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And I spent countless hours in presidential libraries trying to understand how the environment had shaped the leaders, the moves that they made, and then the impact of those moves beyond their tenure.

Great leaders understand that having a more diverse network is a source of pattern identification at greater levels and also of solutions, because you have people that are thinking differently than you are.

So before agriculture, before the agricultural revolution, it's important to understand that human beings lived in hunter-gatherer groups that are characterized wherever they're found in the world by what anthropologists called fierce egalitarianism.

So he couldn't understand why on Earth would the female have developed this thing if all they were supposed to be doing is forming their pair bond, right?

Edward Wilson says we need to understand that human sexuality is first a bonding device and only secondarily procreation.

And we hear all the time from our community of civic hackers at Code for America that they didn't understand how much nontechnical work actually went into civic hacking projects.

Now, many of the problems that children with autism face, they have a common source, and that source is that they find it difficult to understand abstraction, symbolism.

All of us understand this.

So if a child with autism wanted to say, "I want soup," that child would pick three different pictures, "I," "want," and "soup," and they would put these together, and then the therapist or the parent would understand that this is what the kid wants to say.

In about 1997, about 15 years back, there were a group of scientists that were trying to understand how the brain processes language, and they found something very interesting.

The first thing I did was I built a jigsaw puzzle in which these questions and answers are coded in the form of shapes, in the form of colors, and you have people putting these together and trying to understand how this works.

Similarly, cosmologists understand why the universe is expanding.

They don't understand why it's expanding at an ever-increasing rate.

If I want to understand the sinking of the Titanic, the most important thing to do is not to model the little positions of every single little piece of the boat that broke off.

Well, of course it's happening at the edge, because in the middle, everybody's updating Facebook, or worse still, they're trying to understand Facebook's privacy settings.

Bit by bit, we build the foundations of the social brain so that by the time we're three, four years old, most children, not all, have acquired the ability to understand the intentions of others, another prerequisite for empathy.

In order to understand how this process works, I left the psychopaths and joined a lab in Oxford specializing in learning and development.

We're just beginning to understand what exact function these cells have, but what it implies is that the brain is capable of extraordinary change way into adulthood.

If they see me, they'll understand why I'm no threat in the ladies' room, but I can be threatened in the men's room."

As you see this clip, look for principles, and also think about experiments that you might design in order to understand how a foot works.

Do we really understand that principle of tuning?

ES: The best way to understand PRISM, because there's been a little bit of controversy, is to first talk about what PRISM isn't.

I know this song, and it's really a tribute to the genius of David Bowie himself, but it's also, I think, a reflection of the fact that we are not machines exploring the universe, we are people, and we're taking that ability to adapt and that ability to understand and the ability to take our own self-perception into a new place.

Can you understand that from that viewpoint, it feels outrageous?

RL: I do understand that, and I actually share the view of the utility of the Internet, and I would argue it's bigger than the Internet.

RL: I don't really understand that argument.

I mean, first of all, a lot of people who look at risk and look at the numbers don't understand this belief that terrorism is still the number one threat.

But actually, when I think about search, it's such a deep thing for all of us, to really understand what you want, to understand the world's information, and we're still very much in the early stages of that, which is totally crazy.

You know, your computer doesn't know where you are, it doesn't know what you're doing, it doesn't know what you know, and a lot we've been trying to do recently is just make your devices work, make them understand your context.

So really having computing work and understand you and understand that information, we really haven't done that yet.

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