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The worm grew to adult size within it, but it needs to get into water in order to mate, and it does that by releasing proteins that addle the cricket's brain, causing it to behave erratically.

And when we'd go out to chop wood and do all the things that Grace and her mother would do, Grace was not a child, she was an adolescent, but she wasn't an adult.

More than 80 percent described having been threatened by the police, including with the possibility of being raped or killed in jail or being tried as an adult.

In his 91-page decision to overturn Dassey's conviction earlier this year, the judge made a big deal about the fact that Dassey had no parent or other allied adult in the interrogation room with him.

In England and Wales, interrogations of juveniles must be conducted in the presence of an "appropriate adult," like a parent, guardian or social worker.

Now, having an appropriate adult safeguard for juveniles here in the US would not be a cure-all for improving police questioning of youth.

So the appropriate adult really should be an attorney or perhaps a trained child advocate.

And parents in the room: depending on the state that you live in, your child can potentially waive these rights without your knowledge and without consulting any adult first.

I love to swim so much that as an adult, I swim with a coach.

Driven now by sexual selection, some adult fireflies like this proud male evolved a shiny new glow-in-the-dark lantern that would let them take courtship to a whole new level.

For the most part, these adult fireflies don't get eaten because like their juveniles they can manufacture toxins that are repellent to birds and other insectivores, but somewhere along the line, one particular group of fireflies somehow lost the metabolic machinery needed to make their own protective toxins.

In the mid-16th century, Italians were captivated by a type of male singer whose incredible range contained notes previously thought impossible for adult men.

I think adult diaper sales may surge.

It could address a child or an adult.

Now, this next poem really changed what I liked and what I read and what I felt I could read as an adult.

And I'm an adult woman who spends her life as a performer, with a speech impediment.

So I was thrilled one day to get a page down into the lobby of the clinic from a patient who I had seen the year before, and she was there with her two adult daughters, who I also knew, for her one year follow-up exam.

I've been leading polar expeditions for most of my adult life, and last month, my teammate Tarka L'Herpiniere and I finished the most ambitious expedition I've ever attempted.

And looking back, I still stand by all the things I've been saying for years about the importance of goals and determination and self-belief, but I'll also admit that I hadn't given much thought to what happens when you reach the all-consuming goal that you've dedicated most of your adult life to, and the reality is that I'm still figuring that bit out.

Whether it's a baby, or an adult.

So then we moved on to adult butterflies, and we started asking the question whether it's the mothers that can medicate their offspring.

And what's going to happen over these two and a half years is that he's going to travel all the way down to resemble the adult fecal community from healthy volunteers down at the bottom.

And you can see he's starting to approach the adult fecal community.

And what we can see is that just over these few weeks, we have a much more radical change, a setback of many months of normal development, followed by a relatively rapid recovery, and by the time he reaches day 838, which is the end of this video, you can see that he has essentially reached the healthy adult stool community, despite that antibiotic intervention.

On the upside, the man that I worshipped as a child, the man that I wanted to become as an adult, I was finally able to get his autograph.

You're learning about laughter throughout your entire early adult life.

We defined human-level here as the ability to perform almost any job at least as well as an adult human, so real human-level, not just within some limited domain.

As an adult, I learned later that she had been just 19 when she was brought over from Thailand to the States to care for me, on a tourist visa.

Well, as you get older, you know, at one point I thought my husband might be helped by using some of the pills men can take, but he wasn't interested in those, so I thought, what about maybe watching an adult movie on the Internet?

Most women in the early 2000s considered themselves empowered, and men generally felt they were also evolved in this area, and, in fact, most people would have been aware of issues like human trafficking, for example, but they would have seen that as quite separate from more recreational adult entertainment.

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