"It's amazing how many smart people text and drive," he said by example.
"Who's doing flag football Tuesday night?" she said by example.
He has been "encouraged" in his mission, he says, by the example of London's Holy Trinity Brompton, the closest thing to a megachurch in the Church of England.
There's nothing "natural or obvious" about taking a holiday abroad, he says by way of example.
"I had a call this morning," he says, by way of example, "somebody wanted me for an hour, upstairs in a pub, to entertain the kids while the adults had a good time downstairs.
When Ekman was waiting for a biopsy report on a suspected cancer some years ago, he says by way of example, "I lied to my wife when she asked me why I was acting strangely.
The findings could be used to develop therapies for the disease, he says, by indicating, for example, which T cells should be targeted and destroyed to prevent damage to the pancreas.
"A baby that has been reared bilingually has learned from the age of three months to pay attention to the sounds of Italian and to ignore mummy who speaks Chinese," he says by way of example.
A croissant has just three ingredients — butter, flour and salt — but assessing flakiness is really hard," he says by way of example.
"The authorities in charge should make it easier for the public," he said, by, for example, opening up more windows for vaccination rather than allowing long lines to form.
