to goofy to ask, or boring to Google. Her previous books include: "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers," "Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife" and "Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex." Her newest book is "Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void." Now Mary probably had aspirations of becoming an astronaut, but Mary has done us the courtesyof researching all things that our eight-year-old selves forgot to think of like, how you keep clean up in space? Showers don't work without gravity. What do you eat? Mom's Rice Krispy
It just made no sense to me. So coupling those two things together-- again, being adopted, mixed race parents, having some friends in the LGBT community who have been impacted by this, as well-- it, just, became important for me to talk about this.
It's nice to be back here, at Google, always interesting to me. I was saying just yesterday on the air, we had a program some of you may have heard from 9 to 9:30. It's one of these odd couplings that we sometimes do in public radio at your NPR affiliate. We spent the second half hour talking about sea otters, but before that, we talked about succession in high-tech companies. And it seemed to me to be one of those news stories whose time had come, because Mackwell, who was in town, but also because Steve Jobs going on temporary
is happening miles under the surface of the ocean miles under the surface of the earth. And tight coupling is this idea that once the failure starts to happen, there's not a lot of slack in our system to correct it. So it moves faster than we can move.
How much carbohydrate's in when I'm going to eat? Am I coupling it with any protein that will slow the burn in my body? How much insulin do I already have working in my system?
When somebody tells you a story, the same regions of your brain and your speaker's brain literally light up. It's called neuro coupling . You are literally in sync.
We're going for the sex later, but I'll get to that later. So this coupling , this intimate coupling with our environment is a basic fact. Now, the yeast, for example, is also
They send a lot of soldiers into strange valleys in Afghanistan and Iraq that are not well scouted where you don't know what you're going to find. feel the coupling should have worked on their end and it's the other guy's fault it didn't.
We used to celebrate .. even in the couplings of the trains, people sitting in front of the engine.
It's a chain reaction that generates chain reaction seeds. And it happens through this synergistic coupling , where both of them stop the other from failing.
Let them have that moment. Like they call it neural coupling , but it's mind meld, right.
stack processing of the device, we can get a lot of the polar groups in the polymer to stick to thin film metals, to stick to insulators, and really give us great coupling through these thin film layers. So we'll build between 20- and 200-nanometer layers of gold.
That means we are literally in sync. They call it mind-to-mind coupling . I just call it being in sync.
So if you have questions, I'd be happy to answer them. And more and more movements are in fact coupling the gilet jaunes and the ecologist movements.
interact very very weakly with each other in and therefore the only inter action is gravity they do not emit absorb or reflect light so there's no electromagnetic coupling and the only way you would see dark matter is indirectly but the interesting thing is the pie chart which is the contents of our universe is that the majority the uh
of back and forth between what cognitive psychologists would call perceptual coupling -- that is, when we relate to the outer world through perception and action,
So that's a kind of cycle of perceptual coupling , and then awareness of spontaneous mental content returning to the perceptual sensation of the breath.
And we just happened to live in the epoch where the coupling constants evolve like a genetic code, like a genetic mutation, to actually
But not going to the extent of actually coupling the mind with the computer.
formula which is has uh uh measures the coupling between the uh nuclear weapon
And so when I'm using the term "happiness," it's that coupling of both how you're feeling now during it, as well as how you feel about it.
So there appears to be a fundamental difference and a very clear coupling between the two.
to and men-- because this is a really important part of when you start coupling .
Obviously, there's no real coupling , you know?
Which of them do you think would be a stronger candidate for admission? One example that we really like is you can use this idea of complexity and coupling , and you can sort of use that as a heuristic to figure out
It's not resistance. It's coupling .
In mathematics, we call it coupling .
Let them have that moment. The last thing I want to talk to you about is neural coupling .
So when you find that journalist, coupling them with a few dozen or dozens of thought leadership folks, a committee, within the organization is advantageous.
But I can tell you in my anecdotal experience it seems like most couplings that I've seen are yin and yang couplings where it's one introvert and one extrovert.
But in the rich world at least, we're seeing this decline in coupling
And then as soon as I moved to New Zealand, I was also coupling that with wanting to explore more.
So if you have questions, I'd be happy to answer them. So since 30 years, we are talking about this coupling of social and environmental issues.
It's a chain reaction that generates chain reaction seeds. It's a self-regenerative emergent constraint, a synergistic coupling between two self-organization processes that prevent each other's degeneration.
And I said, Murray, if we call it coupling , they'll think about rabbits mating.
But every time it actually runs into this so-called big bang, the coupling constants of nature of all the forces
think, probably the most romantic, smoke-enshrouded coupling that Hollywood ever put together.
And I've worked with the creator of this to come up with different meditation practices that are linked to the different couplings of moods.
they're at in life, and nonetheless, they're still living on their own, they're not coupling up, and not having children.
conspiracy to destroy the black boys Volume one through three, and then right again turning around and creating the conspiracy to destroy the black girls, coupling that
However, one thing that changed a lot is that, at one point in time, we started coupling the idea of cryptocurrency and blockchain
And when you think about the added complexity of regulatory environments, and some of what the government tries to do around coupling huge initiatives,
Which of them do you think would be a stronger candidate for admission? but then you also have to think in terms of this-- in terms if you think about transparency, complexity, and coupling as variables when you're designing the system,
We need this. And really the direction that we have to go is in machine learning and pattern recognition, and coupling that to our devices being
If we mind wander or if we daydream, or if we're practicing meditation where the perceptual coupling aspect might be say, attending to the breath.
So one of the questions that we were trying to understand is the so-called how to deal with the fine-tuning of the coupling constants in nature.