The most visceral image that will stay with me as a metaphor for determination came from a video excerpt presented by the conservationists and filmmaking team of Beverly and Dereck Joubert.
"Dr. Atomic," which will have its premiere next year, is about the building of the atomic bomb, and the excerpt presented here, "Easter Eve 1945," uses a poem by Muriel Rukeyser as a soliloquy for J. Robert Oppenheimer's wife, Kitty.
For all the mundanity of its subject matter, the excerpt presents boredom as something more strenuous and exalted than the friendly helper depicted by the neuroscientists, keeping our minds revved up even when we think we're idling.
Twenty introductory excerpts of orchestral music (Supplementary Table S1) were selected based on the following criteria: the source composition was written for a prominent solo instrument, but this solo instrument was not present in the excerpt presented; and each excerpt was strongly associated melodically with the source composition.
(Admittedly, only an excerpt was presented Saturday).
The students served as whole-plot units, plagiarism training as a whole-plot factor (assignment training, online training, or no training), severity (see Table 1) as a subplot factor associated with multiple excerpts presented to each student, and time (the first or last week of the semester) as a subsubplot factor.
These references were not included in the excerpts presented today, parts of which were inaudible.
Ms. Edge addressed police violence against black youths in the two excerpts presented here, but without rhetoric or polemics.
Excerpts presented here, organized into two sub-themes, illustrate the nature of these messages: 'Investment in young children must be a cornerstone of all development agenda and policies'.
Interview excerpts presented here, therefore, are mainly from these initial interviews.
In this 'vocal non-vocal'vocal non-vocalductest melodic excerpts of orchestral music (popular operas, oratorios, ballets and symphonies) were presented in randomized order (Supplementary Table S1): half the source compositions from which the excerpts were drawn contained human voices, while the remaining half were entirely orchestral, however no voices were present in the excerpts presented.
