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William Dow, an economist and the interim dean of the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, made two surprising points about women's health (physical and mental) that might surprise you.
But when you see things from their perspective, you'll often find surprising points of agreement.
In relation to Western philosophical thought, Indian philosophy offers both surprising points of affinity and illuminating differences.
The most persuasive qualities were variously a sudden shift in vocabulary, which indicated commentators bringing surprising points of view; longer and more detailed posts, full of specifics; and, perhaps counterintuitively, arguments that were most aware of their limitations, using language of qualification and caveat.
Asking open-ended questions as opposed to leading yes/no questions enables the discovery of surprising points of commonality.
My current book project, Theater and the Virtual, explores surprising points of connection between traditional embodied theater and a range of virtual theaters, including virtual reality and social media performances, plays written by algorithms, transmedia theater, and so-called mixed reality performances which superimpose digital objects, scenes, or actors onto real-world spaces.
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Allen makes the surprising point that, while small business suffered terribly during the Great Depression, big corporations did well.
And this is one surprising point of contrast between them; Cimon's youth was ill reputed and intemperate, Lucullus's well disciplined and sober.
One surprising point of contact makes the suggestion overt: anachronistic office equipment, eighties-style computers and electric typewriters, and even 35-mm.
But Trump's interest in TV has proved a welcome — and at times surprising — point of entry to the White House for lawmakers and even pundits.
A more surprising point is made by Friends of the Earth's waste campaigner Julian Kirby, who points out that because it is inert in landfill, plastic waste buried in the ground is a counterintuitive way of "sequestering" carbon and so avoiding it adding to global warming and climate change.
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