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And I am reminded that throughout the world there are cultures with vast sums of knowledge in them, as potent as the Micronesian navigators, that are going dismissed, that this is a testament to brilliant, brilliant technology and science and wisdom that is vanishing rapidly.
And I was actually a potent force in spreading ideas across borders, and I witnessed the rise of Islamist extremism as distinct from Islam the faith, and the way in which it influenced my co-religionists across the world.
Language really is the most potent trait that has ever evolved.
We sent it to Oxford, England, where a group of talented crystallographers provided this picture, which helped us understand exactly how this molecule is so potent for this protein target.
These new drugs are cheap, potent and extremely hard to dose.
And what's interesting about BPA is that it's such a potent estrogen that it was actually once considered for use as a synthetic estrogen in hormone placement therapy.
We recently saw a case where some researchers made the H5N1 avian influenza virus more potent.
But as it turns out, for purposes of protecting your privacy at the expense of general GPS reliability, there's something even more potent and more subversive than a Wave Bubble, and that is a GPS spoofer.
So, all in all, in an age when the visual image of any kind was rare, tapestries were an incredibly potent form of propaganda.
Voice: The moon is one of the most potent symbols of magic.
Now the science behind this is so potent that it became required by the American Board of Surgery in order for a young surgeon to become board certified.
What is it about transgression that makes desire so potent?
It's a very potent weapon of mass destruction.
The creative spirit in Africa, the creative tradition, is as potent as it has always been, if only designers could look within.
And that little stop, look, go, is such a potent seed that it can revolutionize our world.
Those same molecules, they become methane, and methane is a 25 times more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
One of their most potent alkaloids is the chemical epibatidine, which binds to the same receptors in the brain as nicotine but is at least ten times stronger.
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.
We can try and render the chains of mass surveillance invisible or undetectable, but the constraints that it imposes on us do not become any less potent.
Now our work, that is, the scientific validation of this traditional information, has shown that precisely that leaf extract shows activity, potent activity, against a wide range of bacteria that could be pathogenic to humans.
So seductive was this idea, so potent the metaphor of lock and key and killing something, that it really swept through biology.
You take loneliness, you take depression, you take confinement, and you add to that, rolled up in a little white sheet of paper, one of the most potent neurostimulants that we know, called nicotine, and you add to that one of the most potent addictive substances that you know, and you have a pro-carcinogenic environment.
The ultraviolet light cleaves the hydrogen peroxide into two parts that are called hydroxyl radicals, and these hydroxyl radicals are very potent forms of oxygen that break down most organic chemicals.
Infection rates climbed, and when treatment became available in the West, treatment that remains our most potent weapon against this virus, it was unaffordable to the public sector across Africa.
And as we know, CO2 is an incredibly potent greenhouse gas.
Then more water vapor goes into the air, forming yet another potent greenhouse gas.
Humans made this air, but it's also the most potent greenhouse gas that has ever been tested.
Lead is a potent neurotoxin which causes cognitive and developmental disabilities and is especially harmful to growing fetuses and young children.
But they were replaced by HFCs, which are hundreds to thousands of times more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
And he would say, listen, I know I gave you that huge pill, that complicated, hard-to-swallow pill before, but now I've got one that's so potent, that is really tiny and small and almost invisible.
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