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Galvani's approach of probing the nervous system with electrodes has remained state-of-the-art until today, despite a number of drawbacks.
Despite centuries of animosity, decades of violence and thousands of people killed, 1998 saw the conclusion of an historic agreement.
And, despite being cursed with my athletic inability, he plays soccer.
We are missing the story of Fareeda, a music teacher, a piano teacher, in Sarajevo, who made sure that she kept the music school open every single day in the four years of besiege in Sarajevo and walked to that school, despite the snipers shooting at that school and at her, and kept the piano, the violin, the cello playing the whole duration of the war, with students wearing their gloves and hats and coats.
We are missing the stories of Violet, who, despite surviving genocide in the church massacre, she kept on going on, burying bodies, cleaning homes, cleaning the streets.
Because, despite their problems, I had spent my whole life training my lungs, and I was not particularly enthusiastic about giving them up.
A month into kindergarten, my teacher wrote a page-long memo noting that I was impulsive, had a short attention span, and despite my wonderful curiosity, I was exhausting to work with.
No one did it, despite the fact that they could have been talking about chicken or turkey.
SK: No, it's not, and these women have taught us that despite the dark history that covers the body of women from our beautiful continent, these women are actively and beautifully constructing what sex and pleasure means to them.
And so whether they're helping us to become creative and innovative, or whether they're helping us to feel more deeply connected despite distance, or whether they are our trusted sidekick who's helping us attain our personal goals in becoming our highest and best selves, for me, robots are all about people.
And when we think about legacy, I can think of no more powerful one, despite how short her life was.
After she had surgery to remove the tumor, her parents dressed her in this beautiful green velvet dress, a pink ribbon in her hair, and they wanted the painting to be shown around the world, despite the fact that they were orthodox Muslims and the mother wore a full burqa.
And the idea is you fast forward and good students start failing algebra all of the sudden, and start failing calculus all of the sudden, despite being smart, despite having good teachers, and it's usually because they have these Swiss cheese gaps that kept building throughout their foundation.
Despite the heavy gunfire, I've been able to get away from it all and walk through the land of your ideas."
And despite my fear of ever being looked at for too long, I was fascinated by the idea of spoken-word poetry.
In fact, it's water's ability to adapt and change and remain flexible that made it so enduring through the ages, despite all the changes in the environment.
Despite this incredible progress, we know that until it's eradicated, polio remains a very real threat, especially to children in the poorest communities of the world.
"It hurt so much, and I shed some tears, but something inside of me wanted to do this despite his words.
Now, we, as extremely complex creatures, desperately need to know this story of how the universe creates complexity despite the second law, and why complexity means vulnerability and fragility.
Despite my efforts to comfort myself, I still left my community as soon as I could, and I went to architecture school and then into a professional career designing shopping centers, homes for the wealthy and office buildings, until I stepped into a prison for the first time.
And I think the takeaway message from that would be that Islam, despite some of the skeptics in the West, has the potential in itself to create its own way to democracy, create its own way to liberalism, create its own way to freedom.
And yet, despite everything going really well for John, he was struggling, fighting addiction and a gripping depression.
And this is despite the fact that everybody knows that small business is the engine of economies.
And yet despite this, hardly any of us have ever heard space.
The German magazine Stern, a news magazine, had its app censored because the Apple nannies deemed it to be a little bit too racy for their users, and despite the fact that this magazine is perfectly legal for sale on newsstands throughout Germany.
Amazon webhosting dropped Wikileaks as a customer after receiving a complaint from U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman, despite the fact that Wikileaks had not been charged, let alone convicted, of any crime.
However, cities, despite having this negative aspect to them, are also the solution.
Despite the fact that this is the most complex and diverse system in the universe, there's an extraordinary simplicity being expressed by this.
And yet, despite all of that Darwinian evolution and natural selection, they've been constrained to lie on a line.
It's an integrated system that has evolved despite all the planning and so on.
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