In the book, I cite over the work of over 4,000 researchers. Bio and ecoacoustics used to be a fairly small, constrained discipline because the equipment you needed was pretty specialized and would fill an entire minivan.Now, these devices are so light, and portable, and cheap, you can build one yourself for less than $100.
- And at the time, Jim was associated with the Santa Fe Institute, and he started asking around with, is there anyone up here that's interested in these biological scaling relationships? And then the president at the time said, "You know what? I know of this physicist who's up at Los Alamos who was talking about biological scaling relationships." And so we met Geoffrey and it was like immediately,
Boredom is well, it's boring. People don't like it, but the truth of the matter is that we are designed biologically to be bored a lot. There's a set of structures in our brains called the default mode network. It turns on when you're undistracted, when you're bored. That's the set of structures that we need for right hemispheric activity
And one of the things I would point to is look at biology. Biology is crazy. Look at all the different life forms, like the giraffe, the squid. Mm-hmm. That's the kind of system we are.
At this moment, I think... biodiversity and the impacts of biodiversity, to think about the pollution crisis differently. But it's kind of gotten in the turn of disinformation.
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things whose behavior really requires the kinds of tools that we use in behavioral cognitive neuroscience, and those are other kinds of minds that we think we study in biology or in psychology or other sciences. - Why are you using the term persuadability? Who are you persuading, and of what?
can be efficiently discovered and modeled by a classical learning algorithm." What kind of patterns of systems might be included in that? Biology, chemistry, physics, maybe cosmology? - Yup. - Neuroscience.
If forced to recommend two, at this moment, I would say the Russo-Ukrainian War by Serhii Plokhy and The Showman by Simon Schuster, which is a good personal behind-the-scenes biography of the President focused on 2022. But there are many, many more. This is why I can comfortably say that he is a truly singular and remarkable human being.
School. Yes. I grew up in California. I became a biochemist, and then I wound up being interested in medicine because biochemistry is being applied to humans in medicine. So, I became a physician, and then I went into neurology, and I'm a neurologist, and then by accident, somebody insisted that they wanted a sleep study, and this
outdoors like every other animal. We have decided that we are special, but we're not special. We're Our biochemistry is like every other animal. Okay, so these two These inputs are coming all at the same time and I'm puzzling over these sleep studies. That first gal had
all in their head. That's not necessarily true. Many young men do develop erectile dysfunction because of biologic factors, but the data is really robust on older guys. So above the age of 50, we see 52% of men having erectile dysfunction, which is 52%.
21 22. My adopted mother was very gracious because I said I won't meet my biological mother without the permission of my adopted mother. She did all the work of raising me. all the hardships, all of my she put up with all of my rambunctiousness and teenage years and uh drove me to hockey practice and you
of the the ODNI. And that instead their primary concern was that Iran was going to focus resources into the research of biological and chemical weapons. So the fact that in March of 2025, the ODNI, the assessment of all intelligence agencies, said Iran is not working on a nuclear weapon. And then, after the strike in June of the same year, where
Well, he's too old. Biology is undefeated and he's too old. We've now gone through I think what are the top people's thinking about Republicans. So, we're now getting to the also-rans. And I think these are
species. We survived thousands of years because we found a way to group together. We we have selflessness in our biology and I give sort of, you know, a bunch of anecdotes and evidence in the book about, you know, why we know we actually, um, want to be selfless, that we want to exist in groups, we don't want to be viewed simply as individuals.
are because of folks with a different skin color than you." That speaks to something that's you know, that's that's biological. But, I I I think that you know, there's um there's a silver lining here in our failures as as a broad sort of left movement to compete with this storyline. It's that there's a true
they have to have a safety plan that they make public for how they'll handle risks around what could happen if someone were to misuse it for a bioweapon or how they could lose control of AI or like the really big impacts, uh they have to make that public. They have to then disclose to the government critical safety incidents, which we define in the bill as causing a serious
biology to sort of inch towards a more secure um mode and then the final part
biologically, if they don't know, you know, I have this superpower that I'm actually sensitive to environmental cues
Biology is a load of exceptions.
biochemistry. And that begs this question why is biochemistry that way rather than it could be any other way.
Biomimicry is the study of nature for inspiration to solve human design challenges.
Biophilia, any way that we can connect with nature, either inside the building or having a campus where you can experience it,
All of that needs to be stood up. Biochemicals take a long time to produce and convey, and they're energetically expensive.
Biodynamic means that the wine was not only organic, but made according to the rhythms of the cosmos,
Biology tends to self-sustain and propagate.
Biomechanical prosthesis, that is computational mechanical devices which supplement or replace brain functions, will be necessary to augment
biomedical therapies. Many of you are familiar with the rapidly developing field of brain-computer interfaces.
Biotech is the place to be.
Biocon took the big bet, and we made those huge investments.
Biomass is down about to under five.
Biomass, down low. Wind, down low, with a couple of estimates again depending on how you manufacture the wind turbines.
Biomass and wind and solar all contribute almost equally.
biographies of certain business people, and then somehow I stumble on these books of the saints.
Biogeochemical flow, so that is the amount of nutrients that we put into the ground through things like fertilizer.
Biogeochemical flow kind of counts as two because it's got two different elements.
biodiversity and so it seems so simple to people oh We need paper, so let's go
biodiversity is a good thing because we have all of these different plants and we can utilize them for medicinal
Biological computing, even intracellular.
biologist, sir. Okay. You 11. Your 11 year old boy from Trench Town Marine biologist. The next year lawyer, the
Biology, of course, has all sorts of other annoyances, like coughing.
Biotech is going to allow researchers to engineer pathogens deadlier and more contagious than anything found in nature.
Biology, for a long time, was the same way, programming biology.
Biologique bien entendu. Mais un élément de hasard justifie que toute une vie, une personne soit considérée
biology, including neuroscience and genetics, chemistry, physics, and math-- all into one framework.
Biohm is a research and development led company that places biological systems at the heart of its inspiration to create a healthier and more
biological approaches to consciousness-- my colleague Ned Block was here, I know, talking about neurobiology-based approaches, where it's not the algorithm that matters,
Biography, I'm trained as a historian of science and technology.
Biography is not easy to write.