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The animal jumps, it spreads its wings, it vibrates them, but it can't actually take off because the fly is sandwiched between two glass plates.
We built another one with aluminum composite panels and piezoelectric plates, which are plates that generate a small pulse of electricity under pressure.
It shifted the Earth's tectonic plates, sped up the planet's rotation and literally shortened the length of the day.
For example, you can find it from some phone numbers and car license plates and stuff like that.
And the same thing about tectonic plates.
The store owned one of those machines that can print on plates of sugar.
I have been beating the same plates, shakers, drums, pans and so much more ever since to become a professional drummer and percussionist.
And we said to that public meeting in Todmorden, look, let's imagine that our town is focused around three plates: a community plate, the way we live our everyday lives; a learning plate, what we teach our kids in school and what new skills we share amongst ourselves; and business, what we do with the pound in our pocket and which businesses we choose to support.
Now, let's imagine those plates agitated with community actions around food.
If we start one of those community plates spinning, that's really great, that really starts to empower people, but if we can then spin that community plate with the learning plate, and then spin it with the business plate, we've got a real show there, we've got some action theater.
We're used to seeing the stuff on our plates, but what about all the stuff that goes missing in between?
Google names, addresses, license plates, experts and authors.
We have license plates on cars, tail numbers on aircraft.
Well, I did something a little bit innovative, because I do know hormones, and that estrogen is much more potent in closing epiphyses, the growth plates, and stopping growth, than testosterone is.
When we got evicted, sometimes we lived in these small apartments that she owned, sometimes in only one or two rooms, because they weren't completed, and we would heat our bathwater on hot plates.
And they're really just made up of compliant joints that are tubes and plates connected to one another.
You see these plates, and you see the compliant membrane.
Yes, the Grand Canyon is. Louis Daguerre invented photography in 1829, and earlier today, when you whipped out your smartphone and you took a shot of your awesome sandwich, and you know who you are — (Laughter) — wasn't that easier than exposing the image to copper plates coated with iodized silver?
Each well of these plates has specific biochemistry that we assign, that is looking for a specific microRNA, acting like a trap that closes only when the microRNA is present in the sample, and when it does, it will shine with green color.
So, he keeps on moving, approaching an unsuspecting waiter who is trying to deliver two plates of linguine in a delicate white wine clam sauce to diners who are sitting at a table just outside of a restaurant in the street.
He's got candles out, he's got flowers in the middle and he's trying to figure out where to put the plates and the glasses.
However, our P.R. department, in its enthusiasm, had already made 1,000 Delft Blue plates with the name of the wrong comets.
So the printer plates are small, so I had to piece the garment together, just like a puzzle.
But tsunamis are caused by energy originating underwater, from a volcanic eruption, a submarine landslide, or most commonly, an earthquake on the ocean floor caused when the tectonic plates of the Earth's surface slip, releasing a massive amount of energy into the water.
And today, this bird still occupies an important, though much less honorable position – on our dinner plates.
Because it's along the axis of the mid-ocean ridge where the great crustal plates are separating.
In plate tectonic theory, we knew that if you had plates collide, it made sense: they would crush into one another, you would thicken the crust, you'd uplift it.
And now France has become the first country to completely ban all plastic utensils, cups and plates.
These are all baleen whales which use hairy baleen plates instead of teeth to trap their prey.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives concocted a plan to find out what Americans were going to gun shows by using license plate detectors to scan the license plates of cars that were in the parking lots of these events.
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