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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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Trait
Sleeping
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I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.
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Stretch
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Most of my work may happen at a computer, but it's still a new and very exciting frontier.
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Frontier
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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Great Thing
Outsider
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The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory.
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Trajectory
Windy
Slow
Scientific
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I like - I love calculus. I love linear algebra, probability and statistics, that kind of stuff. I just really like that.
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Algebra
Calculus
Linear
Probability
Statistics
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My kind of, like, life goal is to help train students to be good people as well as good scientists. That would be my dream.
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Good People
Life Good People
Life Good Good People
Scientists
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Let us not let the world be defined by the destruction wrought by one virus, but illuminated by billions of hearts and minds working in unity.
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Billions
Defined
Destruction
Unity
Working
Hearts
Illuminated
Let Us
Minds
Virus
Wrought
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As long as I have a heartbeat, I'm fine. So I just do what I love, and I do it the best that I can. And if it all goes away, I'll just start over.
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Heartbeat
Love Best Long
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Had I to do it again, I would have been a math major, probably a double major, and did take a lot of math classes, but I would have taken a lot more.
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Math
Classes
Double
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The Ebola epidemic was the most frightening outbreak I have witnessed in my lifetime, and I believe it was necessary to react globally as strongly as we did.
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Frightening
Lifetime
Epidemic
Outbreak
React
Strongly
Witnessed
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My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.
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Change Work Power
Practically
Minded
Scientific
Soft
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At 9, I think I had really gotten into tennis. I liked writing short stories; I loved solving math problems. I was learning a little piano, and I was collecting Garbage Pail Kids cards.
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Cards
Collecting
Garbage
Math
Tennis
Liked
Gotten
Pail
Short Stories
Solving
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The process of discovery in my field is very incremental. But there are moments when you realize you know something about the world nobody else knows. That's extraordinarily exhilarating.
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Discovery
Exhilarating
Extraordinarily
Incremental
Nobody Else
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My father took one of the toughest jobs in the government because he cared about his nation more than himself. His courage and conviction have always driven me to want to make a difference.
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Courage
Conviction
Driven
Government Always Me
Cared
Make A Difference
Toughest
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Generally, I'm not writing about genomes or anything like that. But people underestimate the creativity you use in science and the rigor you need in music. They basically have the same path.
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Rigor
Underestimate
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I'm looking for all the things that are beneficial in the human genome. Everything that I do is based on a very simple principle: things that are beneficial will spread through populations very quickly.
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Beneficial
Genome
Spread
Principle
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Unlike some viruses, we don't know what the natural reservoir is for Ebola. A lot of people think it's bats, but it's still very controversial; it could have been circulating in insects, in an environment, or in individuals.
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Bats
Controversial
Insects
Viruses
Unlike
Reservoir
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There is - I will just say that there was a disastrous day where I discovered really what radioactivity is and that just because you don't see it doesn't mean that it's not everywhere, so - Yeah. I was a slow learner for sure.
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Disastrous
Slow
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I have a B.S. in Biology from MIT, an M.Sc. in Human Biology and a Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology from Oxford University, and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. I never intended for so many degrees, but I enjoyed getting them all.
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Medical
Anthropology
Degrees
Enjoyed
Harvard
Medical School
Mit
Oxford
University
Biological
Intended
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There are so many aspects to science that I couldn't give up - the rigor, the discoveries, the teaching. The impact that science has on the world around us is something I'm enthralled with. I don't think anyone could ever take that out of me.
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Rigor
Aspects
Discoveries
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So much of the physical world has been explored. But the deluge of data I get to investigate really lets me chart new territory. Genetic data from people living today forms an archaeological record of what happened to their ancestors 10,000 years ago.
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Data
Deluge
New Territory
Territory
Today World Me
Ancestors
Archaeological
Forms
Chart
Explored
Genetic
Investigate
Lets
Physical World
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I heard it in 2008 and hear it again now - this notion that the only reason one would support Hillary Clinton is because she is a woman - or only because she is experienced and smart. She is all of those things. But I am with her because... Hillary Clinton inspires me.
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Clinton
Notion
Experienced
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
Inspires
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I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.
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Geography
Life Amazing I Am
Iranians
Unbounded
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I think I first encountered Ebola from the movie 'Outbreak.' Then there was the book 'The Hot Zone.' It's the type of thing you either read and say, 'Oh wow, that's terrifying,' or you read it and say, 'Oh wow, I want to do that.' I read it and said, 'Oh wow, I want do that.'
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Wow
Zone
Encountered
Outbreak
Terrifying
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It is of course very difficult to see relations between America and Iran becoming increasingly tense and knowing that it is not the people of the countries but a subset of leaders and radicals that are causing such strife. I am hoping that the spirit of the people will triumph.
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Iran
Strife
Tense
Triumph
Causing
Hoping
Increasingly
Radicals
Relations
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My sister taught me addition and subtraction and multiplication and division, so by the time I got to school, I knew it all, and when we'd do the times tables, I was just focused on doing it faster than anybody else. I already had the information, so it just got me to focus on excellence.
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Division
Excellence
Faster
Multiplication
Tables
Time Focus Me
Addition
Anybody Else
By The Time
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Over the years, we settled into American life and embraced it fully. But having come from a different culture, I didn't know the boundaries of American culture. Which is that, as a girl, you didn't play football or soccer at lunch with the boys, and to be cool, you didn't get into math Olympiad.
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American Culture
American Life
Boundaries
Lunch
Math
Soccer
Embraced
Settled
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See, Ebola, like all threats to humanity, it's fueled by mistrust and distraction and division. When we build barriers amongst ourselves, and we fight amongst ourselves, the virus thrives. But unlike all threats to humanity, Ebola is one where we're actually all the same. We're all in this fight together.
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Barriers
Distraction
Mistrust
Thrive
Amongst
Fueled
Unlike
Threats
Virus
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My family fled Iran in October 1978 as a result of the coming revolution when I was two years old. In the early days, my entire family lived together in a very crowded house, where I shared a room with my sister, cousin, and grandmother, and we would all listen to my grandmother tell stories before bedtime.
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Bedtime
Cousin
Crowded
Grandmother
Iran
October
Revolution
Early Days
Shared
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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Right Way
Solo
Love Music People
Bridge
Tremendous
Lyric
Portray
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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Agents
Arms
Arms Race
Disease
Evolve
Importance
Interesting
Protect
Race
Understanding
Urgency
Infectious
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I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family.
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Colleagues
Extraordinary
Intense
Trust Family Work
Connection
Deadly
Devastating
Diseases
Immersed
Lab
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You get these moments of thrill. There you are, at 3:00 in the morning, and you know something about how we evolved that nobody else in the world knows. It's a thrill of discovery. You make this breakthrough, and you find something. It's this wonderful, wonderful scavenger hunt when you got to the end. It's just so great to be a scientist.
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Breakthrough
Discovery
Scientist
Thrill
Evolved
Hunt
Nobody Else
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It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.
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Creative Process
Performers
Scientists
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When I was working on my Ph.D., I developed a computer algorithm to look for rapid changes in populations' DNA. Our DNA changes constantly over generations, but if certain changes spread through a population more quickly than others, they are probably the beneficial results of natural selection. This is the protection we give ourselves to survive.
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Beneficial
Computer
Dna
Generations
Natural Selection
Population
Protection
Selection
Spread
Algorithm
Developed
Quickly
Rapid
Survive
To Survive
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