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After being marched to slave forts on the coast, shaved to prevent lice, and branded, they were loaded onto ships bound for the Americas.
When you have no choice but to sit, try switching the slouch for a straighter spine, and when you don't have to be bound to your seat, aim to move around much more, perhaps by setting a reminder to yourself to get up every half hour.
Boiling an egg is actually an unusual cooking process because even though it changes the way proteins are shaped and bound together, it doesn't actually change their chemical identity.
That means the host probably stopped listening two minutes ago because he thought of this really clever question, and he was just bound and determined to say that.
kind of like a video game, it sort of looks 3D, but for the most part, the image looks pretty flat, and bound to the surface of the screen.
Once bound, the cancer cell takes up the nanoparticle, and now we have our nanoparticle inside the cancer cell and ready to deploy.
And it's at times like this that profound transformation is bound to happen; moments when a transformative, powerful technology that was before limited to a select few in the ivory tower, finally becomes within the reach of every one of us, from farmers to schoolchildren.
In a world where so much change is happening, and where change is bound to continue at an increasingly faster pace, it is not a question of whether we will face conflict, but rather a question of which stories will shape how we choose to wage conflict.
So fundamental characteristics of planets include the fact that they are bodies that are bound together by gravity.
And if you have enough energy and heating, which our Sun does, that gas, which is so light and only bound by gravity, it can escape into space.
So these are pictures that conclusively show us that our atmosphere isn't just tightly bound to us here on Earth but it's actually reaching out far into space, and at an alarming rate, I might add.
So it's reaching out more than 10 times the size of the planet, far enough away that it's no longer bound to that planet.
Also, these photocatalytic coatings are not tightly bound to the plastic bottle, which means they wash off, and people end up drinking the catalyst.
But we treat time as though it is timeless, as though it has always been this way, as though it doesn't have a political history bound up with the plunder of indigenous lands, the genocide of indigenous people and the stealing of Africans from their homeland.
And looking down, the nine wings are bound, structurally but symbolically strong, a great symbol of unity: pure geometry, a perfect circle, 30 meters in section and in plan, perfectly symmetrical, like the idea of sacredness and geometry.
Nine wings bound together forming a nine-pointed star, and the star shape moving in space, tracking the sun.
As he was about to be imprisoned, the king asked Thanatos to show him how the chains worked – and quickly bound him instead, before escaping back among the living.
Zooming in on the fragments of the cup, we see molecules, made of atoms bound up together.
Electrons are bound to an atom’s nucleus by electromagnetism.
And the reason they're like that is that the need for shelter is so bound up with the human desire for beauty.
A neutron star can feed on a lighter companion, gorging on its more loosely bound atmosphere before eventually collapsing cataclysmically into a black hole.
New recruits were forced to swear an oath “to be burned, to be bound, to be beaten, and to be killed by the sword,” and to obey their master’s will without question.
Their golden hair bound to Sif’s head and continued to grow, leaving her even more radiant than before.
This is the key to CRISPR’s power: just by injecting Cas9 bound to a short piece of custom guide RNA scientists can edit practically any gene in the genome.
Are we bound to investigate everything we don’t know, to mine the earth for more – or are there some mysteries that are better left unsolved?
The entire Encyclopedia Britannica bound in a single volume, for travel purposes.
So what we did was we injected the nanoparticles, and they bound almost immediately to the immune cells in the bloodstream.
Rapid manufacturing is another big area in which technology and design are, I think, bound to change the world.
Well, my belief is that it works because scientists are a community bound together by an ethics.
Imagine one day being able to dispose of all of your plastic waste in a bin at the curb that you knew was bound for a dedicated bacteria-powered plastic waste facility.
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