Fraction
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Of course, first you have breakfast, and then you fill the shell full of Bondo and paint it and nail it up, and you have an architectural button in just a
fraction
of the time.
It turned out that the clothes I was sorting though at these thrift stores represented only a small
fraction
of the total amount of garments that we dispose of each year.
It's a shocking truth that we only see mirror images of ourselves, and we only see ourselves in freeze-frame photographic images that capture a mere
fraction
of the time that we live.
So they're crossing thousands of kilometers in a
fraction
of a second, and as they do so, they not only curve space, but they leave behind in their wake a ringing of space, an actual wave on space-time.
Then we set out to create an open source, DIY, do it yourself version that anyone can build and maintain at a
fraction
of the cost.
As just a second example: these pyramidal cells, large cells, can span a significant
fraction
of the brain.
Now, before I tell you about the technology, the bad news is that a significant
fraction
of us in this room, if we live long enough, will encounter, perhaps, a brain disorder.
We turned off the lights, and then we put it in a vacuum and sucked out all the air, and then we cooled it down to just a
fraction
of a degree above absolute zero.
There are over 2,000 African nuns and priests in leadership positions in Europe, with more influence than some of our diplomatic envoys, operating at a
fraction
of the cost.
But the human genome is just a tiny, tiny
fraction
of all scientific knowledge.
You can get involved in an open science project, even if it's just for a small
fraction
of your time.
What isn't true is that this renaissance is reaching most Detroiters, or even more than a small
fraction
of them that don't live in the central areas of the city.
Index search is too disruptive on a cell phone, so the rate of index search is a small
fraction
on cell phones to what it is on desktops.
Now of course, the moment that it does hit the outside environment, and its temperature rises by even a
fraction
of a degree, it immediately turns back into normal matter.
A large
fraction
of it is in English.
For example, translating a tiny
fraction
of the whole web, Wikipedia, into one other language, Spanish.
But it's only a
fraction
of what we need.
There are some drug treatments, but they're only effective on a small
fraction
of the population.
A large
fraction
of species will be committed to extinction.
I mean, first of all, the 100 billion galaxies within range of our telescopes are probably a minuscule
fraction
of the total.
That's a one followed by 500 zeros, a number so vast that if every atom in our observable universe had its own universe, and all of the atoms in all those universes each had their own universe, and you repeated that for two more cycles, you'd still be at a tiny
fraction
of the total, namely, one trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillionth.
Only a tiny
fraction
of the stars in our galaxy have really been looked at closely for signs of interesting signals.
Not the entire country, but a
fraction
of the country, a substantial
fraction.
So the question is, what
fraction
of these planets are actually suitable for life?
We don't know the answer to that either, but we will learn that answer this year, thanks to NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, and in fact, the smart money, which is to say the people who work on this project, the smart money is suggesting that the
fraction
of planets that might be suitable for life is maybe one in a thousand, one in a hundred, something like that.
But most importantly, what we are trying to do right now is we are trying to scale this up, because there are over 250,000 ASHA workers on the ground who are these amazing foot soldiers, and if we can give at least a
fraction
of them the access to these things, it just changes the way the economics of public health care works, and it changes the way systems actually function, not just on a systematic planning level, but also in a very grassroots, bottom-up level.
And a tiny
fraction
of the photons will actually come back to the camera, but most interestingly, they will all arrive at a slightly different time slot.
Global GDP is 10 times bigger than it was in 1950 and that increase has brought prosperity to billions of people, but the global economy has also become incredibly divisive, with the vast share of returns to wealth now accruing to a
fraction
of the global one percent.
Well, a very tiny
fraction
of them don't.
Yet we have spent only a tiny
fraction
of the money on ocean exploration that we've spent on space exploration.
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