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In fact, I thought I was so brilliant that I not only got rather lazy with studying the game, but I also got more risky, started playing in the biggest tournaments I could against the very best in the world.
Now these are some rather obvious things.
Now you might be thinking I've pulled this number out of the air for shock value, but in fact it's rather typical, this number needed to treat.
But, there's a technology that's rather simple, that's called spectrometry, that allows you see what's in the water.
The point is not to make judgments, but rather to find out about the context that determines these disparate and seemingly insurmountable contradictions.
I was the kind of religious where I heard parents tell children when they're leaving on a two-year proselytizing mission that they would rather have them die than return home without honor, having sinned.
So this means that if we manage to look death in the face, and actually confront it, rather than keep quiet and hide, like some of the men or women I know did, such as Michael from Rwanda, Carole from Iraq, Philippe from the Congo and other people I know, like Sorj Chalandon, now a great writer, who gave up field assignments after a trauma.
Could it undo this hierarchy, and could it be about a system that is more about collaboration, rather than isolation?
Most of the things we see, like that pencil on your desk, are simply reflecting light from a source rather than producing their own.
But my bookshelves told a rather different story.
Little by little, that long list of countries that I'd started the year with, changed from a rather dry, academic register of place names into living, breathing entities.
These days, when I look at my bookshelves or consider the works on my e-reader, they tell a rather different story.
The universe, rather beautiful, isn't it?
That might seem rather simplistic, but it's actually quite profound.
Rather than count people one at a time, we instead count them two at a time.
We tend to go with our appetites rather than our minds.
Synesthesia is a trait, like having blue eyes, rather than a disorder because there's nothing wrong.
Movies, likewise, can convince us that the sound is coming from the actors' mouths rather than surrounding speakers.
In retrospect, it would have been much more advantageous for humans to crave nutrients and vitamins rather than just calories.
To be able to talk about any of these, you just had to know the exact word for their plural rather than just adding the handy S on the end.
They would rather go off in their man cave and watch a game or hit golf balls, or talk about sports, or hunting, or cars or have sex.
But because of improving relations negotiated by Soviet Premier Leonid Breshnev and U.S. President Nixon, the U.S.S.R. and U.S. moved toward cooperation rather than competition.
A hundred years on, we now find ourselves at another turning point in physics, but what's at stake now is rather different.
Why is there something rather than nothing?
So it's a rather elegant, almost poetic way of looking at the world, but it has one catastrophic problem.
If we follow this line of thinking, then we will never be able to answer the question, "Why is there something rather than nothing?"
But if, in two or three years' time, when the LHC switches off again for a second long shutdown, we've found nothing but the Higgs boson, then we may be entering a new era in physics: an era where there are weird features of the universe that we cannot explain; an era where we have hints that we live in a multiverse that lies frustratingly forever beyond our reach; an era where we will never be able to answer the question, "Why is there something rather than nothing?"
Our next theory deals with a confusion of the past rather than a mistake in the present.
Rather than explain why the moon looks so big near the horizon, Convergence Microspia explains why the moon looks so small when overhead.
For the first time, people could raise food rather than search for it, and this led to the development of semi-permanent villages for the first time in history.
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