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Ice absorbs longer, redder wavelengths of light, and reflects shorter, bluer light.

Purple light has higher energy and shorter wavelengths.

DHT causes shrinkage in these overly sensitive follicles, making hair shorter and wispier.

What about that boy at school who is a foot shorter than his classmates, whose voice still hasn't dropped yet?

In one study, 65% of the participants who were all college students chose sequence B even though A is shorter and contained within B, in other words, more likely.

It also helps us to think symmetrically so they can make shorter trips in either direction while setting the professor up for a long unsupported stretch in the middle.

So, it has evolved to grow and reproduce more rapidly, like an evolutionary defense mechanism against its shorter lifespan.

Our marathon game only lasted two and a half hours - far shorter and more strategic than most of the games they normally play.

It gets shorter, you lose pieces, it gets insertions.

I was distracted innovating immortality, even as many of you began to live shorter lives than your parents had.

Or, "That relationship was shorter than I had planned, but it was still kind of beautiful."

Facts like Black Americans and Native Americans have shorter life expectancies than those of other races, and that isn't changing anytime soon.

So it's trying to stay up on the blocks, and it adjusts its stride, and there's a ton of planning that has to go into an operation like that, and it does all that planning in real time, where it adjusts the steps a little bit longer or a little bit shorter.

We also found, strangely enough, that the shorter the amount of sleep that a person gets, the more likely they are to check Facebook.

We live five to six years shorter; children have lung cancer when they're six years old.

The longer, the more years that is, the mother had been in this caregiving situation, no matter her age, the shorter were her telomeres.

And the more she perceived her situation as being more stressful, the lower was her telomerase and the shorter were her telomeres.

So we had discovered something unheard of: the more chronic stress you are under, the shorter your telomeres, meaning the more likely you were to fall victim to an early disease span and perhaps untimely death.

People who can't trust their neighbors and who don't feel safe in their neighborhoods consistently have shorter telomeres.

My favorite example is a pair of psychologists who did research on left-handers, and published some data showing that left-handers are, on average, more susceptible to disease, more prone to accidents and have a shorter lifespan.

So our teachers continued to practice with lesson plans, doing shorter lesson plans with a single focus, allowing kids to engage, and continued to incorporate these movement breaks, allowing kids to jump up and down in class and dance for two minutes straight, because we learned that taking breaks helps the learner retain new information.

They were primarily distinguished by their smaller size and a shorter snout full of comparatively smaller teeth.

However, as far as I know, all the species have evolved to actually die, so when cells divide, the telomerase get shorter, and eventually species die.

There's a simple truth: the shorter your sleep, the shorter your life.

But the circuits are also more fragile, and have a shorter overall lifespan.

So I don't have to plan it out in advance, but I can improvise, making it longer or shorter as I go.

See what works in a city, take something that's being prepared for implementation at a nationwide level and bring it down to the city level, where we believe that we can actually make probably faster and demonstrable progress in a shorter space of time.

And when I held my bronze one up against my Sculpey one, it was shorter by three-quarters of an inch.

And the downs are going to be much longer and the ups are going to be much shorter.

For those of you who I'll be fortunate enough to meet afterwards, you could please refrain from saying, "Oh my god, you're so much shorter in real life."

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