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Is there a different way we can direct traffic?
More and more these days, digression seems the most direct route through from where I've lost or found myself out of place, mind, turn, time.
So if we go back, also thinking about four degrees, it's not just the direct impacts, but also some indirect impacts.
Despite their large mass, stellar black holes only have a radius of around 300 kilometers or less, making the chances of a direct hit with us miniscule.
Although because their gravitational fields can affect a planet from a large distance, they could be dangerous even without a direct collision.
I've had Americans tell me that they've donated, direct deductions from their bank account, money to go to Syrian children refugees.
In the direct method, the artist paints directly on the fish, and then gently presses the moist fabric or paper into the fish.
There's a good moral in this data: your brain, and by extension you, might care more about the very negative, immoral things another person has done compared to the very positive, moral things, but it's a direct result of the comparative rarity of those bad behaviors.
But smell, because it evolved before most of your other senses, takes a direct route to these different regions of the brain, where it can trigger your fight-or-flight response, help you recall memories, or make your mouth water.
And because poisons are not the best thing for survival, our bodies evolved a direct but unpleasant way to get rid of what we ate that was causing the confusion.
When you can't get the direct story, read coverage in multiple outlets which employ different reporters and interview different experts.
The ones that aren't deviated are called direct irradiance.
These are made up of a central tower surrounded by a huge field of mirrors that track the sun's path and focus only the direct rays onto a single point on the tower, kind of like an eager beachgoer.
Solar panels can use all types of irradiance, while solar towers can only use direct irradiance, and this is where clouds become important because depending on their type and location relative to the sun, they can either increase or decrease the amount of electricity produced.
For instance, even a few cumulus clouds in front of the sun can reduce the electricity production in solar towers to almost zero because of this dependence on direct rays.
Or you can interact through gestures and direct deformations to sculpt digital clay.
What if we took a more direct approach, using communication science to analyze the lies themselves?
The statement is short and direct, calling the child by name and addressing his role in her life.
The human eye is an amazing mechanism, able to detect anywhere from a few photons to direct sunlight, or switch focus from the screen in front of you to the distant horizon in a third of a second.
But now in direct opposition to its own patent office, the US government files a brief that states that is has reconsidered this issue in light of the district court's opinion, and has concluded that isolated DNA is not patent eligible.
So what you see here is almost a direct comparison between the walking of the real animal and the Pleurobot.
Henry Tudor was a direct descendant of the first Duke of Lancaster, raised in exile after his father's death in a previous rebellion.
With no direct line to the goal, Carlos decided to attempt the seemingly impossible.
The ball started its flight in an apparently direct route, with air flowing on both sides and slowing it down.
There are still some English words with "sk," like "skirt," and "skull," but they're direct borrowings from Old Norse that came after the "sk" to "sh" shift.
For a seemingly simple sentence like, "The children eat the muffins," the program first parses its syntax, or grammatical structure, by identifying the children as the subject, and the rest of the sentence as the predicate consisting of a verb "eat," and a direct object "the muffins."
These genes direct the cells to make certain proteins, and in just a few hours, the right and left sides of the embryo are chemically different.
When it comes to what you bite, chew, and swallow, your choices have a direct and long-lasting effect on the most powerful organ in your body.
"Pep rally" doesn't have a direct analog in a lot of languages and cultures, but can be approximated.
We see positive correlations, but the insides of our guts are difficult places to make direct observations.
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