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And they think these are super-flares, millions of times more powerful than any flares we've had from our Sun so far.
What I'm here to talk with you about today is an intriguing new hypothesis and some surprisingly powerful new findings that I've been working on about the link between the structure of the language you speak and how you find yourself with the propensity to save.
But attached to the base of the wing is a set of little, tiny control muscles that are not very powerful at all, but they're very fast, and they're able to reconfigure the hinge of the wing on a stroke-by-stroke basis, and this is what enables the fly to change its wing and generate the changes in aerodynamic forces which change its flight trajectory.
It's too complicated for us, but we can harvest it from its natural source, and we do, because this is one of our most powerful antibiotics.
And we think of this as our system of ethics, but what we don't realize is that this system has a powerful side effect, which is: It gives a really stark, mutually exclusive choice between doing very well for yourself and your family or doing good for the world, to the brightest minds coming out of our best universities, and sends tens of thousands of people who could make a huge difference in the nonprofit sector, marching every year directly into the for-profit sector because they're not willing to make that kind of lifelong economic sacrifice.
Now to begin to overcome our ignorance of the role of brain chemistry in brain circuitry, it's helpful to work on what we biologists call "model organisms," animals like fruit flies and laboratory mice, in which we can apply powerful genetic techniques to molecularly identify and pinpoint specific classes of neurons, as you heard about in Allan Jones's talk this morning.
And so that was the trigger to make us think, wow, you know, with episodic content, especially serialized, it's so powerful to have all the episodes at once.
Electronics kits are very powerful in that they teach us how things work, but the constraints inherent in their design influence the way we learn.
This perspective is a really powerful one for designers, because you can bring on principles of ecology, and a really important principle of ecology is dispersal, the way organisms move around.
We make three mistakes: the first is underestimating the quantity of information that we produce every day; the second is depreciating the value of that information; and the third is thinking that our principal problem is a distant and super powerful agency that is called NSA.
And a lot of this comes together in a philosophy of change that I find really is powerful.
Because at the end of the day these technologies are simply about people caring for other people and ourselves in some powerful new ways.
It's what I call social contagion, and it's really powerful and really exciting.
They're powerful enough to cut growth in half.
And here's my theme: Because of the headwinds, if innovation continues to be as powerful as it has been in the last 150 years, growth is cut in half.
If innovation is less powerful, invents less great, wonderful things, then growth is going to be even lower than half of history.
And eye meat is something different, something more fibrous, something more powerful, perhaps.
A child's Playstation today is more powerful than a military supercomputer from 1996.
Artificial electrodes are then placed on each AMI muscle, and small computers within the bionic limb decode those signals to control powerful motors on the bionic limb.
Muscles within the body can be reconfigured for the control of powerful motors, and to feel and sense exoskeletal movements, augmenting humans' strength, jumping height and running speed.
And that program proved something to us that we knew intuitively: people's need for theater is as powerful as their desire for food or for drink.
I am powerful, and I am strong.
How powerful would our world be if we had kids who were not afraid to take risks, who were not afraid to think, and who had a champion?
So it really has been a simple but powerful tool in my own reflection.
But one of the powerful roles that men can play in this work is that we can say some things that sometimes women can't say, or, better yet, we can be heard saying some things that women often can't be heard saying.
If we can make this point that I'm making to powerful men and women in our society at all levels of institutional authority and power, it's going to change the paradigm of people's thinking.
You had so many situations in that realm where men in powerful positions failed to act to protect children, in this case, boys.
And harnessed correctly, it can be a powerful force for good.
Fake news is a powerful weapon in information warfare, but there is something we can do about it.
You see, then Greece was under control of a very powerful establishment which was strangling the country, and my father was heading a promising movement to reimagine Greece, to imagine a Greece where freedom reigned and where, maybe, the people, the citizens, could actually rule their own country.
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