Serious scholars of foreign policy will be able to have something of an inside track on US diplomacy for the years covered by these cables, at least in terms of being able to monitor some of the inputs coming into the foreign policy-making process.

BBC: Wikileaks: Bumpy ride ahead for US diplomats

As I understand it, the dome now sits several hundred yards away from the active well, as they seek solutions for dealing with the hydrates that have formed inside the containment dome that have made what they had hoped would be something that could cap and vacuum the oil, make it -- that that would be successful.

WHITEHOUSE: 5/10/10: White House Press Briefing

Yet surely there had been something else, another music inside the public proclamations, and there must have been those who could hear more than the facts, gifted listeners who could pick out the subtleties in the way one bell worked against the others, say, or in the pauses when one ringer stopped, weary or undecided, or touched with the knowledge of imminent mortality.

NEWYORKER: The Bell Ringer

In other words, just like consumers buy something for themselves on Amazon and check to have it ship to them immediately, users inside an organizations now want IT-related things on-demand and will whip out their personal credit card and expense it.

FORBES: Beyond BYOD: The Shift to People-Centric IT

What's more, mirror neurons have also been linked to our ability to get inside other people's heads and understand their intentions--something that chimpanzees can barely do, if at all.

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