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Now, keeping these ideas firmly in mind, we can say that the experience of beauty is one of the ways that evolution has of arousing and sustaining interest or fascination, even obsession, in order to encourage us toward making the most adaptive decisions for survival and reproduction.
The front of wars is increasingly non-human eyes peering down on our perceived enemies from space, guiding missiles toward unseen targets, while the human conduct of the orchestra of media relations in the event that this particular drone attack hits a villager instead of an extremist.
And his basic value was respect, was kindness toward strangers.
It's two people, two warriors, dropping their weapons and reaching toward each other.
She catches up with the lead pack and is pushing toward the finish line.
Age is another thing when our attitude toward our appearance changes.
And everybody looked at that and knew that that was headed toward a huge problem.
And this moves us very quickly toward a world in which the Internet is showing us what it thinks we want to see, but not necessarily what we need to see.
One of my favorite is that people named Dennis are disproportionately likely to become dentists, people named Lawrence become lawyers, because unconsciously we gravitate toward things that sound familiar, which is why I named my daughter President of the United States Brooks.
And so let me list just a couple of the things I think this research points us toward trying to understand.
The penguin swims toward me, takes off.
And yet, I had an unusual position toward this.
We elect politicians who fear being labeled "soft on crime," encouraging them to pass harsh legislation and allocate enormous resources toward locking people up.
And so some of these things are actually more geared toward expression and communication.
Individuals with material that could help us were drawn toward us by some kind of gravitational force.
The second step is if we see one heading toward us, we have to stop it.
If we see an asteroid that's coming toward us, headed right for us, and we have two years to go? Boom!
In 1884, Anton de Bary, the father of plant pathology, was the first to presume that fungi are guided by signals sent out from the host plant, meaning a plant upon which it can lodge and subsist, so signals act as a lighthouse for fungi to locate, grow toward, reach and finally invade and colonize a plant.
As well, we could characterize the fungal receptor receiving those signals and part of the underlying reaction occurring within the fungus and leading to its direct growth toward the plant.
It is going to demand an inclusive process of diplomacy very different from the one we are practicing today as we are heading to new rounds of difficult climate negotiations, but when we move toward something which has to be much more along a broad mobilization.
The time it takes the sound to come back tells you how far away it is: if it comes at a higher pitch, it's because the thing is moving toward you; if it comes back at a lower pitch, it's moving away from you.
What's that new state that the world is heading toward?
I've come to TED because I believe that many of you understand that the moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
Where are we going toward?
This leads to a lot of different approaches tried in parallel in different social groups who try out different methods of working toward the goal.
Older people look toward the smiling faces and away from the frowning, angry faces.
So the very same purchase, just targeted toward yourself or targeted toward somebody else.
However, especially where regulators are now instead rewarding cutting your bills, the investments are shifting radically toward efficiency, demand response, cogeneration, renewables and ways to knit them all together reliably with less transmission and little or no bulk electricity storage.
You know, pay 20,000 pounds in tax toward health, and you're merely feeling a mug.
Thanks to the generous giving of the Audacious Project, we are on a path toward liftoff.
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