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This is the first ever such experiment, sort of the optical equivalent of Galvani's.
Anyway, as you'll see in a moment, Susana was able to turn on the flight motor of what's the equivalent of the spinal cord of these flies and get some of the headless bodies to actually take off and fly away.
You can think of this nagging inner voice as sort of the brain's equivalent of the Catholic Church, if you're an Austrian like me, or the super-ego, if you're Freudian, or your mother, if you're Jewish.
So, kufungisisa is the local equivalent of depression in my country.
We saved Ford 35 million dollars doing it this way, day one, which is the equivalent of the Ford Taurus at a four percent margin of an order for 900 million dollars worth of cars.
That idea only came into being 300 years later, and most Islamic scholars see it as the equivalent of people with wings sitting on clouds and strumming harps.
You may be surprised to know that mammography is the only radiologic study that's regulated by federal law, and the law requires that the equivalent of a 40-pound car battery come down on your breast during this study.
And I'm very happy to report that we're now using a dose of radiation that is equivalent to the effective dose from one digital mammogram.
So at six to eight months, the babies are totally equivalent.
Six to eight months, they're totally equivalent.
We put it in the equivalent of splints.
This is an amazing device, but it's the equivalent of an Etch A Sketch.
Sixty-five million years ago, an asteroid landed on Earth near the Yucatan Peninsula, creating conditions equivalent to those of a nuclear war, and the dinosaurs were wiped out.
As a society, we're creating reading experiences for children that are the equivalent of telling bar jokes in a church.
There is no equivalent of the Al-Qaeda, without the terrorism, for democracy across Muslim-majority societies.
In fact, it turns out it's equivalent to proving Fermat's Last Theorem.
To put it this way, nature knows no other circumstance in which functionally equivalent traits coexist.
So in the 1950s, Miller-Urey did their fantastic chemical Frankenstein experiment, where they did the equivalent in the chemical world.
That's the equivalent of you filling up your car with gas in 1998, waiting until 2011, and now you can drive to Jupiter and back twice.
The dendritic pattern you see mimics the growth of mushroom mycelia, which are the equivalent of plant roots.
The AI people said, the thing in the box is a programmable computer, because it's equivalent to a brain.
In 1982, in the middle of the Cold War in Soviet Siberia, a pipeline exploded with a burst of 3 kilotons, the equivalent of a fourth of the Hiroshima bomb.
It's about 100 million a day, which is the equivalent of about two and a half million books a year.
Why can't an equivalent case be made for nature?
Is there an equivalent process by which there's a sort of bridge between what you're talking about and what you would say to them?
So I can do the equivalent of millions of years of evolution on that within the computer in a few minutes, or in the complicated cases, in a few hours.
It's equivalent to exploding 400,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs per day 365 days per year.
That is the equivalent of what we face now.
That's equivalent to a constellation of 12 satellites at highest res capacity.
How does that translate to barrels of oil equivalent?
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