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"I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end." (Margaret Thatcher) "It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own." (Herbert Samuel) ...

Depending on your line of work, showing tolerance can mean two very different things. In the world of engineers and machines, tolerance is the allowable variation in the size of something such that it ...

The induction and maintenance of robust immune tolerance has been the holy grail of immunology for decades. In the absence of robust unresponsiveness of the immune system to self antigens (immune ...

An international group that includes researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine has identified 124 genetic variants associated with a person’s willingness to take risks, as ...

Your risk tolerance informs your investment decisions. You may be an aggressive, moderate or conservative investor. Several factors affect your risk tolerance ...

From time to time someone drops the line, in argument or as a meme, “Tolerance is the virtue of a man without convictions,” falsely attributing it to G.K. Chesterton, because too many people put his ...

Human disturbance drives the decline of many species, both directly and indirectly. Nonetheless, some species do particularly well around humans. One mechanism that may explain coexistence is the ...

Some years ago, just after Salman Rushdie was made the object of a fatwa, I found myself at an academic conference listening to a panel address the issues raised by his situation. A member of the ...

One study found that participants who used a conventional swear word after an injury had an increase in pain threshold and tolerance compared to those who didn’t Getty Letting out a curse word when ...