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A walk through the tower reveals how residents have figured out how to create walls, how to make an air flow, how to create transparency, circulation throughout the tower, essentially creating a home that's completely adapted to the conditions of the site.

I just figured I'd made a mistake, and went back to the right, and so slid the chair in perfect synchronicity.

Ron Norick eventually figured out that the secret to economic development wasn't incentivizing companies up front, it was about creating a place where businesses wanted to locate, and so he pushed an initiative called MAPS that basically was a penny-on-the-dollar sales tax to build a bunch of stuff.

Well, other people have figured out how much energy the human brain and that of other species costs, and now that we knew how many neurons each brain was made of, we could do the math.

When we realized how much expensive it is to have a lot of neurons in the brain, I figured, maybe there's a simple reason.

So Eric had an initial design idea for a robot, but we didn't have all the parts figured out, so we did what anybody would do in our situation: we asked the Internet for help.

I really have it figured out so that I can advise people about death and dying, so that I can talk about mysticism and the human spirit.

The chemical cure and the psychological cure both have a role to play, and I also figured out that depression was something that was braided so deep into us that there was no separating it from our character and personality.

I can't go on this way, and I've figured out how I'm going to end it if I don't get better."

I don't know about you, but I haven't quite figured out exactly what technology means in my life.

So we did this math, and we figured out, OK, well, you need about 80 to, say, 150, or something like that, drugs.

That people have just sort of figured out about it, and now with Kyoto and the Governator and people beginning to actually do something, we may be on the road to a solution.

They have figured out how to peel off the tire, how to thread it and interlock it to construct a more efficient retaining wall.

And we published before knowing that, because we figured it was so beautiful, it's gotta be right!

With 2,000 genes, they can do what all of our human ingenuity has not figured out how to do yet.

This is not different from what my former undergraduate discovered when she figured out how lizards can run on water itself.

You have taken the dreams of that nine-year-old boy, which were impossible and dauntingly scary, dauntingly terrifying, and put them into practice, and figured out a way to reprogram yourself, to change your primal fear so that it allowed you to come back with a set of experiences and a level of inspiration for other people that never could have been possible otherwise.

So instead, scientists figured out a way to slow the atoms down directly – with a laser beam.

On the other hand, there's 75 percent that we still haven't figured out.

We got warnings that we could have taken advantage of easily, because back in the savings and loan debacle, we had figured out how to respond and prevent these crises.

So we went back to MIT, we took out the Instron machine and we figured out what sort of forces you needed in order to compress a briquette to the level that you actually are getting improved performance out of it?

From this image, my team and I figured out a very clever way to extract billions of information packets.

The main star is an enzyme called luciferase, which in the course of evolution has figured out a way to wrap its tiny arms around an even smaller molecule called luciferin, in the process getting it so excited that it actually gives off light.

Dubbed "femme fatales" by Jim Lloyd, another colleague, these females have figured out how to target the males of other firefly species.

We're going to talk about it, because even though it didn't really take long after Roosevelt's hunt in 1902 for the toy to become a full-blown craze, most people figured it was a fad, it was a sort of silly political novelty item and it would go away once the president left office, and so by 1909, when Roosevelt's successor, William Howard Taft, was getting ready to be inaugurated, the toy industry was on the hunt for the next big thing.

I figured this was a pretty low bar, but it turns out, of my 210 inbound messages, only 14 percent cleared that hurdle.

I figured not everyone would dig my moxie, and I was right.

I've been spooning on almost a pro level for close to 20 years, but in all this time, I've never figured out what to do with that bottom arm.

After 30 hours in the lab, I figured out exactly what I was looking at, and I was right, it wasn't what I was looking for.

What happened after the Internet was the cost of innovation went down so much because the cost of collaboration, the cost of distribution, the cost of communication, and Moore's Law made it so that the cost of trying a new thing became nearly zero, and so you would have Google, Facebook, Yahoo, students that didn't have permission — permissionless innovation — didn't have permission, didn't have PowerPoints, they just built the thing, then they raised the money, and then they sort of figured out a business plan and maybe later on they hired some MBAs.

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