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There are
billions
of them.
So this is just one example of a new era really in cognitive neuroscience where we're beginning to understand psychological processes like how you remember or imagine or even think in terms of the actions of the
billions
of individual neurons that make up our brains.
Well, researchers spend
billions
of your tax dollars trying to figure that out.
Countless other planets in our galaxy should have formed earlier, and given life a chance to get underway billions, or certainly many millions of years earlier than happened on Earth.
That signal was so strong, it could only have been produced by 10 trillion tons of water buried in the sediment, collected over millions and
billions
of years by the impact of asteroids and comet material.
But then the list continued to grow into the millions and the billions, until today.
They've enriched the lives of
billions.
Ask the next 10 people you see on the streets, "Hey, do you think it's worthwhile to spend
billions
of Swiss francs looking for the Higgs boson?"
And yet we're spending
billions
of Swiss francs on this problem.
We're gathering thousands of interactions per student per class,
billions
of interactions altogether, and now we can start analyzing that, and when we learn from that, do experimentations, that's when the real revolution will come.
On the top line, this is the BP oil spill:
billions
of barrels of oil gushing in the Gulf of Mexico.
There's hundreds of
billions
of your aid dollars at stake, tens of millions of lives, or deaths, at stake, and, I'd argue, the security and future of you and your family is also at stake.
And then 10 years from now,
billions
will again have gone into Africa, and we would still have the same problems.
We have more and more people,
billions
of people, in 100 years, God knows how many people, and how little space there will be to fit all of them, so we need to change the way that we see cities, and looking at this picture on the left of New York City today, you can see how gray and brown it is.
Saving the lives of billions, eradicating disease, feeding the hungry, teaching kids to read?
Now, strangely, if instead of having a handful of planets, you had millions of objects or even billions, the problem actually becomes much simpler, and Einstein is back in the game.
Global GDP is 10 times bigger than it was in 1950 and that increase has brought prosperity to
billions
of people, but the global economy has also become incredibly divisive, with the vast share of returns to wealth now accruing to a fraction of the global one percent.
Look in that hole, you can see that millions or
billions
of people worldwide still fall short on their most basic of needs.
Tamiflu is a drug which governments around the world have spent
billions
and
billions
of dollars on stockpiling, and we've stockpiled Tamiflu in panic, in the belief that it will reduce the rate of complications of influenza.
A lot of people making a lot of money, billion,
billions
of dollars accumulating.
"We spend
billions
of dollars trying to understand the origins of the universe, while we still don't understand the conditions for a stable society, a functioning economy, or peace."
There must be millions of planets in the Milky Way, and as Carl Sagan insisted for many years, and was laughed at for it, there must be
billions
and
billions
in the universe.
And here we are, out of
billions
of neurons, just recording, 10 years ago, a hundred.
And it has
billions
of interstitial spaces, and those spaces, along with the nanoparticles, reach up and grab the air molecules, and cover the surface with air.
Billions
and
billions
of dollars for data that it's too late to use.
And if we want to translate that from just
billions
of dollars to something that might mean something, what we're talking about is that, for the average low-income kid, that would increase earnings by about 10 percent over their whole career, just doing the preschool, not improving K-12 or anything else after that, not doing anything with college tuition or access, just directly improving preschool, and we would get five percent higher earnings for middle-class kids.
That's another cause that I've been concerned about all my life, the immense amount of suffering that humans inflict on literally tens of
billions
of animals every year.
You know, they had made
billions
just surfing this bubble until now.
Inside your head is a brain, and that brain is made out of
billions
of neurons.
But these haze particles, it was surmised, before we got there with Cassini, over
billions
and
billions
of years, gently drifted down to the surface and coated the surface in a thick organic sludge.
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