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So the reason why the human brain costs so much energy is simply because it has a huge number of neurons, and because we are primates with many more neurons for a given body size than any other animal, the relative cost of our brain is large, but just because we're primates, not because we're special.

They just can't afford the energy for both a large body and a large number of neurons.

So it's either a large body or a large number of neurons.

So because of cooking, what once was a major liability, this large, dangerously expensive brain with a lot of neurons, could now become a major asset, now that we could both afford the energy for a lot of neurons and the time to do interesting things with them.

So I think this explains why the human brain grew to become so large so fast in evolution, all of the while remaining just a primate brain.

With this large brain now affordable by cooking, we went rapidly from raw foods to culture, agriculture, civilization, grocery stores, electricity, refrigerators, all of those things that nowadays allow us to get all the energy we need for the whole day in a single sitting at your favorite fast food joint.

And what is it that we do that no other animal does, and which I believe was fundamental to allow us to reach that large, largest number of neurons in the cortex?

This is a disease that affects a large number of individuals.

Because of private property of land and high land prices, all developing country cities have a large problem of slums.

One was that the city itself wasn't necessarily too large, but the economy was too small.

Will future technologies like the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope help us detect these things sooner?

And the way the drug gets tested is through a series of, basically, experiments, through these large, they're called trials, that they do to determine whether the drug is safe and whether it works and all these things.

And in the third phase, you test it on a very large sample, and you're trying to determine what the right dose is, is it better than what's available today?

We need very large archives, and we need excellent specialists.

And how should we communicate this new research to a large audience?

And this particular technique is one that's been borrowed from the semiconductor industry, and therefore is low cost and can be rolled out in large numbers.

However, as an engineer, as a biomedical engineer and also as a human being, I'm not going to be satisfied until we've rolled this thing out, taken it out of the lab and got it to people in large numbers and particularly the people that need it the most.

Yet, that vaccine is not available in large numbers because it's too expensive.

We are taking what we are learning and the technologies we are developing in the large and applying them in the small to create a blended model of education to really reinvent and reimagine what we do in the classroom.

Now these large numbers are just one part of the story.

We are taking what we develop and learn in the large and applying it in the small to the classroom, to create a blended model of learning.

It turns out that these sea hares have a small number of very large neurons, which makes them excellent to use in neuroscience research.

Just as some animals can use objects in their environments as tools to reach into narrow spaces, here we see that Entropica, again on its own initiative, was able to move a large disk representing an animal around so as to cause a small disk, representing a tool, to reach into a confined space holding a third disk and release the third disk from its initially fixed position.

Yet, as has become strikingly clear over the last couple of years, such responsibility has to a very great extent been abrogated by large sections of the media.

And here's something that may surprise you: the balance of power to really influence sustainability rests with institutional investors, the large investors like pension funds, foundations and endowments.

It's an index of large companies from developed markets across the world.

And by the way, the scale on these things is pretty large.

In the last century, large commercial airplanes have connected cities across the globe.

And it gets worse, because all these numbers are rising because these are by and large age-related diseases, and we're living longer.

And many of the questions that we might have about the universe at large scales, such as, how does gravity work?

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