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Vonnegut thought this kind of story was the truest to real life, in which we are all the victims of a series of accidents, unable to predict how events will impact us long term.
It's a true story about the United States today, and the disease I'm referring to is actually motor vehicle
accidents
for children.
But I do know that in the 135 shuttle flights that we've had, the shuttle that I flew on, we had two
accidents
that killed everyone on that mission.
My favorite example is a pair of psychologists who did research on left-handers, and published some data showing that left-handers are, on average, more susceptible to disease, more prone to
accidents
and have a shorter lifespan.
There are hundreds of thousands of people who die in our cities every single year from violence, and millions more who are killed as a result of car
accidents
and pollution.
And in the US, more people die from car exhaust than from car
accidents.
And you see exactly the same profile for car crashes, road traffic accidents, even suicide rates.
These are small-scale accidents, and we should be wondering whether they should get the kind of play, the kind of coverage, that they do.
People were interviewed about their brushes with death in all kinds of circumstances: car accidents, labor and delivery, suicides.
They've seen their friends and relatives die young of accidents, of violence, of cancers that should have been diagnosed at an earlier stage.
Now oftentimes disguised as accidents, farmer suicide is now on the rise.
And that ends with a little clip of my father, of Lou, talking about something that is very dear to him, which is the
accidents
of life.
Great forms can be created by imaginative development of
accidents.
That accidents, that Louis Kahn, who talked about accidents, this is another quality of the trickster.
But being too prepared doesn't leave room for the
accidents
to happen.
Now of course, in a way those
accidents
reignite the debate about the value of science and engineering at the edge.
Instead of industrial
accidents
like oil spills or the catastrophe in Bhopal, we find them, and we respond to them.
There are simply too many random factors: accidents,
accidents
of birth,
accidents
of things dropping on people's heads, illnesses, etc.
They've tested this in survivors of road traffic
accidents
and mothers who've had emergency Caesarean sections, both types of trauma that frequently lead to PTSD, and they found really promising reductions in symptoms in both of those clinical cases.
You always have to sort of adapt and improvise to the opportunities and
accidents
that happen, and the sort of turmoil of the world.
What's fascinating about these signs is they cost about 10 percent of the running cost of a conventional speed camera, but they prevent twice as many
accidents.
Suffering together in a common hope that we can be brothers and sisters without the
accidents
of our birth or our ethnicity robbing us of a sense of unity of being.
All of those
accidents
that wound up creating the life narrative that we inherited.
You can be safe because when you're hit, you survive, or you can be safe because you avoid
accidents.
And yet, we've been trained to squint into this legal microscope, hoping that we can judge any dispute against the standard of a perfect society, where everyone will agree what's fair, and where
accidents
will be extinct, risk will be no more.
In Indian sport we don't make things happen,
accidents
happen and we're in the right place at the right time, sometimes.
Here it is, it's about bicycle accidents."
Autopsy studies from people who died in car
accidents
have shown that about 40 percent of women between the ages of 40 and 50 actually have microscopic cancers in their breasts.
Tell me they're not going to have
accidents.
Tell me that those
accidents
aren't going to put material into the environment that is poisonous for hundreds of thousands of years.
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