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And that might seem a bit surprising, because my full-time work at the foundation is mostly about vaccines and seeds, about the things that we need to invent and deliver to help the poorest two billion live better lives.
Innovation really stopped in this industry quite some ago, so the idea that there's some good ideas laying around is not all that surprising.
DR: Yeah, surprising.
We then go on to the first thing that was very surprising.
And here are the most surprising results.
And this is not surprising.
In September, we had surprising but exciting findings from a clinical trial that took place in Thailand.
The world has a habit of surprising us as to how these things are actually used.
You've got this surprising semi-underground influence, but it's not making you a lot of money, yet.
And we end up using things in ways that are sort of surprising.
We were writing a piece where we were trying to illustrate the consumption / waste loop in a funny and creative and surprising way for our audiences.
So what I did actually is to study this problem, and I found something quite surprising.
And a surprising aspect of it is that very often, the rules of this geometry are extremely short.
It's also extremely surprising to many Americans, a heavily African-American space.
The more surprising thing was that when we collaborated with economists to actually look at the monkeys' data using economic tools, they basically matched, not just qualitatively, but quantitatively with what we saw humans doing in a real market.
This is bad news, but perhaps surprising to you, it's also part of the good news.
Personification and the imputing of intentional purpose is such a brilliantly successful way to model humans, it's hardly surprising the same modeling software often seizes control when we're trying to think about entities for which it's not appropriate, like Basil Fawlty with his car or like millions of deluded people, with the universe as a whole.
Fairness works in surprising ways.
The story itself is shallow and undeveloped but that isn't surprising in a film of this type.
I can't risk giving away the ending, except to say that it was surprising, to say the least.
With all this money, it's not surprising that she made some excellent films and it isn't surprising that people got snippy due to all the extra attention she got.
That this film has such a low IMDb rating is not surprising.
I have to admit, I'm not a big fan of Satanic horror movies and, in fact, I seem to like them less and less every time I see a new one, and that isn't really surprising when I end up watching films like Brotherhood of Satan!
It is quite surprising that Gordon says that "A movie without a plot is nothing"...
This movie had a very convoluted plot and very contrived setting, that I, frankly, could not follow, which is surprising considering the acting and dialogue could have only been the product of a kindergartener's writing.
But what's really surprising is how horribly overacted the triangle is, on all sides.
The only surprising thing here is a maned space program run by Eurpoeans :) There really can be no excuse for the plot concept or execution.
The premise is interesting and the cast does the best it can, but the script and the directorial effort are so poor that it is not surprising that this film was buried--which is fitting given the screenplay.
I really wanted to like this film but it barely eked out a 3. It's surprising that equal amounts of the votes were 10, the other half 1.
This is more surprising because I remember following the controversy surrounding this movie (advocacy group for the visually impaired said that this movie was demeaning).
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