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(Frogs croaking) Mono Lake is just to the east of Yosemite National Park in California, and it's a favorite habitat of these toads, and it's also favored by U.S. Navy jet pilots, who train in their fighters flying them at speeds exceeding 1,100 kilometers an hour and altitudes only a couple hundred meters above ground level of the Mono Basin, very fast, very low, and so loud that the anthrophony, the human noise, even though it's six and a half kilometers from the frog pond you just heard a second ago, it masked the sound of the chorusing toads.
You can see in this spectrogram that all of the energy that was once in the first spectrogram is gone from the top end of the spectrogram, and that there's breaks in the chorusing at two and a half, four and a half, and six and a half seconds, and then the sound of the jet, the signature, is in yellow at the very bottom of the page.
A customer from a department store across from my building called 911, and I ran downstairs to tell my mom with half of my hair burned.
So in one level it went from something like 13 dollars to 266, literally in the space of four months, and then crashed and lost half of its value in six hours.
It takes only one and a half days to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
The chassis is made up of about 11,000 components, the engine another 6,000, the electronics about eight and a half thousand.
My goal was when the building was demolished, because each country makes a lot of pavilions but after half a year, we create a lot of industrial waste, so my building has to be reused or recycled.
Mr. Berlusconi brought G8 summit, and our former prime minister came, so they helped us to collect money, and I got half a million euros from the Japanese government to rebuild this temporary auditorium.
RB: Well, I knew I had about half an hour's fuel left, and I also knew that the chances were that if I jumped, I would only have a couple of minutes of life left.
Nowadays, we sleep one and a half to two hours less every night, so we're in the six-and-a-half-hours every-night league.
Actually, reduce your amount of light exposure at least half an hour before you go to bed.
This number is almost 17 and a half million digits long.
Written out as a book, this number would run the length of the Harry Potter novels and half again.
This number is 17 and a half thousand slides long, and we know it is prime as confidently as we know the number seven is prime.
One of the most exciting scientific findings of the past half century has been the discovery of widespread trophic cascades.
There's one estimate which suggests that in the United States, two thirds of the land which was once forested and then cleared has become reforested as loggers and farmers have retreated, particularly from the eastern half of the country.
There's a firefighter that's stuck, actually, in traffic, and so the firefighters themselves are running a mile and a half to the site itself with upwards of 70 pounds of gear on their back.
We've got 300 million cases a year and over half a million deaths.
It lives half its life inside the cold-blooded mosquito and half its life inside the warm-blooded human.
We have half the number of managed hives in the United States now compared to 1945.
Moreover, today, more than half of the world's population live in cities.
And in a study done in Canada, researchers planted the false memory that when you were a kid, something as awful as being attacked by a vicious animal happened to you, succeeding with about half of their subjects.
By 2010, college graduates, if you said two circles followed by a semicircle, two sixteens followed by what, they would say eight, because eight is half of 16.
You cool it down to room temperature, and as you do, those short strands do the following thing: each one of them binds that long strand in one place, and then has a second half that binds that long strand in a distant place, and brings those two parts of the long strand close together so they stick together.
I figure about half of that are men, so that takes the number down to 750,000.
Well, a year and a half after that, we were non-cruise ship traveling through Petra, Jordan, when he got down on his knee and proposed.
A year after that, we were married, and about a year and a half after that, our daughter, Petra, was born.
The first half of the 20th century produced the assembly line and the airplane, penicillin and a vaccine for tuberculosis.
One of the things we've found was, about half the patients with phantom limbs claim that they can move the phantom.
But however, about half the patients, this doesn't happen.
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