simple as saying something is just bad. And when you look at the history of humans um trying to figure out which bacteria are bad, they made some very dull mistakes and simple mistakes in the beginning and they just got better at evaluating these kind of things by learning from the immune system. Soinitially for example humans would say all bacteria are bad because they found them in you know diseases and then they said oh they cause tuberculosis. So
Why is it that games and gamers are the ones on trial constantly being asked, what their purpose is, what purpose they serve in the world when our stupid, boring, gray, dull , irritating, pointless existences in so many ways are not the things on trial.Why isn't every dull interaction that we have on trial?
You can barely make out the stuff going on, on the inside. Dull , dull , dull cell phone designs!
It was, it's, it could possibly be one of the dullest instruments, dullest scientific instruments ever invented but it's also perhaps the most important, because it allowed scientists to study matter on a, on an atomic level. So, it analyzed, they used it in developing the atomic bomb they isolated isotopes, and all that fun stuff.
while the class's drug dealer of choice has his pick in Harvard and Brown. How the valedictorian who was also the student body president retreated in humiliation to a safety school, while the dullest dishwater football player charted off to Cornell. Who were these people in the admissions office at Swarthmore and Williams? And what could they have been thinking when they accepted Camilla Walden, Portia's soccer teammate and the most superficial girl she had ever met, but passed over Gordana Miles who wrote her own column in the school newspaper,
if if you drank you did things that you would not ordinarily do because it dulled your conscience and he was not obviously successful everybody everybodyknows what happened in Russia and that alcoholism continued to rage but had he been successful I mean he actually
Chocolate actually has six polymorphs. The dull chocolate is mostly Form IV, and that has a melting point of around 27 degrees Celsius. While the shiny chocolate, which is the one we want, is mostly Form V, and that has a higher melting point of around 34 degrees Celsius.
them we pledge to fight Blue Sky Thinking wherever we find it life would be dull if we had to look up at cloudless monotony day afterday we seek to remind people that clouds are expressions of the atmosphere's moods and can be read like those of a person's
that you want to raise about either what I've said or what you may have read in the book those of you who had a chance the dullet the former Untouchables in India see as as a great political inspiration to them but it's not just
Nazi rocket scientists play a big part in this story. Near Dulles Airport. Yeah, near Dulles Airport.
Former President Eisenhower's there. Allen Dulles was there. The widow of Foster Dulles and various dignitaries.
in different proportions, according to different situations. The Dulles brothers did not grow up believing that. They believed that were forces of good and evil and that the good, that is the Christians, didn't have the luxury of sitting at home
that they were ready to concede a chance for Ho Chi Minh to compete freely for power in Vietnam. Foster Dulles could not accept this. He believed that just because the French could not defeat Ho Chi Minh and the British hadn't been able to do it and the Japanese had failed
But Allen Dulles was completely different. Allen Dulles was a sparkling conversationalist and a great dinner guest who loved fine wine and played tennis and had a hundred affairs with everybody from Claire Booth Luce to the Queen of Greece.
I think in an indirect way, that was a belief that Eisenhower and the Dulles brothers had. The Dulles brothers were not thoughtful.
They are, on one level, objective facts. Which is incredibly dull .
They possess a panoramic view of their surroundings. So their seemingly dull look is not a reflection of their intelligence so much a consequence of having eyes on the sides of their heads.
An important application of quantum computers will be research and development in material science and chemistry. That might sound dull , but. In some countries, food security is at crisis levels.
And I remember her walking me through how the sun came up to the sky. The world is dull and cruel when we isolate ourselves.
They become dull ? De-sensitized, they go away.
It's just a dull word.
They had a dull finish, like old aluminum.
It's never a dull moment. Yeah. Mhm. So, you're also working with someone who has the number one, it was the number one
be very dull or dry and then you actually start researching them and they become really exciting for sure yeah
looked really dull and Dead next to a really vibrant two color spread so the
It's so dull . Yeah, it's really dull .
If you have a dull knife, it needs to be sharpened.
4chan's pretty dull these days.
Maybe if have a dull knife, you're basically breaking each cell of flesh.
How painfully dull was that, right?
dull , irritating, pointless existences in so many ways are not the things on trial.Why isn't every dull interaction that we have on trial? Why are the things that bring us so much joy, the things that bring us so much engagement the things that we
They do get dull .
trying not to be dull , to try to get some sense of that wonder back into prose.
And then the dull knife is what you cut yourself with because you slip on a tomato and your whack yourself.
hearing how dull this is?" And I was not. I felt he was fascinating.
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turn out to be idiosyncratically cerebral? A true, original kid whose unqualifiedable abilities would lift the discourse in every class he enrolled in. How could you know that the thoroughly dull high school junior struggling to make conversation over cider and cookies would emerge as the writing program's most gifted novelist in a decade? Still, when their faces came back to her now, swimming up from the accounts of debating triumphs and stage fright at the piano recital, she sometimes wish she have been able to say to them, "Don't.
kind of dull boring but then i made an analogy with the constitution of a country like supposing you're starting a
and it's dull and boring and uh this won't be that. It'll be it might be dull and boring, but it's going to be at
Depression is really the dulling of emotion, really losing interest and sometimes completely withdrawing.
Director Allen Dulles to actually engage in this called Operation TPAJAX, led by
You don't hire dullards.
He looks duller. His head is poking forward.
This is Allen Macy Dulles .
And Allen Macy Dulles was a young soldier in Korea, and he went out in November of 1952
And Allen Dulles gets a pass on that, because he doesn't remember and he can't remember.
We'll be discussing his newest book, "The Brothers. John Foster Dulles , Allen Dulles and their Secret World War." Stephen Kinzer is an award-winning foreign correspondent who has unflinchingly covered more than 50 countries on five continents for newspapers including the "Boston Globe" and the "New York Times," over a career that
and writes a world affairs column for the "Guardian." "The Brothers" is his ninth book on international affairs. The story of the Dulles brothers is a story of the creation of the US intelligence community, of the beginning of US covert actions around the world, and of the overthrow of foreign governments in the name of democracy and the interests of the giant corporations the brothers spent their careers serving.
Allen Dulles was there. The widow of Foster Dulles and various dignitaries. Kennedy made a nice little speech.
And as I stared at that clip, I started asking myself, I never saw-- where is that bust? I've been through Dulles Airport. I wasn't really looking for it.