Results for “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End”

… of a transformation: the (maximal) entropy, S, of a system is the logarithm of the number,Q, of its available ways of being, (i.e., S = log ). That is, one way a 30 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013530

…ld me in a phone interview on Saturday. "But I haven't had any social, or any other kind of contact. ... You never stop being a person's lawyer." Background: Dershowitz helped Epstein get a sweetheart plea deal from then-U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta (now Donald Trump's labor se...

36 Teaching Minds Then, what is the role of the subconscious here? When a child is be- ing taught at 3, he is not being taught consciously. He does not memo- rize rules for walking or talking and he does not learn anything very much by consciously trying to learn. Rather, a chil...

…sport by brain mechanisms, it is important to visualize that new information in the form of unstable periodic orbits is being created as well as destroyed by the dynamics. The logarithmic rate of formation of these new orbits is computed as the system’s topological entropy (see...

As a result, notwithstanding my considerable feminist writing and activism, I live in fear of my "feminist card" being revoked because of my BDSM identity. Yet, simultaneously, my practice of BDSM has greatly informed my feminist understanding. Rape and consent are both very imp...

…“gray” list, where denials are less absolute and sometimes temporary or limited only to certain categories of visa. But being cast into the “gray” status helps create exactly the kind of uncertainty about what behavior might lead to visa denial, thus inducing self-censorship in t...

…ombat Trafficking.” The database would contain law enforcement sensitive information, which would prevent the data from being accessible to non-law enforcement agencies, many of which are a part of the interagency task force, Furthermore, such a database would be difficult to cre...

…y Epstein more than 50 times), at 164, line 19-23 and 141, line 12-13 and 605, line 3-6 (describing that in addition to being personally molested by Epstein she was paid $200 per underage girl she brought Epstein and she brought him more than seventy (70) underage girls - she tol...

… scientific director of the Foundational Questions Institute; and the author of Our Mathematical Universe and Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Although there’s great controversy about how and when AI will impact humanity, the situation is clearer from...

…n regarding the sexual exploitation of minors, , was interviewed by bé the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). After being advised of b7¢c the identity of the interviewing agents and purpose of the inhemview, [_—_] volentart ly provided the following information: was formerly...

… complain that joslin in ruining my work... you describe me as zeus, i describe it as artist and a reaction to his work being ruined. however Im aware that you own the work and you have the right to paint over it. tear it up , put it in the closet in the basement . its yours. I...

…, they are too invulnerable to be able to make a credible promise. ... What would be the penalty for promise- breaking? Being locked in a cell or, more plausibly, dismantled?. . . The very ease of digital recording and transmitting—the breakthrough that permits software and data...

…him, that we'd work something out. The next few days -- weeks -- time, I don't know; however long it was, it felt like being put through a shredder. I couldn't think about anything but that night and how, through my turmoil and tears, I'd found a kind of exultation. I had been s...

…greed with him. Tzipi was reluctant, but Olmert turned to her and said: “Are you sure you’re comfortable with an attack being ordered by me and Barak, while you chose to abstain?” She thought it over, and added her approval. We struck just after midnight, in an intricately coord...

…als before submitting applications in order to pave the way. Nonetheless, a few think-tank analysts are concerned about being beholden to the embassy or the consulate and the shadow such dependency casts on their ability to continue their work. One analyst indicated that although...