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...ironically, the enhanced credibility of dark imagination is just the thing that will prevent future attacks of this sort. The most dangerous and effective method of terrorist deterrence will not be the random I.D. checks in airports, the constant armed guards, the relentless searching of carry-on baggage, the new and powerful x-ray machines that will slice and dice baggage onscreen, the armed sky marshals ready to drop any prospective terrorist in their tracks. Nor will it be the pilots armed with hollow point bullets ready to defend the sanctum of the cockpit, or any other high-tech...
...years and $500-$800 million to put one drug on the market. Potentia combines nanotechnology and machine learning to “help companies develop knowledge behind certain proteins,” David said. The company’s “high-throughput atomic force microscopy” method facilitates curing diseases by screening small molecules against protein disease targets. This technology makes the process up to 1,000 times faster and helps companies save around $100 million on each drug...
...just not enough money. One of the big safety mechanisms of people that play poker, especially the people at Harvard, is that people have a lot more to lose than their cash. People have their futures. People have their academic standing. So there’s an inherent safety method that nobody’s gonna try anything too sketchy. It’s actually really lucky that you can have these people who are going to be your competition because they’re intelligent, and you can, to some extent, trust them the first time you put down...
There is no sure-fire method for diagnosing ADHD, and physicians that treat the condition are often criticized for over-prescribing stimulants like Ritalin...
...prepares an appropriate response, it should remember that restricting the freedom of citizens to travel is typically a method employed by tyrannical dictatorships and not by prosperous democracies. Imperiously declaring which countries our citizens may not visit demotes us to the likes of Mussolini, Stalin or Kim Il-Sung, who, on a more extreme note, would not let citizens escape the borders of famine-ridden North Korea...