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We see that hyperactivity and reward areas are important when the bubble's rising. People getting caught up in it. We also see areas involving mentalizing, which means thinking about other people: Who's buying? Who's selling? Do they know something? We see emotional areas before the crash that indicate a sense of uncertainty or dread. ”
Acting requires a great amount of empathy for real lived human experiences. ”
Ben Askren is a joke. The guy has no skills. ”
Girls are told they're not skinny enough, or they hear, 'She's old. She's boring. We've had her. She's not tiny anymore.' A lot of people don't take into account the vulnerability of these young girls. ”
It was just me in my basement honing my skills, hearing songs on the radio and trying to manipulate them and then writing over those, and I started with local artists in Boston, writing records for them. ”
Preparing oneself for the possibility of confronting racism triggers something that slowly chips away at physical and emotional well-being. ”
Empathy should not be contingent on our proximity to suffering or the likelihood of it happening to us. Rather, it should stem from a disdain that suffering is happening at all. ”
I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means. ”
The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge. ”
It's not rocket science. It's social science. ”