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One of the reasons he chose to take this rather large video camera with him was because he didn’t want the doctors and nurses thinking he was actually sick, and sticking something into him that he was going to regret later.
Rather than recognizable monsters, graphic violence, or startling shocks, the terror of “Lovecraftian” horror lies in what’s not directly portrayed– but left instead to the dark depths of our imagination.
Being a chemist, I began working with my students to develop ways on performing chemistry directly on an individual DNA base, to truly fix, rather than disrupt, the mutations that cause genetic diseases.
So they can do that if they make roots that go deep rather than meander around on the surface of the soil.
So we have the challenges of a lot of land that we need to use, we have to get farmers to buy it, and that's going to be the hard thing for us, I think, because we're not really salesmen, we're people who like to Google a person rather than meet them, you know what I mean?
For example, rather than trying to regulate away problems, which probably won't work, if we could price into the cost of doing business, the cost of catastrophe, so that people who are doing things that had a higher cost of catastrophe would have to take insurance against that risk.
Farmers that rely on nature for solutions, for answers, rather than imposing solutions on nature.
Man: You know, rather than drive today, I'm going to walk.
So what if, rather than deriding the sloth for being different, we tried to learn from it instead?
And we practiced advanced techniques like sky-walking, where you can move from tree to tree through space, rather like Spiderman.
Asking for advice, rather than any possible way that you could just statically organize a map.
Rather, they allow some light to actually pass through our skin, muscles, and blood vessels.
If we were to reinvent the automobile today, rather than 100 years ago, knowing what we know about the issues associated with our product and about the technologies that exist today, what would we do?
It's rather like a broken water pipe in your home.
So rather that taking myself out of the position, what did I do?
Know for yourself what beauty is rather than looking to a magazine or to even me for what beauty is.
So he asked me, could he please visit me, and then finally he did, and explained to me that what I did now in my shop was an anachronism, that the industrial revolution had broken out, and that I rather should join the factory.
And if we look at the history of lawns, it's actually rather tragic.
If they'd sent a nuke, it would have been rather more spectacular than what actually happened last Monday.
And we'll end up after 13 billion years with something looking rather like our own universe.
Calculating odds would seem to be something rather easy: there are six sides to a die, two sides to a coin, 52 cards in a deck.
Rather than asking, "What else can I do with my money," comparing this investment to other possible investments, you compared to the past.
They were evolved for a world in which people lived in very small groups, rarely met anybody who was terribly different from themselves, had rather short lives in which there were few choices and the highest priority was to eat and mate today.
These witch hunts were not a unified initiative by a single authority, but rather a phenomenon that occurred sporadically and followed a similar pattern each time.
The term “witch” has taken on many meanings, but in these hunts, a witch was someone who allegedly gained magical powers by obeying Satan rather than God.
Man: It really started moving sideways and slightly up and down, rather like being on the boat.
Rather than worshipping the founding of America itself, the prosperity gospel worshipped Americans.
But you also have cells that are not a part of the visual-forming pathways, but rather their role is to capture light information and basically convey it to the brain, to tell the brain what time of day it is.
It looks rather bird-like because it is.
And rather than talk about it in the theory, I think I'm just going to show you an example.
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