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And we can't fight the threat in the kind of stupid way we're doing, because a million-dollar act causes a billion dollars of damage, causes a trillion dollar response which is largely ineffective and arguably, probably almost certainly, has made the problem worse.
For hundreds of years, scientists thought that pain was a direct response to damage.
But as we’ve learned more about the science of pain, we’ve discovered that pain and tissue damage don’t always go hand in hand, even when the body’s threat signaling mechanisms are fully functioning.
Typically, pain helps the body avoid further injury or damage.
This algae is harmless to the fish who eat it, but for the sea lions which ingest those fish, the algae’s domoic acid can trigger seizures and brain damage.
She knew that I was already beating myself up, and that question invited me to learn from my own mistakes instead of damage my already fragile confidence.
Unfortunately, like a dangerous opiate, this essay did a lot of brain damage to the West because it put them to sleep just at precisely the moment when China and India were waking up and the West didn't adjust and adapt.
We need better documentation of what's happening to the planet if we're ever going to have a chance of repairing the damage.
The worst case scenario is the damage to the cord, which can result in paralysis from the neck down.
The damage to the lungs leads to oxygen deprivation.
While these are infectious and require treatment, usually with topical creams, wart-causing strains don’t create longer-term damage.
That is five or six women every hour having a blood clot, a seizure, a stroke, receiving a blood transfusion, having end-organ damage such as kidney failure, or some other tragic event.
But the damage was done.
Across the globe, we lack well-tailored laws that would be designed to tackle digital impersonations that invade sexual privacy, that damage reputations and that cause emotional distress.
But the damage had been done.
It was denounced as anti-Semitic, triggered widespread outrage, apologies and a lot of damage control by the Times.
While these policies produced high-yield crops that staved off famine, they also forced people from lower castes off their land and caused widespread environmental damage.
Ultraviolet light is actually a health hazard, so it can damage cells in our skin, cause skin cancer, it can damage cells in our eye, cause eye diseases like cataract.
So what you see is, as we know, germicidal light is really good at killing bacteria, but what you also see is that it penetrates into the upper layers of our skin, and it can damage those key cells in our skin which ultimately, when damaged, can lead to skin cancer.
Can't do any damage, right?"
If you're trying to influence corporations to change their behavior, with regard to producing pollutants, one approach, the common approach, is to exhort them to be better, to explain to them what damage they're doing to the planet.
Rising in the late rainy season, Chak Ek’ aimed his spear and struck K’awiil, causing damage to the food and a period of chaos in the social order until K’awiil was reborn.
HB: Therefore, an army of content moderators sit in front of a screen to avoid new collateral damage.
Immune cells infiltrate the joint despite there being no tissue damage to repair.
Each has inadvertently created a drug interaction that could, in extreme cases, lead to kidney failure; liver damage; or internal bleeding.
But heavy drinking can alter enzyme activity so more of that byproduct is produced, potentially causing liver damage even with what’s usually a safe dose of acetominophen.
But the technique is currently about as likely to damage your eyes as wearing daily disposable contact lenses for one year.
What you don't know is that a good chunk of these fake meat patties were also contaminated with cadmium, which can damage your kidneys.
Sometimes we put on a smile instead of dealing with the issues at hand, and that can ultimately make it worse, affect the people around us and damage our relationships.
Once inside, when the cell exposes its DNA in order to copy it, they damage the building blocks of DNA’s double helix structure, which can lead to cell death unless the damage is repaired.
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