Thompson shocked his friends in the business establishment when, after returning from Russia after a trip in the fall of 1917, he urged that the U.S. and Britain engage with the new communist regime there to moderate the impulses of Lenin and Trotsky.
Altimeter Group Founder Charlene Li is moderating the discussion.
The unique response of natural granular media is associated with the existence of a network of stress propagation pathways, i.e. a force chain network, which spatially and temporally redirects and moderates the impulse.
Patient education about chronic pain syndromes is also important, as it can establish hopeful yet realistic expectations and moderate the impulse to consult multiple doctors in search of "the cure".
Perhaps mass surveillance — a tech-powered dystopia we are living through right here, right now — is not just a massive trampling of our human rights, but also a giant red flag reminding humanity of the importance of moderating our consumptive impulses.
On the other hand, if we are asking for Democrats to be the adults in the room, shouldn't we also ask for Republicans to moderate their impulses to retain power by any means necessary?
"Teenagers," Jay Giedd of the N.I.M.H. said in a speech last year, "don't utilize inhibitory pathways as well as their parents do to moderate their impulses".
It's hard, though, to resist the thought that a new political force — a fusion party — might have been born that summer, that a Roosevelt-Willkie alliance, drawing on the moderate impulses of the major parties, might have planted roots and become a counterweight to an era like the present, when men and women professing all sorts of highly personal beliefs keep leaping into the Presidential race.
By Elizabeth Kolbert Has modern civilization really moderated our bloodier impulses?
Since Dad began running for president, Ivanka Trump, a businesswoman and public figure in her own right, has been touted as a social progressive who might moderate his worst impulses on everything from women's health to war to gay rights.
