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And hemoglobin acts as a molecular sponge to soak up the oxygen in your lungs and then carry it to other parts of the body.
And when that cellular space station is within the electric field, it acts on those highly charged proteins and aligns them.
And finally, random acts of kindness are conscious acts of kindness.
Moreover, this transition needs no new inventions and no acts of Congress and no new federal taxes, mandate subsidies or laws and running Washington gridlock.
What's new is that in the last several years a lot of these very traditional physical human activities, these acts of self-expression, have been moving onto the Internet.
It acts as a self-fulfilling prophecy.
So foraging acts as a sink, and the ants inside the nest act as a source.
So the cell acts like an embryo.
It is because the state, theoretically, acts on behalf of all citizens collectively, not any one citizen individually.
After acts of violence, another artist came, painted blood, protesters being run over by the tank, demonstrators, and a message that read, "Starting tomorrow, I wear the new face, the face of every martyr.
But it took time for me to realize that my acts of pride weren't most alive in the global cities I traipsed through, but in the villages where I speak the languages and play the games and feel most at home and I can say, "I have seen the world, and I know that people like me aren't alone here, we are everywhere."
In a lot of countries, we have Official Secrets Acts, including in Britain here.
In fact, just having a diseased appearance or odd sexual acts, these things are also things that give us a lot of disgust.
And when we asked them a variety of questions about the rightness or wrongness of certain acts, what we also found was that simply being reminded that they ought to wash their hands made them more morally conservative.
Evolution acts as a sieve.
It costs a lot of money, a lot of time, and sometimes, even when a drug hits the market, it acts in an unpredictable way and actually hurts people.
Essentially, we're dramatically speeding up that feedback between developing a molecule and learning about how it acts in the human body.
A good reader has an artist's passion, a willingness to get caught up in the story, but just as importantly, the readers also needs the coolness of judgment of a scientist, which acts to temper and complicate the reader's intuitive reactions to the story.
And I'll start out with a puzzle, the puzzle of indirect speech acts.
And in a more subtle way, I think, this works for all of the veiled speech acts involving plausible deniability: the bribes, threats, propositions, solicitations and so on.
Flowing water acts like a theremin or a violin.
The first is that gravity acts on all objects in the same way.
It acts as a backup to the Internet so that, when the power goes out, it fails over and connects to the nearest GSM network.
Well, in this case, this spherical magnet acts like a 3D pixel in our space, which means that both computers and people can move this object to anywhere within this little 3D space.
And no, we can't predict the next egg that will hatch, but we can create a city that acts like an incubator.
I was actually prosecuted under two quite ancient acts in the U.K. I was prosecuted under the 1889 Venereal Diseases Act and the 1916 Indecent Advertisements Act.
It also acts on your body, and one of its main roles in your body is to protect your cardiovascular system from the effects of stress.
And that demarcation that you can see between the original bone and the new bone acts as a very slight point of weakness, so actually now the surgeon can come along, can harvest away that new bone, and the periosteum can grow back, so you're left with the leg in the same sort of state as if you hadn't operated on it in the first place.
This kind of business model obviously depends entirely on having a very effective brand of fear, and so Los Zetas carefully stage acts of violence that are spectacular in nature, especially when they arrive first in a city, but again, that's just a brand strategy.
And we've been able to develop a knee, a polycentric knee, so that type of knee that acts like a human knee, mimics human gait, for 80 dollars retail. (Applause) But the key is, you can have this great invention, you can have this great design, but how do you get it to the people who most need it?
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