open-ended conversation among its engineers in which salespeople and designers were often included.
367. When a principle is part of a person's moral code, that person is strongly motivated toward the conduct required by the principle, and against behavior that conflicts with that principle.
368. They have terrific advice about what helped them succeed.
369. After researching, you can eliminate careers in which you are no longer interested.
370. At that moment, Tom looked at Jane and thought, "I like her!
371. Information creates power, and today a much larger part of the world's population has access to that power.
372. A soldier in one of the Prussian regiments had a watch chain of which he was very proud.
373. Thank you for your question about how to donate children's books for our book drive.
374. "With that one crucial shift in thinking, my whole attitude changed.
375. Then, to interpret those finds, they had to learn Russian, Bulgarian, and Romanian, without which they would never have learned the true nature of the site.
376. If you have all of this information well-organized so that you can recall any of it at a moment's notice, you have a well-developed knowledge structure about that television series.
377. Many of what we now regard as 'major' social movements (eg- Christianity, trade unionism or feminism) were originally due to the influence of an outspoken minority.
378. Instead of projecting negative traits onto others, look first inside to see if you have a trace of what you find so awful in others.
379. That sense of being alone with the person to whom you are writing―as though you were the only two people in the world―often blocks out what you know to be true.
380. This is the critical phase of the design process since the nature of a solution is related to how a problem is defined.
381. By the time a child reaches age 18, they will have witnessed some 200,000 acts of televised violence, of which 16,000 will have been murders.
382. The seeming ephemerality of what is on the screen masks the truth: What you write is not erasable.
383. No doubt, Louise's mother had learned this threatening tactic from her own mother, and, in the absence of any other parenting tools she knew of, she said it to her own children, regardless of whether it worked.
384. Instead, they became obsessed with WHAT they did―they were in the railroad business.
385. Digital spaces — social media sites, websites, chat areas, discussion boards, online games, workspaces, classes, conferences, and hangouts, even the spaces in which we share email and text messages — are sometimes called virtual.
386. Consider some of the fascinating ways in which animals are involved in everyday English.
387. Now she focused on what she needed to improve, not on how many minutes had ticked by.
388. For example, if you're reading in your psychology text about the personality trait of confidence, you can think about which people you know who are particularly confident and why you would characterize them as being that way.
389. The legal case for a source country retaining all objects found within that nation's borders is clear.
390. So, rather than focusing on how much children are interacting with screens, parents and educators are turning their focus instead to what children are interacting with and who is talking with them about their experiences.
391. Because the CEO has eliminated the mental cost involved in planning the meeting or thinking about who will or won't be there, people can focus on creative problem solving.
392. But it wasn't with this in mind that Marc-Antoine Fardin, a physicist at Paris Diderot University, set out to find out whether house cats flow.
393. I came up with what I consider a brilliant idea – biofuel.
394. While diving into undesirable tasks first thing, imagine how good it will feel to have gotten over that hurdle and still have a whole day ahead of you.
395. When I first heard this, I was impressed with how wise Freeman is.
396. They point out that even infants who are born blind and deaf, who have had no chance to learn these gestures, express themselves in the same way.
397. During that time the house was just valued at $250,000, and I cannot believe that the value of the house increased by a whopping $150,000 in a matter of two months.
398. Before (d) he could finish his story the manager interrupted him by asking "But how did you find out that it was our firm with the advertisement?"
399. Then all at once I saw it: a big glowing ball of fire coming right at us at 12:00.
400. Almost all of us follow the guidelines for what is "appropriate" for our roles.
401. You fight back because you recognize danger when you see it.
402. How Volunteering Abroad Changed Me These are what volunteering gave me: Gratitude for what I have When I returned home, I literally hugged my toilet, and I cried during my first hot shower.
403. Over the years he wrote a "diary," actually an occasional record in which he kept accounts of his commercial and family life.
404. Working at degree level is all about reading, understanding and forming educated opinions based upon what you have read, but it is also, at its best, about having your own viewpoint.
405. Scientists were able to study the brain activity as it responded to each word and record how it lit up as the readers encountered unusual words, surprising phrases or difficult sentence structures.
406. He took a moment to think about what he could do to comfort the distressed child.
407. However, private capital started to flow into seed production and took it over as a sector of the economy, creating an artificial split between the two aspects of the seed's nature: its role as means of production and its role as product.
408. In that second interview, 25 percent of the students gave completely different accounts of where they were.
409. And the driving engine of that process is critical judgment.
410. In each instance, you communicated the extent to which you wanted to qualify your claim, to guard yourself by restricting the extent to which you are willing to be held accountable for the claim.
411. At that moment, a sudden inspiration took hold.
412. Scientists used to think that animals would risk their lives like this only for kin with whom they shared common genes.
413. In all these situations, we are basically flooded with options from which we can choose.
414. Democracy differs from an authoritarian state in that the latter outlaws all but one political party, which then has full control over the agenda and legislation.
415. We are continually striving to improve the services we offer to our guests and we hope you will take the opportunity to inform us about what you really think.
416. Fardin noticed that these furry pets can adapt to the shape of the container they sit in similarly to what fluids such as water do.
417. Cats are sometimes thought of as being rather silly animals that are always getting themselves stuck in trees.
418. Since this is probably based on what Doris has told Harry, this is likely to be a very powerful tactic.
419. Playful competition followed between them as they warmly argued about who would get to hold the baby next.
420. If the dreamer then calls and finds that the loved one has died, it is understandable for him or her to assume that the dream was a premonition of that death.
421. Back then, parents could leave their children in front of the set without having to worry about what they'd see.
422. Naturally, the importance of brand marketing strategy to enhance brand loyalty has to be emphasized and the Internet was chosen as the communication channel for that because of the large Internet penetration among young Australians.
423. Frequently, this complex interaction between different senses is inappropriately referred to as 'taste' although it should be better called flavor perception, because it uses multiple senses.
424. But it turns out that this sort of praise backfires.
425. On that day, Rosie made what would tum out to be a life-changing decision: she offered to carry the garbage to the dump for a dollar.
426. What we discover, by being immersed inside the boy's head, is that he is taking his time not to annoy his father but because he is in the process of conducting an intricate scientific experiment about how friction operates to prevent his backside from sliding down the stairs.
427. In the political sphere, the result was democracy, in which supporters of rival policies vied for rhetorical supremacy; in philosophy, it led to reasoned arguments and dialogues about the nature of the world; in science, it prompted the construction of competing theories to try to explain natural phenomena; in the field of law, the result was the adversarial legal system.
428. They are in the driver's seat; they are paying the bills; and an understanding of that fact is a real and fundamental basis of public relations.
429. It is true that the maxim "Time is money" was a favorite of that great apologist of capitalism, Benjamin Franklin, but the equation of the two terms is certainly much older, and rooted in the common human experience, rather than in our culture alone.
430. Therefore, the herdsmen from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia autonomous regions follow the tea culture system in which they drink tea with milk.
431. The Nautilus was fully powered by electricity, which seemed like magic to many people at that time.
432. We dressed like girls from the 80s and sang a popular song from that time.
433. The Colosseum has eighty arches through which about fifty thousand people could go in and out in fifteen minutes!
434. Climate plays a key role in what we wear, and the way we live as a whole.
435. Pricing I didn't know how much my bookmarks should be, so I found out how much bookmarks were.
436. In one sense the two friends are experiencing the same shop and its contents, but they are having quite different experiences of that shop.
437. Each dolphin has its own vocalization that is referred to as a signature-whistle, and it will remain relatively unchanged throughout the animal's relatively long lifetime.
438. In one study, Krueger and Clement asked their participants to complete a personality test, in which they had to agree or disagree with various statements.
439. Baseball belongs to the kind of world in which people did not say, "I haven't got all day.
440. It is essential that the observation room remain dark, because if a lamp were turned on, some of that light would pass through into the interrogation room as well.
441. During the post-Revolution frenzy, he spoke out against the use of the guillotine, for which he almost lost his life.
442. While some creative ideas are astonishing and brilliant, others are just simple and practical ideas that no one seems to have thought of before.
443. Appreciating the collective nature of knowledge can correct our false notions of how we see the world.
444. If we are to have the capacity to shift paradigms, to make breakthroughs, to destroy myths, to solve difficult problems and make wise choices, we must create environments in which ideas constantly battle it out, our own opinions are fiercely challenged, and different thoughts from different viewpoints are actively sought out and fearlessly brought to the centre of our discussions.
445. Movies were first seen as an exceptionally potent kind of illusionist theatre, the rectangle of the screen corresponding to the proscenium of a stage, on which appear actors.
446. He challenged the common views of what's real and unreal by presenting regular things in an unusual way.
447. Here too cultures differ enormously in terms of how deeply the self depends on internalized community expectations; for instance, the Japanese have several words to describe fine shadings of dependence, obligations, and responsibility that are difficult to translate into English because in our social environment we have not learned to experience such feelings to the same extent.
448. Children learn the foundations of how the world works and how to develop their personal reality relative to the consciousness and behaviors of their parents.
449. John would get out of bed early and shovel snow off that driveway to practice his free throws and play basketball, because he had a dream of becoming somebody.
450. Although the market exhibited no immediate signs of growth at that time, its subsequent return to growth and profitability made GE a powerful player in the CT scanner market, especially in the United States.
451. Well, people with a rare condition called Kleine Levin syndrome can sleep for as many as 20 hours a day!
452. In our efforts to be the good child, the uncomplaining employee, or the cooperative patient, many of us fall into the trap of trying to please people by going along with whatever they want us to do.
453. So if you're sitting at a baseball game, and you hear someone say "the ball spent a lot of time in the air," it would be very strange for you to need clarification of which ball or the precise meaning of "air."
454. To the service representatives, learning to sell was a very different game from what they had been playing.
455. And a moment's thought suggests that art as actual thing exists nowhere but within the "everyday life" from which its cultural construction separates it.
456. Undergraduate tutorials all over the country each week are full of students, many of whom have great ideas, but who feel hesitant about speaking out or including them in essays.
457. When given these instructions, people are quite good at repeating the words that were spoken to that ear.
458. Ostensibly, sarcasm is the opposite of deception in that a sarcastic speaker typically intends the receiver to recognize the sarcastic intent; whereas, in deception the speaker typically intends that the receiver not recognize the deceptive intent.
459. But filming plays did not encourage the evolution of what truly was distinctive about a movie: the intervention of the camera ― its mobility of vision.
460. In other words, the destiny of a community depends on how well it nourishes its members.
461. Nevertheless, given Pythagoras's fame in later tradition, it is generally assumed that he was the originator of at least some of the Pythagorean theories to which Plato and even Copernicus felt indebted.
462. Building in regular "you time," however, can provide numerous benefits, all of which help to make life a little bit sweeter and a little bit more manageable.
463. An ignored and unappreciated husband may be less in need of an explanation of why he feels that way than of a weekend with his wife away from work and children.
464. I spend a lot of time at school in my uniform, so I don't pay too much attention to what I wear.
465. In other situations, permanency slips between our fingers, even challenging our reality testing about whether something existed at all, as when an email that we seem to remember receiving mysteriously disappears from our inbox.
466. One way in which a variety of representations can be found is through analogical thinking.
467. Often, genetic differences are related to the environment in which a people or their ancestors lived.
468. Brainstorming is a form of creative thinking in groups, using a procedure in which all group members are encouraged to generate as many ideas as possible without holding back or worrying about being wrong.
469. In a complex, intellectually demanding and high-pressure task such as that of air traffic controllers, for example, having chronically high anxiety is an almost sure predictor that a person will eventually fail in training or in the field.
470. "Humans became the only species to acquire guidance on how to live from the accumulated knowledge of their ancestors, rather than just from their DNA.
471. I took a slightly longer break than usual and my boss wasn't too happy about that.
472. Earth creates the real wealth on which human life and well-being depend.
473. Then, view the picture from that angle with your nose directly against the paper, and the secret message will appear.
474. Human beings seek to survive not merely as biological organisms but as individuals who can function in the society in which they live.
475. Research has shown us that identical twins separated at birth will get different diseases based on how they live their lives.
476. Most maps should also indicate when they were published and the date to which its information applies.
477. Gold and silver enter society at the rate at which they are discovered and mined; additional precious metals cannot be produced, at least not cheaply.
478. Medusa is a symbol for that part of your self that you cannot meet.
479. What’s more, I was surprised by how delicious they were!
480. In fact, by the time the introductions were over, he looked at his friend Bobby Wilson, and he said, "Bobby, when I get to six grade, they're going to announce my name, and I'm going to run out in the spotlight to the middle of that basketball floor.
481. It turns out that there is a good reason.
482. Although instances occur in which partners start their relationship by telling everything about themselves to each other, such instances are rare.
483. Think of how great life would be if everyone acted that way!
484. Most disagree as to whether nonverbal cues are essential to the perception of sarcasm or the emotion that prompts it.
485. For example, it is impossible to guess from their bodies that birds make nests, and, sometimes, animals behave in a way quite contrary to what might be expected from their physical form: ghost spiders have tremendously long legs, yet they weave webs out of very short threads.
486. The father said, "Every time you get angry, take a nail, and drive it into that old fence as hard as you can.
487. We'd like to have you back as a customer so I'm sending you a coupon for two free entrees that can be used at any of our five locations in New Parkland.
488. But unfortunately we're no closer to that than we are to achieving travel at even one-thousandth the speed of light.
489. In response, we have since required that our leaders acknowledge the right of humans to be free in their minds and homes; and we limit power by spreading it between many persons and by balancing the power of each element of government with that of another.
490. Meet me here exactly one year from today, and you can pay me back at that time.
491. For example, include them in the decision-making process of what you are thinking of making for dinner―"Lisa, would you like to have pasta and meatballs, or chicken and a baked potato?
492. Despite the fact that increasing national wealth does not tend to secure sizable gains in national happiness, if we look within a country and compare the happiness of a wealthy individual with that of his less wealthy neighbors , there seems to be evidence indicating that wealth does increase happiness.
493. In the instability of American democracy, fame would be dependent on celebrity, on the degree to which the people rejoiced in the poet and his work.
494. For the scent messages are carried to nearby trees on the breeze, and if the animals walked upwind, they could find acacias close by that had no idea the giraffes were there.
495. Different people have different opinions on what makes them happy, but there are some common factors contributing to our happiness.
496. Living in today's society is a stressful business for everyone, and everyone needs to figure out how to find the personal resources to try to make the world a better place.
497. 'Traveling salespeople, for example, may say they want a smaller cell phone, but they may not have thought about how hard that tiny phone will be to use.
498. Creativity is strange in that it finds its way in any kind of situation, no matter how restricted, just as the same amount of water flows faster and stronger through a narrow strait than across the open sea.
499. After that, the immune system remembers the molecular equipment that it developed for that particular battle, and any following infection by the same kind of parasite is beaten off so quickly that we don't notice it.
500. The editors must make difficult decisions about whom to include and whom to exclude.
501. Since it was impossible to know which items belonged to whom, St Basil put all of the treasures into one huge piece of dough and had it baked.
502. His calculations based on that logic are still in use today, and they have saved many pilots.
503. At any moment, a person has a particular take on what is happening.
504. While it's fun to read what other people have said about friendship, what matters most is what you think of when you hear the word "friend."
505. The answer to that can be found in the human brain.
506. Do you often wear fashion items in that color?
507. There are many questions we can ask about the origin of the universe, not all of which can be answered by science.
508. There was no gadget to distract myself with when I found my attention waning.
509. Interpretation of what you have observed must, however, be made with care since the functions of play are complex and not fully understood.
510. The experience made her more aware of what was going on in the world.
511. In addition to that benefit, helping lower-ability students often pulls higher-ability students to a more sophisticated understanding of the material.
512. Over the past 60 years, as mechanical processes have replicated behaviors and talents we thought were unique to humans, we've had to change our minds about what sets us apart.
513. The holy man was also a gentle man, in whose presence even wild animals felt comfortable and safe.
514. For example, to receive Social Security pensions in the United States, individuals must be of a certain age, have worked for a certain period of time (about 10 years) while covered by Social Security, and must have paid their share of Social Security taxes during that time.
515. Sidney Holt has given one such example in which the results of benign research involving wolves are now being used against them.
516. The research also found that reading the more challenging version of poetry, in particular, increases activity in the right hemisphere of the brain, helping the readers to reflect on and reevaluate their own experiences in light of what they have read.
517. The !Kung San in that area had abundant food supply and a lot of leisure time.
518. The more you like about what you see, the more able and willing you may be to put yourself out there in the public eye.
519. "But my eight-year-old daughter is on that plane.
520. By venturing an opinion in a tutorial, you will get instant feedback, relevant guidance as to where to go next and a highly gratified tutor who will remember your original contribution to the course—always a good thing.
521. A linear settlement, in which houses are lined up along both sides of a river, canal, or road, has an intermediary position and often is characterized by the worst conditions of the other two settlement forms.
522. But Russia's hopes were damaged by what happened in 2010, when forest fires during searing summer heat destroyed whole villages, killed more than 50 people, left thousands homeless and enveloped the capital, Moscow, in a poisonous smog.
523. The claw movement of one group is different from that of another.
524. However, in some cases, company lawyers have said that use of their name, or even part of their name, result in "dilution" of the strength of that name, and they have sued other companies to prevent this.
525. A key aspect of an informed decision is an understanding of what is a realistic timeframe.
526. Decide today to end all the excuses, and stop lying to yourself about what is going on.
527. People will pay to attend movies or games in which they appear because they are appearing.
528. Far too often we lose patience with the process and quit too soon, missing out on what we could have gained.
529. They are satisfied with grasping the meaning of what they see.
530. Anyone who listens to the movements can associate the melodies with what they see in Hartmann's paintings.
531. You are surrounded by tall trees, many of which are more than 40 meters tall.
532. If it concerns itself with much that only the few can or may experience objectively, it has to do with that only which all human beings may be conceived of as sharing subjectively.
533. They were Latin Americans and had not understood a word of what Borge had been saying.
534. People with a strong sense of self-efficacy, therefore, may be more willing to step outside the culturally prescribed behaviors to attempt tasks or goals for which success is viewed as improbable by the majority of social actors in a setting.
535. Mornings are especially ideal for when you need to be productive on creative tasks, such as writing, because you have fewer distractions and your mind is free of the stresses that accumulate over the course of a workday.
536. In cases in which one of the papers is unprofitable, Swedish law requires that the town taxes and donations from the city go to support the struggling paper.
537. Just think for a moment of all the people upon whom your participation in your class depends.
538. For example, although sewing clothes for the family is thought of as women's work in North America (most men have never operated a sewing machine or made a purchase in a fabric store), among the Ecuadorian men and traditional Hopi of Arizona, men are the spinners, weavers, and tailors.
539. Research sheds light on why corporate training often fails.
540. The seals, for example, not only fed on cod but also on 150 other species, many of which also fed on cod!
541. No occurrent feelings of love and respect need to be present throughout the period in which it is true that one loves or respects.
542. Today, there are far more students than in the past for whom family or other obligations may make a 4-year college path unrealistic.
543. But there is a remarkable similarity in that people put special meaning and value on New Year's eats and enjoy the cuisines in the company of their family, hoping for a happy year.
544. As the storm grows, the wind increases, achieving speeds of as much as 118 kilometers per hour.
545. Bacteria can sense the presence of other bacteria, and even whether their number is sufficiently great, referred to as a quorum, to produce the malign effects that they are so skilled in eliciting.
546. Psychological studies indicate that it is knowledge possessed by the individual that determines which stimuli become the focus of that individual's attention, what significance he or she assigns to these stimuli, and how they are combined into a larger whole.
547. However unnoticeably, maps do indeed reflect the world views of either their makers or, more probably, the supporters of their makers, in addition to the political and social conditions under which they were made.
548. In the early days of the 20th century, the editor of a small-town newspaper in Indiana wanted to delay the afternoon edition of the paper until he received word of who had won the Indianapolis 500.
549. Built in 1877, the original building was very different from what it is today.
550. I taught various subjects under the social studies umbrella and had very little idea of how my peers who taught the same subject did what they did.
551. It turns out that experts do not agree on the matter.
552. If Maneki Neko is waving its right hand, it is thought that the shop owner will make a lot of money on that day.
553. This is true of all Latin American countries, including Brazil, despite the enthusiastic media reports about that country.
554. You likely exhibited behaviors that are not consistent with how you usually act.
555. Later still, you might notice whether the infielder is playing in or back, or you might check out where the outfielders have chosen to stand for a particular hitter.
556. The resulting chain reaction abruptly changes a traffic stream averaging 50 mph into one in which all vehicles travel in lockstep at 5 – 20 mph.
557. For example, if someone seemed very nice to you early in the interaction, but then began to act like a fool, would you be more attracted to that person than if that person were a fool from the start?
558. Winterlude, Ottawa's winter festival, was taking place at that time.
559. Overwhelmed by the prospect of what lay ahead, she sent Trish an e-mail demanding a larger share of the profits.
560. But I think that the reason we are reluctant to accept such a characterization stems more from the way in which we happen to think about music than from actual musical practice.
561. But regardless of how badly their day went, successful people typically avoid that trap of negative self-talk.
562. After a terrible accident in which van Gogh injured himself, Gauguin decided to leave the studio.
563. Then it came about that Angus McAllister, sitting with his legs bent in his potting shed like some dangerous beast in its den, saw a sight which first froze his blood and then sent it boiling through his veins.
564. Throw away your own hesitation and forget all your concerns about whether you are musically talented or whether you can sing or play an instrument.
565. Adams' first concern was to master his soul, seeking discipline, modesty, tolerance, calmness of spirit, and religious faith – all virtues in which he was weak, as he was the first to acknowledge.
566. "From that time it has been the custom to ridicule the people who act like they know what they do not with the pointed caution, "Stick to your last!"
567. The problem with most psychological tests is that they are subjective in that we must use an individual's report of his or her own experience, behavior, or characteristics to draw conclusions about that person.
568. After seven months, the first toys made landfall on beaches near Sitka, Alaska, 3,540 kilometers from where they were lost.
569. This overconfidence in self-control can lead people to assume they'll be able to control themselves in situations in which, it turns out, they can't.
570. Radioactive waste disposal has become one of the key environmental battlegrounds over which the future of nuclear power has been fought.
571. Whenever an Olympic swimmer sets a new world record, it inspires others to bring out the best within them and go beyond that achievement to set new records of human performance.
572. How can it be that we feel more positively toward people for whom we do favors?
573. They defied their perception of the song to produce a transcription, for example, that started and finished on middle C (rather than F) because they believed that if "Happy Birthday" started on C, then it must be in C major and should therefore end on C. As these students got older, they relied more on what they knew theoretically about music rather than what they heard and knew perceptually, with the result that they made surprisingly inaccurate transcriptions of familiar melodies.
574. But if we pay attention to the real consequences of what we think we want, we may discover what we really want.
575. He said to him that in November 1971 he had lent a friend a copy of the book—a unique copy in which he had made notes on turning the British English into American English for the publication of an American version—but his friend had lost the copy in London.
576. For example, using a tape measure to determine the distance a javelin was thrown yields very similar results regardless of who reads the tape.
577. Scientists not only have labs with students who contribute critical ideas, but also have colleagues who are doing similar work, thinking similar thoughts, and without whom the scientist would get nowhere.
578. However, for novelty to be creative it must be effective, either in some practical sense, or in that it establishes a coherent set of relations where no relations, or a less coherent set of relations, existed before.
579. But new research suggests that how we see the world depends on what we want from it.
580. He had a number of substantive issues and wanted to know the order in which to bring them up - royalties, basic compensation, etc.
581. Analyzing the mechanism through which this was achieved, literary scholar Michael Wood in his book America in the Movies described our films as a "rearrangement of our problems into shapes which tame them, which disperse them to the margins of our attention," where we can forget about them.
582. Berendt points out that there are few 'acoustical illusions' ― something sounding like something that in fact it is not ― while there are many optical illusions.
583. While some emperors sought to purify their cultures and return to what they viewed as their roots, for the most part empires have produced hybrid civilizations that absorbed much from their subject peoples.
584. Here are some of Gaudi's greatest works, all of which are found in the city of Barcelona.
585. We talked for another half an hour, but I don't remember a single word of what we said.
586. When a year later this same person flies to an anti-plastics conference and crashes in the desert, a plastic bottle of water might suddenly become one of the most valuable things in the universe―to that person, at that time, and in that place.
587. "There is an interesting story about how it became a symbol of good luck.
588. In the interest of scientific investigation, he asked his wife to count to 60, with each count corresponding to what she felt was one second, while he kept a record of her temperature.
589. Carbon sinks have been able to absorb about half of this excess CO2, and the world's oceans have done the major part of that job.
590. He made something extraordinary from what, for the northern folk, was the ordinary practice of preserving food.
591. One company developed what it called a 'technology shelf,' created by a small group of engineers, on which were placed possible technical solutions that other teams might use in the future.
592. We are often too busy complaining about what we don't have.
593. Release them from the cage of painful memories and bitter disappointments and simply try to love them for what they did give you.
594. Sometimes they may not strike the guilty person himself, but rather one of his relatives or tribesmen, to whom responsibility is extended.
595. However, this may appear rude to native speakers of English: "gravy" with falling intonation came across as a statement, suggesting "This is gravy.
596. And effectively, every single child received the same medal regardless of how well he or she did.
597. By granting them an extra $3,000 in aid, the university was able to increase enrollment in that group by 20 percent.
598. and Why is smoke coming out of that nearby volcano?
599. Instead, people go to the trouble because poems sound a certain way, are built in certain shapes, and have certain beauties in sound and meaning, all of which accompanies the meaning and goes beyond it.
600. For example, visitors posting travel images online has meant that the city is no longer in control of what sites are defined as worth visiting.
601. This information clearly makes it more difficult for the individual to exercise her freedom to acquire Car A and should constitute a threat to that freedom.
602. At that moment, an announcement came over the loudspeaker, and she said, "Oh, my goodness!
603. Following the songs, the researchers played an argument about how the university's tuition should be raised from $587 per semester to $750 per semester.
604. Pollination is the process by which seed plants reproduce.
605. This is very different from the case of someone who suppresses emotions such as anger out of a feeling that they need to present a facade of self-control, or out of fear of what others may think.
606. Such reporting helps ensure that private investors have reliable information on which to base their investment decisions.
607. You can do two things at once, but you can't focus effectively on two things at once.
608. Delaying puddings used to be thought of as a good idea too, but guess what?
609. A star jump is a form of exercise in which you jump in the air and stretch your arms and legs in four different directions, making your body look like a star.
610. A tumor detected by Vogelstein's liquid biopsy can be detected at just 1 percent the size of what is necessary to be detected by an MRI, currently the most reliable tool for finding cancer.
611. The festival also has a parade and a race called the Great International Lobster Crate Race, in which participants run over lobster crates floating in the harbor, sometimes falling into the cold water.
612. That does not mean that they have to change their genre, but they certainly need to attempt to improve upon that genre with each and every book that they offer to the public.
613. Art must therefore deal with what is typical in the sense that it touches the possibilities of all human nature.
614. This cross-cultural misunderstanding occurred because the role of the listener in Japan is substantially different from that in the United States.
615. In general, they eat out less than the average person except for when it comes to eating at fast food restaurants.
616. A priest was sharing a story about newborn twins, one of whom was ill. You were shot down.
617. From Dworkin's view, justice requires that a person's fate be determined by things that are within that person's control, not by luck.
618. There’s no doubt that certain things, such as two and two adding up to four, must be taught as absolutely true, but the manner in which the truth is taught can vary over a wide range of methods.
619. Most seemingly impossible obstacles can be overcome by seeing possibilities, focusing on what is within your control, taking the first step, and then focusing on the next step and the next step after that.
620. The day was hot and humid, as Miami is at that time of year.
621. The function of memories is not only to let go of the past but also to lay the groundwork for whatever come s next.
622. To describe what happens to common resources as a result of human greed, Garrett Hardin used the example of an area of pasture on which all the cattle-owners are permitted to graze their animals free of charge.
623. By contrast, at middle- and upper-income levels, overspending takes on a variety of meanings typically influenced by what people think of as essential for their well-being and associated with the so-called "good life" that is so heavily marketed.
624. A sales clerk may make suggestions to you about what else to buy in addition to your originally planned purchase.
625. Without recording them somewhere, they may end up as nothing more than wild fantasies.
626. He has embraced a characteristic over which he has no control.
627. You share 50 percent of your genes with each of your parents, so if one parent dies of a heart attack, you know you've inherited some of that susceptibility.
628. Ecosystems are dynamic in that their various parts are always changing.
629. Debbie was able to acquire this special treatment for one very important reason: she was a loyal customer to that one airline.
630. Are we sure that the Earth is going to keep heating up if we don’t do anything?
631. They give up on what they believe is right and go with the crowd, and later pay the consequences.
632. 'To do a scientific study of dream prophecy, we would need to establish some base of how commonly coincidental correspondences occur between dream and waking reality.
633. From that moment, his family got to know that Rick loved sports.
634. We often hit the nail on the head when it comes to predicting the type of impact an event will have on us and the intensity of that impact.
635. Even though many of our memories are vivid and some may even be accurate, most of what we remember of our daily lives is neither exact nor rich in detail.
636. At the same time, they consolidated their own memory of the personal circumstances in which the event took place, an effect known as "flashbulb memory."
637. The idea is to first consider what matters to you, then figure out what you need to do to get there.
638. It would be foolish to assume that the music of India, because it is largely melodic and without harmony, somehow represents an “earlier stage” through which Western music has already passed, or that Europeans, in the days when they lived in tribes, had music similar to that of Native Americans.
639. Both Atticus and his children are shocked by the injustice of what has happened to Tom.
640. Just as we can close our eyes to what we do not want to see, however, we can also turn off our empathy.
641. The fact that information is conveyed in this high-tech manner somehow adds authority to what is conveyed, when in fact the Internet is a global conveyer of unfiltered, unedited, untreated information.
642. She glides like a sunbeam through that quiet house, and in winter she makes summer with her presence.
643. One reason may be that they see learning as something you do in school, just something you do for a period of life instead of as a way of life.
644. They have no memories about what the aged once were and greet them as if they were children.
645. Trying to find the keys, trying to remember when an event is supposed to take place, where it's going to be held, and with whom you are going.
646. The principle is similar to that used in modern concert halls to send sound from the stage out into the audience.
647. Both eye and camera have a light-sensitive layer onto which the image is cast (the retina and film, respectively).
648. It turned out that this simple suggestion helped Michael not only to relax, but to get more work done as well.
649. He also has the strongest motivation or urge to learn the language, for if he cannot express himself in his mother tongue, some of his basic needs are likely to remain unfulfilled.
650. The father said, "Every time you get angry, take a nail, and drive it into that old fence as hard as you can."
651. The degree to which we are emotionally affected by entertainment typically influences our opinion of how good or bad we think it is.
652. Human conscious attention is limited by what it can attend to at any moment, which means that consciousness is restricted to a limited subset of the musical relationships.
653. When I came out of that curve, I was in the outside lane, the one nearest to the side of the cliff.
654. They tell stories, for their form and spatial organization give us hints about how they should be used.
655. You may know the names of all the characters in that TV show.
656. Now, many library users have new attitudes about what is an acceptable noise level in a library.
657. But even among identical twins who have the exact same genes, one could die early of a heart attack and the other could live a long, healthy life with clean arteries depending on what she ate and how she lived.
658. The manner in which those outcomes are portrayed should make no difference.
659. From that day on, he always kept his father's tears and love in his heart and went on to be a great leader.
660. Create an environment in which your children know that you are with them in their efforts, rather than looking to criticize them.
661. That this might be important practically was first signalled by James Hansen and his colleagues in a 1981 paper in which they predicted that anthropogenic warming should begin to be detectable over and above natural climate variability by the end of the 20th century.
662. Use it to your advantage by being open with what you feel and giving a truthful opinion when asked.
663. As sociologist W. I. Thomas has classically stated (in what has come to be called the Thomas Theorem), if people “define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.” Digital experiences and the spaces in which they take place are quite real and have real, definite consequences.
664. According to many sociologists, the study of what our society calls 'art' can only really progress if we drop the highly specific and ideologically loaded terminology of 'art', 'artworks' and 'artists', and replace these with the more neutral and less historically specific terms 'cultural forms', 'cultural products' and 'cultural producers'.
665. Although his famous Yellow House at 2 Place Lamartine was destroyed by the bombs of World War II, there's a walking trail throughout town with plaques and reproductions pointing out where he set up his easel to create many of his now famous paintings.
666. At that moment, Tom looked at Jane and thought, "I like her!"
667. They also provided a setting for discipline, allowing those instructors to examine and correct the work of many students at once or in succession as they solved problems at the board.
668. It is vitally important that wherever we go and whatever we do the body temperature is maintained at the temperature at which our enzymes work best.
669. If you're less concerned about how you deliver information than with how you receive it, you'll ultimately fail at delegation.
670. This is referred to as the double coincidence of wants.
671. These advances came about because an individual, or many individuals, used the full resources of his or her intellectual imagination to solve problems that had previously been thought to be unsolvable.
672. We are not as concerned with what we are hearing as we are with finding what we already know that is relevant.
673. The goodness and value of individual music culture are acknowledged in the multiple ways in which music functions in the everyday lives of people, whether it is their quest for freedom, celebration of rites of passage, rebellion against social injustice, gratitude for divine intervention, or transmission of cultural heritage in the telling of a story.
674. For decades, primatologists have reported on incidents in which apes and monkeys behaved with apparent compassion.
675. This prompts another question: Ideal for what?
676. In the recent economics literature, following the work of John Roemer, the determinants of economic outcomes are separated into those due to " circumstances"" that are beyond personal control, such as family background, and " effort,"" for which an individual can be held responsible.
677. Doing things quickly actually ends up slowing you down, such as when you rush out of your house only to realize you forgot your keys, phone, or wallet on the kitchen table.
678. For example, if a scientist is obtaining uninterpretable data and another scientist makes an analogy to an experiment that worked in which the temperature was different, and suggests changing the temperature, this can potentially fix the problem.
679. But when it does operate, there is an undivided and total interest in what one is doing.
680. Memories of how we interacted seem funny to me today.
681. Most often, you will find or meet people who introduce themselves in terms of their work or by what they spend time on.
682. Both groups A and B were exposed to the same situation, the only difference being that group B mothers had to positively encourage their baby to continue playing with the thing in front of them, whereas the mothers in group A just had to be themselves in response to what their baby was playing with.
683. The biologist Michel Cabanac would call the experience of that moment intensely pleasurable because it functions, as pleasure normally does, to indicate the direction of a biologically significant improvement of circumstances.
684. Now you may wonder if bees really fly straight to where they want to go.
685. And second, the only known defense for that move is for your opponent to grab your left arm.
686. Spider-Man was a tremendous hit with readers because it gave millions of teenagers a hero with whom they could identify.
687. I was depressed by what I saw there.
688. You are selecting only a small amount of that information to be processed enough to know what words were being spoken.
689. Who we are, the nature of our character, is revealed in how we live and how we make decisions about what we do.
690. "It took me a long time, but I eventually got into that university, became a football player, and graduated.
691. He wrote, "I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live."
692. For instance, when they meet other elephants after a long while, they express their happiness by rushing towards each other with their heads high up while flapping their ears.
693. Trees can reduce the annual energy use around buildings by as much as 10%.
694. You are then to use those materials in whatever ways you want to solve the problem; however, there isn't usually an obvious connection between the items and your problem.
695. An executed purpose, in short, is a transaction in which the time and energy spent on the execution are balanced against the resulting assets, and the ideal case is one in which the former approximates to zero and the latter to infinity.
696. The fact that money is fungible is the reason why I can lend you $10 and not expect to get the exact same bill back when you repay me.
697. Sometimes called brood parasites, these bees are also referred to as cuckoo bees, because they are similar to cuckoo birds, which lay an egg in the nest of another bird and leave it for that bird to raise.
698. A secure grip is one in which the object won't slip or move, especially when displaced by an external force.
699. Tell yourself that you can do whatever you want with that cash, but only after two weeks.
700. "Life is like riding a bike: you don't fall off if you don't stop pedaling."
701. You'll end up drowning in a flood of information and realize only later that most of that research was a waste of time.
702. These huge increases in investment would not come about if investment was left to the market.
703. We could have seen something many times before, but as the result of having new skills or competence, we discover new or different aspects of that object.
704. If you consistently reward a child for her accomplishments, she starts to focus more on getting the reward than on what she did to earn it.
705. "So I was really happy at that moment.
706. In essence, trying to remember as many details as possible can actually work against being selective about what you let into your brain’s attic.
707. Joachim-Ernst Berendt points out that the ear is the only sense that fuses an ability to measure with an ability to judge.
708. These additional costs might be thought of as a metaphorical 'low ball' that the salesperson throws the consumer.
709. Having friends with other interests keeps life interesting—just think of what you can learn from each other.
710. Now, let's talk about what's happening in Korea.
711. Both eye and camera have a lens that focuses light rays from the outside world into an image, and both have a means of adjusting the focus and brightness of that image.
712. Suppose, for example, that I look at a fruit bowl, and think that there is an apple and an orange in that bowl.
713. The first eight expeditions to Everest were British, all of which attempted the mountain from the northern, Tibetan, side ― not because it presented the most obvious weakness in the peak's formidable defenses but because in 1921 the Tibetan government opened its borders to foreigners, while Nepal remained off limits.
714. Ernie Banks was the first African-American athlete to play for the Chicago Cubs, and he worried about how the veteran Cubs would treat an African-American rookie.
715. Tiny fish, which scientists refer to as "cleaners," swim into the mouths of bigger fish, which are referred to as "clients."
716. Black Wings nodded and said, "And I've learned that when you do win a game, you should be respectful to others and not brag about how good you are."
717. He lent them money, saying they should pay it back whenever they could.
718. After fifteen minutes during which he failed, despite his best efforts, to elicit any response, Borge appealed to them in desperation to tell him why they were not enjoying the show.
719. They take the time just before bed to reflect on or write down three things that they are thankful for that happened during the day.
720. With that said, the tightness of the roll has more to do with the steepability of a leaf than it does with the taste of a tea.
721. Before language develops, emotions and touch are the primary means by which parent and child communicate.
722. Even though the design, activities, and membership of social media might change over time, the content of what people posted usually remains intact.
723. Despite all the talk of how weak intentions are in the face of habits, it's worth emphasizing that much of the time even our strong habits do follow our intentions.
724. In the Paleolithic period, human cultures became widely diverse, but people throughout the world lived in ways that were similar to one another, in small groups of related individuals - what anthropologists often refer to as "bands"- who moved through the landscape in search of food.
725. But I do know I will be forever grateful I got on that plane.
726. I didn't know how much my bookmarks should be, so I found out how much bookmarks were.
727. The implicit bargain that we all need to make explicit is that we will use just some of that time we saved in information acquisition to perform proper information verification.
728. And this could greatly slow his rate of movement or even cause the dog to fall over as he tries to make a high-speed turn.
729. However, many of us tend to lock our thinking into what we already know.
730. Rules can be thought of as formal types of game cues.
731. Growth is always at the edges, just outside the boundaries of where you are right now.
732. He accepted the position but needed to discover - or create - an approach through which he could have a deeper impact.
733. The same goes for employees with prejudices about whom they do and do not like working alongside.
734. Enjoying Observations and Experiments This story is about how Feynman enjoyed observing nature in action and how he could solve a problem through a simple experiment.
735. For example, beginning in 1968 in Yellowstone National Park, a "natural regulation policy" has been employed in which wildlife such as elk and bears are no longer fed but are allowed to live or die based on natural factors such as weather, disease, and the availability of natural food sources.
736. Here are four examples of how nature inspired inventions that are already changing society.
737. You must destroy the Cloner at once.
738. I reasoned that since I was going to be a journalist, I'd need a very special notebook in which to write.
739. The net effect of this was that, although customers benefited, the banks lost out as their costs increased but the total number of customers stayed the same.
740. However, they are becoming more concerned about how to use space safely.
741. Love maintains the democratic, self-managing meetings in which heroes can be seen for what they were, and learned from, as a guide to possible futures.
742. The outermost circle is known as the performance zone ― because once we have mastered the new learning and mustered the courage to experiment with all the new knowledge, we will really start to perform differently from before.
743. Although height and weight are similar in their simplicity, they are very different in how they rule our lives.
744. Curiosity is a way of adding value to what you see.
745. However, seven years later, she received a letter from Linda describing the inner struggle she had gone through that day and thanking Rebecca for being the spark that helped her change her life.
746. While religious or academic training, degrees, books, and previous teaching positions are credentials that may indicate a highly trained teacher or therapist, equally important are the ways in which this person continually tests her knowledge in the world around her.
747. Many test-anxious students waste too much time worrying about how they're doing and wondering whether others are having similar problems.
748. For example, a worker could picture herself being locked in a home with an angry client and how she would escape from that situation.
749. In that case, we sink and then blame the world for it.
750. Public perception about what is and what is not "scientifically supported" by the medical, environmental, sociological, health, and psychological sciences can influence individual decision making and shape public policies.
751. If any scouts disagree on where the colony should build its next hive, they argue their case the civilized way: through a dance-off.
752. The past couple of decades have seen many corporations joining with charities in what is called "cause-related marketing" efforts, in which a corporation donates a certain percentage of its profits from a particular item.
753. This question has since been adapted to facilitate debates over whether objects themselves can exist independent of perception.
754. Crystal also points out that although trillions of text messages are sent worldwide each year, this number pales in comparison to the number of conventional, grammatically correct communications we are exposed to each year.
755. Of course, we didn't care about any of that learning stuff, we just thought it was fun, and we still do.
756. Use FOMO to your advantage by thinking of why exactly you're afraid to miss out on this thing, and consider it an opportunity to grow.
757. I'm making less money than before, but I'm proud of what I'm doing.
758. My buddy and his wife were in constant conflict over when the housework should get done.
759. There is an interesting story about how it became a symbol of good luck.
760. Although listeners to a concert may experience a degree of arousal in common, the way in which the music is presented makes possible a greater range of individual reactions than can be expected if everyone is taking part in music which is familiar to them.
761. He looked forward to animating his students with the sense of what he perceived.
762. The pool of children can be thought of as the engine room of cultural evolution.
763. The precision of the lines on the map, the consistency with which symbols are used, the grid and/or projection system, the apparent certainty with which place names are written and placed, and the legend and scale information all give the map an aura of scientific accuracy and objectivity.
764. Communicating the vision to organization members nearly always means putting "where we are going and why" in writing, distributing the statement organizationwide, and having executives personally explain the vision and its justification to as many people as possible.
765. Sooner or later, you will have to give up because you've spent too much energy."
766. A brain that's been wired by listening to twelve-tone scales doesn't have a concept for that music.
767. I know that Beethoven wrote the famed Moonlight Sonata because I have heard about it in a class on music history, I have read it on album covers, and I have seen his name on programmes for concerts at which the Moonlight Sonata was being played.
768. It's what goes on inside your head that makes all the difference in how well you will convert what you hear into something you learn.
769. So, if you want to use your energy to work longer, just change your perception of how long you have been working.
770. The credit card companies had a good intuitive understanding of what psychologists would come to call "framing."
771. The idea is that choices depend, in part, on the way in which problems are stated.
772. In that case, you may decide to organize a carpool among people who use downtown parking lots and institute a daytime local taxi service using these privately owned vehicles.
773. Imagine that same boss tells you about a skill you need to develop and opens up an opportunity for you to be trained on that particular skill.
774. Curious about what he looks like and why he remains hidden, the children share rumors about him and try to get him to come out of his house.
775. She excitedly explained that it was a bad idea to meet at that corner because people aren't allowed to stand there.
776. The sense of tone and music in another's voice gives us an enormous amount of information about that person, about her stance toward life, about her intentions.
777. However, these efforts are likely to strengthen the association of this concept with other thoughts that serve as distractors, and also with stimuli in the immediate environment in which the cognitive activity occurs.
778. When food becomes available, there is a tremendous tendency to binge, in what is known as the restrained-eater phenomenon.
779. Can we sustain our standard of living in the same ecological space while consuming the resources of that space?
780. For example, United Information System is generally referred to as Unisys and Federal Express as FedEx.
781. Confident leaders are not afraid to ask the basic questions: the questions to which you may feel embarrassed about not already knowing the answers.
782. Because of this, competition becomes a zero sum game in which one organization can only win at the expense of others.
783. He found that although the latter group came across as more extroverted, some of the fake extroverts were surprisingly convincing.
784. From the point of view of research in motor behavior, it is important to use performances in the laboratory for which the scoring can be as objective as possible.
785. A football game is comprised of exactly sixty minutes of play, a basketball game forty or forty-eight minutes, but baseball has no set length of time within which the game must be completed.
786. Once you're aware of what types of things make you angry, you can remove some of these triggers form your life.
787. The couple's initial disclosures involve them forming constructs about how much similarity there is between them and each other's families.
788. Their internal clocks continue to run in accordance with the place they left behind, not the one to which they have come, and it can take some time to realign the two.
789. Her father, the regent of Japara, sent his daughters to a Dutch school, an unusual decision for that time.
790. Think about who you want to be and stay in character throughout the party.
791. We also have friendly staff who can help you with whatever you need.
792. Several years later, policymakers began to wrestle with the problem of what would be done to dismantle nuclear plants when they were obsolete, something those who originally built them may never have considered.
793. These features of the art world provide the elasticity by which creativity of even the most radical sort can be accommodated.
794. In many cities, car sharing has made a strong impact on how city residents travel.
795. It is because of what psychologists refer to as "cognitive dissonance.
796. Similarly, how is it possible to make sense of a situation in which a single word "uncle" applies to the brother of one's father and to the brother of one's mother?
797. For that reason, Mary Ellen O'Toole, who is a retired FBI profiler, emphasizes the need to go beyond a person's superficial qualities in order to understand them.
798. This material from which his final work is composed consists not of living men or real landscapes, not of real, actual stage-sets, but only of their images, recorded on separate strips that can be shortened, altered, and assembled according to his will.
799. Consequently, the worker would be more prepared to respond to that unsafe scenario by having practiced the response during the mental rehearsal.
800. It also is part of the process of selection by which biological evolution functions.
801. We get energy mainly from burning fossil fuels, but there are a couple of problems with that.
802. Sometimes researchers have to search archives of aerial photographs to get information from that past that pre-date the collection of satellite imagery.
803. That is the power of visualization, the act of creating vivid pictures in your mind of what you want in order to make it happen.
804. Our society has undergone tremendous technological change in the past few centuries, and while there is room for debate on whether these changes have been a net positive or negative for the human race, there are very few people who advocate halting our technological progress.
805. "Wow, look at that!
806. Please accept my sincere apologies for that error.
807. He wanted to become an officer but was not allowed to because he was the son of a tailor.
808. Other researchers investigated the ways in which first and third grade teachers could integrate music into their regular math classrooms.
809. Evidence that instructions to avoid thinking about an object can have the opposite effect to that intended was reported by Lavy and van den Hout.
810. Therefore, in any situation in which help is required, we should use our intelligence to discover the most effective and loving way to help those in need.
811. The work of art, to have a chance of entering that stream, must show its kinship to other things called art and so to the social world in which artists and art have their places.
812. Play time, family time, and sleep time are all necessary for you to recharge yourself, to keep yourself from burning out, to gain a perspective on what you're doing and what your life means, and to get good ideas for the future.
813. There has been a qualitative shift from earlier eras in which specific tools and techniques were developed through the freely chosen creativity of human beings to meet specific, limited objectives.
814. Acts that develop habits of love, truth, and goodness silently shape and mold us into what we ought to be — just as habits born of jealousy, hatred, and evil mar and eventually destroy us.
815. Those who give small amounts to many charities are not so interested in whether what they are doing helps others ─ psychologists call them warm glow givers.
816. On the fifth task, for which it had to use a drill to cut through a wall, HUBO failed on its first attempt.
817. The more something causes your heart to race, the more important it is to step back before speaking or typing a single word.
818. One means we have to be a writer is our wondering about what goes on around us.
819. You can do several things at once, but only if they are easy and undemanding.
820. It communicates to children a powerful message about how important they are to their parents.
821. In some cases they even taught themselves most of what they knew about their particular subject.
822. And if we're not careful and sensitive, some children can easily be placed in situations in which virtually every physical education class is a losing experience.
823. Nobody wants to listen to what happened to you today unless you can make what happened appear interesting.
824. Many people think of what might happen in the future based on past failures and get trapped by them.
825. If you have any doubt as to what it means to illuminate a complex subject with lucid writing and clear presentation, go to www.pulitzer.org and read the recent winners in this category.
826. Today there is still much debate about where items in museum collections rightfully belong.
827. Counselors often advise clients to get some emotional distance from whatever is bothering them.
828. But these are easy to find and lead to the familiar dilemma in the social sciences where we have two conflicting theories, each of which can claim positive empirical evidence in its support but which come to opposite conclusions.
829. There is a considerable difference as to whether people watch a film about the Himalayas on television and become excited by the 'untouched nature' of the majestic mountain peaks, or whether they get up and go on a trek to Nepal.
830. Much of that experience, however, is second-hand.
831. In reality, I was about to pass out because I was wearing four T-shirts and two long shirts under my wool sweater!
832. "When walking down the street" is the setting in which people aged 30-49 are more permissive towards cellphone use than the other age groups.
833. The different approaches are reflected in what the two painters produced.
834. As time passes, however, they get used to what they have and, just like the smell of fresh bread, these wonderful assets disappear from their consciousness.
835. With that kind of involvement, the republic might survive and prosper.
836. The cobra crawled away and found the holy man, to whom it complained: "Look at me!
837. She felt that she was lucky to have a friend that could always cheer her up when she was feeling down.
838. However, we got lost along the way, and we couldn't figure out where we were.
839. And on that point, I'd like to put in a plug for my dog, Shep, who understands at least functionally a number of my words.
840. British linguist David Crystal also points out that despite the apparent prevalence of textisms, they do not make up the bulk of the language used in SMS applications.
841. Therefore, to apologize sincerely we must first listen attentively to how the other person really feels about what happened ― not simply assert what we think happened.
842. Coaches then should exert extra effort in getting to know the parents of their players, and by so doing, determine ways by which parents are willing to help their children and the team in general.
843. As a result, there is little or none of that alienation of young from old so marked in modern industrial societies.
844. The laws of biology are not always borne out by subsequent events; but no one would, on that ground, deny that biology is a science.
845. There are limits to what historians can study: they can study only parts of the past that left evidence behind and for which evidence has survived.
846. He put cat litter in the bottom and straw on top of that.
847. The interviewer asked Michael about how he felt about being so short, just 5′4″.
848. Advocates of altruism do not deny that the motivation for much of what we do, including much that we do for others, is egoistic.
849. In the UK alone, more than 5 million tons of plastic are consumed each year, of which only an estimated one-quarter is recycled, with the remainder going to landfills.
850. Interestingly, the garden in which he painted the Satyr was in the middle of the enemy's camp.
851. Our desperate attempts to be loved and to avoid pain can masquerade in behavior that is seeking to be loved because we are afraid of being disliked for who we think we are.
852. Think of how often we use the remotest connection to our advantage.
853. Here are some tips from three teenage fashion leaders on how to experiment and find your own style.
854. As a result, we are still guessing at what early tools were used for as well as what early art forms might have meant for the people who produced them, even when such drawings, often animals, are very recognizable.
855. In his portrayal the various ways in which the boys adapt to their new island surroundings and respond to their new freedom, Golding analyzes the broad range of ways in which human beings respond to change.
856. If they worked in a well-organized environment for any length of time, they would be surprised at how much more productive they were.
857. In order to solve this problem, the chimpanzees needed to first sum the two piles that appeared on each tray, and then work out which of the two trays had the larger number of chips.
858. It would be unwise to jump to conclusions about what a child is communicating through it.
859. In part, it depends on what individuals were thinking about previously.
860. Don't think about what you might miss by not going, but rather what you'll gain by staying.
861. This approach is the foundation for the modern Western way of life, in which politics, commerce, science, and law are all rooted in orderly competition.
862. Do not base your decision on what yesterday was.
863. Separating what's important from what's not important is prioritizing.
864. He could see practically nothing although he thought he could make out a few rocks just beyond the icy surface on which he was sitting.
865. Rather, the result was a whole new Australia, one in which entire species of plants were wiped out and in which erosion, caused by rabbits destroying vast areas of grassland, changed the very landscape.
866. In 2000, James Kuklinski of the University of Illinois led an influential experiment in which more than 1,000 Illinois residents were asked questions about welfare.
867. Some kinds of travel, such as that made by auto, bus, or train, incur both time and monetary costs; other trips, such as those made on foot, involve an expense primarily of time.
868. Logically speaking, telling someone that the engaging in act X promotes outcome Y, or that not engaging in act X fails to promote outcome Y, provides the same objective information: Y (partly) depends on X・ However, the way in which that information is presented — in particular, whether the emphasis is placed on losses or gains — influences the decision-making process.
869. Isn't the notion of what is correct relative to various concerns?
870. Distinctiveness is the extent to which things occur only with each other and not with other things.
871. Many artists have considerable freedom from external requirements about what to do, how to do it, when to do it, and why.
872. Similar marks and symbols functioning as trademarks have been found on Chinese pottery, possibly dating as far back as 2698 BCE, and in many other ancient societies, including the Egyptians, the Assyrians, and the Vedic civilization.
873. They are imitating the grown-ups around them who are always doing as much instead of as little as possible.
874. Before voicing her objections, however, she called a colleague back in New York, who told her that he, too, had been excluded from preliminary talks during his last negotiation in that country.
875. At the end of an orchestral concert of music which has no external reference it is more difficult to be sure of what other members of the audience are feeling.
876. Perfection, or the attribution of that quality to individuals, creates a perceived distance that the general public cannot relate to ―making those who never make mistakes perceived as being less attractive or likable.
877. In time, your body will connect these relaxed feelings with the usage of that specific scent.
878. If glaciers started re-forming, they have a great deal more water now to draw on ― Hudson Bay, the Great Lakes, the hundreds of thousands of lakes of Canada, none of which existed to fuel the last ice sheet ― so they would grow very much quicker.
879. He passed on to his followers not only his answers but also the process of thinking rationally, together with an idea of what kind of explanations could be considered satisfactory.
880. Similarly, a round coin is seen as round even when viewed from an angle at which, objectively, it should appear elliptical.
881. It turned out that he had Alzheimer's, a brain disease that slowly takes away a patient's memory and ability to think.
882. These will be performed note for note because both the vocal and piano parts have been painstakingly written down by the composer with an ear for how each relates to the other.
883. The game encourages cognitive empathy because it turns out that success depends on fostering cooperation by considering the viewpoints of a range of stakeholders, including extremist and moderate political groups.
884. These emotions are then physically transformed by the audience into laughter and applause; a comedian that doesn't invoke an emotional response among the audience that results in laughter and applause is usually considered as being 'not funny' and therefore a 'poor' comedian — or low quality entertainment in the opinion of that audience.
885. The primatologist Duane Rumbaugh and his colleagues showed chimpanzees two trays of chocolate chips, of which they could choose only one.
886. However, Gansong himself went to Japan and got it back after making a deal with a Japanese antique dealer.
887. Let's find out how you can become a cyclist.
888. Elvis had read about the tiny-house movement, in which people construct homes measuring 500 square feet or fewer, and believed he had the construction know-how to build a similar structure for Smokie.
889. At that time, it will be appropriate for me to consider raising your current salary.
890. So when a salesperson tells you that, for example, extracts made from the roots of echinacea help prevent colds, ask if that statement has been scientifically tested — and if so, how, when, and by whom and how valid and reliable the test results are — before you decide to try this herbal remedy.
891. It gave me great pleasure to think about how my dream would become a reality.
892. Yuhong Jiang, professor of psychology at Harvard University, points out that the brain isn't built to concentrate on two things at once.
893. This painting makes us think about what we see and whether it is real or just an image from a dream.
894. On that first night to myself, Dad entrusted me with his movie projector and all the reels of film.
895. Picasso's work challenges your assumptions about how space and objects are used.
896. Any hope of becoming a customer of that idea is lost.
897. We're sure that, at that age, we were more of a hindrance than help, but because our mom thought cooking was a good learning tool, she tolerated all of the mess that we made.
898. Consumers do not usually pay attention to what's new and different unless it's related to the old.
899. ", to which the man again replied: "Llena por favor mi tanque con el gas," but this time pointing to the gas pump.
900. But the question remains as to how humans should intervene with nature.
901. Grant Wood grew up on a farm and drew with whatever materials could be spared.
902. The priests were obviously not too happy about that until someone invented a clock made of water buckets.
903. By learning a variety of anger management strategies, you develop control, choices, and flexibility in how you respond to angry feelings.
904. He understands that he must come prepared to take advantage of that opportunity.
905. Once this is done, a new product is launched Ironically, if we are willing to be disliked for who we really are, others will like us.
906. Some studies suggest that variations in residents’ feelings about tourism’s relationship to environmental damage are related to the type of tourism, the extent to which residents feel the natural environment needs to be protected, and the distance residents live from the tourist attractions.
907. It determines the structure of conversations and who has access to what information.
908. Among parents who own televisions with V-Chips, over half are unaware of that feature, and few parents actively use it.
909. However, jobs may not be permanent, and you may lose your job for countless reasons, some of which you may not even be responsible for.