This used to be the view, and maybe still is in some corners of even bilinguals or trilinguals that each of those people possess a monolingual native speaker's knowledge of a language just glommed onto each other, and that the hyperpolyglot is just a more extreme version of that. I've had conversations with people saying, "Did Mezzofanti speak 72 languages like a native speaker?" The implication being that if he didn't like a native speaker, then it's not a phenomenon
experienced that when we're anxious it's like really it's just anxiety looking for its next target to glom onto and then most of our thoughts are just colored by that background of anxiety okay so that's the first flag of alembic trance that we're off and running with kind of obsessive
It tends to stick to itself. It tends to just glom up in these big globs that you see here. The plaques are actually when hundreds of thousands, or millions, of these molecules of A beta all get glommed together in this really dense, insoluble blob
And it's not unsafe. Wet surfaces also glom smoke and hold on to it.
Oh, thank you. And then once the boys start forming a little clump, all the other boys are like, oh there's boys I'm going to go over there. And then they glom onto them and then you end up with people on separate sides of the dance floor and that's not what you want. You really want to maybe give them a little alcohol.
and dogs and Japanese anime are really attractive to us. And we immediately glom on to these big eyes and big head proportions. And they will accelerate how much we bond with them.
and Jerry's hippie ice cream, 1969 Gap jeans, Phish shows, Cheech and Chong, even Whole Foods,tries to glom on to this brand of the '60s was this crunchy, happy, but not really serious decade. And all of the serious stuff out of the '60s gets written out of the story. Now, what I show in the book is that this then becomes, starting in the '80s, the way we see our politics. So,
The other thing though is that genuinely the way you socially behave has some implications for your career outcome. And so it really is that we didn't find any A-listers in Las that we still did glom onto the blockbusters.
films, but also the Marvel cinematic universe, the superhero universe, which is fundamentally a fantasy setting with a couple bits of science fiction that are glommed on. You have grand, dramatic action in a world that is much harder for individual human beings to know and control.
know how to pick out the signal so this is you must have all seen this was just incredible I really did not imagine it cluster is an Al glomeration of about a thousand galaxies that are held together as we'll see by huge amounts of dark
"conversation," they're not having a conversation at all. They're kind of glomming onto us to get us to almost support their fragile selves. So if you, when you're alone, are constantly going to your phone instead of being able to tolerate that moment of gathering yourself,
And now, drug companies-- so now we're getting to the biotechnology part of the talk. Drug companies are starting to glom onto this and say, hey, we've got a goldmine here. We need to develop drugs against this amyloid protein.
I say, Abu Muhammad, I am so impressed by what you have done in the last few months. And so I literally watched this guy's eyes glom onto my six-year-old niece and watch her walk down
creatinine was something called eGFR. So, glomerular filtration rate is an estimation of your kidney health. So, the problem is when individuals on creatine supplementation, they go to their doctor for their annual blood work, their creatinine might be a little bit elevated, and that's only from the breakdown of the the compound. And then,
Rather than having someone sit down and tell us all what to do, we all do what we think needs to be done. And we have a tool that lets the parts of it that are useful glom together. So today, we can build an encyclopedia the way that we used to apply bureaucracy to the problem of building a bake sale.
my so I want you close some breath part of this? How do we glom on to this?" And they're literally just extending like a big middle finger to them, just like rewriting the rules. So,
can understand that and so as a result what happens is we glom onto those things we can understand those things
the world um more people have been killed at the bansai pan than the glomeration of all the deaths and
And we see that on social media, where people glom onto those who are most-- creating kind of like a narcissistic tribe.
Now, I'm not going to get into the zona glomerulosa, fasciculata, all these wonderful Latin names that won't make any sense to you.
And I do believe we can also find, when we're in meetings with many, we can find that connector in the room and glom on.
That's amazing. And we would play songs by Cream or Eric Clapton or play the 12 bar blues or whatever, and I just got to glom onto his world.
Well, this is '91, the last movie was '83, and the fans were very quiet, because there's nothing to glom onto.
It tends to just glom up in these big globs that you see here. The plaques are actually when hundreds of thousands, or millions, of these molecules of A beta all get glommed together in this really dense, insoluble blob that the brain just doesn't know what to do with.