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It has a hundred to a thousand split ends, and that's the secret, because it allows intimate contact.
You could think of a thousand possible uses, I'm sure.
But it turns out that E. coli is outnumbered in your gut about a thousand to one by other species, many of which you probably haven't heard of.
What are some recent examples of innovations that combine creative design and technological advances in a way so profound that they will be remembered a thousand years from now?
A picture is worth a thousand words.
On the basis that a picture is worth a thousand words, what I did was, I asked Bill and Melinda to dig out from their archive some images that would help explain some of what they've done, and do a few things that way.
That's down to a few hundred thousand.
In our trials on over two and half thousand people, the smartphone with the add-on clip is comparable to a camera that is hugely more expensive and hugely more difficult to transport.
A thousand years from now, people are still doing this.
Now if you've ever seen or even heard about fireflies, then you'll know how magically they can transform our everyday landscape into something ethereal and otherworldly, and this happens around the globe, like this hillside in the Smoky Mountains that I saw transformed into a living cascade of light by the eerie glows of these blue ghost fireflies, or a roadside river that I visited in Japan as it was giving birth to the slow, floating flashes of these Genji fireflies, or in Malaysia, the mangrove trees that I watched blossom nightly not with flowers but with the lights of a thousand — (Bleep!
The average mom gets two to three thousand dollars a year from it.
That two to three thousand dollars a year goes a long way.
Of course there might be different ways of navigating the barriers, and some chances will be better than one in a thousand.
In the course of maybe a thousand lifetimes, it could evolve a new fixed behavior.
On our current best estimates, we can save a life by distributing long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets for just a few thousand dollars.
And this is just the next few thousand years.
No more phone, no more detonator, maybe no more terrorist, all with the press of a button from a thousand miles away.
What they do is, they make a cell phone, go down to the stall, they sell some, they look at the other kids' stuff, go up, make a couple thousand more, go down.
Have you ever seemed to lose your airplane ticket a thousand times as you walked from the check-in to the gate?
"Talithia, if I've told you once I've told you a thousand times."
It had over a million views, a thousand comments and shares, and I found myself witnessing a very similar thing.
But we only have a few thousand upstreamists out there right now, by all accounts, and that's why, a few years ago, my colleagues and I said, you know what, we need to train and make more upstreamists.
50 thousand Itaipus.
Ten thousand people every month google, "Am I ugly?"
Two thousand years ago, Galen, one of the most prominent medical researchers of the ancient world, proposed that while we're awake, our brain's motive force, its juice, would flow out to all the other parts of the body, animating them but leaving the brain all dried up, and he thought that when we sleep, all this moisture that filled the rest of the body would come rushing back, rehydrating the brain and refreshing the mind.
(Chainsaw sound) (Sound of falling tree) Twenty-seven thousand square kilometers in one year.
Ten thousand years ago, there were about five million human beings on Earth.
Two thousand years of contemplative study said yes, it is.
Heron of Alexandria created the world’s first steam engine over a thousand years before it was finally reinvented during the Industrial Revolution.
A thousand years ago, you would have had to have walked to the village next door to see a building.
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