One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.
So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were not.
For delightfully quirky descriptions of bizarre neurological syndromes that teach us a lot about how the brain works, there is no match for Oliver Sacks.
I took care of young adults with cystic fibrosis when I was in my residency training and found this to be a disease that was desperately in need of some explanation.
My own area of expertise is the genetics of human disease. I was fortunate to be part of the team that found the genes for cystic fibrosis, and Huntington's disease and neurofibromatosis.
The word 'living' has so many connotations that I'm almost reluctant to try to define it scientifically because it sounds as if I'm then downgrading all the other significances of that word.
Many people struggle with losing weight and then regaining it. But there is no convincing evidence that the effort to lose weight actually promotes more weight gain in the long run.
Even with the quality of players that we have, they're an extremely hard side to break down and once they get on top of you, you find it difficult to stem the flow of attacks.
I admit I was somewhat concerned when we started to sign so many players - naturally you are going to worry about whether you can retain your place in the side.
Neurotechnology may benefit from questioning what kinds of low-information-content signals we can read and write before we try to upload and download consciousness.
Tom Hooper had done 'John Adams,' and David Lynch did 'Twin Peaks.' I figured I could do eight hours of television, and I wanted to.
My dream when I was 14 was someday I could have a David Levine caricature of me in 'The New York Review of Books.'
I'll skate on concrete if I have to. I'm not worried about how fast the ice is. I'm worried about how fast I can go on the ice.
I've learned what it truly means to be Canadian and in turn I've been inspired to make a difference in the world, however small it's been.
People said that 'Fight Club' would be impossible to turn into a movie, but I think David Fincher loved that challenge.
It is an honor to be on the cover of this game because the World Cup is such a big thing around the world. My kids are really quite impressed so that's fun.
What I've noticed in this game is how EA has even duplicated my moves and my style of play perfectly. It is really incredible and a lot of fun to play.
Every day is a new sense of tearing my heart out of my body again when I see other children who have been killed, and I know what their families are going through.
Whenever I try to do something, I figure out what other people aren't doing or how can I do it different or how can I stand out.
The Chinese have done some extraordinary things in terms of the investments they've made in alternative sources of energy.
When you have a big, ugly problem, there's never going to be a neat, elegant solution that is totally painless or without a cost.
