I've become obsessed with epigenetics because it strikes me as both game-changing and terrifying.
Like most exaggerations, of course, it works only because it strikes close to the truth.
You don't see light between bodies in space and the sun, yet we know it's there because it strikes the bodies and produces illumination when it is destroyed.
They target culture because it strikes to the heart and because it has powerful media value in an increasingly connected world.
Linguistic relativity is a subject that people will always be interested in, because it strikes right at the way we process the world and communicate with each other.
I mention this because it strikes me that for the first time – at least the first time I can remember – optimism is in.
IHT is justifiably unpopular because it strikes at our basic human instinct to want to look after our loved ones when we die.
Because it strikes me that there's something of a split inside Nora Ephron; between artist and art; between the woman's tart, abrasive persona and her sweet, sentimental movies.
Cancer is an especially powerful metaphor for the cruelness, randomness and tyranny of fate, because it strikes people of all ages, without regard for how much living they've managed, and because its occurrence often resists tidy explanation.
The provision that would prohibit banks from trading derivatives has alarmed the industry because it strikes at the combination of commercial banking and Wall Street trading that defines the modern industry.
But it is perhaps even more devastating, because it strikes younger people, progresses faster and, unlike Alzheimer's, does not attack memory at first but begins with silence, apathy or bizarre personality changes.
