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The leg is acting as a foot.
It's the ultimate distributed foot: its whole body in this case is acting like its foot.
They're constantly inviting us to look at the natural world sideways, and to ask if the behaviors we're seeing, whether they're simple and obvious or baffling and puzzling, are not the results of individuals acting through their own accord but because they are being bent to the control of something else.
Most of us spend our lives, when it comes to health and disease, acting as if we're voyeurs.
They grab the spotlight for causes they support, forcing us to take note, acting as a global magnifying glass for issues that we are not as aware of but perhaps we should be.
Our reason could motivate us to extend our empathy, could motivate us to write a book like "Uncle Tom's Cabin," or read a book like "Uncle Tom's Cabin," and our reason can motivate us to create customs and taboos and laws that will constrain us from acting upon our impulses when, as rational beings, we feel we should be constrained.
Each well of these plates has specific biochemistry that we assign, that is looking for a specific microRNA, acting like a trap that closes only when the microRNA is present in the sample, and when it does, it will shine with green color.
We have this intellectual, this Darwinian revolution in which, thanks to Darwin, we figured out we are just one species among many; evolution is working on us the same way it's working on all the others; we are acted upon as well as acting; we are really in the fiber, the fabric of life.
Not all the settlers and the soldiers are acting this way.
What we're doing here is we're replacing something that used to take a team of five or six people about seven years and replacing it with something that takes 15 minutes for one person acting alone.
I started in my 20s trading commodities, cotton in particular, in the pits, and if there was ever a free market free-for-all, this was it, where men wearing ties but acting like gladiators fought literally and physically for a profit.
So in the second year of life, babies can use a tiny bit of statistical data to decide between two fundamentally different strategies for acting in the world: asking for help and exploring.
Torture is defined as any act by which severe pain of suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted by a person acting in an official capacity to obtain information or a confession, to punish, coerce or intimidate.
She was growing frustrated and kind of withdrawn and acting out in class.
A glass of wine or two now makes me weave as if acting the drunkard's part; as if, besotted with unrequited love for the dynamic Turner canvasses spied out by the Hubble, I could lurch down a city street set without provoking every pedestrian walk-on stare.
I would like to demonstrate for the first time in public that it is possible to transmit a video from a standard off-the-shelf LED lamp to a solar cell with a laptop acting as a receiver.
King Claudius is trying to figure out why Prince Hamlet is acting so crazy since the king married Prince Hamlet's mother.
It is not scientific to say that they are hungry when they're hunting and they're tired when their tongues are hanging out, and then say when they're playing with their children and acting joyful and happy, we have no idea if they can possibly be experiencing anything.
In the 20th century, scientists did experiments that appear to show light acting like a particle.
Well during REM, the function that keeps you from acting out your dreams, REM atonia, also removes voluntary control of your breathing.
Is your brain just acting slow?
With telescopes acting as our virtual eyes, both in space and here on Earth, we can see some amazing things.
These are all natural human impulses, but because of technology, acting on these impulses is only one click away.
Myth three: individuals with OCD don't understand that they are acting irrationally.
Did I want to try acting?
There, acting as the palace technical advisor, Daedalus continued to push the boundaries.
His binoculars are one of the most critical acting devices he has.
So the animators were heavily dependent on the binoculars to sell his acting and emotions.
No one owns it, no one owns the output, it's free for anyone to use and it's the output of people acting out of social and psychological motivations to do something interesting.
So as we think about it, as we take the time to say, "Hey, maybe we should have longer studies, maybe we should do this, maybe we should do that," there are consequences to acting, and there are consequences to not acting.
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