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As the days passed in Kiev's central square, streams of armed fighters were joined by tens of thousands of ordinary people, filling the streets in an act of collective mourning.

In fact, people will act to punish cheaters, even at a cost to themselves.

Public outcry over air pollution galvanized China's government, perhaps in an act of self-preservation, to think big and decisively about how it could tackle the root of its air pollution and many of its other environmental problems: its energy system.

So now in Brazil, we have this system, DETER, where every month, or every two months, we get information on where deforestation is happening so we can actually act when it's happening.

Third principle is: Think and act horizontally.

This is the latest: We just published this a year ago, the first brain-to-brain interface that allows two animals to exchange mental messages so that one animal that sees something coming from the environment can send a mental SMS, a torpedo, a neurophysiological torpedo, to the second animal, and the second animal performs the act that he needed to perform without ever knowing what the environment was sending as a message, because the message came from the first animal's brain.

So please join me in ending this act.

So this simple act of visualizing and doing over and over again produces some really remarkable outcomes.

What if they can act as medical doctors?

Vaccination is an act of individual responsibility, but it has a huge collective impact.

It’s the very act of struggling with these paradoxical puzzles which challenge our desire for resolution, and our understanding of understanding itself.

But he went, so I had to go, walking up, and in fact, he made it over the hill, and interrupted the loggers in the act.

It's about discovery-driven learning where you act, as opposed to plan, your way to the future.

In that war, that nobody seriously wanted to stop, and we have many of these today, bringing some assistance to people in need and a bit of protection was not just an act of humanity, it was making a real difference for the people.

We had people dancing and running and jumping as they tried to activate the exhibits in different ways, and at a certain point they would kind of stop and remember that they were in an exhibition about death, and that maybe that's not how you're supposed to act.

But actually, I would question whether there is one way that you're supposed to act around death, and if there's not, I'd ask you to think about what you think a good death is, and what you think that architecture that supports a good death might be like, and mightn't it be a little less like this and a little more like this? Thank you.

Over and over again, I'd see how this simple act of being interviewed could mean so much to people, particularly those who had been told that their stories didn't matter.

It's simply an act of generosity and love.

And worldwide, act further, like you've begun to do at the end of last year by striking out against climate change with hands joined together rather than fists apart.

And we've always done something with the bullwhips in our act.

So it seems possible that the neurobiology for helpless, involuntary laughter, like my parents lying on the floor screaming about a silly song, might have a different basis to it than some of that more polite social laughter that you encounter, which isn't horrible laughter, but it's behavior somebody is doing as part of their communicative act to you, part of their interaction with you; they are choosing to do this.

Looked me in the eye, fear consuming his face, and said, "Son, I'm sorry, but you can't act the same as your white friends.

There is one simple act of transgression that can rob a couple of their relationship, their happiness and their very identity: an affair.

And yet, this extremely common act is so poorly understood.

Affairs are an act of betrayal, and they are also an expression of longing and loss.

So for the partner who had the affair, for Nick, one thing is to end the affair, but the other is the essential, important act of expressing guilt and remorse for hurting his wife.

I've worked all my life in the field of security and defense, and I am convinced that now, more than ever, we need to radically reframe the way we think and act about security, and especially about international security.

But in Hans Rosling's case, he had a secret weapon yesterday, literally, in his sword swallowing act.

And what this teacher did on every project was to have the children act like first it was a creative arts project, and then something like science.

That's what it means to be an ally, and if you're going to be an ally, you have to be an active ally: Ask questions, act when you hear something inappropriate, actually engage.

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