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The dot is visible whenever a cell fires an electrical impulse.
Whenever a flash of light hits the receptor, the pore opens, an electrical current is switched on, and the neuron fires electrical impulses.
Now, the toaster was huge because they used to make toast on open fires, and it took a lot of time and attention.
When I'm not fighting poverty, I'm fighting fires as the assistant captain of a volunteer fire company.
There are fires in the steppes of Russia, food riots in Africa.
And when it fires a little spike of electricity, there's going to be a red dot and a click.
And if you put another wall inside the box, then the cell fires in both place wherever there's a wall to the south as the animal explores around in its box.
So the cell on the left, you can see, it fires whenever the animal gets near to a wall or a boundary to the east, whether it's the edge or the wall of a square box or the circular wall of the circular box or even the drop at the edge of a table, which the animals are running around.
And the cell on the right there fires whenever there's a boundary to the south, whether it's the drop at the edge of the table or a wall or even the gap between two tables that are pulled apart.
But now as the rat explores around, each individual cell fires in a whole array of different locations which are laid out across the environment in an amazingly regular triangular grid.
So the red one fires on this grid and the green one on this one and the blue on on this one.
Personally, I was praying for four more fires so we could finally complete the damn science.
Here it kind of looks like he's looking for a date, but what he's really looking for is for someone to shovel him out when he gets snowed in, because he knows he's not very good at fighting fires when he's covered in four feet of snow.
A lot of you, a lot of people have been watching the floods, the droughts, the storms, the fires.
We've been talking, I guess, about fires and caves and saber-toothed tigers.
Two fires together, I get really hot.
Three fires together, that's a lot of flames.
But perhaps the most exciting part about taking pictures from the air is we could later stitch these pictures together using special software to create a map of the entire landscape, and this map gives us crucial information for monitoring land use change, to let us know where and when plantations might be expanding, where forests might be contracting, or where fires might be breaking out.
And it's because he and his friends noticed that the city was having trouble keeping up with all the fires that were happening in the city, so in true civic hacker fashion, they built a solution.
The electron microscope fires electrons which creates images which can magnify things by as much as a million times.
If you took the difference between today's image and yesterday's image, you'd see much of the world news — you'd see floods and fires and earthquakes.
And more than in Haiti, this produces really smoky fires, and this is where you see the health impacts of cooking with cow dung and biomass as a fuel.
Kids and women are especially affected by it, because they're the ones who are around the cooking fires.
Governments are using it for border security or helping with disaster response after floods and fires and earthquakes.
We were pretty good at putting out fires.
One day, one of them commented to me and said, "You know, you're pretty good at putting out fires.
When there are fires in the Amazon, the smoke stops the rain, it stops raining, the forest dries up and catches fire.
So I was thinking, if I succeed in working with all my colleagues to actually help to stop deforestation, maybe we will lose the battle later on for climate change by floods, heat, fires and so on.
By the end of the first week, most emergency generators have shut down, and once the fires have gone out, the earth goes dark for the first time in centuries.
A biological neuron fires, maybe, at 200 hertz, 200 times a second.
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