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For Clinton, anything less than victory in the state she represented in the Senate would be an embarrassment and would make nervous Democrats even more anxious.

For Clinton, anything less than victory in the state she represented in the Senate would be an embarrassment and make nervous Democrats even more anxious.

To scroll through the email Ms. Cuddy has received since TED — and preferably on a sizable desktop computer — is to understand how much impact a simple idea, well delivered, can make: Nervous test-takers say they’re now getting A’s; coaches have turned Bad News Bears teams into champions.

Sororities were a joke to her, and so was politics—though she liked to play “The Four Insurgent Generals” on the phonograph, and sometimes also the “Internationale,” very loud, if there was a guest she thought she could make nervous.

This octopus from the Arctic tweaks its RNA to make nervous system proteins that work better in the cold.