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And this device makes it possible for her to take samples from a larger number of palms, rather than only a few, because otherwise she had to make a big platform and then climb her [unclear] would climb on that.

And here, the idea is not that my weight gain is causing your weight gain, nor that I preferentially form a tie with you because you and I share the same body size, but rather that we share a common exposure to something, like a health club that makes us both lose weight at the same time.

Here, what's spreading from person to person is not a behavior, but rather a norm: An idea is spreading.

And I can cultivate that intuition in you by just asking you: Who would you rather be if a deadly germ was spreading through the network?

Would you rather be C or D? You'd rather be D, on the edge of the network.

Now, you would rather be C.

I left the kitchen not really in shock about Santa, but rather, I was just dumbfounded about how I could have missed this whole age of reason thing.

They endure it rather than enjoy it, and wait for the weekend.

I settled on working in the country of New Zealand because New Zealand was rather progressive, and is rather progressive in terms of protecting their ocean.

So without that curiosity-driven understanding of the structure of atoms, which led to this rather esoteric theory, quantum mechanics, then we wouldn't have transistors, we wouldn't have silicon chips, we wouldn't have pretty much the basis of our modern economy.

We'll all be better off if good music is played rather than terrible music.

If we had thought that the rules of the sports we care about are merely arbitrary, rather than designed to call forth the virtues and the excellences that we think are worthy of admiring, we wouldn't care about the outcome of the game.

It seems to me that our discussion reflects the opposite, that a better way to mutual respect is to engage directly with the moral convictions citizens bring to public life, rather than to require that people leave their deepest moral convictions outside politics before they enter.

You rise with compassion to protect the lives of the unborn, but otherwise you think the bedroom of consenting adults is a rather strange place for the government to be.

Can you imagine the emptiness of knowing that you stood for nothing, that you risk nothing, that all you did was follow fearful people to where they were already going rather than trying to lead them to a better place?

Tell them that Milton Friedman would say to tax pollution rather than profits.

I mean, it could almost be rather like that scene from the film "Airplane."

If you make that an option rather than the default, you'll find twice as many people log on to online banking, and they do it three times as often."

Well, as an environmentalist, we would rather that didn't happen.

Recently, I've also made some rather highbrow baroque borders out of lowbrow pasta.

So I'm currently working on a book, which plays with both senses of the word, as I explore some of my own ideas and inquiries in a visual display of rather peacock-like grandeur.

This book is taking rather a long time, but I'm nearly done.

This year, I got, what I really have to say is a rather brilliant idea, to laser cut my valentines out of used Christmas cards.

It is one of the curiosities of our historical era that even as cognitive surplus is becoming a resource we can design around, social sciences are also starting to explain how important our intrinsic motivations are to us, how much we do things because we like to do them rather than because our boss told us to do them, or because we're being paid to do them.

They were operating with social constraints rather than contractual ones.

And those have been linked then with the rather alarming, growing rates of obesity, shown in these maps here, and that obesity has also been triggering great increases in heart disease and diabetes to the point where a child born today has a one-in-three chance of developing diabetes.

In fact, it's illegal for them, in many cases, to equip ordinary people to create rather than consume technology.

Now, here is another thing which is rather interesting.

And so simply by shifting our perspective from a single trunk to the many dynamic twigs, we are able to see that trees are not simply static entities, but rather extremely dynamic.

Those emails actually shared three commonalities, the first of which was rather curious.

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