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And the World Health Organization also tells us that every 40 seconds, someone somewhere in the world commits suicide because they are unhappy, largely due to depression or kufungisisa.
Well, you know that situation where you get an evaluation from your boss, and she tells you 37 things that you do really awesome, and one "opportunity for growth?"
And when my dad tells the story, he says, "The craziest thing was, I'd never seen any of that before, except bread.
The 100 girls project tells us some really nice statistics.
That's what she tells them.
A couple years ago, Emily Baer signed up for a race called the Hardrock 100, which tells you all you need to know about the race.
Todorov tells us that, in a tenth of a second, we can make a judgment on somebody's face.
So the list of ingredients does tell you something, and sometimes it tells you something that's wrong.
So the genome really tells you much more about predisposition.
It tells us what to imprint.
Which tells us that when students come to us from abroad, we may not be giving them enough credit for what they know, and they know it in their own language.
As long as we're teaching our kids that heroism starts when someone scratches a mark on your forehead, or someone tells you you're part of a prophecy, they're missing the most important characteristic of leadership, which is that it comes from within.
I still don't understand this one Russian man working in his bare chest, but that tells you how hard he was working.
Which tells you something about our place in the universe.
So in one instance, you can have somebody who has an XY chromosomal basis, and that SRY gene on the Y chromosome tells the proto-gonads, which we all have in the fetal life, to become testes.
So what happens is you dance on the grave, and after you've done your dance, everyone toasts you and tells you how great you are.
The World Health Organization tells us that depression is the number one disease on Earth in terms of years lived with disability.
You have situations, for instance, in France where president Sarkozy tells the CEO's of Internet companies, "We're the only legitimate representatives of the public interest."
I'm a writer-director who tells social-change stories, because I believe stories touch and move us.
Now all this fuss about a single one of our traits tells us there's something worth explaining.
So to understand why this was the case, we took our data and put it into an ordination diagram, which is a statistical map that tells you something about how related the microbial communities are in the different samples.
That distance is really important because it tells us how much light the planet receives overall.
That tells you something really important.
In fact, genetic profiling tells that it may be tens of thousands of years old, which means that this cancer may have first arisen from the cells of a wolf that lived alongside the Neanderthals.
What this tells us, ethical issues aside, is that ... (Laughter) it's probably extremely rare for cancers to be transferred between people.
Ashton tells everyone to "pass the squeeze," while she assures them it's not religious.
But on the question of your own personal risk of getting breast cancer if you drink red wine, it tells you absolutely bugger all.
Science tells us that if you set these places aside, nature will come back and we can keep the oceans healthy.
It informs, it tells us, it supplies us answers before we've even thought about it.
And what a trained interrogator does is they come in and in very subtle ways over the course of several hours, they will ask that person to tell that story backwards, and then they'll watch them squirm, and track which questions produce the highest volume of deceptive tells.
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