Ignition!

IT Ignition Technology

Commence primary ignition.

Three, two, one. Ignition.

Your defect is a propensity to hate everyone.

It was abandoned, the key still in the ignition.

Th They're in the ignition, there. ( lock clicks ) ( ringing continues )

When I turned on the ignition, it shot forward. Are you all right?

Some of these fission products have a really big propensity to eat neutrons.

That propensity there was to go and do what you already knew how to do.

In other words, the propensity to find these patterns goes up when there's a lack of control.

Well, if I remember correctly, uh, first I turn on the ignition, and then I put the car in gear.

So we have this early wake time, this circadian surge in wake propensity and it's an unintended consequence of artificial light.

Redwoods have an enormous surface area that extends upward into space because they have a propensity to do something called reiteration.

So a lot of people are following this person very influential and they have a propensity to talk about what's on TV.

Could how you speak about time, could how your language forces you to think about time, affect your propensity to behave across time?

Synesthetes inherit a biological propensity for hyperconnecting brain neurons, but then must be exposed to cultural artifacts, such as calendars, food names, and alphabets.

If you do this again and again, the propensity, the tendencies for anger to arise again will be less and less each time you dissolve it.

A hundred years ago, it's certainly true that to drive a car you kind of needed to know a lot about the mechanics of the car and how the ignition timing worked and all sorts of things.

Now, if you assume that this greater cross wiring and concepts are also in different parts of the brain, then it's going to create a greater propensity towards metaphorical thinking and creativity in people with synesthesia.

If you had a car and you thought I'm going to go out and get in my car and turn the ignition, and I have a one in six chance the car's going to turn on. How useful would that car be to you?

After the war, they picked up on this again because now they were thinking, Let's talk about making power instead of making nuclear weapons. This is a chart that shows absorption propensity of each of these different nuclear fuels as a function of neutron energy.

And so I think that we evolved ... there was a natural selection for the propensity for our belief engines, our pattern seeking brain processes, to always find meaningful patterns and infuse them with these sort of predatory or intentional agencies that I'll come back to.

Even though he held those loaded guns to my head, pushed me down stairs, threatened to kill our dog, pulled the key out of the car ignition as I drove down the highway, poured coffee grinds on my head as I dressed for a job interview,

What I'm here to talk with you about today is an intriguing new hypothesis and some surprisingly powerful new findings that I've been working on about the link between the structure of the language you speak and how you find yourself with the propensity to save.