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However, instead of remembering that you've seen it at your grandmother's, your brain has summoned up the old memory without identifying it.
And let's be honest, this is the moment in which we need more Europe instead of less Europe.
Instead of single-family homes, more residences will be built vertically.
If the waves, instead, have short wavelengths, they'll be close together, and you'll bob up and down much more often, at a high frequency.
Instead of wagging their paddles back and forth, they wind them like a cork screw.
And we can create those positive peer-to-peer relationships on and offline, we can support and educate the next generation of hackers, like myself, instead of saying, "You can either be a criminal or join the NSA."
Giving up mass surveillance and hacking and instead fixing those backdoors means that, yeah, they can't spy on us, but neither can the Chinese or that hacker in Estonia a generation from now.
By relying on makeup, or keshou, and facial expressions instead of masks and focusing on historical events and everyday life rather than folk tales, Kabuki set itself apart from the upper-class dance theater form known as Noh and provided a unique commentary on society during the Edo period.
He opted, instead, to emphasize their enslaved state by naming them roboti, or robot in English.
It's as if we agreed that we are here to talk at each other instead of talking with each other.
Instead of pulling the universe together, as we would expect gravity to do, the universe appears to be expanding apart at an ever-increasing rate.
So it's the same principle as Amazon and Netflix, but now instead of deciding whether a TV show is going to be good or bad, you're deciding whether a person is going to be good or bad.
Instead of jumping with his face towards the bar, bringing each leg over in the traditional straddle method, he jumped with his back towards the bar.
Instead, what's really happening is that certain compounds in spicy foods activate the type of sensory neurons called polymodal nociceptors.
Instead of switching to jam, you investigate the reason for the price hike.
So instead of counting each final scenario individually, we can multiply the number of choices for each chair: four times three times two times one to achieve the same result of 24.
That extra force is enough to squish the tomato particles, so maybe instead of little spheres, they get smushed into little ellipses, and boom!
Many scientists and policy makers are instead focusing on early detection, monitoring underwater pressure and seismic activity, and establishing global communication networks for quickly distributing alerts.
If we rotated the triangle by, say, 90 degrees instead, the rotated triangle would look different to the original.
Instead of articles interpreting a scientific study or a politician's speech, you can often find the actual material and judge for yourself.
But then why aren't these tradtional power plants just used as a backup, instead of us humans depending on them as our main sources of energy?
Instead, to accommodate these fluctuations, some extra electricity from traditional power plants is always being produced.
Instead of exploring outer space, I wanted to explore the wonders of inner space.
But what if we stopped thinking about devices and think instead about environments?
It pops up instead of dipping down.
Suppose that instead of one cat in a box, we have two cats in two different boxes.
Repeating a word like atlas ad nauseam can make you stop thinking about what the word means, and instead focus on the sounds: the odd way the "L" follows the "T."
But what would it take, what would it look like to have this Star Trek-like utopia, instead of the Matrix-like dystopia?
Not only is that a pretty long-winded way to say, "The baby isn't mine," but Edwards never calls the other parties by name, instead saying "that baby," "the woman," and "the apparent father."
And looking at it the other way, what we've been finding is that instead of bringing color underwater with us, that we've been looking at the blue ocean, and it's a crucible of blue, and these animals living there for millions of years have been evolving all sorts of ways to take in that blue light and give off other colors.
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