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And what I'd like to do is take you up to the canopy, not by putting all of you into ropes and harnesses, but rather showing you a very short clip from a National Geographic film called "Heroes of the High Frontier."

But rather, it is their leaves that are adapted to intercept the dissolved nutrients that come to them in the form of mist and fog.

So I hope I've showed you that canopy-dwellers are not just insignificant bits of green up high in the canopy that Tarzan and Jane were interested in, but rather that they foster biodiversity contribute to ecosystem nutrient cycles, and they also help to keep our global climate stable.

As many of you are aware, the world of academia is a rather inward-looking one.

Some of you may want the toilet paper with the most bleach in it rather than the most ecologically responsible choice.

In a masterpiece of epic proportions, Rushdie reveals that there are no singular truths— rather, it’s wiser to believe in several versions of reality at once, hold many lives in the palms of our hands, and experience multiple moments in a single stroke of the clock.

And after talking for many hours about this contentious topic, they also sent a rather unexpected email.

In China, chess pieces were placed at intersections of board squares rather than inside them, as in the native strategy game Go.

I mean, it may be that these ocean-going seaweed farms will need to be mobile, to distribute the seaweed across vast areas of the ocean, rather than creating a big stinking pile in one place.

But, if instead we accept the latest empirical research, real science, which correctly describes human beings as highly cooperative, reciprocal and intuitively moral creatures, then it follows logically that it must be cooperation and not selfishness that is the cause of our prosperity, and it isn't our self-interest but rather our inherent reciprocity that is humanity's economic superpower.

It's imperative to include diverse decision-makers in the process, and it's always better to collaborate with different communities, rather than trying to speak for them.

Thankfully, I'm not motivated by hope, but rather a desire to be useful.

It was on my first field trip here, toward the end of a full, long week mapping project, that I came across something rather special.

To be honest, seed saving is quite difficult with most crops, but some are rather easy.

But rather than silencing him, this lifelong exile led to Dante’s greatest critique of all.

Writing the "Divine Comedy" in Italian, rather than the traditional Latin of the educated elite, Dante ensured the widest possible audience for his biting political commentary.

Anyway, this all started a few years ago, when they started carrying your voice over the Internet rather than over a phone line, and we've come a long way since that.

Isn't this a conflict of interest for you, or rather, a huge business opportunity for you?

Let's engage, let's all engage, let's actually try to make this something that we shape in a positive way, rather than once again have be done to us.

So, should we rather ask, "Can anything save newspapers?"

And we'd rather read it during breakfast, because later we listen to radio in a car, check your mail at work and in the evening you watch TV.

Some of us would have smelled something rather pleasant, perhaps somebody's perfume.

And the second is, in entering conflict that way, to seek to understand, rather than convince.

Being satisfied with dogma, and just-so stories, rather than criticizing them and trying to guess better explanations of the world and of their own condition.

In fact, behavioral economists often use precisely the same behavioral reflexes that get us into trouble and turn them around to help us, rather than to hurt us.

Group C got the same financial incentive, but it was framed as a loss rather than a gain: $1.40 a day is 42 dollars a month, so we gave these participants 42 dollars at the beginning of each month in a virtual account that they could see, and we took away $1.40 for every day they didn't walk 7,000 steps.

In practice, instead, it has meant much more electronic paperwork and physicians are now complaining that they have less, rather than more time to see patients individually.

The shortest path may be a curve rather than a straight line.

Then our predictive model finds patterns between media imprints and tells me which narrative ingredients are more likely to lead to engagement in altruistic behavior rather than distress and apathy.

I've learned that as a conservationist, the most important question is not, "How do we keep people out?" but rather, "How do we make sure that coastal people throughout the world have enough to eat?" Our oceans are every bit as critical to our own survival as our atmosphere, our forests or our soils.

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