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Long wavelengths have low energies, while short wavelengths have high energies.

But on a long wavelength sea, you'd be rolling along, relaxed, low energy.

Some cones are more excited by light that is long wavelength and low energy, and other cones are more excited by short wavelength, high-energy light.

Light that is too short wavelength or high energy gets absorbed by the eye's surface before it can even get to the retina, and light that is too long wavelength doesn't have enough energy to stimulate our retina at all.

It's a lot to ponder, but Charles Darwin had the time on a long trip to the Galapagos, reading a copy of his friend Charles Lyell's "Principles of Geology," which Steno sort of founded.

It might be something as simple as replacing screen time with people time or livening up a stale relationship by doing something new together, long walks or date nights, or reaching out to that family member who you haven't spoken to in years, because those all-too-common family feuds take a terrible toll on the people who hold the grudges.

Also, scientists couldn't figure out for a long time the purpose of our massive frontal lobes or broad areas of the parietal lobe.

You see, when Onion's jacket is removed, a chemical reaction happens, converting the sulfoxides that make her smell so great into sulfenic acid, which then becomes a nasty substance with a long name: syn-Propanethial S-oxide.

And even trickier, when multiple added types of sugars are used in one type of product, they get buried down in a long list of ingredients, so the sugar content might appear to be okay, but when you add them all together, sugar can be the single biggest ingredient.

It's also a great preservative; it doesn't spoil or evaporate, so the foods it's added to are easier to store and ship long distances and tend to be cheaper.

I thought about it for a long time.

That is, their apparent thickness changes depending on how hard you push, or how long, or how fast.

Now let's say you apply a very weak force but for a very long time.

But most will show two telltale properties: sudden thinning at a threshold force, and more gradual thinning after a small force is applied for a long time.

And that means you could get ketchup out of the bottle in two ways: either give it a series of long, slow languid shakes making sure you don't ever stop applying force, or you could hit the bottle once very, very hard.

I have been a police officer for a very, very long time.

I've been a police officer for a very long time, and I mean I predated technology.

We would retire and I would go off into the sunset, maybe do ministry full time, love my wife a long time.

Now, show me a shape with finite area, but an infinitely long perimeter."

Some had infinitely long perimeters, others were objects with no area or volume, all of them created through infinite repetition.

Many visual beauty standards vary between cultures and eras, and signs of youth, fertility and good health, such as long lustrous hair, or smooth, scar-free skin, are almost always in demand because they're associated with reproductive fitness.

And that began my journey of learning how to weave and transform these dried water hyacinth stems into long ropes.

With my long ropes in hand, I was now equipped to make products.

While social media has enabled the truth to reach us faster, it's also allowed rumors to spread before they can be verified and falsehoods to survive long after they've been refuted.

So it's not that complex compared to what's going on at CERN, but it did take a long time for us to build it.

One of Milner's findings shed light on the obvious fact that although H.M. couldn't form new memories, he still retained information long enough from moment to moment to finish a sentence or find the bathroom.

There's also a long tradition of attempting to discern the value of sadness, and in that discussion, you'll find a strong argument that sadness is not only an inevitable part of life but an essential one.

The more interesting question is whether capitalism will be succeeded by something resembling a Matrix dystopia or something much closer to a Star Trek-like society, where machines serve the humans and the humans expend their energies exploring the universe and indulging in long debates about the meaning of life in some ancient, Athenian-like, high tech agora.

There are several ways to make these beats distinct, whether by using high and low drums, or long and short beats.

Henri Poincaré, one of the father's of non-Euclidean geometry, believed that the existence of non-Euclidean geometry, dealing with the non-flat surfaces of hyperbolic and elliptical curvatures, proved that Euclidean geometry, the long standing geometry of flat surfaces, was not a universal truth, but rather one outcome of using one particular set of game rules.

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