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My last book was about the story behind the Shi'a-Sunni split, and for that, I'd worked closely with the earliest Islamic histories, so I knew the events to which the Koran constantly refers, its frame of reference.
Someday, we hope to open-source "Search Inside Yourself" so that everybody in the corporate world will at least be able to use it as a reference.
And there's this reference to "Le Petit Prince" where the narrator asks the prince to draw a sheep.
When HAL's dying at the end of the film he starts singing this song, as a reference to when computers became human.
So having now a Neanderthal genome on hand as a reference point and having the technologies to look at ancient remains and extract the DNA, we can begin to apply them elsewhere in the world.
This is used in reference to a report in 2007 by the National Research Council in the United States, wherein they tried to understand how we can look for life elsewhere in the universe, okay, especially if that life is very different from life on Earth.
And they can make basically what's a reference atlas.
For reference, fact one: Exxon's revenues in 2005 were a billion dollars a day.
So yeah, we're transforming things into something that you have absolutely no reference for.
HC: And here's something we have no reference to eat.
But we really had to almost relearn how to cook in general, because these are ingredients, you know, plant life that we're, one, unfamiliar with, and two, we have no reference for how to cook these things because people don't eat them.
And for a long time, people did not even want to touch it, because they'd say, "How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day?"
We generate brain maps of the body's interior and use them as the reference for all other maps.
There is just one reference point, which is the body.
John asked Solomon if he could tell him the right reference to where these patterns were.
There was no reference.
I would argue, in Britain, there's a much better frame of reference, which is to tell people that more first-class mail arrives the next day in the UK than in Germany, because generally, in Britain, if you want to make us happy about something, just tell us we do it better than the Germans.
Choose your frame of reference and the perceived value, and therefore, the actual value is completely transformed.
Not just the earliest cryptic reference to four in the morning I can find.
Interestingly, what he finds is — and by the way, the way we look at the quality of a patent is what we call forward citations: How many times does a future patent reference the older patent?
No reference checks.
percent from the reference spheroid, which is less than the .22
We are going through some reference tests to compare it against professional equipment to see if there's a degree of change in efficacy and if it actually makes an impact in people's lives.
You don't probably expect the librarian to come running out from behind the reference desk with Narcan, ready to revive someone overdosing on heroin or fentanyl.
And this caused me to scratch my head, because as I went back through his several-hundred-page book, I couldn't find a single figure, chart, table, reference or footnote.
It gives you reference points.
And I'm thinking, it's because in that moment of them seeing an object they have no frame of reference for, or so transcends the frames of reference they have with the wheelchair, they have to think in a completely new way.
If you're ever on a bad first date, just reference this talk, and I don't think you'll have to worry about your potential suitor giving you another call.
Hong Kong I refer to as a kind of analog experience in a digital age, because you always have a point of reference.
You have to bring together ideas from different frames of reference, and you have to do it quickly to understand the cartoon.
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