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15 years ago, I volunteered to participate in a research study
that involved a genetic test.
When I arrived at the clinic to be tested,
I was handed a questionnaire.
One of the very first questions as
Mia Birdsong: Why is Black Lives Matter important for the US right now
and in the world?
Patrisse Cullors: Black Lives Matter is our call to action.
It is a tool to reimagine a world
where black peopl
Loneliness.
All of us in this room will experience loneliness
at some point in our lives.
Loneliness is not a function of being alone,
but rather, a function of how socially connected you are
to those
When I tell people
that I'm trying to develop a contraceptive pill for men,
the response usually varies along gender lines.
Women say something like,
"Fantastic. It's about time. When?"
(Laughter)
Men
[This talk contains mature content]
My mother called this summer to stage an intervention.
She'd come across a few snippets of my memoir,
which wasn't even out yet,
and she was concerned.
It wasn't th
Imagine being on a commercial airliner
midway over the ocean, returning from a family celebration.
You're at cruising altitude,
and outside the window is the most serene, crystal blue sky you've eve
we're gonna begin in 1964 Bob Dylan is
23 years old
and his career is just reaching its
pinnacle he's been christened the voice
of a generation
and he's churning out classic songs at a
seemingly impos
what is it about flying cars we've
wanted to do this for about a hundred
years and there are historic attempts
that have had some level of technical
success but we haven't yet gotten to the
point wher
well I was introduced as the former
governor of Michigan but actually I'm a
scientist all right a political
scientist it doesn't really count but my
laboratory was the laboratory of
democracy that is
Here's what has to happen for pregnancy to occur after sexual intercourse.
Sperm must swim up the vagina,
through the cervical opening,
upwards through the uterus,
and into one of the two fallopian tu