to dust and pollen and allergens in our food um and it turns out that the immune system doesn't just indiscriminately kill microbes it actually tolerates the ones that uh live in our bodies and help us um it selects for them it decides which species get to live with us and where they get to live so forget the
There is a difference. You see hoarders collect indiscriminately and artists collect selectively. They only collect the things that they really love.
And we asked them to tell us how they felt about their performance. You can't just copy or learn from people indiscriminately because if so, you'll get some bad information as well as good information.
cancer-causing things and have some foods that are going to do just the opposite protect you against cancer because that's how many of you are afraid of cancer most people are it seems to hit indiscriminately but it's really not indiscriminate it's really a result of a longstanding lifestyle it's not something that happens overnight even though you discover it overnight
It is depressing coming back to Britain, dealing my life in Syria, and Palestine, and global warming. with their Russian allies who have used heavy strategic bombers to bomb indiscriminately civilian areas.
But I think we need to go a little bit further if we want to ask, what is it that separates great leaders from their peers? And I think there, what I'm really interested in is not just being indiscriminately prosocial, not just being a servant leader, but being focused on the mission and saying, OK, how am I going to help make a group more than the sum of its parts.
So excellence in the core business is often the best form of service. But actually, the evidence doesn't show that companies that indiscriminately add value to society do well.
Wow. But what I see are innumerable flowers, each of them loved indiscriminately by light and by rain
Well I think for me along those lines, it's the idea of consequences. That when the bad guys are Nazis or aliens, you can kind of kill indiscriminately because they're evil. And so that's over.
Yeah. Yeah. So in the book, you describe three archetypes of the curious person-- the busybody, the hunter, and the dancer. So you describe the busybody as somebody who sets about collecting-- or again, I'm using collecting terminology-- sets about information through broadly indiscriminately just trying to get information.
And what often happens is, is that even though we enjoy our technology, what's happening is that if police are not seeing Uighars with cell phones, where they-- they're stopping people indiscriminately and asking to look at their phones. And if they don't give up their phones, then they're detaining them for that.
It's a matter of figuring out whether there's a way to press this, uh, more forcefully, um, to open up that archive. Uh, you know or open it up responsibly, like turn it in to something that you know people can check in and do research and check out or you know I'm not saying dump the whole thing on the web indiscriminately . So I, I think there are real questions about the Times. Um, on the other hand, I thought Bill Keller was eloquent in defending the principle of the freedom of the press to publish this and he