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But in order for me to explain what that is, I need to spend just a couple of minutes talking more about cancer itself.
I spend a lot of time teaching adults how to use visual language and doodling in the workplace.
And they spend that money on the promise that this is a drug which will reduce the rate of complications with flu.
I'm sorry if you have the flu, I know it's horrible, but we're not going to spend billions of dollars trying to reduce the duration of your flu symptoms by half a day.
In contrast, millions of Africans imagine that their religious faith will help their dream come true, and they spend so much time praying for miracles and for divine intervention in their lives.
But if we turn to evolution for an answer to this puzzle of why we spend so much time taking care of useless babies, it turns out that there's actually an answer.
Think of the space that we spend most of our time.
19 trillion dollars is what we're going to have to spend.
Moreover, the Americans have decided to spend over 30 billion dollars in the next five years to build up their cyberwar capabilities.
And actually, I spend as much of my time in clinic dealing with the emotional adjustment of patients as with the physical disability.
We spend a good bit of time.
I spend a lot of time on the road.
For those of us that spend most of our lives on the ground, this may be counter-intuitive, but driving has potholes, cobblestones, pedestrians, other drivers and a rather long and detailed list of federal motor vehicle safety standards to contend with.
The participants in Improv Everywhere events have just as much leisure time as any other New Yorkers, they just occasionally choose to spend it in an unusual way.
But I think it's also a perfectly valid way to spend an afternoon freezing in place with 200 people in the Grand Central terminal or dressing up like a ghostbuster and running through the New York Public Library.
Fetal origins is a scientific discipline that emerged just about two decades ago, and it's based on the theory that our health and well-being throughout our lives is crucially affected by the nine months we spend in the womb.
That important effort must include a focus on what fetuses learn during the nine months they spend in the womb.
And this one I really won't spend any time on, except to say that we have things to contribute to this field as well.
We spend long days ... Hey! Don't laugh.
We spend long days and nights staring at this part of the spider.
It's like the spiders are sharing an ancient secret with me, and that's why I'm going to spend the rest of my life studying spider silk.
If he saves the maximum legal amount, his retirement income goes up, but he's unhappy because now he has less money on the left-hand side to spend today.
But then, if we on the African continent don't necessarily know enough about it, then perhaps anybody with the right level of skill and commitment could fly in, spend some time listening and engaging and fly out knowing enough to invent for Africa.
People spend over 90 percent of their lives indoors.
Because remember, we spend 90 percent of our lives indoors.
Why do people spend an average of 15 to 30 percent more when they use an ATM card or a credit card as opposed to cash?
Classically these pick workers will spend 60 or 70 percent of their day wandering around the warehouse.
I spend my time trying to understand how it is that human minds work, from our amazing successes to our dismal failures.
Whether it's as basic as trying to decide what restaurant to go to or as important as trying to decide who to spend the rest of your life with, human lives are filled with computational problems that are just too hard to solve by applying sheer effort.
The explore/exploit trade-off shows up any time you have to choose between trying something new and going with something that you already know is pretty good, whether it's listening to music or trying to decide who you're going to spend time with.
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