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Elephants have also recognized humans they've bonded with after decades apart.
Despite decades of evidence that light was a wave, Einstein proposed that it could, in fact, be a particle, showing that mysterious phenomena, such as the photoelectric effect, could be explained by his hypothesis.
Anyway, we tend to forget it, but politicians and intellectuals have been warning us for decades now that the United States is facing a crisis of civility, and they've tended to blame that crisis on technological developments, on things like cable TV, talk radio, social media.
Despite decades of research, we still have no disease-modifying treatment and no cure.
In the Nun Study, 678 nuns, all over the age of 75 when the study began, were followed for more than two decades.
As Michael might have mentioned, I've been a librarian for 15 years and my mom hasn't been in a library in decades, because when she was young, she lost a book.
They've always fluctuated, and in fact, they've continued to go down over the last few decades.
And amazingly, this man spent decades as a younger man as the captain of a slave ship, and then as an investor in slavery, growing rich from this.
Now, it doesn't always require decades.
Scientists have been monitoring ocean acidification for over two decades.
And it struck me that we could have figured this all out decades ago.
Siena was a republic, but there had been enormous unrest in the two decades leading up to the commission.
Turns out that farmers in agricultural institutions have been practicing something called livestock mortality composting for decades.
This scenario is inspired by the trolley problem, which was invented by philosophers a few decades ago to think about ethics.
Over the course of the first year, we found about 13 wrongful convictions, people having been in jail for decades, and we released all of them.
But in the last few decades, scientists have addressed the question of beauty using ideas from evolutionary psychology and tools of neuroscience.
I mean, in just the past few years, we're beginning to see solutions to AI problems that we have struggled with literally for decades: speech understanding, text understanding, image understanding.
It's a question that's been tossed around by philosophers and art critics for decades, with no consensus in sight.
Look at how much the position of women has changed in my lifetime or the incredible strides that the gay rights movement has made in just a few decades, right?
America's working class has been paying union dues for decades, and with it, our unions have been building dignified, decent, and democratic workplaces for us.
But we now know, many decades later, that it's much more complicated than that, and that the sugars on our cells are actually very complex.
So a few decades ago, correlations began to emerge from the analysis of tumor tissue.
People have been talking about this idea for decades, under the name of "uploads."
They've been involved for decades in large-scale mass violence against minorities.
Throughout his decades at the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover enjoyed the support of the presidents that he served, Democratic and Republican alike.
Many decades ago, he said that it's most beneficial for a country to focus on producing the products it can produce most efficiently and trading for the rest.
Now that you know how to protect your telomeres, are you curious what are you going to do with all those decades of brimming good health?
They're more likely to be overweight, to have high blood pressure, and then decades down the line, more likely to have a failing memory, poor health and even to die earlier.
I'm going to tell you the story of how, with the work of hundreds of scientists working in many countries over the course of many decades, just recently, in 2015, we discovered those gravitational waves for the first time.
Some decades back, I was taught out of a similar alphabet sheet.
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