One opportunity led to the next. With startling swiftness, Asha was hired to play alongside Alanis Morissette, and after that on a US tour with Gnarls Barkley, opening for the Red Hot Chili Peppers in front of 30,000 people a night.
It said, one in eight women will get breast cancer in her lifetime. Pretty startling figure, right? And if you're a woman, it's pretty frightening. You go, one, two, three, four, right? Well, what they didn't tell you about that figure is that for a woman to be exposed to the full one in eight risk,
I was going to write a book about this subject. Because startlingly enough, this is a subject that we all need to know, because as a social animal, we spend all of our time dealing with people.
What place surprised you for this edition? The most startling place that I went-- and this was right before COVID, a few months before COVID, was to a winery about 10,000 feet in the Himalayas in the Tibetan Autonomous Region of Yunnan Province in China.
So in 19 years, in less than a generation, Americans lost 1/3 of their close friends besides family. That's startling and really concerning. Because when I looked at the research on human longevity, on what causes us to live a long time, as much as I'd like to think that it's
can be attributed to fatigue. And even the most startling one, I thought, was that 16% of people in one study have admitted to falling asleep recently while driving. So the motivation for taking this seriously is there.
But the reality is, it's really a humbling sport or activity. And that was pretty startling to a lot of transplant surgeons who thought maybe that was murder, really.
Physical stuff, you could say. And this is extremely startling , if you've had this sort of conventional upbringing. When you get this, when you really get this, you're on the verge, in my view, of becoming a real naturalist, a real materialist.
schedules are in different neighborhoods, even garbage pickup schedules in various neighborhoods. And that was a startling interaction from this company that was founded on algorithmic selection.
You just don't get results like that in the social sciences. It's startling . And the same is true of the presidential elections. And it's been known for a long time.
came from a totally different musical tradition. It was still startling to hear a DJ mix that might move from current hip hop to Jamaican dance hall to some kind of 20th century classical music, whatever.
or perhaps, our pet populations are decreasing for that reason. And they're quite startling numbers-- the fact that our cat numbers have decreased by 15%, and our dog numbers are starting to fall as well. So for a nation that prides itself on being pet lovers-- and we easily refer to our pets as being our best mates--
And then with modern cellphones, you can record yourself, not only your audio. It was startling what happened.
I mean, I was pleasantly surprised by that. It's probably startling . Rob and I were talking about that the other day.
That's 2014, not a good gap between what we say we believe and how we behave-- not the startling part. Here's the startling part. That behavior's up since 2012.
in language the startling extremes that were the hallmarks of Steve's personality and charisma after Apple started.
It is a startling admission for any President of the United States.
We love novelty. That's unusual. That's startling . Oh, that goes on the front page. That's routine -- boring, yawn, moving along. And, of course, these stories are true.
and indeed it had startlingly accurate diagrams of the exact kind of boats I was looking at and wanting to know about
And that was a pretty startling thing to have fall out.
What if he hadn't made that startling assertion of 15 more times?
So your book is built on this startling study that you conducted in 2017.
Added sugar appears in a startling array of foods you wouldn't expect.
So that's been a startling revelation.
We're not aware of what actually motivates our behavior. I thought this was rather startling . It's as if we possess a stranger inside of ourselves who's governing our behavior.
So that was quite a startling thing when you think how many other people he'd been funding at that time.
"I wish my color would fade." Really startling work to uncover from a 22-year-old working in Hearst in Pulitzer's newspapers.
But I do know something really startling happened as he was working back in Los Angeles as a sports cartoonist.
I know that may not be startling news for us here in the Bay Area in San Francisco, because you could be middle income,
And what they would say was startling .
And he knew that he would come home humiliated in front of his community. Why do I tell you this seemingly startling and even intimate detail about this young man who was 19 years old at the time? Because this is a guy who's a good, good guy.
seem to be coming into fashion again-- startling cravats, and hair all soaked and slick with sickening oils.
as you saw captain Bors presentation startling evidence of elastic ingestion by fish that are the basis of the food
everywhere and it was really startling what what would happen when we would go to uh this one specialty produce market
book where you talk about a startlingly easy moment in the in discovery of planets. I think it was when you were
It's filled with larger than life details and startling quotes, such as this one from folk musician, Jim Kweskin, the man who five years earlier was
But of course, the startling discovery we now know is, of course, that Laplace was completely wrong.
And the part I remember reading about that was really startling was that the snake-- it was, like, flicking its tongue at her.
was feeling very discouraged because I hadn't had any startling observations to contribute to my team.
It seems to me that it would take a startling unique blend of literacy and illiteracy to mistakenly read this book to a
everybody in between so those are some words that obviously are startling and
because they are the implications of exponential growth are startling but it's is not just in the future we've
Instead these were stories about things they were very startlingly specific talents that people lost.
it. I mean that's startling .
I thought, OK. I guess I'm hoping to be fine because I want to come back and write about this winery. So yes, that was a startling wine journey. I guess everything happens for a reason.
I mean, it's kind of startling , is it?
And we're going to see that some of those findings are quite startling .
like 0 to 80, can be very startling when you're already compounded by having a sense of self that has changed anyway and certainly a day with a hard stop
There were two striking aspects of it. One of them, not very startling . Namely, in the Republican primary, a person who was hated by the establishment, but who happens to be a billionaire won the nomination.
These are sea slugs, also a startling variety of shapes, forms, colors, textures.