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Moonlighting as a stand-up comedian for the past eight years, I understand the importance of cultural competency, which I define as the ability to translate what you want someone else to know or be able to do into communication or experiences that they find relevant and engaging.
Well we need to understand the power of the social movements who understand this.
The problem is that the men under his care are suffering from an excruciating and debilitating condition that Archie doesn't really understand.
And he can't understand how this barbarism can be tolerated, and he vents his frustrations.
And you know, with the future billions that we've been hearing about, the world is simply far too complex to understand in that way.
Now you won't be able to understand a word of it, but this is what it looks like.
We tend to retreat and say, "We can draw a picture, we can post some graphs, we get it, we understand how this works."
And the reason he would do that kind of thing is because he understood it feels so much better to stand there and say, "Here in my own little world, I am a god, I understand everything.
And to understand that, you have to understand a little bit about how stealth works.
And the truth is I don't really understand a lot of what they're talking about.
It involves light cones and quantum entanglement, and I don't really understand any of that.
And we will have to understand those as nature, and in a way, they are.
We need to make sure that we're a little bit suspicious, that we understand that optimism is in the DNA of the military, that we don't respond to it with quite as much alacrity.
You need to understand that in those places what really mattered was, firstly, the role of Tudman and Milosevic in coming to the agreement, and then the fact those men went, that the regional situation improved, that the European Union could offer Bosnia something extraordinary: the chance to be part of a new thing, a new club, a chance to join something bigger.
Well we understand this very well.
Okay, so how do we understand this?
Take out a whiteboard and draw pictures and make connections that they can understand.
I think that's going to become completely possible as the amount of data we're producing and technology's ability to understand it both expand exponentially.
Given the amount of time that we spend indoors, it's important to understand how this affects our health.
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.
We all want the wheels of justice to properly turn, but we're coming to understand that the lofty ideals we learned in school look really different in our nation's prisons and jails and courtrooms.
EA: How does a young black person growing up in America today come to understand justice?
She says it's crucial for all of us to understand our connection to this issue even if it's not immediately obvious.
But before I tell you about what mindfulness training is, or the results of that study, I think it's important to understand how attention works in the brain.
Maybe we don't recognize it every time, but we understand that it happens.
The positive perspective, I think, of all of this is that, if we do understand when we go wrong, if we understand the deep mechanisms of why we fail and where we fail, we can actually hope to fix things.
They report that Israelis who had never been active before, upon seeing the film, understand the power of nonviolence and start joining their activities.
I believe that the most important thing is to understand that if we don't pay attention to these efforts, they are invisible, and it's as if they never happened.
They were making it possible for us to do what they do, and yet, they didn't really understand how they did it.
And so we have to understand that if we're going to make artificial life or understand the origin of life, we need to power it somehow.
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