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...cholesterol count as your parents. "Your genes set your general vulnerability," he concludes. "You can be a low-vulnerable, intermediate-vulnerable or a high-vulnerable person." But your upbringing and your experiences still have a major role to play. Someone with a low genetic vulnerability, for example, could easily develop a fear of flying after surviving a horrific plane crash...
COGNITIVE THERAPY Rather than expect patients to embrace anxiety, cognitive therapists encourage them to use the power of the mind to reason through it. First popularized in the 1980s, cognitive therapy teaches people who are anxious or depressed to reconfigure their view of the world and develop a more realistic perspective on the risks or obstacles they face. Patients suffering from social-anxiety disorder, for example, might see a group of people whispering at a party and assume the gossip is about them. A cognitive therapist would teach them to rethink that assumption. Some behavioral therapists question cognitive techniques, arguing...
Venture capitalists are investing heavily in nanotechnology, which promises industrial advancements, such as nanoscale powders that strengthen steel and materials that allow for smaller chips. Samsung is using carbon nanotubes, fibers just 2 nm wide, to develop high-resolution TV screens; dozens of newcomers will use them to build everything from next-generation transistors to stronger outdoor lights...
...that for 100 years," he points out that when it comes to "innovation time," 100 years melts down to about 25. That's because, as he says, "our rate of exponential growth is growing exponentially." Evolution accelerates: it took 100 million years for the human brain to develop, but computing power is expected to surpass it within a generation. "By 2040 or 2050 nonbiological intelligence will be trillions of times more powerful than biological intelligence," he says...
...network may have the capability to create a dirty bomb, operating a nuclear program would be a Herculean challenge for an organization whose survival depends on its relative invisibility. Even fully-functioning states such as Pakistan have needed decades of research and the assistance of nuclear-capable allies to develop their bomb programs, and they haven't had to hide the extensive scientific and industrial infrastructure required to build nuclear weapons. And given that a dirty bomb's function is primarily to spread terror through contamination, terrorists may be inclined to view chemical and biological weapons as a more attractive...