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Sean Bellamy Mcnulty
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So what was irrelevant at one scale can become dominant at another. The challenge at every level of observation is to abstract the important variables that determine the dominant behavior of the system.
“The situation in which a person, imagining fondly that he is in charge of his own destiny, is, in fact, the sport of circumstances beyond his control, is always fascinating.”
― A Coffin for Dimitrios
― A Coffin for Dimitrios
“Only 10 to 20 percent of untrained people can stay calm and think in the midst of a survival emergency.”
― Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
― Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
“SYROTUCK ANALYZED 229 search and rescue cases (11 percent of them fatal) and concluded that almost three quarters of those who died perished within the first forty-eight hours of becoming lost.”
― Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
― Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
“So much for where as well as when. AIDS began with a spillover from one chimp to one human, in southeastern Cameroon, no later than 1908 (give or take a margin of error), and grew slowly but inexorably from there.”
― Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
― Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
“At dawn the boy bathes, then stays awake until late afternoon, pacing and expectant, at which point the circumciser comes at him with a homemade knife. “I nursed my wound for 45 days after,” one initiate said.”
― Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
― Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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