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And it's a
number
of projects.
We went through a
number
of not-quite-right caregivers before we found the perfect team led by Marsha, who won't let you win at bingo just because you're dying but will go out and take videos of your ranch for you when you can't get out there, and Caitlin, who won't let you skip your morning exercises but knows when you need to hear that your wife is in good hands.
You could take the money you're spending on those unnecessary things and give it to this organization, the Against Malaria Foundation, which would take the money you had given and use it to buy nets like this one to protect children like this one, and we know reliably that if we provide nets, they're used, and they reduce the
number
of children dying from malaria, just one of the many preventable diseases that are responsible for some of those 19,000 children dying every day.
He's a graduate student in philosophy, and he's set up a website called 80,000 Hours, the
number
of hours he estimates most people spend on their career, to advise people on how to have the best, most effective career.
GiveWell exists to really assess the impact of charities, not just whether they're well-run, and it's screened hundreds of charities and currently is recommending only three, of which the Against Malaria Foundation is
number
one.
But Chris went on to say that he didn't think that what he'd done was all that amazing, because he calculated that the
number
of life-years that he had added to people, the extension of life, was about the same that you could achieve if you gave 5,000 dollars to the Against Malaria Foundation.
Now, I was at a dinner a
number
of years ago, and I work extensively with the US military, all the services.
And I thought, "Here I had been working for years on a book about how much meaning people had found in the experience of parenting children who were disabled, and I didn't want to join their
number
because what I was encountering was an idea of illness."
The
number
of jobs for librarians increased for a long time after 1957.
And as the
number
of people who are older, above retirement age and getting older, as they increase, there will be less people to take care of them.
Hexacopters and octocopters, with six and eight propellers, can provide redundancy, but quadrocopters are much more popular because they have the minimum
number
of fixed motor propeller pairs: four.
By 2011, this had gone up to 300,000 hours, outstripping human ability to review it all, but even that
number
is about to go up drastically.
And while we may not know the exact answer, there are a
number
of really good theories about why we need it.
We are facing an unprecedented number, scale of disasters.
And when I duplicated the research in Europe, asking all the same questions, I found exactly the same
number.
Well, point
number
one, each of them represents a unique family of its own.
Climate change has affected the world for a long period of time, and gradually, the forests disappeared, the country began to dry out, and the
number
of kinds of thylacines began to decline, until by five million years ago, only one left.
According to Freedom House, the
number
of democracies went from 45 in 1970 to 115 in 2010.
With a few exceptions, the vast
number
of developing countries that have adopted electoral regimes are still suffering from poverty and civil strife.
One of my favorite examples, the IRC, International Rescue Committee, they have a program where semi-literate midwives, using $10 mobile phones, send a text message using our software, once a week, with the
number
of births and the
number
of deaths, which gives IRC something that no one in global health has ever had: a near-real-time system of counting babies, of knowing how many kids are born, of knowing how many children there are in Sierra Leone, which is the country where this is happening, and knowing how many children die.
Because if we could demonstrate that genesis had occurred not once, but twice, independently, in our solar system, then that means, by inference, it has occurred a staggering
number
of times throughout the universe and its 13.7 billion year history.
The control panel has only three buttons: one which adds 5 to the display number, one which adds 7, and one which takes the square root.
If it ever shows the same
number
more than once, a
number
greater than 60, or a non-whole number, the room will explode.
Adding 5 or 7 increases the number, and the square root button will make it smaller.
And the reason I think that way is that today half of us live in cities, and that
number
is going to grow to 75 percent.
That's a
number
only that Congress can appreciate.
With permission granted to record both before and after the operation, I set up my gear and captured a large
number
of dawn choruses to very strict protocol and calibrated recordings, because I wanted a really good baseline.
(Nature sounds) Well, a year later I returned, and using the same protocols and recording under the same conditions, I recorded a
number
of examples of the same dawn choruses, and now this is what we've got.
The
number
of people living in countries not their own now comes to 220 million, and that's an almost unimaginable number, but it means that if you took the whole population of Canada and the whole population of Australia and then the whole population of Australia again and the whole population of Canada again and doubled that number, you would still have fewer people than belong to this great floating tribe.
And the
number
of us who live outside the old nation-state categories is increasing so quickly, by 64 million just in the last 12 years, that soon there will be more of us than there are Americans.
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