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This is far more than expected for their relative brain sizes, which scale in proportion to body size.
The standard measure of a food's spiciness is its rating on the Scoville scale, which measures how much its capsaicin content can be diluted before the heat is no longer detectable to humans.
We farm bees for their honey, but they also pollinate our crops on an industrial scale, generating over 1/3 of America's food production this way.
Pain has an intensity; you can describe it on a scale from zero, no pain, to ten, the most pain imaginable.
But systems on the scale of atoms behave according to the laws of quantum mechanics.
Combining different semiconductors in the right way allows us to make transistors on a tiny scale, millions on a single computer chip.
But one institution stands out for both its global scale and its lasting legacy.
In all of these ways, the Atlantic slave trade was an injustice on a massive scale whose impact has continued long after its abolition.
In the third century BC, Hieron, king of the Sicilian city of Syracuse, chose Archimedes to supervise an engineering project of unprecedented scale.
To build something of this scale, only for that to sink on its maiden voyage?
But what most agree on is the extravagant scale of the excursion.
Things like the corporate social responsibility programs, albeit small in scale, are moving in that right direction.
What's truly incredible, though, is the scale of this place.
It's special on a global scale.
At the highest rating on the scale, these balding areas meet and expand dramatically, eventually leaving only a ring of sparse hair around the temples and the back of the head.
In the search for alternatives, the industry, on a massive scale, has reverted to plant-based alternatives like soy, industrial chicken waste, blood meal from slaughterhouses and so on.
This revolution is starting as we speak, it just needs scale.
Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.
Now, nobody is talking on that scale.
As these waves oscillate faster, they scale up in energy.
That may sound like a long time, but when you consider that our universe is 14 billion years old, on a cosmic scale, it's incredibly fast - the equivalent of about 2.5 hours in an entire year.
The fashionable drink was difficult and time consuming to produce on a large scale.
But to maintain this, the scale changes how you have to maintain it.
CA: (Laughs) LT: And we were in this bad spot, where we had thousands of people who wanted to participate, but in many ways, I was the kind of break point, where I could not scale to the point where I could work with thousands of people.
It's about understanding the power of engineering on the scale of molecules.
It’s an assemblage of elements from multiple countries, linked to impacts that are unfolding on a global scale.
We need to confront these challenges on a global scale and in a systemic way.
And it's important to note that they're to scale, so if you stand 20 feet back and you can read between those two black lines, you have 20/20 vision.
So what could we do with 300 other pay-for-performance climate projects like that, organized on a global scale?
And our world is in desperate need of political leaders willing to set bold deadlines for the achievement of daring dreams on the scale of Apollo again.
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