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Normally, when that's active in a human or any other animal, it means that something important has happened, and the animal needs to do something.
Each module, either active or passive, we can assemble them to create different shapes.
At some point, most sexually active people will be infected with human papillomavirus, or ‘HPV.’
Plus, just because one part of a country is an active war zone doesn't mean the whole country is.
I'm not saying we should go into active war zones.
I wish that you would empower Earthlings everywhere to become active participants in the ultimate search for cosmic company.
She used to be an active member of the Green Party.
The problem is, however, it's not just the brain that's electrically active, it's also the rest of the body as well as the environment that contains a lot of electrical activity all the time.
The part of your brain called the DMN, default mode network, which is the interaction between multiple areas in your brain, which is active during, sort of, ideation, creative thinking in terms of divergent thinking and daydreaming, is now being upregulated.
You make yourself the active voice.
Masculinity depended on you being the active penetrator.
And then, in economics, there's an active producer and a passive consumer, which explains why business always has to penetrate new markets.
Millions of people have already been infected with hatred and anger, and they either become active online, by spreading or amplifying hatred, or they take to the streets and take up arms.
Solar storms are giant clouds of particles escaping from the Sun from time to time, and a constant reminder that we live in the neighborhood of an active star.
From our early work on 4D printing, where we printed objects, dipped them underwater, and they transform, to our active auxetics that respond to temperature and sunlight, to our more recent work on active textiles that respond to body temperature and change porosity, to our rapid liquid printing work where we print inflatable structures that morph based on air pressure and go from one shape to another, or our self-assembly work where we dip objects underwater, they respond to wave energy and assemble themselves into precise objects like furniture.
Alcohol can also alter the function of the enzyme that breaks down Acetaminophen, the active ingredient in pain relievers like Tylenol and paracetamol.
Second, we need to become active monitors.
And here is the other interesting thing: when a human being ingests Tamiflu, only 20 percent is metabolized appropriately to be an active compound in the human being.
They provide opportunities to be more physically active, as well as local economic development.
That's how, also, as I've said, to stave off depression, is to do something active.
Two years ago here at TED I reported that we had discovered at Saturn, with the Cassini Spacecraft, an anomalously warm and geologically active region at the southern tip of the small Saturnine moon Enceladus, seen here.
Social activists, business leaders, lawyers, politicians, professionals will join the faculty as active and ongoing participants in this wedding of liberal education to the advancement of the public good.
Because when you think about it, people are happiest when in flow, when they're absorbed in something out in the world, when they're with other people, when they're active, engaged in sports, focusing on a loved one, learning, having sex, whatever.
And you can also have active tails.
And when I went back to research this, I realized that one of the great TED moments in the past, from Nathan, we've talked about an active tail.
It has an active tail that functions as a fifth leg, and it contributes to stability.
And then of course we wondered, okay, they have an active tail, but let's picture them.
So they do it with this active tail as they swing around.
So now we can continue this mutualism by suggesting that they can make an active tail.
And here is the first active tail, in the robot, made by Boston Dynamics.
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