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Once, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote, "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea ..." As a scientist and a teacher, I like to paraphrase this to read that we scientists need to teach our students to long for the endless immensity of the sea that is our ignorance.
But I come to this work after a long history as a social justice activist, and so I'm really interested in the ways that people talk about nonfiction storytelling as though it's about more than entertainment, as though it's about being a catalyst for social action.
And then I remember my high school chemistry teacher with really long socks at the blackboard, drawing diagrams of bubbles connected to other bubbles, and describing how they vibrate and collide in a kind of frantic soup.
The bad guys, after a long weekend with the wife and kids, come back in to see how well things went.
So, I had this wishbone, and I thought, it's kind of like a cowboy who's been on his horse for too long.
Outside my grandparents' house in the busy streets of India, I saw people standing in long lines under the hot sun filling buckets with water from a tap.
If you want to prevent hate and violence, we have to talk to as many people as possible for as long as possible while being as open as possible.
Our Earth day is 24 hours, because that's how long it takes the Earth to rotate, how long it takes to go around once.
When they evaluated the walkability of Boulder's 19th Street corridor, toddlers spent long stretches exploring leaves in a ditch and sparkles in the sidewalk.
It took me a long time to stare down this dark corner of myself, and to ask it questions.
This hinders our growth, and ironically, over the long term, also our performance.
A bit of a pretentious term, it's a little tongue-in-cheek, but it's something I've thought about for a long time, and I'd like to share what I think I've figured out.
(Guitar music starts) (Cheers) (Cheers) (Music ends) People have been using media to talk about sex for a long time.
They come from long histories of racism, classism, a society based on race and class stratification.
But if there's one thing I've learned from my work as a doula, it's that a little bit of unconditional support can go a really long way.
So I can tell you that when you go into one of these situations and settings, it is absolutely thrilling ... for about 30 minutes, because that's about how long it takes before you run into a situation where you realize how incredibly vulnerable you are.
The art and the science of computing have come a long way since HAL was onscreen, and I'd imagine if his inventor Dr. Chandra were here today, he'd have a whole lot of questions for us.
It always comes back, as Richard Dawkins complained all that long time ago, it always comes back to genes.
People have been asking this question for a long time.
But then, a long time later, billions of years later, we got the second replicator, the memes.
They dictate how long it will actually take for minority groups to receive the rights that they have been fighting for.
We can stop stealing time from black people through long periods of incarceration for nonviolent crimes.
As you can see, it took quite a long time.
For too long our country felt like we could arrest our way out of this problem.
But I'm going to bring it up at the end, and I'm going to present a silver lining to fix this mess that we've been in for a very, very long time.
Some way on the way there but quite a long way to go.
In 2018, we've hit 70.5, and if we project that rate of progress forward to 2030, that's going to get us to 75.2, which is obviously a long way short of our target.
If that can be maintained, Ethiopia could get a long way.
The United States at the top with Japan hitting the goals; China a long way behind.
And then in a long and complicated process, the tribes coalesced together to form the Chinese nation, which controlled the entire Yellow River and had the ability to bring hundreds of thousands of people together to build dams and canals and regulate the river and prevent the worst floods and droughts and raise the level of prosperity for everybody.
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