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It's a pathological, democracy-destroying corruption, because in any system where the members are dependent upon the tiniest
fraction
of us for their election, that means the tiniest number of us, the tiniest, tiniest number of us, can block reform.
It gets a
fraction
of the attention and funding given to any of those other diseases.
In other words, all the new and old democracies put together amounted to a mere
fraction
of what a single, one-party state did without voting.
It's just, there's so much malaria that this tiny
fraction
of cases that end in death add up to this big, huge number.
All of these innovations together contribute a
fraction
of what we contribute by living in a walkable neighborhood three blocks from a metro in the heart of a city.
For example, this system in Guangzhou is moving more passengers our direction than all subway lines in China, except for one line in Beijing, at a
fraction
of the cost.
And what we found is that when people come to the USA from these groups, they lose a large
fraction
of their microbiome, somewhere around 20 percent, and those who come to the USA and become obese lose about a third of their microbes.
It was a
fraction
of a NASA spaceship, it costs a
fraction
of its cost, and it's made with less than a dozen moving parts, and it's going to be out in space later this year.
And the number of the actual humans that have existed is 100 billion, maybe 50 billion, an infinitesimal fraction, so all of us, we've won this amazing cosmic lottery.
That was how much effort it took to capture even a
fraction
of the imagery a child's mind takes in in the early developmental years.
And so, what you've seen today is less than a
fraction
of one percent of what is in here, and in the TED Lab, we have a tour that was created by a six-year-old named Benjamin that will knock your socks off.
I try to capture the mishaps; it's a challenge in photography when these things take place in a
fraction
of a second.
We poll a tiny
fraction
of the electorate and we predict the outcome of national elections.
So whether it's basketball or baseball, or football or the other football, we're instrumenting our stadiums and our players to track their movements every
fraction
of a second.
And these programs do help millions of people, but they're only able to help a
fraction
of those in need.
Instead, we've reasoned, then, that it must be the soluble factors, so we could collect simply the soluble
fraction
of blood which is called plasma, and inject either young plasma or old plasma into these mice, and we could reproduce these rejuvenating effects, but what we could also do now is we could do memory tests with mice.
But it's really a tiny
fraction
of the size of an atomic nucleus.
And now you ask the question, what number or
fraction
of reactions can actually be targeted by the entire pharmacopoeia, all of medicinal chemistry?
And, well, it's very hard to compare the results of these new systems with the old transactional models, but it looks like, with our first 1,000 members, we outperformed existing services by a factor of three, at a
fraction
of the cost.
F-sub-p is the
fraction
of stars that have planets.
F-sub-l is the
fraction
of planets on which life actually begins and f-sub-i is the
fraction
of all those life forms that develop intelligence.
F-sub-c is the
fraction
of intelligent life that develops a civilization that decides to use some sort of transmitting technology.
Now we make a list out of this by starting at the upper left and sweeping back and forth diagonally, skipping over any fraction, like 2/2, that represents the same number as one the we've already picked.
One person's gut microbes may be capable of releasing only a
fraction
of the calories that another person's gut microbes can extract.
It told us that the stuff we're made of is only a small
fraction
of what makes up the universe.
They are tremendously fuel efficient to bring to market, a
fraction
of the fuel cost of say, shrimp, and at the very top of the carbon efficiency scale.
This was a seven-week cruise, and this is us, having made our own maps of about 75,000 square kilometers of the seafloor in seven weeks, but that's only a tiny
fraction
of the seafloor.
You can come close, but no matter how precise the
fraction
is, it will always be just a tiny bit off.
But although this would yield countless original melodies never heard before, only a tiny
fraction
of them would be worth listening to.
After this productive period, signals within the skin instruct some follicles to enter a new phase known as catagen, or the regressing stage, causing hair follicles to shrink to a
fraction
of their original length.
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