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Hope may be the single greatest act of defiance against a politics of pessimism and against a culture of despair.
If you play a video game, you're playing against an AI.
So that's the third thing, is that they're different, they're utility and they are going to be something we work with rather than against.
We're working with these rather than against them.
It seemed like these mice were protected against stress, or they were inappropriately happy, however you want to call it.
It seemed like this one injection of Calypsol was somehow protecting against stress for weeks.
So we're calling our resilience-enhancing drugs "paravaccines," which means vaccine-like, because it seems like they might have the potential to protect against stress and prevent mice from developing depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
So if this were to translate into humans, we might be able to protect people who are predictably at risk against stress-induced disorders like depression and PTSD.
But speak to your girls of this wartime, a year preceded by a score of the same, so as in two decades before, we wiped our eyes, laced caskets with flags, evacuated the crime scene of the club, caterwauled in the street, laid our bodies on the concrete against the outlines of our fallen, cried, "Of course we mattered," chanted for our disappeared.
But at that time, Russian President Boris Yeltsin came within five minutes of launching a full-scale retaliatory nuclear attack against the United States.
I don't have the guts to take that bet against human ingenuity.
There's three things that I've learned from my research on this that you can immediately apply if you've been harassed or discriminated against at work.
She is pushing back against society's insistence that she exist simply for men's pleasure or for reproduction.
This also includes understanding that even if you are personally against abortion, you can still fight for a woman's right to choose.
And in the long term, revenge and violence will not work against extremists.
We're taught to defend our design against criticism.
So when an adult like Brad Smith, the president of Microsoft, said a few months ago, "We need a new set of Geneva Conventions to manage the security of the digital space," many of the senior leaders in Silicon Valley actually spoke against his words.
They talked to every country that made nuclear weapons and asked them, "Which digital 'weapon' would you take off the table against somebody else's schools or hospitals?"
As China gets bigger and stronger and richer, technologically more advanced, it will inevitably bump up against American positions and prerogatives.
But my friendship with Turks, with Danes, with Jews and with racists has vaccinated me against my own prejudices.
In the face of so much hatred and ignorance against those in the Middle East, every moment on site felt like a protest for peace.
One of our cases is against Ferguson, Missouri.
A majority of sexual violence against women and men is perpetrated by men.
Having the convenience and accessibility of regular screening options that are affordable, noninvasive and could provide results much sooner, would provide us with a formidable weapon in the fight against cancer.
The girl stayed quiet throughout the focus group, not talking at all, with her knees curled up against her chest.
Most prosecutors are, of course, smart enough not to use child pornography charges against teenagers, but some do.
Can we build a system that sets goals, that carries out plans against those goals and learns along the way?
Clearly, we cannot protect ourselves against all random acts of violence, but the reality is such a system requires substantial training and subtle training far beyond the resources of an individual.
What if you belong to the very race of people who have always been pitted against time?
And by that, it means that we can also fight against things that we feel are unjust, like censorship.
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