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There is a total vacuum of creative capital in Bertie County.
This is the first vacuum cleaner, the 1905 Skinner Vacuum, from the Hoover Company.
We turned off the lights, and then we put it in a vacuum and sucked out all the air, and then we cooled it down to just a fraction of a degree above absolute zero.
Because cities are the vacuum cleaners and the magnets that have sucked up creative people, creating ideas, innovation, wealth and so on.
So after we do that, we put it into a vacuum bag, add a little bit of seaweed, some spices, and we roll it, and this starts taking on the appearance of tuna.
And there's shoes and bicycles and things on this chart because I don't want to just throw numbers in a vacuum.
And the director listed the orphanage's most urgent needs as an industrial size washing machine and dryer, four vacuum cleaners, two computers, a video projector, a copy machine, winter shoes and a dentist's drill.
Well, these wiki revolutions happen so fast they create a vacuum, and politics abhors a vacuum, and unsavory forces can fill that, typically the old regime, or extremists, or fundamentalist forces.
Thanks to the universal penetration of running water and electricity in the developed world and the widespread adoption of washing machines, vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, dishwashers, stoves and microwaves, the amount of our lives that we forfeit to housework has fallen from 60 hours a week to fewer than 15 hours a week.
The other comes from an interesting aspect of human memory that's related to various brain functions but I can sum up for the sake of brevity here in a simple line: The brain abhors a vacuum.
When it's dark, in a vacuum, if a person shines a beam of light straight across your eyes, you won't see it.
I found Wal-Marts, vacuum cleaners, and lots of food in the cafeteria.
But there cannot be a leadership vacuum.
It appears to be mass-manufactured like it came out of a factory like vacuum cleaners and washing machines.
Atoms are injected into a vacuum chamber, and a magnetic field draws them towards the center.
I'll admit, I love my smart vacuum, but many other things in the house drove me insane: we ran out of electrical outlets, and I had to download over a dozen apps to my phone to control everything.
And as a result of this illiteracy, those few who do understand how power operates in civic life, those who understand how a bill becomes a law, yes, but also how a friendship becomes a subsidy, or how a bias becomes a policy, or how a slogan becomes a movement, the people who understand those things wield disproportionate influence, and they're perfectly happy to fill the vacuum created by the ignorance of the great majority.
A week later, Ping was discovered in the apartment alongside the body of her owner, and the vacuum had been running the entire time.
The laws of quantum field theory, the state-of-the-art physics, can show how out of sheer nothingness, no space, no time, no matter, nothing, a little nugget of false vacuum can fluctuate into existence, and then, by the miracle of inflation, blow up into this huge and variegated cosmos we see around us.
These organisms can be totally desiccated; they can live in a vacuum.
Trafficking doesn't happen in a vacuum.
These changes weren't happening in a vacuum.
Thus, a black hole is like a cosmic vacuum cleaner with infinite capacity, gobbling up everything in its path, and letting nothing out.
And it's only in the last 10 years or so that we've begun to think about using the immune system, remembering that in fact the cancer cell doesn't grow in a vacuum.
But it's important to remember that those early writing systems didn't come out of a vacuum.
Because without an atmosphere, the planet is in a vacuum, and liquid water isn't stable in a vacuum.
And here you can see us collecting that coral with a vacuum system, and we put it into a sampling container.
We don't know what dark energy is, but the best idea is that it's the energy of empty space itself, the energy of the vacuum.
And under all this is a vacuum of power where non-state actors, individuals and private organizations have the advantage over slow, outdated military and intelligence agencies.
Wigner pointed out that many purely mathematical theories developed in a vacuum, often with no view towards describing any physical phenomena, have proven decades or even centuries later, to be the framework necessary to explain how the universe has been working all along.
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