Do you remember how one day the highway was built... which the next day saw the Napoleonic retreat... and was then paved?

She became snobby and judgmental and used guys as pawns of warfare, which is saying a lot, considering it was fourth grade.

Look, you can sit down or you can get out, but I'm good here.

And then I remembered that this place is rent-controlled, so if I violate my lease, you can evict me, and then you can charge market-value for this place.

Except here, a bunch of good capitalists ran in for cheap leases, tax incentives, immigrant labor, sweatshop economics.

Yeah, and then some of the polish would smudge on the hand.

There are some mornings when I first wake up... for a split second I forget where I am, when I am... and I reach over, half expecting to... find him there next to me... between us.

And I tell people that this is where great stories start from -- these four intersections of what you're passionate about and what others might be invested in.

And with absolute difference -- and I mean a difference where people inside Africa at a certain position, where all individuals -- 100 percent -- have one letter, and everybody outside Africa has another letter.

What's interesting about being an adult is that when you become eighteen, nobody tells you that it's now going to be your job to parent yourself.

"The ships start in England, they come down from England, they go to Africa, they go across the ocean -- that's the Middle Passage part -- they come to America, where the slaves are sold, " she's telling me.

Here's my problem with that argument: Media tells us every day what's important, by the stories they choose and where they place them; it's called agenda setting.

And 60 Hudson in particular is interesting because it's home to about a half a dozen very important networks, which are the networks which serve the undersea cables that travel underneath the ocean that connect Europe and America and connect all of us.

But the mother lode of discoveries on Enceladus was found at the south pole -- and we're looking at the south pole here -- where we found this system of fractures.

During the day, they have a beautiful, large outdoor habitat, and at night, they come into this habitat, into their night quarters, where they can have a climate-controlled and secure environment to sleep in.

If we flip the brain on its back -- I love this little bit of spinal cord here -- this bit here is the hypothalamus, and right under there is a whole raft of interesting structures, not least the biological clock.

Now this is the key part, and again it doesn't have to be you, because you can get creative, because there is a whole universe out there of nominees to choose from.

They respond when you understand the meaning of a sentence, but not when you do other complex mental things, like mental arithmetic or holding information in memory or appreciating the complex structure in a piece of music.

She was one of those doctors who, if you fell and you broke your arm, she would ask you why you weren't laughing because it's your humerus. Get it?

Now, prior to that point, there had been only one pediatrician in all of Bayview to serve more than 10, 000 children, so we hung a shingle, and we were able to provide top-quality care regardless of ability to pay.

I started in my 20s trading commodities, cotton in particular, in the pits, and if there was ever a free market free-for-all, this was it, where men wearing ties but acting like gladiators fought literally and physically for a profit.

(Rumbling) So right here, these are the motor units that are happening from her spinal cord out to her muscle right here, and as she's doing it, you're seeing the electrical activity that's happening here.

So, I'm in Chile, in the Atacama desert, sitting in a hotel lobby, because that's the only place that I can get a Wi-Fi connection, and I have this picture up on my screen, and a woman comes up behind me.

(Laughter) Now, chances are that over the last winter, if you had been a beehive, either you or one of the two people you just nodded at would have died.