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But once they find it, that DNA is still tiny, and surrounded by so much other DNA, that what these machines then do is copy the target gene, and one copy piles on top of another, millions and millions and millions of copies, until that gene stands out against the rest; until we can visualize it, interpret it, read it, understand it, until we can answer: Does my pig have the flu?
Hernando de Soto, the great Latin American economist, says this is the number one issue in the world in terms of economic mobility, more important than having a bank account, because if you don't have a valid title to your land, you can't borrow against it, and you can't plan for the future.
Jane McGonigal: This is the face of someone who, against all odds, is on the verge of an epic win.
And it turns out that the greatest predictor of a movement's decision to adopt nonviolence or violence is not whether that group is more left-wing or right-wing, not whether the group is more or less influenced by religious beliefs, not whether it's up against a democracy or a dictatorship, and not even the levels of repression that that group is facing.
The odds were massively stacked against them.
Having had to navigate being in the less powerful position in multiple aspects of their lives, women are often more adept at how to surreptitiously pressure for change against large, powerful actors.
The term "manipulative," often charged against women in a derogatory way, reflects a reality in which women have often had to find ways other than direct confrontation to achieve their goals.
It's a mushroom exclusive to the old-growth forest that Dioscorides first described in 65 A.D. as a treatment against consumption.
We have three different strains of Agarikon mushrooms that were highly active against poxviruses.
We have three different strains of Agarikon mushrooms highly active against flu viruses.
So then we tried a blend, and in a blend combination we tried it against H5N1, and we got greater than 1,000 selectivity index.
And so my house came down, I received my first patent against carpenter ants, termites and fire ants.
And so another thing that I should tell you that you may not know is that the helmets that are worn in bicycling and football and many activities, they're not designed or tested for how well they can protect your children against concussion.
They're in fact designed and tested for their ability to protect against skull fracture.
When people don't know how their pay compares to their peers', they're more likely to feel underpaid and maybe even discriminated against.
Do you want to work at a place that tolerates the idea that you feel underpaid or discriminated against?
Why do some people go along with it, while others revolt against it?
Now, I realize that letting people know what you make might feel uncomfortable, but isn't it less uncomfortable than always wondering if you're being discriminated against, or if your wife or your daughter or your sister is being paid unfairly?
Well, we do have to push back against efforts afoot all across the country right now to make voting harder.
So yes, let's have that revolution, a revolution of spirit, of ideas, of policy and participation, a revolution against cynicism, a revolution against the self-fulfilling sense of powerlessness.
You see it as something that's actively conspiring, where people with political and financial power are working against you.
She recognized the message that my community had for me, that my choices didn't matter, that the deck was stacked against me.
She once told me, "JD, never be like those losers who think the deck is stacked against them.
And given that the companies and governments doing this work are likely to perceive themselves as being in a race against all others, given that to win this race is to win the world, provided you don't destroy it in the next moment, then it seems likely that whatever is easier to do will get done first.
Before I had time to process what was happening, a hand was clapped around my mouth so that I could not breathe, and the young man behind me dragged me to the ground, beat my head repeatedly against the pavement until my face began to bleed, kicking me in the back and neck while he began to assault me, ripping off my clothes and telling me to "shut up," as I struggled to cry for help.
To do otherwise continues to let the enemy determine the grounds for battle, creates a binary, where we who have suffered become the affected, pitted against them, the perpetrators.
"We're declaring war against cancer, and we will win this war by 2015."
Now, I will argue that a primary reason why we're not winning this war against cancer is because we're fighting blindly.
So to be frank here, we're pretty far away from winning the war against cancer, just to be realistic.
You see, I think Richard said something about people that are against something.
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