Grain
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Because it was discovery of
grain
by our ancient ancestors for the first time that produced a food source that was large enough and stable enough to support permanent settlements.
Because it was the temples that organized the harvest, gathered in the grain, offered it to the gods, and then offered the
grain
that the gods didn't eat back to the people.
So, if you like, the whole spiritual and physical life of these cities was dominated by the
grain
and the harvest that sustained them.
So Rome effectively waged war on places like Carthage and Egypt just to get its paws on their
grain
reserves.
If we look at a map of London in the 17th century, we can see that its grain, which is coming in from the Thames, along the bottom of this map.
So the
grain
markets were to the south of the city.
And the roads leading up from them to Cheapside, which was the main market, were also
grain
markets.
A harvested field of grain, with some
grain
in the corners, reminding me of the Hebrew tradition that you may indeed harvest, but you must always leave some on the edges, just in case there's someone who has not had the share necessary for good nurture.
And now he runs a cattle fodder store and a
grain
store near Agra.
The second thing we believe is we believe in going with the
grain
of human nature.
Now I also said the other principle that I think we should work on is understanding of people, is recognizing that going with the
grain
of human nature you can achieve so much more.
Again, a sentiment that was so noble and beautifully put 40 years ago, and a beautiful dream 40 years ago, but now with the huge advances in information technology, with the massive changes in behavioral economics, with all that we know about how you advance well-being, that if we combine those insights of giving power to people, and using information to make that possible, and using the insight of going with the
grain
of human nature, while at the same time, understanding why people behave in the way they do, it is a dream more easy to realize today than it was when it was made in that beautiful speech 40 years ago.
Are they
grain?
Feed
grain
to herbivores, pesticides to monocultures, chemicals to soil, chicken to fish, and all along agribusiness has simply asked, "If we're feeding more people more cheaply, how terrible could that be?" That's been the motivation, it's been the justification: it's been the business plan of American agriculture.
(Motor sound) It's trying to walk on the coastal terrain, a sandy area, but depending on the moisture content or the
grain
size of the sand, the foot's soil sinkage model changes, so it tries to adapt its gait to successfully cross over these kind of things.
Here is a scanning electron micrograph of a
grain
of pollen.
So, that's 20 micrometers across, that pollen
grain
there.
Now, all this diversity means that you can look at a pollen
grain
and tell what species it came from, and that's actually quite handy if you maybe have a sample and you want to see where it came from.
There is an invisible beauty all around us, each
grain
with a story to tell ... each of us, in fact, with a story to tell from the pollen fingerprint that's upon us.
Every single thing we eat, every
grain
of rice, every sprig of parsley, every Brussels sprout has been modified by man.
Look at this lady, Ram Timari Devi, on a
grain
bin.
They have the same kind of sofa, they store their
grain
in similar ways, they're going to have fish for dinner, and they're boiling their water in identical ways.
So, half as much
grain
is half as much useful, but half a baby or half a computer is less useful than a whole baby or a whole computer, and we've been trying to make computers that work that way.
So I went and stood on a big
grain
bin in the Midwest, and that really didn't help me understand farming, but I think it's a really cool picture.
A zeptowatt, if you put it in similar terms, is if you take just one
grain
of salt and then you imagine a tiny, tiny, little ball that is one thousandth of the mass of that one
grain
of salt and then you drop it one nanometer, which is a hundred times smaller than the wavelength of visible light, once per day.
They sometimes store
grain
in it.
What happens is that the wind blows the sand up the shallow slope on the other side, and then, as each sand
grain
hits the top of the ridge, it cascades down on the inside of the crescent, and so the whole horn-shaped dune moves.
This probably makes a huge difference, so take my review with a large
grain
of salt.
I suppose you could say this film has a
grain
of potential, but nothing more, because boy did the filmmakers botch it.
In Australia where most urban teens do surf, this film was laughed at audiences took it all with a
grain
of sea salt.
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