When unrest sets in at the front, and this is inevitable, for the men are getting fed up with the war, the Cossacks will be sent to crush the mutineers.

Berg's task was to listen to the lecture and determine whether Heisenberg and the germans were close to perfecting the atomic bomb.

Now, our mandate is to pursue murderers and thieves and aliens and anyone who threatens to tear the fabric of this neighborhood apart.

Well, my mandate as a father is to pursue little pricks that try to tear the fabric of my daughter's hymen apart!

This little chamber of horrors may work for your riffraff, but do you really think it will hold my brother?

If it's some twist of evolution that needs men to be obsessed by their obituaries, their legacies, then maybe it's ours to nudge them into realising what's really important before they kill themselves, you know, with the disappointment.

As we became friends, I became their trustee and their medical advocate, but more importantly, I became the person who managed their end-of-life experiences.

But that's what would enable us to preserve the video games for a really long time, and that's what museums do.

For any new requirement, you have a dedicated function in charge of aligning engineers against the new requirement.

The pain docs saw their job as getting pain under control and when I couldn't get off the medication, they saw me as the purview of addiction medicine.

And helicopters can do that today, but traditionally, helicopters have been just a little bit too expensive, just a little too hard to pilot and just a little too noisy to be used for daily transportation in cities.

It took many millions of years before these bright lights evolved into a smart communication tool that could be used not just to ward off potential predators but to bring in potential mates.

Civil society diplomats do three things: They voice the concerns of the people, are not pinned down by national interests, and influence change through citizen networks, not only state ones.

When gravity bends light, huge galaxy clusters can act as telescopes, elongating background images of star systems to faint arcs -- a lensing effect like viewing distant street lamps through a glass of wine.

And through this I hope to give you a sense of a world already alive with musical expression, with each of us serving as active participants, whether we know it or not.

Some scientists now think that this difference in myelination could be the key to uniform conduction time in the brain, and consequently, to our mental synthesis ability.

And in my mind, my job was to take care of patients and to do research to better understand the population patterns of transmission, and I hoped that we'd slow the spread of the virus.

So we risk seeing the press unable to do their job that the First Amendment is supposed to protect because of the government's expanded ability to spy on everyone.

Here I'd like to propose that in the same way we can reconstruct how the ancient Greek cities looked just based on a few bricks, that the writings of a culture are the archaeological records, the fossils, of human thought.

And so the question that I was asked to specifically help answer, which is one that aid workers ask themselves in war zones the world over, is: What the hell do we do now?

These institutions are really the grease that allow our economic wheels to function, and we can see this play out over the course of human history.

As Douglass North saw it, institutions are a tool to lower uncertainty so that we can connect and exchange all kinds of value in society.

I mean, the industry focuses mainly on the positive sides, so it's the job of historians and philosophers and sociologists to highlight the more dangerous potential of all these new technologies.

And this was an incredible moment because we got to be architects as always, builders once more and, for the first time, we could be our own clients.

And they instilled in me all of their aspirations and goals, in the hopes that I would never return to prison, and that I would serve as their ambassador to the free world.

(Laughter) As my job is to critique the world, the shoddy systems and the people who refuse to do better, as a writer, as a speaker, as a shady Nigerian -- (Laughter) I feel like my purpose is to be this cat.

So it is our job, it is our obligation, it is our duty to speak truth to power, to be the domino, not just when it's difficult -- especially when it's difficult.

I have -- I left the country, I have a meeting with George Soros, trying for the third time to convince him that his foundation should invest in something that should operate like a media bank.