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The other great principle of evolution is sexual selection, and it operates very differently.
"The flow need not result in conception and birth but doesn't tell the principle of pleasure at the heart of copulation.
This pleasure principle at the heart of the creative energy is metaphorically known as 'osun honey'."
So an important biomimicry principle is to find ways of bringing technologies together in symbiotic clusters.
But Agnes cared more about the trappings of power than she did principle at the end.
And if this works, we should be able to apply the same measurement principle in Antarctica.
He won't call himself an atheist because it's, in principle, impossible to prove a negative, but "agnostic" on its own might suggest that God's existence was therefore on equal terms of likelihood as his non-existence.
Which means that all the devices that you've seen before and all the formats, in principle, can be implanted and disappear.
And, in principle, it could've gone on forever, with perfect celibacy on the part of the hosts.
Most ancient scripts use the rebus principle, which is, using pictures to represent words.
The key physics principle here is when water boils to steam it expands by a factor of 1,600.
This is a body of knowledge, method, skill and principle that we threw in the garbage after World War II and decided we don't need that anymore; we're not going to use it.
The second principle is simplicity.
You may think that the Qwiki is a wonderful idea in principle, but you also know that writing a single mediocre paper will do much more for your career and your job prospects than a long series of brilliant contributions to such a site.
So you want to avoid big forces as one principle.
You could change the genes in principle.
That's the strong anthropic principle of vacuuming.
This principle can give us insight into the structure of a human life as well.
They've tried things like choosing something at random or applying what's called the "first-in, first-out principle," which means removing the item which has been in the memory for the longest.
Recognizing that, maybe it's worth applying the least recently used principle to organizing your wardrobe as well.
We need technology as a core organizational principle.
It's accessible, in principle, anyway, by anyone, everywhere, just simply by the act of looking up.
But the principle is exactly the same.
The principle is that you have a valuable relationship that is damaged by conflict, so you need to do something about it.
It's rooted in a principle of retributive justice, or an eye for an eye, so retaliatory killings have led to several deaths in the area.
You could apply the same principle, actually, to the security lanes in airports.
Pavlov, one of the early behaviorists, demonstrated the famous principle.
Matters of principle aside, practically speaking, these laws drive HIV underground.
Things where you might trip across things like the Copernican principle, the Fermi paradox, the anthropic principle, the origin of life.
And he wanted to do this as a matter of principle.
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