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These just become numbers that we refer to.
All these things are share-platforms, but sharing ultimately starts and ends with what I refer to as the "mother of all share-platforms."
We refer in big history to these moments as threshold moments.
Not one customer would refer us.
Only the wealth of our minds is, not the very fact that we have a self that we can refer to our own existence, and that we have any sense of person.
Mao Zedong used to refer to them as the European civil wars, and it's probably a more accurate way of describing them.
And the second is about some new dimension which I want to refer to, which has never quite happened in the way it's happening now.
So, option one is to ignore the assumption and allow folks to continue to refer to me as "mom," which is not awkward for the other party, but is typically really awkward for us.
Sarah could have chosen option one, ignored Becky, and let her refer to me as mom.
On the other side of the political spectrum, the first time that I heard Rush Limbaugh refer to presidential hopeful John Edwards as the Breck girl I knew that he'd made a direct hit.
A lot of people refer to it as the "Man in the Arena" quote.
And then on the right is what I refer to as a footnote panel.
And while there are a whole host of ways of remembering stuff in these competitions, everything, all of the techniques that are being used, ultimately come down to a concept that psychologists refer to as "elaborative encoding."
We called it post-symbolic communication, because it would be like just directly making the thing you experienced instead of indirectly making symbols to refer to things.
We also refer to subclinical conditions.
And as jobs continue to leave my community, and energy continues to come in, be exported in, it's no wonder that really some people refer to the South Bronx as a desert.
Now, behavioral economists might refer to this sort of thing as loss aversion We have a strong predisposition towards protecting what we feel is ours.
In 1998, human embryonic stem cells were first identified, and just nine years later, a group of scientists in Japan were able to take skin cells and reprogram them with very powerful viruses to create a kind of pluripotent stem cell called an induced pluripotent stem cell, or what we refer to as an IPS cell.
I've run several dozen such surveys in different parts of the world, and in all cases except one, where a group actually underestimated the trade-to-GDP ratio, people have this tendency towards overestimation, and so I thought it important to give a name to this, and that's what I refer to as globaloney, the difference between the dark blue bars and the light gray bars.
In the workplace, for example, there's often a tension over whether an employee can socialize with the boss, or refer to him or her on a first-name basis.
I found that most people fall on a spectrum of what I have come to refer to as "Grey."
Hong Kong I refer to as a kind of analog experience in a digital age, because you always have a point of reference.
That whole range of issues that I'll refer to in shorthand as "gender violence issues," they've been seen as women's issues that some good men help out with, but I have a problem with that frame and I don't accept it.
Of course, there are the bases, which refer to specific sexual activities that happen in a very specific order, ultimately resulting in scoring a run or hitting a home run, which is usually having vaginal intercourse to the point of orgasm, at least for the guy.
And now, looking at this picture, which speaks for itself, we see modern agriculture, which I also refer to as intensive agriculture.
Some of it is controlled, like music or theater, but most of it is chaotic and incoherent, which some of us refer to as noise.
By suburban sprawl, I refer to the reorganization of the landscape and the creation of the landscape around the requirement of automobile use, and that the automobile that was once an instrument of freedom has become a gas-belching, time-wasting and life-threatening prosthetic device that many of us need just to, most Americans, in fact, need, just to live their daily lives.
I'm going to refer to some of those as well, and I'm just going to mention a few of the commitments as illustrations that we've got.
I refer specifically to a kind of humor that is unfortunately underused.
I refer to self-mockery.
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