Squid experts have been debating for some time about whether the giant squid is a passive predator that just floats around in the water and waits to bump into something. I was never one to imagine it to be passive.
The conservative statement is that telomere length is a biomarker, but it's probably not passive. There are some very intimate relationships between things such as molecular markers for inflammation and telomere health.
I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression and active aggression.
We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.
Bad things happen when you try to let things just happen. You can't be passive.
People around me like me the best when I'm depressed because I'm a bit more passive.
