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I force them to work with different people so there are more accidental bumps in the network where people get a chance to connect with each other.
A simple change in planning, a huge difference in the traffic of people and the accidental bumps in the network.
It's punctuated by three quick anecdotes, which show how accidental encounters with strange noises gave us some of the most important information we have about space.
Thomas Watson spent hours listening to the strange crackles and hisses and chirps and whistles that his accidental antenna detected.
Fifty years on from Watson's accidental encounter with the Sun, Jansky's careful listening ushered in a new age of space exploration: the radio astronomy age.
Males are much more likely to die an accidental death in the prime of their life.
What was interesting is, by videotaping on a bus, they were able to produce exactly what people on their smartphones were typing, and then they had a surprising result, which is that their software had not only done it for their target, but other people who accidentally happened to be in the picture, they were able to produce what those people had been typing, and that was kind of an accidental artifact of what their software was doing.
It may also be powered by cosmopolitanism, by histories, and journalism, and memoirs, and realistic fiction, and travel, and literacy, which allows you to project yourself into the lives of other people that formerly you may have treated as sub-human, and also to realize the accidental contingency of your own station in life, the sense that "there but for fortune go I." Whatever its causes, the decline of violence, I think, has profound implications.
This isn't accidental, it has six months because in the summer of 2008 the European Union presented the Data Retention Directive, where they demanded each telephone company with more than 10,000 clients keep the data of all their clients for a minimum of six months and a maximum of two years.
So we said, there's some accidental cross wiring between color and numbers in the brain.
If you happen to be surrounded by a bunch of people who look like you, that's purely accidental.
Well, based on our work in the United States and elsewhere, we know that there are three key things we have to do to bring fisheries back, and they are: We need to set quotas or limits on how much we take; we need to reduce bycatch, which is the accidental catching and killing of fish that we're not targeting, and it's very wasteful; and three, we need to protect habitats, the nursery areas, the spawning areas that these fish need to grow and reproduce successfully so that they can rebuild their populations.
But I actually think there's a bit of accidental wisdom in what he said, because facts are stubborn things, but sometimes they're stupid, too.
So I don't think it is accidental that many of you did not recognize Ed.
So, it was an accidental discovery.
Every day, the human body evolves by accidental mutations that equally accidentally allow certain humans to persevere in dismal situations.
And so did another equally improbable, accidental designer, who was also not above using violence to get what he wanted.
Gene drives are so effective that even an accidental release could change an entire species, and often very quickly.
But instead of having constant accidental or mindless interruptions, we're now only creating conscious interruptions, So we're doing two things here.
So accidental discovery is not uncommon in science, but it requires more than just a happy accident.
Falling is accidental, it's uncontrollable.
Based on that one small but critical observation, the investigation shifted from accidental death to homicide.
So when you zoom into this piece, you're going to see a girl child and the accidental birth, the fact that our future is controlled by where we are born.
He was shaken by his wife’s accidental act of destruction, and he feared the misfortune it might bring upon their home.
I find these little vignettes, these little accidental pieces of design, to be refreshing.
But what about accidental death?
I think he felt that the greatest things in life were accidental, and perhaps not planned at all.
But he was a sort of a nomad at heart. Louis Kahn: How accidental our existences are really and how full of influence by circumstance.
In other words, your position in life comes to seem not accidental, but merited and deserved.
Let me start with the observation that most of the sound around us is accidental; much of it is unpleasant.
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