https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090 A quote from your SSR book that really wraps up what you've read so far and would make others curious to read your book. en-us 2016-09-28 21:24:37 UTC 2016-12-06 14:16:14 UTC hello@padlet.com elizabeth_morris https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/127117516 "The morphine molecule resembled a spoiled lover, throwing a tantrum as it left.  Like a lover, no other molecule in nature provided such merciful pain relief, then hooked humans so completely, and punished them so mercilessly for wanting their freedom from it."]]> 2016-09-28 21:25:56 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/127117516 https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141997591 "I am a sociopath. Through dual quirks of genetics and environment, I suffer from what psychologists now refer to as antisocial personality disorder, characterized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) as 'a pervasive pattern of disregard for and the violation of the rights of others."']]> 2016-12-06 13:39:24 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141997591 https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141997597 ¨But, as I watched my brothers running across the roof, flying their kites and skillfully flicking the strings back and forth to cut each other's down, I wondered how free a daughter could ever be."]]> 2016-12-06 13:39:25 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141997597 https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141997681 "You are trained for this… you are all responsible for you own lives and whether you live or die will depend on you."]]> 2016-12-06 13:39:38 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141997681 https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141997687 "This book attempts to provide a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years. The question motivating the book is: Why did history unfold differently on different continents?"]]> 2016-12-06 13:39:40 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141997687 https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141997694 ¨Just because I'm smart, high-functioning, and nonviolent doesn't mean there aren't a lot of stupid, unhibited, or dangerous sociopaths who genuinely should be avoided.¨]]> 2016-12-06 13:39:41 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141997694 3061937 https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141997725 "What would the world be like if Albert Einstein had never existed?"]]> 2016-12-06 13:39:47 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141997725 https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141997732 "Thiele had also adopted a motto he had learned in medical school: "Heal Frequently, Cure Sometimes, Comfort Always." It seemed obvious what he had to do, robbed of control over almost everything except the ability to offer comfort."]]> 2016-12-06 13:39:49 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141997732 https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141997755 "The theory of thin slices: How a little bit of knowledge goes a long way" ]]> 2016-12-06 13:39:55 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141997755 https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141997761 "The backup generator system  was only as robust as its weakest part. Now, with floodwaters heading for Memorial, it was the hospital's Achilles' heel."]]> 2016-12-06 13:39:56 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141997761 https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141997814 "I had grown up hearing the word terrorism, but I had never really understood what it meant. Until now. . . Terrorism is fear all around you. It is going to sleep at night and not knowing what horrors the next day will bring."]]> 2016-12-06 13:40:07 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141997814 https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141997872 "A hero is someone who has given his or her life up for something bigger than oneself."]]> 2016-12-06 13:40:17 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141997872 https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141997877 "At last through the broken windows, the pulse of helicopter rotors and airboat propellers set the summer morning air throbbing with the promise of rescue. Floodwaters unleashed by Hurricane Katrina had marooned hundreds of people at the hospital, where they had now spent four days."]]> 2016-12-06 13:40:17 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141997877 https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141997914 "Bear Stearns was a dysfunctional family, driven by greed and a complex code of internal politics"]]> 2016-12-06 13:40:24 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141997914 https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141998038 "That is decidedly odd because the atoms that so liberally and congenially flock together to form living things on Earth are exactly the same atoms that decline to do it elsewhere. Whatever else it may be, at the level of chemistry life is curiously mundane: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen, a little calcium, a dash of sulfur, a light dusting of other very ordinary elements-nothing you wouldn't find in any ordinary drugstore-and that's all you need. The only thing special about the atoms that make you is that they make you. That is of course the mirace of life."]]> 2016-12-06 13:40:49 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141998038 https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141998054 "look arounf the room. In twenty years, half of you guys will be gone. guys sitting next to you are going to be killed in training accidents or in combat or whatever"]]> 2016-12-06 13:40:51 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141998054 https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141998136 Rich parents did not always presage high scores, and poor parents did not always presage low scores. American kids at private school tended to perform better, but not any better than similarly proviledged kids who went to public school. Private school did not, statistically speaking, add much value. ]]> 2016-12-06 13:41:07 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141998136 https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141998181 " Imagine that I were to ask you to play a very simple gambling game. In front of you are four decks of cards-- two of them red and the other two blue. Each card in those four decks either wins you a sum of money or costs you some money, and your job is to turn over cards from any of the decks, one at a time, in such a way that maximize your winnings. What you don't know at the beginning, however, is that the red decks are a minefield. The rewards are high, but when you lose red cards, you lose a lot. Actually, you can only win by taking cards from the blue decks, which offer a nice steady diet of $50 payouts and modest penalties. The question is how long will it take you to figure this out?"]]> 2016-12-06 13:41:14 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141998181 https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141998478 "Like my father I've always been a daydreamer, and sometimes in lessons my mind would drift and I'd imagine that on the way home a terrorist might jump out and shoot me on those steps. I wondered what I would do. Maybe I'd take off my shoes and hit him, but then I'd if I did that there would be no difference between me and a terrorist. It would be better to plead, 'Ok, shoot me, but first listen to me. What you are doing is wrong. I'm not against you personally, I just want every girl to go to school."]]> 2016-12-06 13:42:05 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141998478 https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141998793 "A nightmare? No. Even the worst dreams don't require this much paperwork. But "nightmare" is the only way to explain having so many bosses. . . I was at the bottom of an organizational chart that had more arrows than Custer's Last Stand, and so many of the sharp ends were pointing at me."]]> 2016-12-06 13:42:56 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141998793 https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141998839 "Perhaps what we need is a reminder. A reminder of who we are, of who is really in control, and, most important, a reminder of how we got to a place the resembles less and less the America of our childhood."]]> 2016-12-06 13:43:05 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141998839 https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141998871 "I prefer to define my sociopathy as a set of traits that inform my personality but don't define me: I am generally free of entangling and irrational emotions, I am strategic and canny, I am intelligent and confident and charming, but I also struggle to react appropriately to other people's confusing and emotion-driven social cues."]]> 2016-12-06 13:43:13 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141998871 https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141998952 "We're off to bomb Benghazi.]]> 2016-12-06 13:43:26 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141998952 https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141999147 "Perhaps he realized at the moment of action that what seemed right didn’t feel quite right; that a gulf existed between ending a life in theory and in practice” (Fink 10).]]> 2016-12-06 13:44:05 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141999147 https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141999474 "I come from a country created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday."]]> 2016-12-06 13:45:06 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141999474 https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141999963 "Our conscious is a pwerful force. But it's fallible. It's not the case that our internal computer always shines through, instantly decoding the 'truth' of a situation. It can be thrown off, distracted, and disabled."]]> 2016-12-06 13:46:24 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/141999963 https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/142000931 "We did not vote to change the Republic, we voted to change washington. We wanted the lies, corruption and childish "but they started it" games to end. Instead we now see that things have only gotten worse."]]> 2016-12-06 13:49:07 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/142000931 https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/142009027 "How could teenagers do nothing-literally nothing- but study? Suddenly, he understood what he had seen in class that day. The kids acted like they lived in the classroom because they essentially did. They spent more than twelve hours there every weekday-and they already went to school almost two months longer than kids back in Minnesota. His classmates slept in their classes for one primal reason: because they were exhasted."]]> 2016-12-06 14:10:00 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabeth_morris/rvrv78707090/wish/142009027