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Futureless language speakers are 20 to 24 percent less likely to be smoking at any given point in time compared to identical families, and they're going to be 13 to 17 percent less likely to be obese by the time they retire, and they're going to report being 21 percent more likely to have used a condom in their last sexual encounter.

My music career has been spent trying to encounter people on the Internet the way I could on the box.

This has to do with the position of your body and how it's moving, and the forces you encounter.

And the recurrent theme that I encounter all the time is people say, "Well, you know, the people who do see, they're whistleblowers, and we all know what happens to them."

What matters is that people of different social backgrounds and different walks of life encounter one another, bump up against one another in the ordinary course of life, because this is what teaches us to negotiate and to abide our differences.

After these two days, and during a particularly intense encounter, it was presumed that the leader of La Familia Michoacana, Nazario Moreno, was killed.

In doing so, we're going to necessarily encounter Americans and innocent foreign citizens who are just going about their business, and so we have procedures in place that shreds that out, that says, when you find that, not if you find it, when you find it, because you're certain to find it, here's how you protect that.

I will admit that I did not expect to encounter a fourth use case.

Or maybe they just don't want to risk an encounter with a potentially more advanced and hostile neighbor.

So I started looking at the binary information, and I asked myself, what do I do when I first encounter something like this?

For the most part, we make good guesses both in the social domain and the non-social domain, and if we weren't able to do so, if we weren't able to make guesses about new instances that we encounter, we wouldn't survive.

Well, that chance encounter inspired my imagination, and I created the Lunch Lady graphic novel series, a series of comics about a lunch lady who uses her fish stick nunchucks to fight off evil cyborg substitutes, a school bus monster, and mutant mathletes, and the end of every book, they get the bad guy with their hairnet, and they proclaim, "Justice is served!" (Laughter) (Applause) And it's been amazing, because the series was so welcomed into the reading lives of children, and they sent me the most amazing letters and cards and artwork.

There were six men on the bus, young men who you might encounter every day in India, and the chilling account of what followed was played over and over again in the Indian and international media.

And sometimes by doing this kind of research, you encounter such beautiful ideas of design.

We started the pilot last year, and now we're pretty sure that we will encounter a lot of ignorance across the whole world, and the idea is really to scale it up to all domains or dimensions of global development, such as climate, endangered species, human rights, gender equality, energy, finance.

Whatever it is, there's something about it that when people encounter it at first, their only possible reaction is to laugh.

In fact, we all have a default set of feelings and beliefs that gets triggered whenever we encounter frustrations and setbacks.

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.

The values that the A.I. has need to match ours, not just in the familiar context, like where we can easily check how the A.I. behaves, but also in all novel contexts that the A.I. might encounter in the indefinite future.

Now, that's all well and good for things that we've seen, but of course, you encounter lots of things that you haven't seen in the world before.

Now it turns out, there is nowhere in the DMV handbook that tells you how to deal with that, but our vehicles were able to encounter that, slow down, and drive safely.

First comes acquisition: the moment you encounter a new piece of information.

Our universe would be part of a greater multiverse, in which the fantastic rate of eternal inflation makes it impossible for us to encounter a neighbor universe.

And I will keep doing this for the hundreds of tapirs that I've had the pleasure to meet over the years and the many others I know I will encounter in the future.

Well, it's an encounter with death.

The only way to heal from this trauma, from this encounter with death that overwhelms, petrifies and kills you is to find a way to express it.

Well, things like our genetic makeup and the microbes we encounter throughout our lives can contribute to our microbial ecosystems.

And it seemed really sad to think that my reading habits meant I would probably never encounter them.

It turns out, if you want to read the world, if you want to encounter it with an open mind, the world will help you.

So when does the brain encounter stimuli like this?

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