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And they take that information inside, and they decide what tasks to carry out depending on who's in the minority and who's in the majority of any given population.
What happens is that bacteria have these collective behaviors, and they can carry out tasks that they could never accomplish if they simply acted as individuals.
It's not like your heart cells and kidney cells get all mixed up every day, and that's because there's all of this chemistry going on, these molecules that say who each of these groups of cells is and what their tasks should be.
Even if it was possible for wide fingers to sport claws, their sharp points would’ve likely interfered with these primates’ regular tasks.
You can look down in the brain of a child in a variety of tasks that scientists have at Stanford, and MIT, and UCSF, and UCLA, and a number of other institutions.
It's the hours we spend obsessing about tasks we didn't complete or stewing about tensions with a colleague, or anxiously worrying about the future, or second-guessing decisions we've made.
And they are very difficult to resist, because thinking of all our unfinished tasks feels urgent.
Like, "Where in my schedule can I fit the tasks that are troubling me?" Or, "What can I move in my schedule to make room for this more urgent thing?"
It took me over a decade to internalize the severity of HIBM, even as basic tasks and functions became increasingly difficult.
But what this lets you do is gives you that all-important traction, and counter-traction, so that you can dissect, so that you can sew, so that you can do all the things that you need to do, all the surgical tasks.
She designed Priority Displays that would interrupt astronaut’s regularly scheduled tasks to warn them of emergencies.
But for a lot of tasks, they actually either don't work or, often, they do harm.
That's actually fine for many kinds of 20th century tasks.
But for 21st century tasks, that mechanistic, reward-and-punishment approach doesn't work, often doesn't work, and often does harm.
If-then rewards work really well for those sorts of tasks, where there is a simple set of rules and a clear destination to go to.
So, for tasks like this, a narrow focus, where you just see the goal right there, zoom straight ahead to it, they work really well.
In eight of the nine tasks we examined across three experiments, higher incentives led to worse performance.
And if we really want to get out of this economic mess, if we really want high performance on those definitional tasks of the 21st century, the solution is not to do more of the wrong things, to entice people with a sweeter carrot, or threaten them with a sharper stick.
Losses in focusing ability beyond this point start affecting near-vision tasks like reading, and by the time you reach age 60, nothing within a meter radius of you is clear.
That's now possible; you don't need an organization to be organized, to achieve large and complex tasks, like innovating new software programs.
My red tasks were getting my one-year-old better and finishing my book.
And although it is gut-wrenching, I mention it, because you each have your own equivalent black tasks in your life.
So if step one we triage, step two, we design to make those tasks easier to do.
Well, we know that it's basically impossible to do two tasks at the same time if they both depend on the same brain region for processing.
So in one of their projects called Southwark Circle, they worked with residents in Southwark, South London and a small team of designers to develop a new membership organization to help the elderly with household tasks.
The task of our time, one of the great tasks of our time, is to build a global society, as I said, where people can live together in peace.
This is the part of the brain that plays a large role in executive function, problem solving, switching between tasks, and focusing while filtering out irrelevant information.
They do almost all of the skill-based routine tasks.
But everyday tasks for Oliver that we all take for granted were incredibly challenging.
The burden of all the household tasks usually falls on girls and younger siblings, which ensures that they will never overcome these barriers.
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