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The other layer of information is the epigenetic layer, which is open and dynamic and sets up a narrative that is interactive, that allows us to control, to a large extent, our destiny, to help the destiny of our children and to hopefully conquer disease and serious health challenges that have plagued humankind for a long time.
If we zoom out to the full extent of the survey, you can see I found 300,000 of these radio galaxies.
The unintended consequence here, which I would like to take credit for and like to think I can think through the experience to that extent, but I can't.
Well, there are a few ways to influence the extent and effectiveness of memory retention.
And not only is the extent of ice changing, but the age and the width of ice is, too.
Grief and friends, time and tears will heal you to some extent.
Well, to a large extent, it's because they don't agree on what clouds will do in the future.
The extent of our dramatic inequality is at least as much a problem of politics as it is a problem of economics.
What happens is that when rain falls, the holes are able to store the water and appropriate it to the extent that the plant needs the water.
It shrinks our minds, for sure, but it also shrinks our hearts, to such an extent that we become numb to the suffering of other people.
I don't think this will as a surprise to anyone in this room, but by any standard they have never been flourishing to a greater extent.
This is the extent of the work that's to be completed by 2010.
Not a metaphorical one, the way we use it today, but a literal magic spell associated with witches and gypsies and to some extent, Celtic magic.
And considering where you are coming from, and when we consider the extent to which it’s not taken as seriously as it should be, what would you have to say about that?
So, to the extent that evolution doesn't matter, doesn't care whether genes are passed on by individuals, living a long time or by procreation, there's a certain amount of modulation of that, which is why different species have different lifespans, but that's why there are no immortal species.
They are not getting paid for it in any way other than in the attention and, to some extent, the reputational capital that they gain from doing a good job.
And to certain extent it is, but I want to stress a couple of points.
We've actually got no idea of the full extent of it.
So, it's very similar to some extent, and you can see some of the features on it, like the Grand Canyon on Mars, or what we call the Grand Canyon on Mars.
Then we get a little bit more serious, so we have what we call our CAD/CAMs and all the engineers who are involved, or scientists who are involved, who know about thermal properties, know about design, know about atmospheric interaction, parachutes, all of these things, which they work in a team effort and actually design a spacecraft in a computer to some extent, so to see, does that meet the requirement that we need.
If you want to lower your risk of Parkinson’s disease, caffeine is protective to some extent; nobody knows why.
And I think the answer to that is always going to be at least driven to a certain extent by the people initially crazy enough to start the project, you know.
To the extent that you can equalize the amount of detail that people put into the mental representations of near and far future, people begin to make decisions about the two in the same way.
At least it makes me feel like, to some extent, it is becoming self-evident.
And it probably applies just as much to music and movies and fine art, which has nothing whatsoever to do with vision at all, or, for that matter, nothing to do with our conference theme of "Inspired by Nature," except to the extent of the fable of the frog who gives a ride to the scorpion on his back to get across the river because the scorpion promises not to sting him, but the scorpion stings him anyway and they both die, but not before the frog asks him why, and the scorpion says, "Because it's my nature."
In Adam Smith's earlier work, "The Theory of Moral Sentiments," which I think is just as important, he made the observation that the value of any government is judged in proportion to the extent that it makes its people happy.
A year later, a third of the participants were able to acquire three new self-management skills and maintain them to the extent that it was able to improve their blood pressures, their blood sugar and their exercise.
Individually, these effects are usually safe, but taken together, they can prevent blood clotting to a dangerous extent, possibly causing internal bleeding.
And to a large extent it fixes the brain.
And children operating in various language behaviors, or in various reading behaviors, you see for the most extent, for most children, their neuronal responses, complexly abnormal before you start, are normalized by the training.
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