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We raised the money, and we're thrilled that we did, because in this phase of one's life, the incredibly scarce resource is time.
They are scarce; they are expensive; and we only have a certain range of it.
When food is scarce, they divert nutrients towards the really critical organ, the brain, and away from other organs like the heart and liver.
Because crops are already growing on that land that's very scarce around the world.
Architects cater for the one percent, builders are scarce, so service is inconsistent and prices are high.
Firstborns across history have tended to be bigger and healthier than later borns, in part, because of the head start they got on food in an area in which it could be scarce.
It is about taking that which was scarce and making it abundant.
It's not about being scarce, it's about accessibility.
We humans are inventing a new fire, not dug from below, but flowing from above; not scarce, but bountiful; not local, but everywhere; not transient, but permanent; not costly, but free.
Long-term trends suggest that this century is going to be a tough place to live, with population increases, consumption patterns increasing, and conflict over scarce natural resources.
Phosphorus, a nutrient essential to life, which is becoming increasingly scarce, yet nobody is talking about it.
A committee of 12-year-old children would find out in 20 minutes that the most efficient way to use scarce road space is with exclusive lanes for buses.
When food was scarce, our ancestors' survival depended on conserving energy, and regaining the weight when food was available would have protected them against the next shortage.
In the desert, operating costs are high because water is scarce, and the seed-eating ants that I study in the desert have to spend water to get water.
It's poor and it's scarce.
If they are the scarce resource, we have to understand them much better.
Because they don't have the kind of basic resources we take for granted, like capital and energy, and basic services like healthcare and education are also scarce in those regions.
When external resources are scarce, you have to go within yourself to tap the most abundant resource, human ingenuity, and use that ingenuity to find clever ways to solve problems with limited resources.
This shows that with frugal innovation what matters is that you take what is most abundant, mobile connectivity, to deal with what is scarce, which is energy.
But over the millenia, during which our ancestors evolved, calories were scarce, and there was nothing to anticipate that this would later change so quickly.
And imagine that that fund is utilized to invest in green technologies, especially in parts of the world where investment funding is scarce.
I think if we start to constrain ourselves using the finite, scarce and depleting resources that we know today, we could get quite negative and quite concerned about the way the world is.
And scarce resources, and a lack of access to healthy, affordable foods creates an even greater risk in disadvantaged communities.
It's thought that as water becomes scarce and tardigrades enter their tun state, they start synthesize special molecules, which fill the tardigrade's cells to replace lost water by forming a matrix.
Ocean data is scarce by any standard.
But at sea, in situ data is scarce and expensive.
It was the longest war in US history, but information was so scarce that schoolteachers we spoke to told us they had trouble explaining to their students what we were doing there, when those students had parents who were fighting and sometimes dying overseas.
By increasing consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages made from scarce local water supplies and drunk out of plastic bottles in a country that is already grappling with obesity, this is neither sustainable from a public health nor an environmental point of view.
It turns out that people behave differently when they perceive a thing to be scarce.
Scary future, scarce food and no opportunities to change their situation.
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