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It's a fine line. If you withhold too much, you come across as wooden - as I've often been described in some movies. Fair enough. I believe that the best performances are the ones that an audience has to search for.


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SAM KEAN I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your p...
SAM KEAN Despite what you might guess, when monitoring your breathing, your body doesn't care whether you...
SAM KEAN In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more deman...
SAM KEAN The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations - ren...
SAM KEAN Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe...
SAM KEAN Everywhere in the universe, the periodic table has the same basic structure. Even if an alien civili...
SAM KEAN Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges...
SAM KEAN Guinea pigs are practically synonymous with experiments. Lab rats have become the workhorses of mode...
SAM KEAN Medieval alchemists, despite their lust for gold, considered mercury the most potent and poetic subs...
SAM KEAN One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy a...
SAM KEAN Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors...
SAM KEAN The price of diamonds can vary greatly depending on size, cut, color, and other factors, including w...
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