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And it's the combined quality of these deep-sleep brainwaves that acts like a file-transfer mechanism at night, shifting memories from a short-term vulnerable reservoir to a more permanent long-term storage site within the brain, and therefore protecting them, making them safe.

Bill Lyell: Would you say that this mechanism is in part how terrorism actually works to frighten us, and is there some way that we could counteract that?

I don't think it's quite as specific a mechanism as the one you alluded to, but maybe a more fundamental one underlying it.

Information can be sent over half a kilometer away in a very short time through this mechanism.

So in a way, because the Chinese were attacked, chop suey was created as a defense mechanism.

The mechanism to control each petal is below there, with a microprocessor on each one.

And it's that mechanism that might undermine our shared sense of reality.

Innovation is the process by which we solve human problems, consumer demand is the mechanism through which the market selects for useful innovations, and as we solve more problems, we become more prosperous.

The key thing from our perspective here is that ultraviolet light kills bacteria by a completely different mechanism from the way drugs kill bacteria.

So first, we figured out how this bacterium does this, but then we brought the tools of molecular biology to this to figure out, really, what's the mechanism.

What was really brilliant was that because of the recoil mechanism, it could return to the exact same position without having to be reaimed.

The mechanism isn't clear.

The mechanism for this projection is well understood.

So everyone has the same mechanism.

So to understand why it's different, let's try to understand the mechanism of perception of this inward voice.

And there's this other mechanism taking place here.

Even if the Tay-Sachs mutation persisted because carriers were more likely to survive, reproduce and pass on their genetic material, why did this resistance mechanism proliferate among the Ashkenazi population in particular?

In the time it takes us to evolve one mechanism of resistance, a pathogenic species will go through millions of generations, giving it ample time to evolve, so it can continue using our bodies as a host.

In general, RNA viruses don’t have a proofreading mechanism, whereas DNA viruses do.

In the 1990s, we saw financial centers around the world competing for their business, and there was simply no effective mechanism to prevent money laundering.

And I probably will need a hobby as a leveling mechanism.

He wanted to create a franchise, a mechanism of delivery of eye care with the efficiency of McDonald's.

So, you can't tell me it's working by the same mechanism in all three size.

We have no idea the mechanism.

And what he showed in mantis shrimp is that they use what's called a "catch mechanism," or "click mechanism."

There needs to be some kind of spring-loaded mechanism in order to generate the amount of force that we observe, and the speed that we observe, and the output of the system.

So we decided to synthesize a mechanical mechanism so we could get rid of all the motors, and with a single motor, we can coordinate all the motions.

And we must find a mechanism where people will pool in the portfolio, will invest in the portfolio, where different innovations will go to a small number of people in their localities, and yet, the overall platform of the model will become viable.

That's fascinating and beautiful in itself, but we think that the mechanism for powering those fountains requires there to be lakes of liquid water beneath the surface of this moon.

There's no mechanism in this game for them to go anywhere but into a bigger and bigger pile of indigestible Styrofoam peanuts.

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