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This is what it takes to breed bees in a lab.
It takes a long time to learn how to do that, and they excavated the area and they found that this material culture, this way of doing it, these rocks, had passed down for at least 4,300 years through 225 chimpanzee generations.
It takes about an hour to get the suit on.
We have to look past our unconscious bias, find someone to mentor who's at the opposite end of your spectrum because structural change takes time, and I don't have that level of patience.
If we printed it out at a 10 font with no spacing, it takes 142 pages just to print this genetic code.
It takes CO2 to methane using molecular hydrogen as its energy source.
It takes away all the societal context that we might be indicted for, for the structural inequality, or the poverty, or the barriers to migration.
It just takes a picture of objective reality as it is.
So teams that work together longer get better, because it takes time to develop the trust you need for real candor and openness.
Mary Roach is an amazing writer who takes potentially mundane scientific subjects and makes them not mundane at all; she makes them really fun.
It takes pharmaceutical chemistry 10 years to derive a new drug.
If you need help, and you're still alive, it takes four days for a ship to get to you and then four days for that ship to get you back to port.
People wiggle a lot and getting these variations identified with very high accuracy, both in precision and recall, is tough because that's what it takes to get a professional coach to believe in you.
But today, I can tell you that player takes shots that an average NBA player would make 49 percent of the time, and they are two percent worse.
And so it's really important to know if the 47 that you're considering giving 100 million dollars to is a good shooter who takes bad shots or a bad shooter who takes good shots.
Perhaps, instead of identifying pick-and-rolls, a machine can identify the moment and let me know when my daughter takes her first steps.
An "are you with us or against us?" stance takes root.
Quantum tunneling takes place all the time; in fact, it's the reason our Sun shines.
Back in the 70s and 80s, it was discovered that quantum tunneling also takes place inside living cells.
Some years ago, the world of science was shocked when a paper was published showing experimental evidence that quantum coherence takes place inside bacteria, carrying out photosynthesis.
When it grows one percent per annum, it takes three generations to double the standard of living.
But the full math version takes a little while, so there is another one.
It takes being stupid to cooperate, then.
And it takes them about a million years to settle out.
Takes a licking!
It takes a few minutes; it's a sweet, simple parting image to usher in grief with warmth, rather than repugnance.
Consider every major compulsory effort it takes to be human.
Let death be what takes us, not lack of imagination.
This is the least sexy of the R’s, less lyric than rituals and relationships, but the question takes us past "Where are you now?" to "Why aren't you there, and why?" Rituals, relationships, restrictions.
They're a global, 21st century event, a 21st century event that takes place in our living rooms, at our desks, on our computer screens.
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