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Discovering this massive, cultural blind spot in my reading came as quite a shock.
He even put this electrical visor on his head that would shock him, so he could capture this moment.
Similarly, the electric shock from a defibrillator doesn't jump-start an inanimate heart, but resynchronizes the muscle cells in an abnormally beating heart so they regain their normal rhythm.
The Bell X-1 was the first of many supersonic aircraft to follow, with later designs reaching speeds over Mach 3. Aircraft traveling at supersonic speed create a shock wave with a thunder-like noise known as a sonic boom, which can cause distress to people and animals below or even damage buildings.
Some types of shrimp can also create a similar shock wave underwater, stunning or even killing pray at a distance with just a snap of their oversized claw.
Long periods of stress can release signals that shock follicles and force them into the resting phase prematurely.
For a long time, I thought I had to shock my audience out of their indifference with disturbing images.
My shock quickly turned to outrage.
So apart from the shock of my mom discovering that she was a 3D printer, I immediately got mesmerized by that piece, the first one, the information.
That's why 10 years later, it continues to shock me, knowing that 96 percent of genome studies associating common genetic variation with specific diseases have focused exclusively on individuals of European ancestry.
So it came as an immense shock to me when I woke up on the morning of June 24 to discover that my country had voted to leave the European Union, my Prime Minister had resigned, and Scotland was considering a referendum that could bring to an end the very existence of the United Kingdom.
So that was an immense shock for me, and it was an immense shock for many people, but it was also something that, over the following several days, created a complete political meltdown in my country.
But my question is really, should we have the degree of shock that we've experienced since?
It was a real shock to me, and it suggested that people like me who think of ourselves as inclusive, open and tolerant, perhaps don't know our own countries and societies nearly as well as we like to believe.
Still in shock at such a young age, Mohammed was struggling to get used to his new body.
The attacks of September 11 sent shock waves through my community.
The only other thing is, it was a real shock.
We've had various names for post-traumatic stress throughout the history of war: homesickness, soldier's heart, shell shock, thousand-yard stare, for instance.
And if you're still kind of thinking in sci-fi mode, consider that the world of science had a huge shock earlier this year, and the public largely doesn't even know about it.
To my surprise and shock, he answered the phone.
After arriving in Mexico, I pulled out a chair by the pool, started reading these scripts and found, to my shock and joy, that most of them were actually quite good.
After the call ended, I sat in my office, sort of staring out the window, alternating between shock and general giddiness.
So here we are, Yuval: New York City, 2017, there's a new president in power, and shock waves rippling around the world.
What surrounds the brain, between the brain and cranium, is something called cerebrospinal fluid or fluid, which acts as a shock absorber.
He gets tied up to the shock apparatus in another room.
Gets it wrong, you press a button on the shock box.
The key was to overcome the initial shock and do something new.
It's the device you use when your heart goes into cardiac arrest to shock it back into a normal rhythm, or, as one of the guys I was teaching a class to referred to it as: "The shocky-hearty-box thing."
Unsure of how to react, I held this agricultural tool in my hand in shock.
Finally, when I got my hands on one, I was in shock again.
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