professional storytellers. We write books for a living, or I write op-eds for "The New York Times." But we're all storytellers, in the sense that we've all absorbed some stories that we take for granted, and we tell these stories to each other all the time.Most often, for example, about what this country is.
consider scense but molecules which are not volatile but instead um have to be absorbed um and that includes things like hormones so when people talk about dogs being able to perceive someone'sfear or this that's perhaps the smell of cortisol that's how they're that's why they're so
It used to also be that they accepted some other things that might be equity, might absorb losses under some conditions, and no such capital-- what they called-- absorbed losses in the crisis.Everybody got paid. Even if you were promised except in this case and that case, you were paid.
atmosphere. What does that mean? Thirty gigatons naturally occurring carbon in the atmosphere is about 700 gigatons. So it's about 5% a year. In 20 years we're doubling the amount of carbon. Unless it's absorbed or unless the earth is adapting. So we don't know what's going to happen. This is the chart that the International Energy Agency where they projectout on current conditions. So business as usual. And you can see that essentially there's growth in the carbon production roughly speaking with the growth of electricity consumption because there's a direct growth.
rapt. I was rapt by all of these conversations. And, um you know, that period of pregnancy I don't think I'm unique in feeling like it's a time of your life where you are completely absorbed with navel gazing obvious, for obvious reasons, because your navel is becoming ever more prominent. But you know you spend all your time that you're not working consideringbeing pregnant and rubbing cocoa butter all over your belly so it's nice to be with other people who are doing the same thing.
When you shine light at an atom, the atom can either absorb the light or ignore it. An absorbed photon of light will excite an electron within the atom to a higher energy level. You can think of these energy levels as discrete platforms that the electrons can jump between, just like in a video game.
And then and then out from him would come this music that contained the lint from all these other threads and fabrics that he had absorbed in his brain I mean, tell me a little bit about risk as well. Because I think one of the lovely things somebody once said to me about Lenny was that he took huge risks.
Building. Does anybody in this room know Bill de Blasio-- the mayor of New York? gets absorbed by the ocean.
But that couple decided that they wanted a girl. got absorbed into the computer age, a kind of can if you will, so much mental, an intricate kind of can.
But it's about sort of what it is like to be a work and have a boss and have to balance that with other things and I don't know that I could get that if I were not working. self-absorbed place, right. He literally lives in a box and inside of his own head and he doesn’t interact with people anymore and he has to, that's a moment where Charles remembers that you can still
But Alfred saw beyond their beauty to the microscopic holes in their exoskeletons. how fast it absorbed the blood.
So Chemours claimed a dose as high as 70 parts per billion of GenX in drinking water would still be safe. They can't be absorbed into your bloodstream, so you're pretty safe.
Keeping going doesn't guarantee the perfect outcome you envision, What have you absorbed or learned the most, or found most novel and useful, in these past few years?
And then markets have to clear. So anything that gets produced get either used as an intermediate input somewhere else or gets absorbed by the consumer. Okay. and the and the and the factors have to clear. That's it. Okay. So, think of it as we set up a large input
That's one of the things I really appreciated about your book was it had a really good balance of, here's what you can control, and also here's what you have potentially absorbed , and that it's not your fault that those things were said to you, which was really affirming. OK. Another thing I really appreciated was that you defined success specifically in the book,
So it gets absorbed within a couple of hundred meters.
deeply uh absorbed into something it generates flow high level what is called
So they effectively absorbed bits of Germany and Central Europe.
back and become absorbed , then it becomes very difficult for us to have that awe moment.
can be naturally absorbed by oceans and other carbon sinks.
And I just absorbed what they were doing, stood back, and watched them kind of give the book life with photography.
can't be absorbed . So what that means is, we need 1.7 earths to support today's consumption.
And they really absorbed that and wanted to learn that.
And that gets absorbed into the green coffee.
So it absorbed all the liquid and all the moisture that we wanted it to absorb .
And so I've absorbed a lot of opera.
She sort of absorbed it.
"Because I had absorbed the lesson of my mother's decision-- don't acknowledge death, don't notice pain, don't pay attention to any feelings--
It gets absorbed . So there is that-- it's becoming different on the supply side.
And it absorbed a lot of capital.
You're very absorbed . Your concentration is here.
Or just getting absorbed in yourself and like, oh, my feelings.
you are fully absorbed in it, if you quietly reflect, you will see that your mind has become calm.
When I am really absorbed , there is no distraction, which means every human being has the potential to remain undistracted.
we've absorbed into the way we think about race.
keep getting absorbed and re-emitted and hitting the telescope and heating it up.
I was absorbed by Kathy, by the two little kids in our lives, and by work.
The water is absorbed into the body Simply put, the effect is edema or swelling Especially, for those who work in Google, you are on your computers
The smartphone has absorbed a lot of these different products and different nodes, not just a music player like the
have otherwise absorbed . And so that ups the intake that you would need daily of water.
They were absorbed in puzzles day by day.
Which I absorbed it.
They were absorbed by gases in each planet's atmosphere, giving us important clues about their composition.
And they're completely absorbed in it because they're interested in it for its own sake, not because they have to solve it in order to move on.
It doesn't get absorbed into the aquifer, into the underground storage facilities that nature gives us.
to be absorbed with the same technology-- a smartphone, today's universal prosthetic.
That FP division had absorbed enormous risks and became, really, a cancer that threatened to metastasise across the company until the great surgeons
the food would get absorbed into the bloodstream.
of uh absorbed in his or her problems and during those times it is
that we're self-absorbed and fundamentally unserious and don't have the attention spans for anything longer than say, a YouTube video or 140 characters.