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...pulling me aside and asking me in a genuinely surprised voice, ‘Who are these people?’ I think he was genuinely curious about Harvard; what is this institution, and who are these people, and where are they coming from, and what makes them tick...
...perfect 60 Minutes segment. A company hires famous TV journalists to anchor health-related videos--paid for by the businesses whose drugs and products the "newscasts" cover. The company puts the videos on public television. Viewers think they're watching the news. But they're really watching--newsvertising! Tick-tick-tick-tick...
Find a clock, and watch five seconds tick by. For allied soldiers driving tanks through the Iraqi desert, that's a generous amount of time in which to do the following: spot a vehicle through the optics system, consult the last available coordinates for all known battlefield combatants, try to identify the vehicle's type, check if it has a special panel that appears as a cold spot through a thermal sight, add it all together and decide whether the image on the screen is friend or foe. If it's the latter, the crew, under pressure to shoot before...
...pools for the invertebrates he loved - mollusks, anemones, starfish - and studied their gross features and quirky behavior (and supported himself by supplying biological specimens and slides to schools and research institutions from his rickety lab along Cannery Row). He did not even think about the molecules that made them tick. But he did have a lively, open mind - a mind without horizons, as Steinbeck liked to say. He would surely have been an eager participant in what its organizers engagingly call ?a conversation, a celebration, an event...
...Good luck! For him, the unconscious mind is designed to be inaccessible so that its owners can't fiddle with it while it's operating (not unlike those computer chips in late-model cars whose secrets even Mr. Goodwrench can't crack). Consequently, our notions about what makes us tick are just that, notions, and very often wrong. We might as well be guessing the number of jelly beans in a bottomless...