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Men make a thousand sperm every second and to have an effective contraceptive, you need to get that level of sperm production down to one percent of its normal value.
So a group of us started doing survey work, and we looked at four and a half thousand nursing home residents in Newcastle, in the Newcastle area, and discovered that only one in a hundred of them had a plan about what to do when their hearts stopped beating.
I asked him, what was it like to actually herd a thousand cattle across hundreds of miles?
This is just an abridged rendering of over a thousand images.
Five hundred seventy-one million two hundred thirty thousand pounds of paper towels are used by Americans every year.
And when a big plant goes down, you lose a thousand megawatts in milliseconds, often for weeks or months, often without warning.
And a thousand years later, this impulse to notate took an entirely different form.
So it starts out with zero ants, just the founding queen, and it grows to a size of about 10 or 12 thousand ants when the colony is five.
And if we compare this to more recent representations of the visual system, you'll see that things have gotten substantially more complicated over the intervening thousand years.
One hundred thousand posters have been printed this year.
And I'm here to tell you, if there's anything more intimidating than talking here at TED, it'll be trying to hold the attention of a group of a thousand 12-year-olds for a 45-minute lecture.
Eighty thousand people spread over the entire valley.
By the way, there's maybe a thousand people standing around me right there.
So within 10 years, an economy price ticket, or, like, a couple thousand dollars per person to fly New York to Shanghai.
We don't know the answer to that either, but we will learn that answer this year, thanks to NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, and in fact, the smart money, which is to say the people who work on this project, the smart money is suggesting that the fraction of planets that might be suitable for life is maybe one in a thousand, one in a hundred, something like that.
Well, even taking the pessimistic estimate, that it's one in a thousand, that means that there are at least a billion cousins of the Earth just in our own galaxy.
They're going to be ahead of us, maybe by a few thousand years, maybe by a few millions years, but substantially ahead of us, and that means, if you can understand anything that they're going to say, then you might be able to short-circuit history by getting information from a society that's way beyond our own.
Well let's take a look at something like autism incidence per thousand.
But today we have a thousand college student advocates who are working to connect nearly 9,000 patients and their families with the resources that they need to be healthy.
By the time the pilot had finished, we had the names of a thousand schools that wished to join.
Six thousand reviews each school week vying for the honor of being review of the week.
Itjtawy was ancient Egypt's capital for over four hundred years, at a period of time called the Middle Kingdom, about four thousand years ago.
I've been all around the world, and there will be a thousand kids crying out your name, and it's such a weird, visceral experience.
Or what if we sent it out to a few thousand?
CA: Five thousand fewer children dying every day.
Two thousand and seven, five years ago, my wife gets diagnosed with breast cancer.
Thirty-five thousand eight hundred thirty lines of information.
Almost a thousand people were there, trying to break down the door.
It has been happening since over a thousand years ago, but what we don't really notice are these problems in cities.
He remembered that was a perfectly safe sort of gantry system, perfectly safe rocket launch, because he's sitting in a rocket that has, like, a hundred thousand pounds of thrust, built by the lowest bidder.
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