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But we can also turn that thought on its head, and think that if we've had such a profound but a negative impact on our climate already, then we have an opportunity to influence the amount of future climate change that we will need to adapt to.
So if we think about an extreme weather event that might happen in some part of the world, and if that happens in a part of the world where there is good infrastructure, where there are people that are well-insured and so on, then that impact can be disruptive.
But if that exact same weather event happens in a part of the world where there is poor infrastructure, or where people are not well-insured, or they're not having good support networks, then that same climate change impact could be devastating.
So this is one of the first studies that was carried out by one of my mentors, Rusty Gage from the Salk Institute, showing that the environment can have an impact on the production of new neurons.
Conversely, a diet rich in high saturated fat will have a negative impact on neurogenesis.
It would change what gets built, who builds it and the long-term impact on the economy.
You know, there's a popular trope out there that the reason we haven't had the transformative impact on the treatment of illness is because we don't have powerful-enough drugs, and that's partly true.
Economic growth seems to have really helped in the fight against poverty, but it doesn't seem to be having much impact on trying to get to the Global Goals.
There have been three ways to try to impact the brain: the therapist's couch, pills and the knife.
And so the classroom started to feel a little bit small, so we found an industrial site in Hong Kong, and we turned it into the largest mega-space focused on social and environmental impact.
And the impact of Beveridge on the way the modern state sees social issues just can't be underestimated.
People queued in the rain on a November night to get hold of a copy, and it was read across the country, across the colonies, across Europe, across the United States of America, and it had this huge impact on the way that welfare states were designed around the globe.
The cultural products of an entire region of the world have been barred from imparting any kind of real impact on global media productions and contemporary social discourse.
But at the moment, I've been thinking really, really hard about the impact of my work.
My groups are small, there's hundreds of us, but we've had huge impact.
And these things have had impact.
The Ho Chi Minh Trail had a profound impact on the Vietnam War and it was the key to Hanoi's success.
As it turns out, the amount of fat we eat doesn't impact our weight or our cholesterol or our risk of heart disease nearly as much as what kind of fat we eat.
She probably died instantly at the point of impact.
So, she's now falling from 290 feet, instead of 300 feet, reaching the speed of 173 feet per second just before impact, not counting air resistance.
But they'll also think about things like what impact is it going to have on the local environment?
On one hand, learning very negative, highly immoral information about someone typically has a stronger impact than learning very positive, highly moral information.
If a player scores a goal, it ultimately has a stronger impact on your impression of their skills than if they miss the net.
It became clear to me that while it's true that polarization is primarily driven by our human behavior, social media shapes this behavior and magnifies its impact.
What is more important: the total number of readers of a post you write, or who are the people who have impact that read what you write?
Farming insects for food also has less environmental impact than livestock farms do because insects emit far less greenhouse gas and use up less space, water, and food.
The impact it would leave affected not only these slaves and their descendants, but the economies and histories of large parts of the world.
In all of these ways, the Atlantic slave trade was an injustice on a massive scale whose impact has continued long after its abolition.
Weighing all the possibilities, the computer spits out the potential area of impact in the form of a landing ellipse.
Even if the ball didn't disintegrate on impact, or hit any obstacles, as the air slowed it, the angle of its deflection would increase, causing it to spiral into smaller and smaller circles until finally stopping.
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