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Last year, Americans killed each other at a rate of 5.3 per hundred thousand, had seven percent of their citizens in poverty and emitted 21 million tons of particulate matter and four million tons of sulfur dioxide.
But 30 years ago, the homicide rate was 8.5 per hundred thousand, poverty rate was 12 percent and we emitted 35 million tons of particulate matter and 20 million tons of sulfur dioxide.
The annual rate of war has fallen from about 22 per hundred thousand per year in the early '50s to 1.2 today.
During this time, we hadn't really spent more than about a thousand dollars in equipment and materials, most of which was printer inks.
And in Arabic, to say "no," we say "no, and a thousand times no."
So I decided to look for a thousand different noes.
And it's important to note that these nets weigh more than a thousand pounds when they're full of fish.
No one's going to call this well-lit, good lighting, and in fact, as nice as these pictures are, and the reason we take them is I knew I was going to have to testify in court, and a picture is worth more than a thousand words when you're trying to communicate numbers, abstract concepts like lux, the international measurement of illumination, the Ishihara color perception test values.
Two and a half thousand pounds.
Thirty thousand children are enlisted and are made to fight in armed groups.
You can imagine the tremendous joy of playing with a Tetris game that you wrote in JACK and then compiled into machine language in a compiler that you wrote also, and then seeing the result running on a machine that you built starting with nothing more than a few thousand NAND gates.
I actually learned the other day that 12 and a half thousand loads of laundry have been cleaned and folded through TaskRabbit.
This site receives five and a half thousand questions a day, and 80 percent of these receive accurate answers.
So we realized we could exploit this, and in fact, as we've done that, and we've done this now in many thousands of people, I think on the order of five or six thousand.
They're three or five or eight thousand miles in length, and if the material science and the computational technology is incredibly complicated, the basic physical process is shockingly simple.
And this is increasingly peculiar, because about 20 years ago when they started delving into the genome, they thought it would probably contain around 100 thousand genes.
We now think there are likely to be just over 20 thousand genes in the human genome.
One thousand, eight hundred and thirty-six people died.
He wrote a book over a thousand years ago called "The Canon of Medicine," and the rules he laid out for testing medicines are actually really similar to the rules we have today, that the disease and the medicine must be the same strength, the medicine needs to be pure, and in the end we need to test it in people.
Now my first professional encounter with deception is a little bit later than these guys, a couple thousand years.
More than three and a half thousand photos go up onto Facebook.
Seven hundred and fifty thousand gigs are now posted after two years, what people would do for five dollars.
For the bargain price of a few thousand dollars, there are clinics in the U.S. that will give you one of these SPECT scans and use the image to help diagnose your problems.
How did we go from being hunter-gatherers 10,000 years ago to building these gigantic cities in just a few thousand years?
Because if a picture is worth a thousand words, then a picture of a face needs a whole new vocabulary.
Believe it or not, this happens every few hundred thousand years, and has happened many times in our history.
We are doing a thousand now.
Well, while Aurora was playing this game, as you saw, and doing a thousand trials a day and getting 97 percent correct and 350 milliliters of orange juice, we are recording the brainstorms that are produced in her head and sending them to a robotic arm that was learning to reproduce the movements that Aurora was making.
Three thousand years ago, civilization just getting started on the banks of the Nile, some slaves, Jewish shepherds in this instance, smelling of sheep shit, I guess, proclaimed to the Pharaoh, sitting high on his throne, "We, your majesty-ness, are equal to you."
Seven thousand kids a day.
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