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So I added a simple little dot to show the current price relative to its one-year range.
And then we take these top factors that I showed you, and we calculate their relative age, their biological age.
And what you see is that there is a pretty good correlation, so we can pretty well predict the relative age of a person.
"Nearby" is astronomical, it's all relative.
It detects features from the environment, and it determines where it is relative to those features, using a method of triangulation.
These are going at a relative speed of two meters per second, and this illustrates the basic principle.
We have countries that are underperforming on social progress, relative to their wealth.
Now, on the other hand, we have countries that are overperforming on social progress relative to their GDP.
So we flew over there and we met the uncle and we did DNA samples of him, and later on got additional DNA samples from Mouaz's closest relative who now lives in Jordan.
So, the opportunity to take a technology like CRISPR and utilize it has appeal, because of its relative simplicity.
This thrust my mother, my sister and I out of the relative comfort of middle-class life and into the almost constant struggle to make ends meet.
One explanation is the Ebbinghaus Illusion, where two identical objects look different because of the relative size of the objects they're surrounded by.
But these loving actions can be subjective or culturally relative.
When light hits our eye, the relative amount of energy each cone measures signals our brain to perceive colors.
At the start of the voyage, speeds are given relative to the launchpad.
But later, when the launchpad is just one more arbritrary place down there on Earth's spinning surface, speeds are given relative to the idealized, non-spinning pinpoint center of Earth.
That's because the Earth and the Moon move relative to one another.
Speed is a relative quantity.
Speeds are relative.
But then we have to ask again, "At rest relative to what?"
Speed is relative, and rest is relative.
Earth's speed is 19 miles/second relative to the Sun.
The Enterprise's speed is warp 7 relative to the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
Your speed is zero relative to your easy chair.
But depending on where you sit, it is hundreds of miles/hour relative to Earth's center.
To move relative to nothing is meaningless.
The concepts of speed and of rest have only relative meaning.
Constant speed in a straight line has only relative meaning, a kind of relative reality.
Does this mean that all motion is relative?
No! Some motions have only relative meaning, but some motions have absolute meaning, are absolutely real.
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