Are you incapable of restraining yourself or do you take pride in being an insufferable know-it-all?

When I'm dead, they can burn me in effigy or build a statue or forget about me completely.

They pass out with a cigarette in their hand, ember falls onto clothing, starts to burn, and smoldering cloth acts like a wick, and it turns the victim into a human candle, with the body's subcutaneous fat deposits

I'd be raped, I'd be tortured, I'd have a gang of men on me, I'd be left for dead, if it meant he was safe.

Yes, well, it's been several weeks since our meeting-turned-interrogation turned... sexual marathon.

But... you know the way you talk about your accident, the loss of your friend, the pain, it seems as though you've carried this grief for some time.

Today, we're going to be looking at serial killers where they really live... not in prison, not in the movies, but in the lives of their victims as they died.

My husband left town with the kids because I always go into this Jackson Pollock crazy thing, where I'm just writing and in my researcher mode.

(Laughter) (Applause) There's a writer I've been deeply influenced by, Parker Palmer, and he writes that many of us are often whiplashed "between arrogant overestimation of ourselves and a servile underestimation of ourselves."

It's in our hands, and we have all the potential here to change the lives of future generations -- not only for the soldiers, or for Amanda here and all the wheelchair users, but for everyone.

It keeps smouldering at the roots And sending up new shoots Till another parasite Shall come to end the blight."

I have a really nice anecdote from a friend of mine who said that the thing he noticed most about his teenage daughters before and after puberty was their level of embarrassment in front of him.

It's made of asphalt, and asphalt is a very nice material to drive on, but not always, especially not on these days as today, when it's raining a lot.

By a miracle, some months later, I met someone who was running an underground shelter for North Koreans, and was allowed to live there and eat regular meals for the first time in many years.

But I nonetheless emerged and relapsed, and emerged and relapsed, and emerged and relapsed, and finally understood I would have to be on medication and in therapy forever.

But for millions of us, those experiences linger, causing symptoms like flashbacks, nightmares, and negative thoughts that interfere with everyday life.

Now, from all this, I distilled the characteristics of leaders who are thriving and what they do differently, and then I also distilled the preparation practices that enable people to grow to their potential.

And I say, absolutely, and for me, that's success, because as a scientist, my goal is not to infer information about users, it's to improve the way people interact online.

And the FBI has bought this hook, line, sinker, rod, reel and the boat they rode out in.

In fact, he was so protective and so affectionate with these babies that the sanctuary eventually had to take them away from him because he was so protective, he was worried that their mother might hurt them.

But a lot of people tried it, and over a five-day run we ended up with 54 pages of guest book comments, and we were told by the curators there that they'd never seen such an outpouring.

As I stood there stuffing free finger sandwiches into my mouth, as you do as public servant -- (Laughter) I noticed across the room, a young man waving and smiling at me and approaching me.

Because the internship allows the employer to base their hiring decision on an actual work sample instead of a series of interviews, and the employer does not have to make that permanent hiring decision until the internship period is over.

And recently, they've written us letters, telling us how excited they are about the impact that this has had on their lives, on their educational dreams, on their capabilities, and it's just phenomenal.

And when I spoke with him a year after treatment had finished, he told me, "Doc, this is the first time in 43 years that I haven't had nightmares."

They told me how they watched their children withdraw; the sadness, depression, anger, bed-wetting, thumb-sucking, fear of loud noises, fear of nightmares -- terrifying, terrifying nightmares.

They sound like they're playing kingmaker in Ukraine, and worse, they curse the EU for its lack of speed and leadership in resolving the crisis.

(Audio) Man: The relationship between a baby and its teddy bear or a baby and its binky or a baby that wants its mother's cradle when it's done with being held by a stranger -- (Laughs) that's the relationship between me and my phone.

Number one, they need to have a seat at the decision-making table, they need to have exposure to your work in order to have credibility behind closed doors, and they need to have some juice, or let me say it differently, they'd better have some power.

The first is he doesn't think that he has enough exposure to your work to have real credibility behind closed doors to be impactful and effective on your behalf.

He takes this opportunity to step out and discuss my case with my potential surgeon, and through the door, I hear him describe me as a little girl.

And we interviewed all the families of the residents about "what is important for your father, " "what's important for your mother, " "what is their life like, " "what do they want."

So I fell over and I sat there with him because for the first time in a long time he seemed kind of OK.

(Laughs) This was the biggest eruption this volcano had had in 60-some-odd years, and not long after this video ends, the camera that was taking the video is obliterated and the entire lake that we had been sampling vaporizes completely.

(Laughter) I've always wanted my stories to jolt people, to shake them into having difficult conversations.

All-Asian cast -- the first all-Asian cast in 25 years with a contemporary story -- (Applause and cheers) But when we started it was not a guarantee at all.

And I remember feeling like I'd done a pretty good job at teaching that year: "Hey, I ain't no first-year teacher.

We garnered much support along the way, and the Hunts Point Riverside Park became the first waterfront park that the South Bronx had had in more than 60 years.

There's a lot of progress to be made, and honestly, we still need to support stronger voices, as they are the ones shaking things up and bringing new perspective.

I mean, the proliferation of Indian restaurants since I first went abroad as a student, in the mid '70s, and what I see today, you can't go to a mid-size town in Europe or North America and not find an Indian restaurant. It may not be a very good one.

It's funny -- when Steve Jobs came back to Apple in 1997, after 12 years away, it was the MacWorld Expo -- he came to the stage in that black turtleneck and jeans, and he sort of did this.

In June, the World Health Organization declared the first global flu pandemic in 41 years.

It's a worry -- isn't it? -- that the rest of the world's media is doing such a bad job that a little group of activists is able to release more of that type of information than the rest of the world press combined.

All of us are engaged in a seismic, fundamental realignment of culture and communications, a realignment that is shaking and decimating the newspaper industry, the magazine industry, the book and publishing industry and more.