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Imaging methods, while useful in some populations, expose patients to harmful radiation.
And the thing is, if they're not harmful, they're not to be completely dismissed.
It filters out more than 90 percent of the harmful UV radiation coming from the sun.
Throughout, Machiavelli appears entirely unconcerned with morality, except insofar as it’s helpful or harmful to maintaining power.
What was even more alarming to me was that the more they exposed themselves to these harmful risks, the easier it became for them to continue taking risks.
In short, I wanted to conduct a research study to answer one big question: Why do teens keep making outrageous choices that are harmful to their health and well-being?
They lacked self-control for logical decision-making, took greater risks and made more harmful choices.
Until one day, running in the streets with a friend, it hit me: the same cars, factories, power plants whose emissions are wrecking our climate over time also release harmful, local pollutants that threaten our health right here and right now.
But every now and then, a point mutation disrupts an important capability in a cell or causes a cell to misbehave in harmful ways.
If that mutation were inherited from your parents or occurred early enough in your development, then the result would be that many or all of your cells contain this harmful mutation.
Well, beyond avoiding the damaging and harmful impact of alcohol and caffeine on sleep, and if you're struggling with sleep at night, avoiding naps during the day, I have two pieces of advice for you.
Nociception is part of the nervous system’s protective response to harmful or potentially harmful stimuli.
It leaches harmful chemical contaminants into our oceans, our soil, our food, our water, and into us.
But the consequence of this constant surveillance is that our bodies treat helpful implants, like insulin pumps, with the same suspicion as they would a harmful virus or bacteria.
But we need human beings to look at the content and context of a deepfake to figure out if it is a harmful impersonation or instead, if it's valuable satire, art or education.
It teaches us about what's harmful and what's wrong.
My colleague Dr. Mary Anne Franks and I are working with US lawmakers to devise legislation that would ban harmful digital impersonations that are tantamount to identity theft.
And it produced the ozone layer, which protects modern life from the harmful effects of the sun's UVB radiation.
I realized that before I could continue making media about social issues, I needed to reverse engineer the harmful effects of technology.
It is my hope that we make an ethical commitment to harvesting the body's intelligence for the creation of authentic and just stories that transform media and technology from harmful weapons into narrative medicine.
As the environment changes, traits that were once useful can become harmful.
But if a trait isn’t actively harmful, it might not get selected against, and stick around even though it isn’t useful.
While blood thinners and aspirin are generally harmless when taken individually, interactions where one substance exacerbates the effects of another can also take place between drugs that are independently harmful.
Enzymes can both activate drugs, by breaking them down into their therapeutic ingredients from more complex molecules, and deactivate them, by breaking harmful compounds down into harmless metabolites.
NB: Yeah, so in addition to these kind of obvious types of black balls that would just make it possible to blow up a lot of things, other types would act by creating bad incentives for humans to do things that are harmful.
But Joy can also turn into obsession and start to be actually harmful for Kay, like when she starts obsessing over her boyfriend.
Ruminating always feels like we're doing something important, when in fact, we're doing something harmful.
And like all of them, it's useless and it's harmful, because we'd never think it when we're at work, getting stuff done.
And as this food sits, it gradually rots and produces harmful methane gas, a leading contributor to global climate change.
Adding a bucket of brandy to a water barrel kept water fresh longer because alcohol is a preservative that kills harmful microbes.
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