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A second general theme is that there are many, often subtle environmental factors that make some societies more fragile than others.
Perhaps the most subtle of them is that it turns out that a major input of nutrients which protects island environments in the Pacific is from the fallout of continental dust from central Asia.
So, some societies, for subtle environmental reasons, are more fragile than others.
They had not accounted for some very subtle characteristics of the Earth's motion around the Sun, which affected how they measured this planet going around the pulsar.
Computers will combine the subtle pan-recognition powers of human intelligence with ways in which machines are already superior, in terms of doing analytic thinking, remembering billions of facts accurately.
It can be subtle things like guilting a friend into spending time with you or sneaking a peak at your partner's texts or shaming a child for their lack of effort at school. 100 percent of us will be on the receiving end of unhealthy relationship behaviors and 100 percent of us will do unhealthy things.
O.K.? Radical, not subtle.
Now, let me spend the rest of my time on the third big problem, because it's more subtle and perhaps difficult to grasp.
It's a testament, I think, to the seductive appeal of some powerful figure offering you easy, simple answers to life's complex and subtle questions and anxieties.
We go out into this complex and subtle world full of a complex and subtle people like you and me, Allan, and we reduce them to these neat characters that fit whatever story we're telling ourselves, and we say, "She's insecure," "He's arrogant," "They can't be trusted."
Adults and children are incredibly effective at picking up values from these subtle behaviors.
But it's also a good reminder of just how important it is to observe the subtle cues in the raw mystery of the world around us.
But I'd like to describe to you a more subtle kind of diversity and tell you about the ants.
You're just in there, watching the incredible, subtle changes of color in the sky.
It's because very subtle differences in size, physiology, in hormone levels are going to make very subtle differences in your outward voice.
And your brain is very good at picking up those subtle differences from other people's outward voices.
In our lab, we are working on teaching machines to understand those subtle differences.
I've got to warn you: the sense in which my worldview is upbeat has always been kind of subtle, sometimes even elusive.
Well, primarily that there is a subtle knowledge that we can connect with the world.
And astrolabes return us to this subtle sense of how things all fit together, and also how we connect to the world.
Subtle maneuvering of the hands is required to perform delicate tasks like this.
But those subtle changes in your voice over a long period of time are hard for you or your spouse to notice until it becomes so extreme and your voice has become so quiet.
But with something like Shimmer, or we have something called the Magic Carpet, embedded sensors in carpet, or camera-based systems that we borrowed from sports medicine, we're starting for the first time in those 600 elderly households to collect actual kinematic motion data to understand: What are the subtle changes that are occurring that can show us that mom has become risk at falls?
But pollen forensics can be very subtle.
Another more subtle possibility is that they start gaining weight, and it changes your ideas of what an acceptable body size is.
TD: So, since we've been here this week, we've taken millions of breaths, collectively, and perhaps we haven't witnessed any course changes happening in our lives, but we often miss the very subtle changes.
I do like Billie Piper as an actress, but this role did not suit her and was much better played by Frances O'Connor in the 1999 version who gave overall a far more subtle and convincing performance.
Maybe it is his subtle indication as if to say to us: 'I've got involved with a turkey so here's a crap accent to go with it!'
More suspenseful, more subtle, much, much more disturbing....
Maybe the humor was too subtle for me (all the way down to the nano-level).
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