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But discrimination also occurs in more minor and subtle experiences, and so my second scale, called the Everyday Discrimination Scale, captures nine items that captures experiences like you're treated with less courtesy than others, you receive poorer service than others in restaurants or stores, or people act as if they're afraid of you.
This scale captures ways in which the dignity and the respect of people who society does not value is chipped away on a daily basis.
Let's picture your risk of Alzheimer's as a see-saw scale.
Your scale is tipped a little bit.
If you're like Alice in "Still Alice," you've inherited a rare genetic mutation that cranks out amyloid beta, and this alone will tip your scale arm to the ground.
And so now we have this positive feedback loop that's going to accelerate the tipping of that scale.
So a heart-healthy Mediterranean lifestyle and diet can help to counter the tipping of this scale.
Let's say you're 65; there's Alzheimer's in your family, so you've likely inherited a gene or two that tips your scale arm a bit; you've been burning the candle at both ends for years; you love bacon; and you don't run unless someone's chasing you.
Your scale arm has crashed to the floor.
CA: And what's the scale of ambition here?
The thing is to consider the time scale here to be probably on the order of 40 or 50 years.
Help us understand the scale of this thing.
If we could help these countries scale, we could save millions of lives, and at the same time, we could create millions of jobs.
That's as high as a 42-story building, and I put the Statue of Liberty in there as a scale reference.
So people from Laventille repurposed the old drums left behind into the full chromatic scale: the steel pan.
But the truth is that these are mostly one-offs, boutique projects, not easily reproduced at a global scale.
And after this, I realized that on a scale of one to 10, one being minimal impact, 10 being maximal impact, if I took the trip, I was risking a one to three of temporary and reversible pain for an eight to 10 of positive, life-changing impact that could be a semi-permanent.
The first one is: Design is free when you get to scale.
What happened is the Kosi River jumped its banks, and for reference, the scale bar here is 40 miles.
Big data is able to offer insights at scale and leverage the best of machine intelligence, whereas thick data can help us rescue the context loss that comes from making big data usable, and leverage the best of human intelligence.
So they went to their data science team, and they were able to scale this big data insight in with their quantitative data.
This is happening over an unbelievable scale.
You can't scale with people.
Through the careful selection of furniture, lighting and acoustic materials to support eating together; in the careful visual location and visual access to kids' play areas around and inside the common house; in the consideration of scale and distribution of social gathering nodes in and around the community to support our daily lives, all of these spaces help contribute to and elevate the sense of communitas in each community.
They're astounding not just for the scale of the difference of this one shift in our city-making habit but also because each one represents a special interest group, a special interest group that used to advocate for their concerns one at a time.
Three years ago, I set off on my own mission: to see if I could bring this feeling of overwhelming scale and beauty to many more people just by using one small computer in my small New York City apartment.
But also on a larger scale, the Netherlands, where I'm from, we live below sea level.
It provides tools and scale and rapidity that doesn't exist elsewhere.
There's quantum mechanics down in that corner, it's very small, it's very weird, it happens very quickly, and it's a long way down in the general ... on the scale of anything that matters for everyday life.
And he has created technologies for rammed earth elements, for prefabrication of rammed earth elements that include insulation, wall heatings and coolings and all sorts of electrical fittings that can be layered to multistoried buildings, and this is important in order to scale up and in order to [speed] up the processes, like in the Ricola Herb Center in Switzerland.
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