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Whether hunting is right or wrong, a spiritual experience, or an outlet for the killer instinct, one thing it is not is a sport.
You've got to remember that men are men and women are women. And although a lot of similarities, there are some real differences.
When you massage someone, the levels of oxytocin go up in the brain, and oxytocin is one of the chemicals that drives attachment.
Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young.
It is difficult to imagine a greater imposition than adding genes to future generations that changes the nature of future people.
A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
There’s no real separation between the real world and the Internet. What we’ve begun to see now is a militarization of that space.
Along with planes, running water, electricity, and motorized transportation, the internet is now a fundamental fact of modern life.
Give me one other part of history where everybody shows up to the same social space. Fragmentation is a more natural state of being.
I wasn't a particularly brilliant student, but on the other hand, I was very active in Student Union affairs and in student politics.
For higher-level execs with greater public visibility, social networks need to become as good at filtering as they are at connecting.
You don't come home from the office to spend time with another job. Hopefully you come home to someone you can have a good time with.
The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way humanity has courted.
I have always been interested in how you can walk into a room and there will be 40 people there and you are immediately drawn to one.
The Physical Symbol System Hypothesis. A physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for general intelligent action.
Maintaining an open mind is essential when exploring the unknown, but allowing one's brains to fall out in the process is inadvisable.
If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.
I started connecting things to my body during my childhood. I approached the computer as a mediating element, as a form of visual art.
Giving cancer to laboratory animals has not and will not help us to understand the disease or to treat those persons suffering from it.
We are like a judge confronted by a defendant who declines to answer, and we must determine the truth from the circumstantial evidence.
Working memory capacity is really the ability to hold and manipulate information while you're actively trying to block out distraction.
Both sexes like the exercise and challenge of sports, but for men it's also a basic display behavior for impressing and winning a mate.
Touch is the mother of the senses. Not only are women more sensitive when they touch, but they're also more sensitive to being touched.
Climate change is for real. We have just a small window of opportunity and it is closing rather rapidly. There is not a moment to lose.
Cryptography shifts the balance of power from those with a monopoly on violence to those who comprehend mathematics and security design.
I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.
For a large number of problems, there will be some animal of choice, or a few such animals, on which it can be most conveniently studied.
Young women today do not marry the men they met in high school, or even the one they go out with at college, because they do not need to.
Women spend their lives trying to look good for men. So a woman who feels she's sending the right visual signals is pleased with herself.
It's almost as if men who get tribal tattoos are trying to signal that they are dangerous, they're to be respected, and they're powerful.
No matter how counter-intuitive it may seem, basic research has proven over and over to be the lifeline of practical advances in medicine.
Every scientist would like to be able to move through research faster, to spend less time and money acquiring material or disseminating it.
I think that it is very good for people to talk about their paranormal experiences and share stories about things that they cannot explain.
Community leadership is the courage, creativity and capacity to inspire participation, development and sustainability for strong communities.
The main characteristics of romantic love are craving: an intense craving to be with a particular person, not just sexually, but emotionally.
Women have never been as interesting as they are now. Not at any time on this planet have women been so educated, so interesting, so capable.
Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love.
You size up someone physically in less than one second - too tall, too short, too fat, too thin, too old, too young, too stuffy, too scruffy.
IPS cells can become a powerful tool to develop new drugs to cure intractable diseases because they can be made from patients' somatic cells.
Overcrowded cities are spawning increasingly lawless suburbs. Waste is accumulating in and around them, straining the capacity to deal with it.
Romantic love is an addiction: a perfectly wonderful addiction when it's going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it's going poorly.
We spend our lives trying to get along with people so we can keep our jobs, keep our marriages together, so that we can raise our kids properly.
Before brains there was no color or sound in the universe, nor was there any flavor or aroma and probably little sense and no feeling or emotion.
I like the freedom of research. Plus, if I fail in science, I know I can always survive because I have an M.D. This has been my insurance policy.
An interest in the brain requires no justification other than a curiosity to know why we are here, what we are doing here, and where we are going.
Futurists and common sense concur that a substantial change, worldwide, in life style and moral guidelines will soon become an absolute necessity.
Exercise is roughly equivalent to an oil lube and a filter for a car. You don't have to do it, but when you do, it makes the car run a lot better.
Romantic love is not an emotion. ... It's a drive. It comes from the motor of the mind, the wanting part of the mind, the craving part of the mind.
Humans are something very different from animals, and the numbers required to get cloning to work in animals are completely prohibitory with humans.
I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy.