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So in October 2011, I registered my blog, ayearofreadingtheworld.com, and I posted a short appeal online.
They all took on a couple of short stories from this collection, stuck to their word, sent their translations back to me, and within six weeks, I had the entire book to read.
Make short, stabbing motions.
Now, none of these dinosaurs could use their feathers to fly - their arms were too short and the rest of their bodies were far too heavy.
This accident of physics might have led to the evolution of longer dinosaur arms, which would let them run faster and even leap short distances through the air.
Supersymmetry, or SUSY for short, predicts a whole range of new particles, some of which could make up the dark matter.
Fatty acids can be short or long.
And in short, with this system, we win.
In order to utilize fusion in a short amount of time, the temperature of the area needs to be hotter than the Sun.
What about short bursts to a location we can see with no obstacles in between?
Our ancestors were short, hairy apes.
If all the tall trees suddenly died out and only short grass was left, all those long-necked giraffes would be at a disadvantage.
This attack results in a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier almost melting down, which was stopped just short of killing thousands of soldiers and civilians.
If the waves, instead, have short wavelengths, they'll be close together, and you'll bob up and down much more often, at a high frequency.
Long wavelengths have low energies, while short wavelengths have high energies.
If you were out sailing on a day with short, choppy waves, you'd probably be pretty high energy yourself, running around to keep things from falling over.
Some cones are more excited by light that is long wavelength and low energy, and other cones are more excited by short wavelength, high-energy light.
Light that is too short wavelength or high energy gets absorbed by the eye's surface before it can even get to the retina, and light that is too long wavelength doesn't have enough energy to stimulate our retina at all.
Radio waves have long wavelengths, while x-rays have short wavelengths.
"Conlang" is short for "constructed language."
So, in every atom, there is some small, but non-zero, probability that for a very, very short period of time, one of its electrons is at the other end of the known universe.
In 1920, Czech writer Karel Capek published a science fiction play called "R.U.R.", short for "Rossum's Universal Robots."
What the real pros do is keep the lid on, give the bottle a few short, sharp shakes to wake up all those tomato particles, and then take the lid off and do a nice controlled pour onto their heavenly fries.
And in a short period of time, the city went to a 30-year crime low.
You realized your brain had taken a short cut and missed something.
In short, people tend to prefer things they've been exposed to before.
A fast-moving object has lots of momentum, which corresponds to a very short wavelength.
A heavy object has lots of momentum even if it's not moving very fast, which again means a very short wavelength.
And so in the first instance they have a little bit more water than us, about 95 percent water, and they can lose a little bit more than us, like 10 to about 70 percent, depending on the species, but for short periods only.
And it's been a great strategy because in a short space of time you can produce a lot of seed.
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