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From there, I was sent to another small room with a really nice lady who asked me all kinds of questions about my life at home.
Smart materials are hard to obtain in small quantities.
Obviously a very small community.
CA: But in a gallon of gasoline, you have, effectively, thousands of years of sun power compressed into a small space, so it's hard to make the numbers work right now on solar, and to remotely compete with, for example, natural gas, fracked natural gas.
People would say, "Did you hear the joke about the guy who made a small fortune in the space industry?"
And so I tell people, well, I was trying to figure out the fastest way to turn a large fortune into a small one.
And so what a lot of people don't realize is, the cost of the fuel, of the propellant, is very small.
A drug is made up of a small molecule of hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and a few other atoms all cobbled together in a shape, and it's those shapes that determine whether, in fact, that particular drug is going to hit its target.
Since I was a small boy, I used to work in my room for the whole day, and I even took apart my mom's new radio, and that day she almost killed me, but I learned a lot about electronics.
It's a small device found in a motorcycle, and it helps motorists when they want to turn right or left.
And that's a small torch from a broken flashlight.
As you can see, the solar panel charges the battery, and the battery supplies the power to the small indicator box.
And their stories made the world seem a very small and interconnected place.
And it struck me that if I could write stories that were about this world as being small and interconnected, that maybe I could get people interested in the issues that affected us all, and maybe engage them to make a difference.
It's based on the protesters at the Democratic Convention in 1968, Abby Hoffman and crew, and, again, a story about a small group of individuals who did make change in the world.
And we're talking really small here.
So very small, but very useful.
And I'm going to leave you with one last demonstration, but before I do that, I would like to say thank you, and think small.
To do this would require a single statute, a statute establishing what we think of as small dollar funded elections, a statute of citizen-funded campaigns, and there's any number of these proposals out there: Fair Elections Now Act, the American Anti-Corruption Act, an idea in my book that I call the Grant and Franklin Project to give vouchers to people to fund elections, an idea of John Sarbanes called the Grassroots Democracy Act.
Change the incentives, and the behavior changes, and the states that have adopted small dollar funded systems have seen overnight a change in the practice.
When Connecticut adopted this system, in the very first year, 78 percent of elected representatives gave up large contributions and took small contributions only.
Making small corrections, maybe getting some input from a coach, learning how to improve your motions.
But even the small meaning made a difference.
And as it turns out, that's a really hard problem, because you have to build a small, portable robot that's not only really affordable, but it has to be something that people actually want to take home and have around their kids.
The future of personal robotics is happening today, and it's going to depend on small, agile robots like Romo and the creativity of people like yourselves.
The surgery was done laparoscopically, so I have just five very small scars on my abdomen, and I had four weeks away from work and went back to doing everything I'd done before without any changes.
But most of all, I wished to tell him what Herman Melville wrote, that "truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast."
The car is so big, the camera is so small, yet the manual for the camera is so much bigger than the car manual.
Anyone who has kids knows that if you offer a kid a big cookie or a small cookie, which cookie are they going to take?
You can say the small cookie has Godiva chocolate bits in it, but it doesn't work.
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