Causes
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It might surprise some of you here, as it did me, when I discovered that suicide is at the top of the list of the leading
causes
of death in young people in all countries in the world, including the poorest countries of the world.
We discover that, for example, mental illnesses are amongst the leading
causes
of disability around the world.
It's up to us to look at our homes and our communities, our vulnerabilities and our exposures to risk, and to find ways to not just survive, but to thrive, and it's up to us to plan and to prepare and to call on our government leaders and require them to do the same, even while they address the underlying
causes
of climate change.
These initiatives cost less than a missile, and certainly less than any soldier's life, but more importantly, it takes the war to their homelands, and not onto our shore, and we're looking at the
causes.
And in the process, none of these things really are productive because you are treating the symptoms, not the
causes
of Africa's fundamental problems.
A slide like this is not only boring, but it relies too much on the language area of our brain, and
causes
us to become overwhelmed.
Again, there's many underlying genetic
causes
for this.
As we age, we deteriorate, and this deterioration
causes
problems for our society, so we have to address it.
People have been debating the
causes
of happiness for a really long time, in fact for thousands of years, but it seems like many of those debates remain unresolved.
Which leaves the question, what are the big
causes
of happiness?
So I've been talking about this, suggesting, perhaps, that mind-wandering
causes
unhappiness, but all I've really shown you is that these two things are correlated.
My hope is that over time, by tracking people's moment-to-moment happiness and their experiences in daily life, we'll be able to uncover a lot of important
causes
of happiness, and then in the end, a scientific understanding of happiness will help us create a future that's not only richer and healthier, but happier as well.
The red bars correspond to the likelihood that a man will die at the hands of another man, as opposed to passing away of natural causes, in a variety of foraging societies in the New Guinea Highlands and the Amazon Rainforest.
It may also be powered by cosmopolitanism, by histories, and journalism, and memoirs, and realistic fiction, and travel, and literacy, which allows you to project yourself into the lives of other people that formerly you may have treated as sub-human, and also to realize the accidental contingency of your own station in life, the sense that "there but for fortune go I." Whatever its causes, the decline of violence, I think, has profound implications.
To drive the car only
causes
something to go, because Chicago's not the kind of thing that can possess something.
And to give someone a headache
causes
them to have the headache, but it's not as if you're taking the headache out of your head and causing it to go to the other person, and implanting it in them.
Now if that male is carrying a gene which
causes
the death of the offspring, then the offspring don't survive, and instead of having 500 mosquitos running around, you have none.
It
causes
them to distort reality.
Well, one of the largest causes, after globalization, is actually this fourth asteroid, rising non-marital births.
Occasionally, we get a flare from the Sun that
causes
havoc with communications and so forth, and electricity.
An asteroid five miles wide
causes
major extinctions.
So a little girl who you see just now, she raised her hand, and she says to me in broken Tamil and English, she said, "Well, apart from the fact that improper replication of the DNA molecule
causes
disease, we haven't understood anything else." (Laughter) (Applause) So I tested them.
I want to talk about how the things we've been taught to think about giving and about charity and about the nonprofit sector, are actually undermining the
causes
we love, and our profound yearning to change the world.
They raised more money more quickly for these
causes
than any events in history, all based on the idea that people are weary of being asked to do the least they can possibly do.
People are yearning to measure the full distance of their potential on behalf of the
causes
that they care about deeply.
But only about 20 percent of that, or 60 billion dollars, goes to health and human services
causes.
We all know that the stimulus that triggers an emotion
causes
that emotion to last long after the stimulus is gone.
In ADHD, it's often assumed that the hyperactivity
causes
the learning disability.
It thought of itself as being disconnected from the Internet, but it was possible for somebody to smuggle a USB drive in there, or something like that, and software got in there that
causes
the centrifuges, in that case, to actually destroy themselves.
You would think this wouldn't be too hard, that we would simply have the ability to take this fundamental information that we're learning about how it is that basic biology teaches us about the
causes
of disease and build a bridge across this yawning gap between what we've learned about basic science and its application, a bridge that would look maybe something like this, where you'd have to put together a nice shiny way to get from one side to the other.
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