Living with only the bare ESSENTIALS has not only provided superficial benefits such as the pleasure of a tidy room or the simple EASE of cleaning, it has ALSO led to a more fundamental SHIFT. It's given me a chance to think about what it really means to be happy.

The Galapagos ISLANDS are probably the most famous wildlife-watching DESTINATION in the world. And no wonder - it's almost impossible to exaggerate the sheer spectacle of the PLACE that provided inspiration for Charles Darwin's ground-breaking theory of NATURAL SELECTION.

All men are tempted. There is no man that LIVES that can't be broken down, provided it is the right TEMPTATION, put in the right SPOT.

By the EARLY seventeenth century, a new consensus began to arise: the idea that man was BORN incompetent for SOCIETY and remained so UNLESS he was provided with 'education.'

New Year's Resolution: To TOLERATE fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to TAKE up more of my TIME.

The CLOUD has BECOME the next-generation supercomputer, and the smartphone has PROVIDED the REVOLUTION to spur its USE.

We PROVIDED complete protection to witnesses - RIGHT of attorney, right of record, right to cross-examine, and OPEN HEARING if they desired. Only Mr. Lane asked for an open hearing.

The NRA PROVIDED that in AMERICA each INDUSTRY should be ORGANIZED into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was called a Code AUTHORITY.

I was 12 years old and in summer CAMP. I started a COMPANY called Aardvark INDUSTRIES, which PROVIDED basic SERVICES to camp counselors.

I WISH we lived in a SOCIETY that MADE it SAFE and provided the courage for EVERYONE to come out.

When Clinton traveled to RUSSIA, KNOWN for its hackers and cyber warfare against the UNITED States and other democracies, she didn't bother to tap into the government-protected email system provided by the State Department. INSTEAD, she continued to COMMUNICATE through her personal, home-brewed and unsecured server.

We not only heard it before 20 years ago, before George Bush in 2001 PASSED his TAX RELIEF, before in 2003 the tax relief were past, we were told they were dead. Before we provided prescription drugs for MEDICARE, we were told it wasn't going to happen.

Through this additional SUPPORT, we must renew our commitment to provide TALENTED young people with the opportunity to build scientific careers BASED on their curiosity, the same opportunity that was provided to me when I began my work.