- Creativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Invention
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- Nov 07, 2020
The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
- Heap
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my interest in the relationship between mind and body, and between mind and brain.
- Nov 07, 2020
The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
The genome was once thought to be just the blueprint for a living organism, like a combination of the architect's plan for a building and the builder's list of supplies. It specified the parts, the building blocks, and, somehow, the design of the whole, the way in which they are to be put together.
- Data
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- Nov 07, 2020
The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary.
- Genes
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal they follow, but to feel their way into the very being of the animal.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to be conscious of, and therefore plays a part in the coming into being of whatever exists for us.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.
- Physics
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020