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I have been wondering recently, if he were alive today, what advice he would give me about making this TED Talk.
So although I had every reason to be fearful of what was ahead, and had no clue quite what was going to happen, I was alive.
The other condition is in societies living in marginal or fluctuating environments, such as the Arctic or deserts, where there are periodic food shortages, and occasionally there just isn't enough food to keep everyone alive.
It's their knowledge that spells the difference between survival and death for their whole society in a time of crisis caused by rare events for which only the oldest people alive have had experience.
I'm still alive.
But betting everything on the idea of finding the elixir and staying alive forever is a risky strategy.
And it was at that point that I began to think that it was just too painful to be alive, and that the only reason not to kill oneself was so as not to hurt other people.
I'm alive and grateful.
I can go outside not being afraid anymore, and I don't think those bad feelings are coming back, and if it weren't for Dr. Miranda and that, I would still be at home with the covers pulled over my head, if I were still alive at all.
And he deserves this stuff because he probably has fed more people than any other human being alive because he researched how to put biology behind seeds.
You know, we hear often about good ol' boy networks and they're certainly alive and well in many institutions.
Humans and bonobos are the only animals that have sex face-to-face when both of them are alive.
Most of the beetles are spit up hours later, amazingly alive and well.
Centuries ago, our ancestors would burn cats alive as a form of popular entertainment.
And then about three and a half minutes before launch, the huge nozzles on the back, like the size of big church bells, swing back and forth and the mass of them is such that it sways the whole vehicle, like the vehicle is alive underneath you, like an elephant getting up off its knees or something.
And we're alive.
When you write about parasites, your lexicon swells with phrases like "devoured alive" and "bursts out of its body."
The eggs hatched and the young wasps devoured the caterpillar alive before bursting out of its body.
And once there, she lays an egg on it, egg hatches, devoured alive, bursts out of body, yadda yadda yadda, you know the drill.
And if we could transform teacher education to focus on teaching teachers how to create that magic then poof! we could make dead classes come alive, we could reignite imaginations, and we can change education.
They are what makes it come alive.
Accuracy is extremely important when synthesizing DNA, because a single change to a DNA letter could mean the difference between a medicine working or not or synthetic cell being alive or dead.
So Biggie was killed weeks before that song made it to number one, in one of the great tragedies of the hip-hop era, but he would have been 13 years old and very much alive when "La Di Da Di" first came out, and as a young boy growing up in Brooklyn, it's hard not to think that that song probably held some fond memories for him.
But we are making that history alive by imagining what if all the main characters could use mobile phones ... just like that?
(Banjo plays) (Banjo and guitar play) (Sings) Is this what it's like to be alive?
Is this what it's like to fantasize about a love that never was alive outside my mind or distance?
Or maybe using this tool, book authors, alive or not, could read aloud all of their books for anyone interested.
The word "hobo" conjures up an old black and white image of a weathered old man covered in coal, legs dangling out of a boxcar, but these photographs are in color, and they portray a community swirling across the country, fiercely alive and creatively free, seeing sides of America that no one else gets to see.
And I found poems by Andrew Marvell and Matthew Arnold and Emily Dickinson and William Butler Yeats because they were quoted in science fiction, and I loved their sounds and I went on to read about ottava rima and medial caesuras and enjambment and all that other technical stuff that you care about if you already care about poems, because poems already made me happier and sadder and more alive.
The poet Frank O'Hara said, "If you don't need poetry, bully for you," but he also said when he didn't want to be alive anymore, the thought that he wouldn't write any more poems had stopped him.
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