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While nearly all of the commercial air travel in the world goes through a relatively small number of large hub airports, there is a huge underutilized resource out there.
There are thousands of local airstrips that don't see nearly as many aircraft operations a day as they could.
But as long as we pretend that CO2 is free, as long as these uses are nearly invisible, how can we expect change?
It took building a whole bunch of systems to get it right, but once we did, we were able to cut our carbon footprint nearly in half.
You can find spiders in nearly every terrestrial habitat.
Nearly all of these proteins can be explained by a single gene family, so this means that the diversity of silk types we see today is encoded by one gene family, so presumably the original spider ancestor made one kind of silk, and over the last 380 million years, that one silk gene has duplicated and then diverged, specialized, over and over and over again, to get the large variety of flavors of spider silks that we have today.
And what you can see is that nearly all the spider draglines surpass them.
It was planted by a woman, a mother of four, and she nearly faced a 93-day jail sentence because she planted it in her front yard.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the eastern American chestnut population, counting nearly four billion trees, was completely decimated by a fungal infection.
Olive oil slightly decreased the PhIP formation, but it was nearly negligible.
Now I'm going to describe to you a study I did with Gur Huberman, Emir Kamenica, Wei Jang where we looked at the retirement savings decisions of nearly a million Americans from about 650 plans all in the U.S.
In those plans that offered nearly 60 funds, participation rates have now dropped to about the 60th percentile.
In South Korea and Indonesia, women own nearly half a million firms.
Nearly everywhere I go, I meet incredibly interesting entrepreneurs who are seeking access to finance, access to markets and established business networks.
The population of the world is nearly seven billion people.
There are nearly a million known insect species in the world, but most have one of just five common types of mouthparts.
It's been seen nearly 200 million times this year.
It's been viewed nearly 50 million times this year.
And this explains the extraordinary resonance of this simple metaphor conjured up nearly 400 years ago.
I saw Jason nearly every day, sometimes twice a day.
We have now found treatments for nearly all of the tens of thousands of conditions that a human being can have.
In the blink of an eye, we nearly doubled the length of time that we're living.
What we see again, though, is that the specific way you spend on other people isn't nearly as important as the fact that you spend on other people in order to make yourself happy, which is really quite important.
We are not even two bites into breakfast and there are already nearly 25 sites that are tracking me.
And what that means is that, in looking at solutions, we've probably given too much priority to what I call technical engineering solutions, Newtonian solutions, and not nearly enough to the psychological ones.
If you actually look at a great business, you'll nearly always see all of these three things coming into play.
One of the really interesting things that I learned is that once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today.
And you can't pay one of these companies to make the world suddenly nice and improve democracy nearly as easily as you can pay to ruin those things.
And some of them are really nearly there.
And Doug was really disappointed to learn that nearly 80 percent of the pediatric patients in this hospital had to be sedated in order to deal with his MRI machine.
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