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Wright argues that technology has increased the number of positive-sum games that humans tend to be embroiled in, by allowing the trade of goods, services and ideas over longer distances and among larger groups of people.

It would fit both in Wright's theory, that it allows us to enjoy the benefits of cooperation over larger and larger circles.

They've been doing it since 1948, and what they show consistently throughout is that it's almost impossible to find Americans who are consistent ideologically, who consistently support, "No we mustn't tax, and we must limit the size of government," or, "No, we must encourage government to play a larger role in redistribution and correcting the ills of capitalism."

And we've actually built a couple of these, and this is part of a larger robot made out of these cubes.

Of course, there were lots of people who opted for a 100 percent one or the other, but I found that a much larger proportion of people identified as something that was much more nuanced.

You know, in primates, there is this phenomenon called sexual dimorphism, which simply means males are larger than females and males have larger teeth than the females.

Now, the main defense against pack-hunting predators is to get into herds, and the larger the herd, the safer the individuals.

The reason that the electronic jellyfish worked as a lure is not because giant squid eat jellyfish, but it's because this jellyfish only resorts to producing this light when it's being chewed on by a predator and its only hope for escape may be to attract the attention of a larger predator that will attack its attacker and thereby afford it an opportunity for escape.

Now, this idea that overhead is somehow an enemy of the cause creates this second, much larger problem, which is, it forces organizations to go without the overhead things they really need to grow, in the interest of keeping overhead low.

I'm on the board of KIPP charter schools, which is one of the larger networks.

Two lawsuits later, they sent him a CD with an Excel table of 30,832 lines; like "The War and the Peace", but three times larger.

You can see how the vibrations get larger and smaller, depending on how you move.

When you looked at the hard instructions, the effect was larger.

We even demonstrated that we can do this at a much larger scale.

You might still see a patch of red on the screen, because we're showing increases with larger colored clouds, larger colored areas of red.

You make the text larger with each tap.

I discovered that, if I worked on a larger scale and with bigger materials, my hand really wouldn't hurt, and after having gone from a single approach to art, I ended up having an approach to creativity that completely changed my artistic horizons.

So I organized candles on a table, I lit them, and then blew them out, then repeated this process over and over with the same set of candles, then assembled the videos into the larger image.

So a hominid genome is about three billion base pairs, but an elephant and mammoth genome is about two billion base pairs larger, and most of that is composed of small, repetitive DNAs that make it very difficult to actually re-jig the entire structure of the genome.

Narrator: With a wingspan of 247 feet, this makes her larger than a Boeing 747. (Music) Her designers' attention to detail and her construction gives Helios' structure the flexibility and strength to deal with the turbulence encountered in the atmosphere.

Still, some boundaries are larger than others.

In fact, on aggregate, subsidies are four times larger than the profits.

Indeed, corruption is a big problem, but let's first look at the larger context.

In the larger central committee of 300 or more, the percentage of those who were born into power and wealth was even smaller.

So the journey back to Saturn is really part of and is also a metaphor for a much larger human voyage to understand the interconnectedness of everything around us, and also how humans fit into that picture.

So our children are getting larger, but at the same time we are growing into different directions.

And we started growing larger and larger crop monocultures.

So where we see an unquestionable reality, death as an irrefutable biological condition, Torajans see the expired corporeal form as part of a larger social genesis.

It might help us recognize that the way we limit our conversation about death to something that's medical or biological is reflective of a larger culture that we all share of avoiding death, being afraid of talking about it.

In fact, during the past three decades, when market reasoning and market thinking have gathered force and gained prestige, our public discourse during this time has become hollowed out, empty of larger moral meaning.

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