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But if you say, like that, in the US or in any European country, "We are going to close our doors to Muslim refugees," what you are saying is the best possible help for the propaganda of terrorist organizations.

And we know that you can be lonely in a crowd and you can be lonely in a marriage, so the second big lesson that we learned is that it's not just the number of friends you have, and it's not whether or not you're in a committed relationship, but it's the quality of your close relationships that matters.

And good, close relationships seem to buffer us from some of the slings and arrows of getting old.

So this message, that good, close relationships are good for our health and well-being, this is wisdom that's as old as the hills.

I'd like to close with a quote from Mark Twain.

We now know that the universe is very close to flat.

Because once we build the first few water recycling systems close to the sewage treatment plant, we have to build longer and longer pipe networks to get that water to where it needs to go.

And if you know anything about black preachers, we'll close, and then we'll keep going for another 20 minutes.

Let's take a close look at one example: symmetry in biology.

If you run water into the right ventricle from a tap (the left also works, but less spectacularly), you'll see that the ventricular valve tries to close against the incoming stream.

Over time, they also close against each other with very little wear and tear, which explains how this mechanism continues to work seamlessly for more than 2 billion beats a heart gives in its lifetime.

And even more mind-blowing, is my close colleague Vincent Pieribone at Yale, who has actually designed and engineered a fluorescent protein that responds to voltage.

As epidermal cells divide to reform the outer layer of skin, the dermis contracts to close the wound.

So let's look at how close it is to the real animal.

But you see at the end, we have a very close match, and we were very, very happy with this.

York had been the King's close advisor and loyal General, but was increasingly sidelined by the Queen, who promoted her favorite supporters, like the Earls of Suffolk and Somerset.

I was trapped on a small rock about the size of a sheet of paper in sandals and board shorts, in between an 80 degree C river and a hot spring that, well, looked like this, close to boiling.

In the United States, close to 10% of adults struggle with depression.

Now, to close, we heard a couple of days ago about the value of making individual heroism so commonplace that it becomes banal or routine.

Heir 2 will then close every second locker.

Heir 3 will change the status of every third locker, specifically if it's open, she'll close it, but if it's closed, she'll open it.

While the school of fish is elegantly twisting, turning, and dodging sharks in what looks like deliberate coordination, each individual fish is actually just following two basic rules that have nothing to do with the shark: one, stay close, but not too close to your neighbor, and two, keep swimmming.

A close friend, someone much older or much younger, a stranger, a boss.

Ironically, it was actually the informal pronoun for people you're close with, while "you" was the formal and polite version.

In fact, in Brin's story "Lungfish," some von Neumann machines are keeping a close watch over the Earth right now, waiting for us to reach a certain level of sophistication before they make their move.

When cavities do develop, we use tooth fillings to fill and close off the infected area, preventing them from getting worse.

And along with other factors, that opened the gates of Hell that people are trying to close now.

So, some people want to ban Muslims and close down mosques.

Humans currently have an average life expectancy of 71 years, meaning that we're not even close to being the longest living inhabitants on Earth.

We expect to close later this year.

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