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They attach in the place they find most suitable, they build a skeleton underneath themselves, they build a mouth and tentacles, and then they begin the difficult work of building the world's coral reefs.
Each of these five, while generally referred to as oceans in and of themselves, are really and truly a part of a single, massive body of water, one ocean, which defines the very face of planet Earth.
The immediate world as we know it, indeed the totality of all the living space encompassed by the continents themselves, all of that represents only 1% of the biosphere.
One of the most difficult things to keep in mind about evolution is that when we say things like, "Genes want to make more copies of themselves," or even, "natural selection," we're actually using metaphors.
They're places where we keep objects of great value to us, where we simply treasure them for them being themselves.
The next few years may tell us whether we'll be able to continue to increase our understanding of nature, or whether maybe for the first time in the history of science, we could be facing questions that we cannot answer, not because we don't have the brains or technology, but because the laws of physics themselves forbid it.
And not only do the refugees live in very dramatic circumstances inside those countries, but the local communities themselves are suffering, because salaries went down, because there are more unemployed, because prices and rents went up.
Just as a cork screw on a wine bottle converts winding motion into forward motion, these tiny creatures spin their helical tails to push themselves forward in a world where water feels as thick as cork.
They use grappling hooks to pull themselves along.
They can even use this grappling hook like a sling shot and fling themselves forward.
Maillard reactions result when proteins and sugars break down and rearrange themselves, forming ring-like structures, which reflect light in a way that gives foods like Thanksgiving turkey and hamburgers their distinctive, rich brown color.
Eventually, the universe will run out of gas to form stars, and the stars themselves will run out of fuel and burn out, leaving the universe with only black holes in it.
Because the small number of signals have thousands of possible paths by which to distribute themselves.
But scientists still aren't sure exactly how or why the tears themselves are helpful.
Many animals we eat either feed directly on detritus themselves, like pork, poultry, mushrooms, shellfish, or catfish and other bottom feeders, or they are fed animal by-products.
Another possibility is that the particles slowly rearrange themselves into lots of small groups, which then flow past each other.
Others can climb up rotating rods, or continue to pour themselves out of a beeker, once you get them started.
Other people use tasks to distract themselves from pain, and those people actually do the task faster and better when they're in pain than when they're not.
Some people can just send their mind wandering to distract themselves from pain.
But if everyone is a reporter, nobody is, and different sources may disagree, not only opinions, but on the facts themselves.
Are magical things happening in the images themselves?
They send down very deep roots, mine subterranean water supplies and just keep flushing it through them at all times, keeping themselves hydrated.
They use what I call a highly tuned chemical arsenal to protect themselves from all the stresses of their environment.
What if we took a more direct approach, using communication science to analyze the lies themselves?
First, liars reference themselves less, when making deceptive statements.
They write or talk more about others, often using the third person to distance and disassociate themselves from their lie, which sounds more false: "Absolutely no party took place at this house," or "I didn't host a party here."
And they call them a swellshark because if they're threatened, they can gulp down water and blow up like an inner tube, about twice their size, and wedge themselves under a rock, so they don't get eaten by a predator.
What we now know is that life is not contained in some magical substance or spark, but within the ongoing biological processes themselves.
To defend themselves from slave raids, neighboring kingdoms needed European firearms, which they also bought with slaves.
As for the slaves themselves, they faced unimaginable brutality.
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