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And it's very interesting to see that the highest-ranking American city, Honolulu,
number
28, is followed by kind of the usual suspects of Seattle and Boston and all walkable cities.
And you can either put them into the heart or into the blood system, but either way, we don't seem to be able to get quite the right
number
of cells getting to the location we want them to and being able to deliver the sort of beautiful cell regeneration that we would like to have to get good clinical outcomes.
YR: This phrase is now etched into my mind clearer than the pin
number
to my bank card, so I can pretend I speak Chinese fluently.
The first
number
is three: three billion people.
This is the
number
of people joining the global middle class by 2030, coming out of poverty.
It's fantastic for them and their families, but we've got two billion people in the global middle class today, and this swells that
number
to five, a big challenge when we already have resource scarcity.
The second
number
is six: This is six degrees centigrade, what we're heading towards in terms of global warming.
The third
number
is 12: That's the
number
of cities in the world that had a million or more people when my grandmother was born.
I'm showing you the
number
of 15- to 24-year-olds in various parts of the world, and the blue line is the one I want you to focus on for a second.
This decade, we're going to see a 20- to 30-percent fall in the
number
of 15- to 24-year-olds in China.
And they're looking at Africa because that yellow line is showing you that the
number
of young Africans is going to continue to get bigger decade after decade after decade out to 2050.
We know that jealousy is the
number
one cause of spousal murder in the United States.
Just one number, the Higgs boson mass, and yet, out of this
number
we learn so much.
Three years ago, I was standing about a hundred yards from Chernobyl nuclear reactor
number
four.
I was there covering the 25th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear accident, as you can see by the look on my face, reluctantly so, but with good reason, because the nuclear fire that burned for 11 days back in 1986 released 400 times as much radiation as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, and the sarcophagus, which is the covering over reactor
number
four, which was hastily built 27 years ago, now sits cracked and rusted and leaking radiation.
The World Health Organization puts the
number
of Chernobyl-related deaths at 4,000, eventually.
Greenpeace and other organizations put that
number
in the tens of thousands.
To put these numbers in perspective, this is eight times larger than the
number
of casualties in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined.
It's also shockingly close to the
number
of people who have died in the Syrian civil war, which is an active civil war.
The
number
of petals on a flower is typically a Fibonacci number, or the
number
of spirals on a sunflower or a pineapple tends to be a Fibonacci
number
as well.
In fact, there are many more applications of Fibonacci numbers, but what I find most inspirational about them are the beautiful
number
patterns they display.
Now, it's no surprise that when you add consecutive Fibonacci numbers, you get the next Fibonacci
number.
On the other hand, because it's a rectangle, the area is equal to its height times its base, and the height is clearly eight, and the base is five plus eight, which is the next Fibonacci number, 13.
Since we've correctly calculated the area two different ways, they have to be the same number, and that's why the squares of one, one, two, three, five and eight add up to eight times 13.
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.
Okay, so that's the first rule, and we can see that three or four is kind of the typical
number
of thumbs in a node, but if you feel ambitious, you don't have to hold back.
Since then we have taken pictures of dozens of these nests from around various parts of Southeast Asia, and we're now working with computer scientists to develop algorithms that can automatically count the
number
of nests from the thousands of photos we've collected so far.
You compare hospitals in a country, you'll find some that are extremely good, but you'll find a large
number
that are vastly much worse.
In the United States, the
number
was three times higher than in Sweden.
That sinister expression means that if hospital resources are limited, for example if only one donor heart becomes available for transplant, or if a surgeon has time to operate on only a certain
number
of patients, American hospitals have an explicit policy of giving preference to younger patients over older patients on the grounds that younger patients are considered more valuable to society because they have more years of life ahead of them, even though the younger patients have fewer years of valuable life experience behind them.
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