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The human ability to adapt, it's an interesting thing, because people have continually wanted to talk to me about overcoming adversity, and I'm going to make an admission: This phrase never sat right with me, and I always felt uneasy trying to answer people's questions about it, and I think I'm starting to figure out why.
Implicit in this phrase of "overcoming adversity" is the idea that success, or happiness, is about emerging on the other side of a challenging experience unscathed or unmarked by the experience, as if my successes in life have come about from an ability to sidestep or circumnavigate the presumed pitfalls of a life with prosthetics, or what other people perceive as my disability.
And, most importantly, there's a partnership between those perceived deficiencies and our greatest creative ability.
From Darwin's work, amongst others, we can recognize that the human ability to survive and flourish is driven by the struggle of the human spirit through conflict into transformation.
So, I think that the only true disability is a crushed spirit, a spirit that's been crushed doesn't have hope, it doesn't see beauty, it no longer has our natural, childlike curiosity and our innate ability to imagine.
And so I'm very curious about whether those colored dots in the center of the saddles are conveying some kind of information about their ability to strike, or their strike force, and something about the time period in the molting cycle.
If you're an expectant parent, what about the ability to monitor, continuously, fetal heart rate, or intrauterine contractions, and not having to worry so much that things are fine as the pregnancy, and moving over into the time of delivery?
And this is ability, in real time, to actually take measurements of caloric intake as well as expenditure, through a Band-Aid.
Now, this ability to put information into categories, I find a lot of people are not very good at this.
As we grow up, we lose the ability to invest in the process, we start investing in the outcome.
We have all these amazing superpowers: blissful productivity, the ability to weave a tight social fabric, this feeling of urgent optimism and the desire for epic meaning.
And you can watch states rise and fall depending on their ability to speak a language of life, and you can watch New York fall off a cliff, and you can watch New Jersey fall off a cliff, and you can watch the rise of the new empires of intelligence.
If I doubt my older sister's ability to pay back the 10 percent interest I established on her last loan, I'm going to withhold her ability to get more money from me, until she pays it back.
And it's trying to show off its ability: "I'm macho, I'm strong."
Vaccines, modern medicine, our ability to feed billions of people, those are triumphs of the scientific method.
The ocean has an amazing ability to recover, if we'll just leave it alone.
They aim their pictures at your best instincts, generosity, a sense of right and wrong, the ability and the willingness to identify with others, the refusal to accept the unacceptable.
And it's those who start with "why" that have the ability to inspire those around them or find others who inspire them.
And the last possibility is what is known as confounding, because it confounds our ability to figure out what's going on.
And with the fishery, the entire reproductive ability of the species goes extinct.
Now, the remarkable thing about blood vessels is that they have this ability to adapt to whatever environment they're growing in.
So the body has the ability to regulate the amount of blood vessels that are present at any given time.
So the body's ability to balance angiogenesis, when it's working properly, prevents blood vessels from feeding cancers.
Cancer cells mutate, and they gain the ability to release lots of those angiogenic factors, natural fertilizer, that tip the balance in favor of blood vessels invading the cancer.
Maybe their greater ability to cooperate and adapt?
They said, "Well, it's her ability to bear children."
You know, to me, human communities depend upon a diversity of talent, not a singular conception of ability.
Freedom, which means without permission from anyone, the ability to create.
The first story that I did for National Geographic, where I recognized the ability to include environmental issues within a natural history coverage, was a story I proposed on harp seals.
He developed an interesting outsourcing model for sexual services, (Laughter) no longer tied to a single monopoly provider, in many cases, sourcing things locally, and of course, the ability to have between one and three girls delivered at any time led for better load-balancing.
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