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That would have just been an object that had been in a circular orbit around the Sun in that region of icy bodies, had gotten a little bit too close to Neptune one time, and then got slingshot out and is now on its way back in.
It turns out, you need at least a million times the mass of the Sun in one dense region, before you can start forming stars.
And this map is showing us all the matter in this region of the sky, which is inferred by the light distorted from these 100 million galaxies.
Both of these pictures are showing you a region around a galaxy like the Milky Way.
And we picked nine finalists, and then those nine finalists were distributed throughout the entire region, and then the community picked their design.
Two years ago here at TED I reported that we had discovered at Saturn, with the Cassini Spacecraft, an anomalously warm and geologically active region at the southern tip of the small Saturnine moon Enceladus, seen here.
This region seen here for the first time in the Cassini image taken in 2005.
This is the south polar region, with the famous tiger-stripe fractures crossing the south pole.
And seen just recently in late 2008, here is that region again, now half in darkness because the southern hemisphere is experiencing the onset of August and eventually winter.
Almost every region of the globe had its own fermented drinks.
As the region revived, new and vigorous trade routes extended into and through Scandinavia.
And these vary tremendously from region to region.
Now let's look at another region, the Caribbean.
And over the last two years, 2,000 people has been crippled in the southern tip of Bandundu region.
And I'm going to tell you just our first few steps about the discovery of a special brain region for thinking about other people's thoughts.
So first, the first thing I want to tell you is that there is a brain region in the human brain, in your brains, whose job it is to think about other people's thoughts.
And this is the brain region you used when you saw the pictures I showed you, or when you read Romeo and Juliet or when you tried to understand Alan Greenspan.
So this brain region is called the Right TPJ.
So the first thing is that in children we see this same brain region, the Right TPJ, being used while children are thinking about other people.
And actually if we even look at eight to 11-year-olds, getting into early adolescence, they still don't have quite an adult-like brain region.
And so what we wanted to know was, could differences among adults in how they think about other people's thoughts be explained in terms of differences in this brain region?
So what I'm showing you, from left to right, is how much activity there was in this brain region, and from top to bottom, how much blame people said that Grace deserved.
And what you can see is, on the left when there was very little activity in this brain region, people paid little attention to her innocent belief and said she deserved a lot of blame for the accident.
So that's good, but of course what we'd rather is have a way to interfere with function in this brain region, and see if we could change people's moral judgment.
This is a tool that lets us pass a magnetic pulse through somebody's skull, into a small region of their brain, and temporarily disorganize the function of the neurons in that region.
And even in adulthood, differences in this brain region can explain differences among adults in how we think about and judge other people.
Declarative memory, especially the what, where and when of event memory, is supported by a seahorse-shaped region of the brain called the hippocampus.
Well, we know that it's basically impossible to do two tasks at the same time if they both depend on the same brain region for processing.
I then started writing about Eastern Europe, and eventually I became the BBC's chief correspondent for the region, which is what I was doing in 1989.
Because mafias from all around the world cooperate with local paramilitaries in order to seize the supplies of the rich mineral resources of the region.
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