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automation, for all its benefits, can take a toll on the performance and talents of those who rely on it.
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The choices we make, or fail to make, about which tasks we hand off to machines shape our lives and the place we make for ourselves in the world.
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A labor-saving device doesn't just provide a substitute for some isolated component of a job or other activity. It alters the character of the entire task, including the roles, attitudes, and skills of the people taking part.
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Automation turns us from actors into observers. Instead of manipulating the yoke, we watch the screen. That shift may make our lives easier, but it can also inhibit the development of expertise.
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even if a perfect system could be designed, it would still have to operate in an imperfect world.
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the best instructional programs help students master a subject by encouraging attentiveness, demanding hard work, and reinforcing learned skills through repetition.
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a cloudy cocktail called Smoke, made by mixing water and fuel alcohol. Smoke joints were tucked into the back of paint stores, drugstores, and markets, among the dry goods and the stacked cans.
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Learning requires inefficiency.
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Does our essence still lie in what we know, or are we now content to be defined by what we want? If we don't grapple with that question ourselves, our gadgets will be happy to answer it for us.
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Although traditional weapons killed far more people in the Great War, poison gas gave a new nightmare edge to the fighting.
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TV's influence on gender attitudes, social advancement, and fertility rates was equivalent to the impact of an extra five years of female education.
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If your brain does not receive sufficient stimulus, it might find something else to do--it daydreams, it wanders, it thinks about itself. If this goes on too long, it can affect your mind's normal functioning. Chronic boredom correlates with depression and attention deficits.
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That same January the city government had released a report declaring that thanks to ill-informed, corrupt, and occasionally drunken coroners, murderers in New York were escaping justice in record numbers.
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Social isolation is the best-established, most robust social or psychological risk factor for disease out there. Nothing can compete.
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At Stone's direction, Harry removed ovaries, blinded the female rats, and removed their olfactory bulbs. Sightless, hormone-deprived--it didn't matter. The mother rats crawled determinedly toward the baby rats. They were slower, maybe, but the homing instinct was magnetic, needle to the north.
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Your experiences today will influence the molecular composition of your body for the next two to three months," he tells his audience, "or, perhaps, for the rest of your life. Plan your day accordingly."
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At the end, in Harry's handiwork, there's nothing sentimental about love, no sunlit clouds and glory notes - it's a substantial, earthbound connection, grounded in effort, kindness and decency. Learning to love, Harry liked to say, is really about learning to live. Perhaps everyday affection seems a small facet of love. Perhaps, though, it is the modest, steady responses that see us through day after day, that stretch into a life of close a..
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Choosing not to feel pain is choosing a sort of death, a withering away of the expansive self.
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Up close, aggressive measures are required to be impervious to suffering; you have to convince yourself that people deserve what they're getting, that their suffering has nothing to do with you. Our capacity for empathy is why the reality of war is usually kept from us or delivered in measured, manipulative doses--our wounded, perhaps, but not theirs, or those of our wounded who make for uplifting stories, but not those who are severely mut..
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were spoiling
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In the early twentieth century it had been used to remove the hair of children with scalp infections, such as ringworm, so that doctors could see and treat the fungus. But that practice had been abandoned when too many of the toddlers died.
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We and all the others and everyone--regardless of the lives we'd led, and more than anything else, and beyond the agonies and dangers that attend every act and action of ours in this life, we all wanted to live. And that desire, if not the result, is something to think about.
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Imagination enlarges us--as though our nervous systems could be made vast and at home in the world, if not at ease with its cruelties and losses. Comfort is dangerous. You can be overwhelmed by suffering, as relief workers sometimes are, and your ability to imagine and engage is finite--as anyone who deletes all those e-mails urging us to act for prisoners or polar bears or disaster victims knows.
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At the present time I am spending nearly $300 a month from my own personal funds for work which in my opinion has absolutely to be done to keep up the work of the office,
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Human life must be cheap to the one who can place the dollar above it" -John Ruston"
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