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So, another thing that we do is to confuse adult sophistication with the actual understanding of some principle.
And it was not until Galileo actually did it that an adult thought like a child, only 400 years ago.
By coincidence, as Lorna and Judith worked behind the scenes to reform the criteria, people all over the world were seeing an autistic adult for the first time.
And as an adult, re-finding these communities has re-introduced me to a community of learners, and has encouraged me to continue to be a learner even in my adulthood, so that I no longer feel like learning is something reserved for the young.
So, meanwhile, there's an adult in the back typing this up, taking it completely seriously, which blows their mind.
I had been in the relationship since I was 20, which was basically my entire adult life, and he was my first real love, and I had no idea how or if I could make a life without him.
However, what we have learned more recently is that this is one of the unique structures of the adult brain where new neurons can be generated.
And if we slice through the hippocampus and zoom in, what you actually see here in blue is a newborn neuron in an adult mouse brain.
And in the lab we have shown that if we block the ability of the adult brain to produce new neurons in the hippocampus, then we block certain memory abilities.
Now, the rape kit process terrifies and traumatizes adult women.
The opportunity to do this kind of genome editing also raises various ethical issues that we have to consider, because this technology can be employed not only in adult cells, but also in the embryos of organisms, including our own species.
Fast forward, I am an adult now, and I teach citizen science and invention at the Hong Kong Harbour School.
Second, throughout the centuries and up till today, every living adult sea turtle has overcome the odds, existing as a consequence of chance, skill, and capability.
So a breeding adult sea turtle is the very embodiment of a long shot.
Unlike many others, he had survived to become an adult.
Lovingly, we can imagine fathers and guardians with their now adult children remembering stories of Rome's glory and re-telling the good deeds and sayings of the great men of the past: lessons on how to live well, and to overcome the follies of youth.
It's actually a tremendously sustainable solution, it goes from an egg to an adult in nine months.
Adult stem cells or tissue-specific stem cells are found in small numbers in most of your body's tissues.
The Harvard Study of Adult Development may be the longest study of adult life that's ever been done.
As an adult, you can distinguish about 10,000 different smells.
An adult human brain, which accounts for only 2% of the body's mass, consumes 20% of daily glucose burned.
A typical crime scene has almost no adult bees left in the hive, except, perhaps, a lonely queen and a few other survivors.
But really what we should have said was adult starfish and sea urchins.
The adult brain has stem cells, but they're very rare and they're located in deep and small niches in the depths of the brain.
An adult's brain and heart are almost three quarters water.
Today, roughly half the world's refugees are children, some of them unaccompanied by an adult, a situation that makes them especially vulnerable to child labor or sexual exploitation.
Instead of putting an abused teenager in adult jail for punching another teenager, we secured mental health treatment and community supervision.
She couldn't wait to get out of her parents' house, to prove to them that she's an adult, and to prove to her new friends that she belongs.
When I was seven years old, some well-meaning adult asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.
Adult: Did you peek?
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