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That's part of a much larger health argument.

So in this picture, you can see the middle of the leg, so the bone marrow, then you can see the original bone, and you can see where that original bone finishes, and just to the left of that is the new bone that's grown within that bioreactor cavity, and you can actually make it even larger.

That's a goodbye for a man who was larger than life, a goodbye for a man for whom anything, well, almost anything, was possible, a goodbye for a man who kept hope alive.

But for the moment, since we have found no evidence for new phenomena, let us suppose that the particles that we know today, including the Higgs boson, are the only elementary particles in nature, even at energies much larger than what we have explored so far.

But the larger sense that we have of our lives, the slightly more abstract one, is indirect.

To put these numbers in perspective, this is eight times larger than the number of casualties in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined.

We are right now seeing a much larger scale of tracking of individual citizens than he could have ever imagined.

This is five times larger.

And if you divide the larger number by the smaller number, then these ratios get closer and closer to about 1.618, known to many people as the Golden Ratio, a number which has fascinated mathematicians, scientists and artists for centuries.

If all brains were made the same way and you were to compare animals with brains of different sizes, larger brains should always have more neurons than smaller brains, and the larger the brain, the more cognitively able its owner should be.

Theirs may be bigger, but ours is better, and it could be better, for example, in that it seems larger than it should be, with a much larger cerebral cortex than we should have for the size of our bodies.

So the main reason for saying that our brain is larger than it should be actually comes from comparing ourselves to great apes.

Gorillas can be two to three times larger than we are, so their brains should also be larger than ours, but instead it's the other way around.

Our brain is three times larger than a gorilla brain.

So the human brain is larger than it should be, it uses much more energy than it should, so it's special.

Take rodents and primates, for instance: In larger rodent brains, the average size of the neuron increases, so the brain inflates very rapidly and gains size much faster than it gains neurons.

But primate brains gain neurons without the average neuron becoming any larger, which is a very economical way to add neurons to your brain.

The result is that a primate brain will always have more neurons than a rodent brain of the same size, and the larger the brain, the larger this difference will be.

Last question, then: how did we come by this remarkable number of neurons, and in particular, if great apes are larger than we are, why don't they have a larger brain than we do, with more neurons?

We're part of a much larger environment, and in fact, we may even be surrounded by interstellar visitors and not even know it.

You have to put it in a larger European context.

But it speaks to a larger vision for a music industry that's sometimes struggled to find its footing in this digital age, that they begin to see these new technologies not simply as ways of adding bells and whistles to an existing model, but to dream up entirely new ways for people to interact with and experience music.

And for that you need businesses that can actually define their role in society in terms of a much larger purpose than the products and brands that they sell.

It's not about selling soap, there is a larger purpose out there.

And for larger grids, expert mathematicians aren’t sure whether they’ve found the lowest possible scores.

This was hitchhiking small satellites alongside much larger satellites.

We would have to build something larger than the original breadbox, now more like a mini-fridge, but we still wouldn't have to build a pickup truck.

And while these two cities have the same population, San Diego has grown six times larger than Tijuana in the last decades, immediately thrusting us to confront the tensions and conflicts between sprawl and density, which are at the center of today's discussion about environmental sustainability.

Which should make it accessible to a larger crowd than this one.

This is the largest undeveloped river basin on the planet, spanning an area larger than California.

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