Second
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The
second
one took place after worldviews were dramatically altered after Columbus's historical voyage; and the third, when the Age of Discovery was well under way and the Church rose to the challenge of going global.
The human eye is an amazing mechanism, able to detect anywhere from a few photons to direct sunlight, or switch focus from the screen in front of you to the distant horizon in a third of a
second.
We ended up with 20 highly committed plaintiffs: genetic counselors, geneticists who had received cease and desist letters, advocacy organizations, four major scientific organizations that collectively represented more than 150,000 scientists and medical professionals, and individual women who either couldn't afford Myriad's test, or who wanted to obtain a
second
opinion but could not, as a result of the patents.
If we were only able to calculate time to the nearest second, every location on Earth, and far beyond, would seem to be the same distance from the satellite.
Enter atomic clocks, some of which are so precise that they would not gain or lose a
second
even if they ran for the next 300 million years.
That's 9 billion cycles per
second.
So thanks to the atomic clock, we get a time reading accurate to within 1 billionth of a second, and a very precise measurement of the distance from that satellite.
Measure your distance from a
second
satellite and you get another overlapping sphere.
This
second
airflow enters a region filled with highly specialized olfactory receptor cells, several hundred millions of them, compaired to our five million.
A
second
difficulty is that locomotion is really due to a very complex and very dynamic interaction between these four components.
A
second
property of cat limbs is that they are very lightweight.
And second, there was no question of the initial state of the universe.
I now turn to the
second
big question: are we alone, or is there other life in the universe?
And it tries its hardest to help us change our behavior, to help us stop smoking, to help us stop eating that second, that third, that fourth cookie.
And on the
second
morning, they're both gone.
Carl thinks, "If I have non-green eyes, Adria and Bill were just watching each other, and will now both leave on the
second
night."
The
second
largest economy is China.
This
second?
But remember, the lab assistant has been waiting on the other side, and she's the
second
fastest of the group.
In 1644, northern Manchu clans overthrew the Ming to establish the Qing dynasty, incorporating Mongolia as well, Thus, for the
second
time, China was ruled by the very people the wall had tried to keep out.
That
second
memory probably isn't as strong, but why not?
But let's back up for a
second
and talk about why fish is the best food choice.
It can't be the center house since you already know its owner drinks milk, but it also can't be the
second
house, which you know has blue walls.
And clue eleven tells you that the owner of the horse is next door, which can only be the
second
house.
From clue fifteen, you know that the Norwegian's neighbor, who can only be in the
second
house, smokes Blends.
And since this leaves only the
second
house without a drink, the tea-drinking Dane must live there.
In 2010, researchers found that subjects were much better at getting through a complex 3-D maze if they had napped and dreamed of the maze prior to their
second
attempt.
I realize how your life can change from one
second
to the other after a major stroke or after a car accident.
More subtly, though, it can recover a
second
story behind every object, the story of how, when and by whom a text was created, and, sometimes, what the author was thinking at the time he wrote.
But even after being deposed and exiled, he refused to give up, escaping from his prison and launching a bold attempt at restoring his empire before being defeated for the
second
and final time.
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