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The reason I think that, one of the important objectives that he actually had, one of his, I think, most important tactics, was that he knew that one of the ways to distract attention from the substance of the revelations would be to try and personalize the focus on him, and for that reason, he stayed out of the media.
He tried not to ever have his personal life subject to examination, and so I think calling him Snowden is a way of just identifying him as this important historical actor rather than trying to personalize him in a way that might distract attention from the substance.
Look here in Brazil, and some other countries, where a remarkable psychoactive substance, ayahuasca, can be legally bought and consumed provided it's done so within a religious context.
I'm sorry to hear that, so you might know that it's a very toxic substance, but you might not know that it's a very simple molecule with an unpronouncable name: it's called chlorobenzalmalononitrile. I made it.
I am talking about threats that are so severe or pervasive that they literally get under our skin and change our physiology: things like abuse or neglect, or growing up with a parent who struggles with mental illness or substance dependence.
Those include physical, emotional, or sexual abuse; physical or emotional neglect; parental mental illness, substance dependence, incarceration; parental separation or divorce; or domestic violence.
It affects areas like the nucleus accumbens, the pleasure and reward center of the brain that is implicated in substance dependence.
And regionally, I'm a co-creator of a division within the Department of Emergency Medicine here at Brown University, called Sex and Gender in Emergency Medicine, and we conduct the research to determine the differences between men and women in emergent conditions, like heart disease and stroke and sepsis and substance abuse, but we also believe that education is paramount.
We know that if you text in the words "mg" and "rubber band," there's a 99 percent match for substance abuse.
Or "99 percent match for substance abuse, here are three drug clinics near the texter."
The worst time of day for substance abuse: 5am.
And I want families to see that substance abuse questions spike at 5am.
And suddenly you think of architecture no longer as built substance, but as an organism, as a life form.
When you slide the pan into the oven, you're setting off a series of chemical reactions that transform one substance, dough, into another, cookies.
This linked structure makes the runny egg nearly solid, giving substance to squishy dough.
This dark energy doesn't behave like any other substance we know at all and acts more like anti-gravity force.
It has no substance as water does.
You see, when Onion's jacket is removed, a chemical reaction happens, converting the sulfoxides that make her smell so great into sulfenic acid, which then becomes a nasty substance with a long name: syn-Propanethial S-oxide.
But even when this has been done, the very nature of epidemiological studies, which examine differences between preexisting groups, rather than deliberately inducing changes within the same individuals, means that a single study can only demonstrate a correlation between a substance and a health outcome, rather than a true cause and effect relationship.
So, the next time you see a headline about a new miracle cure or the terrible danger posed by an everyday substance, try to learn more about the original study and the limitations inherent in any epidemiological study or clinical trial before jumping to conclusions.
One ancient theory was an idea called vitalism, which claimed that living things were unique because they were filled with a special substance, or energy, that was the essence of life.
What we now know is that life is not contained in some magical substance or spark, but within the ongoing biological processes themselves.
Neural fibers are wrapped in a fatty substance called myelin.
The axons that exist in the white matter are wrapped with a fatty substance called myelin.
When that proved too expensive, they suggested trading tea for another substance, opium.
Why are we spending 80 billion dollars on a prison industry that we know is failing, when we could take that money and reallocate it into education, into mental health treatment, into substance abuse treatment and to community investment so we can develop our neighborhoods?
I paid attention only when you began to vote and shout, and when your voting and shouting, when the substance of it, began to threaten me.
But this sturdy substance does have a weakness: it’s prone to catastrophic cracking that costs tens of billions of dollars to repair each year.
I wanted to know why these kids lacked water, a substance that is essential for life.
Whether it be via distraction, substance use, thrill-seeking or the scrupulous policing of my inner speak, I refused to be static and silent.
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