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In cosmological terms, that was about 10 minutes ago.
So in
terms
of planning, the uncertainty in this plot is already large.
In
terms
of space, this is a continent.
And in
terms
of time, we now know that ice sheets not only evolve over the timescale of millennia and centuries, but they're also changing over the scale of years and days.
Darwinian natural selection is so stunningly elegant because it solves the problem of explaining complexity in
terms
of nothing but simplicity.
He won't call himself an atheist because it's, in principle, impossible to prove a negative, but "agnostic" on its own might suggest that God's existence was therefore on equal
terms
of likelihood as his non-existence.
In this picture, I've put a bush with a center branching out in all directions, because if you look at the edges of the tree of life, every existing species at the tips of those branches has succeeded in evolutionary terms: it has survived; it has demonstrated a fitness to its environment.
So if you look at security from economic terms, it's a trade-off.
That's how you think about security: in
terms
of the trade-off.
What if they had some of the same capabilities that an abalone shell did, in
terms
of being able to build really exquisite structures at room temperature and room pressure, using nontoxic chemicals and adding no toxic materials back into the environment?
This is what, in engineering terms, you would call a real time control system.
And even better, we will understand what happened at the Big Bang in
terms
of a theory that we will be able to compare to observations.
So the TEDTalk laid out in very simple terms, a charter city is a place where you start with uninhabited land, a charter that specifies the rules that will apply there and then a chance for people to opt in, to go live under those rules or not.
So we have the concept that what it means to be a woman is to have a female identity; what it means to be a black person is, allegedly, to have an African anatomy in
terms
of your history.
And when we're faced with a body that actually presents us something quite different, it startles us in
terms
of those categorizations.
And it's not just in
terms
of sex.
It's also in
terms
of race, which turns out to be vastly more complicated than our terminology has allowed.
What happened was women, for example, who wanted the right to vote, took the Founding Fathers' concept of anatomical commonality being more important than anatomical difference and said, "The fact that we have a uterus and ovaries is not significant enough in
terms
of a difference to mean that we shouldn't have the right to vote, the right to full citizenship, the right to own property, etc."
Henry has to wait for all of that, not because he's actually any different in age, biologically, except in
terms
of when he was born.
We find other kinds of weirdness in
terms
of what their rights are.
I also want to point out that I'm not sure that is how we should distribute rights in
terms
of humans, because, I have to admit, that there are some golden retrievers I know that are probably more deserving of social services than some humans I know.
And one of the things that I've been interested in is looking at the differences between males and females in
terms
of the way they think and operate in the world.
And maybe that's where we need to go in the future, when we take democracy beyond anatomy, is to think less about the individual body in
terms
of the identity, and think more about those relationships.
The problem, put in its simplest terms, is one of mathematics.
When we look at the population growth in
terms
of cars, it becomes even clearer.
And in
terms
of the line of poetry, why does the poet use the word hare rather than rabbit?
You might wonder what these objects contain in
terms
of their text.
I'm going to define what the
terms
of my success are."
The World Health Organization tells us that depression is the number one disease on Earth in
terms
of years lived with disability.
And with accommodation, they went on to college and had a full life in
terms
of their opportunities.
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