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And then you wait for the opening shock for your parachute to open.
It's called Pavlovian fear conditioning, where a tone ends with a brief shock.
The shock isn't painful, but it's a little annoying.
But just last year, we had an incredible shock and realized that almost just isn't good enough with a virus like polio.
It wasn't just him who was in for a shock.
What they did was they hooked up Harvard undergraduates to an electric shock machine.
The first shock is recorded as very painful.
The second shock feels less painful, because you get a bit used to it.
The first shock hurts like hell.
The second shock hurts just as much, and the third and the fourth and the fifth.
Now Europe came as a shock to me, and I think I started feeling the need to shed my skin in order to fit in.
And it is no shock that each one of us and everyone else out there have looked for other ways to find the things we want to find.
The heat from the explosion set fire to the forest below it, and then the shock wave came down and knocked down trees for hundreds of square miles.
About an hour after she had arrived home, after I'd sent her home, she collapsed and her family called 911 and the paramedics brought her back to the emergency department where she had a blood pressure of 50, which is in severe shock.
Every now and then, an electric shock is applied to the floor, which pains the dogs.
And when it nuzzles the button, the electric shock stops.
The defibrillators allow a physician at a distance to give a shock to a heart in case a patient needs it.
But if you don't need it, and somebody else gives you the shock, it's not a good thing.
It was not even the initial shock of knowing that she had breast cancer at just 39 years old, absolutely no history of cancer in her family.
And they didn't seem like they were visibly upset or in shock, and so I walked into the building, right into our workroom, and I cried.
I cried partly from the shock of what just happened because I never thought I'd be saving anybody's life ever, but I mostly cried because of the kids.
I can master shock of "The Crying Game" with the awe of a child being called an AIDS victim by a bully who didn't know that it was his father who gave it to my mother, and that's a double entendre.
I was barely 12 years old, and when the shock wore off, my mother's words were ringing in my ears.
So the next time you get dengue fever, if it's a different strain, you're more susceptible, you're likely to get worse symptoms, and you're more likely to get the more severe forms, hemorrhagic fever or shock syndrome.
Once they got over the shock, though, by and large people opted for somewhere between 70 to 95 percent or the 3 to 20 percent marks.
And to our shock, that's exactly what Aurora did.
When I came to the United States, I got a shock, to find national parks like this one desertifying as badly as anything in Africa.
You can train a fly to avoid an odor, shown here in blue, if you pair that odor with a shock.
Then when you give those trained flies the chance to choose between a tube with the shock-paired odor and another odor, it avoids the tube containing the blue odor that was paired with shock.
And so it was a great shock to all of us when the film really captured the public interest, and today is mandatory viewing in schools in England and Scotland, and most of Scandinavia.
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