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If you really want great hamburger, it turns out it makes a difference if you align the grain.
The skeletal remains from that period have shown that they were grinding grain morning, noon and night.
So they're very, very good at pecking for grain, and they're not much good at doing anything else.
So they seem to be beautifully suited to pecking grain in one environment.
So if each star was the size of a single grain of sand, just the Milky Way has enough stars to fill a 30-foot by 30-foot stretch of beach three feet deep with sand.
That's a problem primarily associated with developing work agriculture, whether it's a lack of infrastructure, refrigeration, pasteurization, grain stores, even basic fruit crates, which means that food goes to waste before it even leaves the fields.
Each sand grain is about a tenth of a millimeter in size.
So every grain of sand is unique.
Every single grain is different.
Every grain of sand is coming somewhere and going somewhere.
This is a very small grain of sand, this whole thing.
Now here's a grain of sand that is from the Moon, and you can see that the entire crystal structure is still there.
This grain of sand is probably about three and a half or four billion years old, and it's never eroded away like the way we have sand on Earth erodes away because of water and tumbling, air, and so forth.
So what I've been trying to tell you today is things even as ordinary as a grain of sand can be truly extraordinary if you look closely and if you look from a different and a new point of view.
I think that this was best put by William Blake when he said, "To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour."
So this animal here has got a brain about the size of a grain of rice, and yet it can do things that you and I couldn't possibly entertain the idea of doing.
So what have we learned from these animals with a brain that's the size of a grain of rice?
The people who said that rock 'n' roll would lead to the decline of moral values actually had a grain of truth to that.
No one really knows, but I have read four explanations, all of which, I think, have some grain of plausibility.
I mean, is that also a grain of truth?
So you should take the exact numbers in our study with a grain of salt, yet it "gave us a tantalizing glimpse of a brave new world of finance."
It has wings, it has eyes, it has antennae, its legs, complicated life history, it's a parasite, it has to fly around and find caterpillars to parasatize, but not only is its brain the size of a salt grain, which is comparable for a fruit fly, it is the size of a salt grain.
It's the mass of a grain of sand.
If you wanted to get into the right ballpark, you'd have to imagine every grain of sand on every beach, under all the oceans and lakes, and then shrink them all so they fit in here.
And as a child, I'd hear that song, you know, "Oh, beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain," so I made this amber waves image.
This made it unprofitable for some farmers to even harvest the grain from the fields.
And we calculated that some 300,000 tons of grain was left in the fields to rot in early 2002.
What also happened that year is in the areas where there were good rains, and where farmers had previously produced surplus grain, farmers had decided to withdraw from the fertilizer market, not use fertilizer and actually had dropped their use of fertilizer by 27 percent.
In fact, in 1848, 82 grain merchants and farmers got together in a small town at the crossroads of the Illinois River and Lake Michigan to establish a way to trade better amongst themselves.
In the American Midwest, farmers used to load grain onto barges and send it upriver to the Chicago market.
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