Dozen
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I was in large data centers that use as much power as the cities in which they sit, and I visited places like this, 60 Hudson Street in New York, which is one of the buildings in the world, one of a very short list of buildings, about a
dozen
buildings, where more networks of the Internet connect to each other than anywhere else.
A building like 60 Hudson, and a
dozen
or so others, has 10 times more networks connecting within it than the next tier of buildings.
And 60 Hudson in particular is interesting because it's home to about a half a
dozen
very important networks, which are the networks which serve the undersea cables that travel underneath the ocean that connect Europe and America and connect all of us.
I've run several
dozen
such surveys in different parts of the world, and in all cases except one, where a group actually underestimated the trade-to-GDP ratio, people have this tendency towards overestimation, and so I thought it important to give a name to this, and that's what I refer to as globaloney, the difference between the dark blue bars and the light gray bars.
Al Jazeera did, Al Jazeera and half a
dozen
other satellite news stations in Arabic, because they circumvented the old, state-owned television stations in a lot of these countries which were designed to keep information from people.
And I sent this book out to a
dozen
publishers and it was rejected every single time, but I was also involved with the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, an amazing camp for kids with all sorts of critical illnesses, and it's those kids at the camp that read my stories, and I read to them, and I saw that they responded to my work.
In fact, I liked it so much that, instead of making my own project, I sent my mom links to about a
dozen
of these projects.
The amazing thing about this is that it's controlled by a really tiny set of neurons, about two
dozen
neurons that can produce a vast variety of different motor patterns, and the reason it can do this is that this little tiny ganglion in the crab is actually inundated by many, many neuromodulators.
Here's Jenny, one of the nurses, Allison, who helped manage the transplant list, and a
dozen
other people who aren't pictured, a pharmacist, a psychologist, a nutritionist, even a financial counselor, Lisa, who helped us deal with all the insurance hassles.
Super trawlers, the largest fishing vessels in the ocean, have nets so large that they can hold a
dozen
747 jets.
This is how, within a
dozen
steps, you can go from a cute video of a counting train to masturbating Mickey Mouse.
The hypothalamus, the part of the brain that regulates body weight, there are more than a
dozen
chemical signals in the brain that tell your body to gain weight, more than another
dozen
that tell your body to lose it, and the system works like a thermostat, responding to signals from the body by adjusting hunger, activity and metabolism, to keep your weight stable as conditions change.
Chimps and bonobos, Darwin didn't really know this, but chimps and bonobos mate one to four times per hour with up to a
dozen
males per day when they have their sexual swellings.
We don't share it with the other three apes, the gorilla, the orangutan and the gibbon, who are more typical of mammals, having sex only about a
dozen
times per birth.
And it might begin with a dozen, but eventually, we could have hundreds of these, flying around our cities.
Immediately after my surgery, I had to decide what amounts of each of over a
dozen
powerful chemicals to take each day, because if I just took nothing, I would die within hours.
So if you actually do the research, you find out that in the world there are about 50,000 different types of spiders, and there are about two
dozen
that are venomous out of 50,000.
Reporter: And you can see one of those search and recovery helicopters, once again that helicopter part of
dozen
such Russian Mi-8 helicopters.
But the 215 program is only relevant to threats that are directed against the United States, and there have been a
dozen
threats where that was implicated.
In fact, if you plot on a height versus mass graph one data point for each of two
dozen
sports in the first half of the 20th century, it looks like this.
And if you plot a data point for these same two
dozen
sports today, it looks like this.
I could go through a
dozen
more examples: the skill associated with solar cycles, changing the ozone in the stratosphere; the skill associated with orbital changes over 6,000 years.
I'll admit, I love my smart vacuum, but many other things in the house drove me insane: we ran out of electrical outlets, and I had to download over a
dozen
apps to my phone to control everything.
The moment I stopped, half a
dozen
other people immediately ringed the same guy.
Nosair was initially found not guilty of the murder, but while serving time on lesser charges, he and other men began planning attacks on a
dozen
New York City landmarks, including tunnels, synagogues and the United Nations headquarters.
It was a fraction of a NASA spaceship, it costs a fraction of its cost, and it's made with less than a
dozen
moving parts, and it's going to be out in space later this year.
Now that I know it's a photograph, I've got dozens of other binary translation techniques to visualize and understand that information, so in a matter of seconds, we can take this information, shove it through a
dozen
other visual translation techniques in order to find out exactly what we were looking at.
It's huge, it's dangerous, it takes a
dozen
people to run, and it doesn't go with the sofa.
In those visits to the emergency room, I had two CAT scans, I had a needle placed in the lower part of my back to collect spinal fluid, I had nearly a
dozen
blood tests.
As usual, there's a
dozen
kids there waiting to get picked up, but this time, the children's faces look weirdly similar, and you can't figure out which child is yours.
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