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  A comment on Talk: Drew Dudley: Everyday leadership

  Feb 11 2012: A good leader serves the people, and when things go right, they don't take credit, they say "I simply pointed the right people in the right direction, and they did they're jobs well..." I've yet to see such a leader in my lifetime, but I will definitely try to be that type of person.
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  A comment on Talk: Stephen Coleman: The moral dangers of non-lethal weapons

  Feb 9 2012: That image of that idiot campus cop spraying those kids while they were just sitting in protest really disgusted me. A punch is "less than lethal" too, but we have the common sense to understand police shouldn't go around punching people in the face.
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  A comment on Talk: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon: Women entrepreneurs, example not exception

  Feb 1 2012: Women are natural born entrepreneurs! Extremely gifted in delivering the bottom line: be it in our homes, taking care of children, in the corporate, etc! We super multitaskers, very innovative and solution driven and alway willing to take a risk! Those are some of many hallmarks of entreneurship! So INVEST well in us!
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  A comment on Talk: Bill Doyle: Treating cancer with electric fields

  Jan 31 2012: FDA will never approve this, just like they never approved all the other cures. Big pharma rules medicine these days and their only aim is keep the sick sick and make as much cash as possible while poisoning us all. Best bet, set up a clinic somewhere that is out of the range of big pharma! Good luck!
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  A comment on Talk: Sasha Dichter: The Generosity Experiment

  Sep 17 2011: This is also a teaching from Buddha. I try to live my life this way. If anybody makes a comment about my art, or things that I own, I offer it freely, and with an open heart. I have so many things that letting things go is the only way new things will come into my life!
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  A comment on Conversation: Why should listening be taught as a skill in school?

  Aug 24 2011: “The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.”
  
  A powerful listener is someone who is able to focus on what another person is saying without getting distracted. A powerful listener has intense focus. A powerful listener is present in the moment of the conversation. Perhaps our reason for overlooking this skill is that it sounds so easy to achieve but in practice it is very difficult. It requires putting our own needs aside to listen to another.
  
  To achieve this requires ensuring that you are feeling confident about yourself and fully aware of your needs at that moment. It is far better to say that you are not able to listen to someone when you can’t than to fake it. This type of deception is picked-up immediately and any attempt at creating a trusting relationship may fail.
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  A comment on Conversation: why protests don't work in the long run

  Aug 23 2011: Protesting in my opinion does not help solve the problems they are yelling an making a scene about. Protesting does bring attention to the issue but it isn’t always good attention. Instead of marching on the streets people should be trying to figure out ways to solve the problem not just scream about it.
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  A comment on Conversation: Does infinity exist?

  Aug 23 2011: I think infinity exists only as a means of description, such as found in mathematics for example, or any other thing that exists only in the abstract. I do not believe that it has any real existence in the universe such as infinite mass or infinite size. The word 'infinity' is a descriptive term and not a measure of size, and I therefore do not see how it can be applied to anything 'real', as real things can be measured.
  
  I have come across web sites, and maybe you have also, that claim that atoms can be subdivided down into infinity, and that they contain tiny universes within them, and no doubt tiny people as well. Although science has not yet been able to prove we have reached the ultimate elementary particle from which all complexity is built, there is very strong theoretical and experimental evidence to show that quarks could be it. Smaller than quarks enters the realm of energy, not particles, as in string theory. As matter has been subdivided down from complex objects, to parts of the whole, to molecules, to atoms, to particles, to quarks, at each stage we see a simpler model, each stage is less complex than the previous level. All of which is in perfect agreement with the Big Bang model that describes how all matter is built up from simple to more complex elements, stage by stage. So when breaking down complex objects into smaller parts, it would come as a bit of a surprise if suddenly an entire universe popped up at even smaller scales than wave energy. Entire universes tend to be a bit complex!
  
  However, if string theory is shown to be correct, then tiny loops, or strings, of vibrating wave energy may be the smallest, but they are not particles anyway, and strictly speaking quarks aren't either, as they can not exist independently outside of a particle.

• A comment on Talk: A robot that flies like a bird

  Jul 23 2011: Sooo beautiful!
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  A comment on Talk: Laura Trice suggests we all say thank you

  Jul 17 2011: Soo the solution to numerous problems is solved by magic words : Thank you!
  
  Thank you for such inspirational talk!