"Seeds are living things and they have an expiration date just like all other living things," Wolkis says.
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Companies are organizations, and they are living things in a very real way, and living things have spirit and culture and soul, and the best companies have those things.
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Apparently all living things are amalgamations of those six shapes.
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Bacteria, just like all other living things, want to survive.
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All living things do better in warmer weather, he explained.
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The only wild living things left are spiders and crows.
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It is about protecting the planet and all living things.
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They thought that living things possessed a mysterious life force.
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It's how living things figure out the world around them.
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Goldfish will eventually die, of course, like all living things.
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Plenty of living things, too, were displaced by the storms.
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But creating art out of living things is intrinsically transient.
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But they may not always need living things to produce them.
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Cryobiology is the study of living things at extremely low temperatures.
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Most living things are fighting and killing and eating each other.
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That said, these are very dangerous times for all living things.
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So Yoda spoke to me: The Force connects all living things.
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It's the source of life and home to countless living things.
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Like all living things, produce does not always come out perfect.
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Academia, like most fickle living things, needs a specific environment to grow.
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The Circle of Life does not only apply to living things, folks.
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For your boundless generosity, unflappable honesty and kindness to all living things.
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LAKEVILLE "The Oldest Living Things in the World," photographs by Rachel Sussman.
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But divorcing biological production from living things makes sense, for three reasons.
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And it's all thank to Tai and his respect for living things.
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I have always advocated for the humane treatment of all living things.
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Proteomics is the study of the interaction of proteins in living things.
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Nitrogen is found in every gene and every protein in living things.
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"Love yourself, our planet, and all living things," the cauli bag advises.
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With one snap, half of all living things were gone — Avengers included.
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Yes, animals and all living things carry some aspect of God's image.
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And we have to protect children and other living things from him.
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Sorry some people care about other living things not dying for your enjoyment.
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They're living things, and they register in their fabric this very long history.
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"Recycling helps the Earth, people, plants, animals and other living things," Ryan said.
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Methyl mercury is absorbed more easily by living things than inorganic mercury is.
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Take this quiz and learn more about the living things that surround you.
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The Hosts are programmed not to harm living things — not even tiny insects.
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Although flies are known to swarm corpses, they also land on living things.
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Then, conduct some research on the challenges this environment poses for living things.
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So making the architecture of the city and modes of transportation living things in Prism Stalker was a start to conveying this overall utopic feeling, that this society respects all living things and wants to live in harmony with everything else.
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The reef, one of the largest living things on earth, has started to fail.
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Replicants aren't considered truly living things, even though they have human emotions and ambitions.
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Others, like lithops, look more like rocks than living things to the untrained eye.
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At times, you can't help but think of these mechanical creations as living things.
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But most living things have yet to be discovered or named, much less studied.
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All living things in Death Valley dwell in the shadow of the human presence.
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That means it designs and prints DNA, the building blocks that support all living things.
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Mister Rogers also used those kind words to teach us to respect all living things.
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If abalone can build this, can't we get living things to build what we need?
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Literally the smallest living things: Microbes and microorganisms, and how they behave all around us.
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You have learned things through living, things that other people will never experience or learn.
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They are like an army of androids, multiplying as they attack and infect living things.
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It's nice to be around other living things that are not instinctively terrified of us.
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When a romantic prospect learns what I do for a living, things often get interesting.
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And the ocean's living things are not just on choking on plastic, but in it.
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All living things consume small quantities of the isotope as they take in carbon dioxide.
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It's not the first time someone's tried to smuggle living things in their carry-on luggage.
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It's true, of course, that neonics can harm not only honeybees but also other living things.
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Howell, an environmental studies student, was described as adventurous, passionate about life and all living things.
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There are some places better than here, but perfection isn't a reasonable demand of living things.
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This was especially true for the structures associated with DNA, the blueprint for all living things.
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Unlike carbon, the ratio of these isotopes in living things reflects local geology rather than photosynthesis.
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"I see them as living things," Dobrowner says of storms like this one in Goodland, Kansas.
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Let me be lunar as all living things are lunar: waxing here, waning there, always interconnected.
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When recited in his high, quavery voice, his lines wriggled like living things in the air.
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My childhood in India was steeped in ahimsa, the tenet of nonviolence toward all living things.
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Many living things, including strawberries, orchids and some jellyfish cousins called hydrozoans, propagate this way today.
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For example, she points out that living things are mostly composed of liquids structured with membranes.
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Beyond the 20 amino acids used by all living things, there are hundreds of other kinds.
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By this season, there was also Ambrose's biophilia, I call it — the love of living things.
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Carbon-14 is absorbed by most living things -- including the barley used to make Scotch whisky.
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In the 1950s, Mr. Turing mathematically modeled how patterns and shapes take form in living things.
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Biophilia, the love of nature and living things, is an essential part of the human condition.
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This carbon-14 then falls to the ground where living things can suck it up, including trees.
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This phenomenon—called "rafting"—is a wild card way for living things to spread across the globe.
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In fact, there's no single set of genes that all living things need in order to exist.
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That's the price that's paid - we turn things into snapshots instead of reference books and living things.
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So throughout human existence we have hunted by hitting living things with denser, sometimes sharpened, inanimate things.
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That level of radiation was thought to mean certain death for living things on the world's surface.
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Biodegradable: This means that the substance is capable of being decomposed by bacteria or other living things.
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Darwin's "tree of life" — the outline of the evolution of all living things — got a major update.
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"Only about one in a billion living things leaves a trace after it dies," Ms. Brammall said.
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Could this be the key that unlocks how humans transform into other entities, organisms, and living things?
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A protein in Aequorea victoria , embedded To glimmer in other life, transformed the study Of living things.
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The Cycle When a romantic prospect learns what I do for a living, things often get interesting.
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We are trapped in time as all living things are, pinned by fate to the here and now.
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Here on Earth, most of the methane in the atmosphere is produced when living things die and decay.
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But living things must die, and when they do, they tend to get smelly and mushy pretty quickly.
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The DNA data would be compared to large sequence databases that catalogue the majority of known living things.
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The living painting is a culture of the bacteria and other living things collected from the subject's bellybutton.
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Like other south Asian faiths, it stresses the principle of ahimsa, the "non-injury" of other living things.
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Zhou told reporters that he was a kind and generous man and didn't believe in killing living things.
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"Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things," the sticker read, in part.
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When we change those environments, we threaten much more than just the physical living things that thrive there.
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Other living things will have their own responses, too — some of which we are just beginning to understand.
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His intense and lyrical way of writing about living things, now frowned upon, could very happily be revived.
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"I want to touch the oldest living things on the planet!" said my 9-year-old daughter, Hazel.
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At the time, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, near Knoxville, was studying the effects of radiation on living things.
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How can our understanding of the mysterious and strange anglerfish help us understand all living things — including ourselves?
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As with all living things, food, shelter, defense and reproduction are critical to the survival of the species.
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A large spike of methane, a gas usually produced by living things on Earth, was detected in June.
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That's sort of a baseline, in terms of, okay, these things are generally well-tolerated by living things.
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One positive trend is the healing of the ozone layer, which protects all living things from harmful ultraviolet radiation.
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Ah yes, the ocean: a place where most living things appear to have conjured themselves directly from my nightmares.
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Our own bodies are full of ingenious solutions created through evolution; so are the bodies of other living things.
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"Endgame" opens right before Thanos snaps his fingers and wipes out half of all living things in the universe.
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Pamela Templer, a Boston University professor who studies biogeochemistry, said nitrogen is an essential component of all living things.
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Buddhists follow the Five Precepts: an order to abstain from harming living things, stealing, sexual misconduct, intoxication, and lying.
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This is an example of GENDER FLUIDITY; there are other ways this term can manifest itself among living things.
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To put it simply, living things vary in their inherited traits, from speed to color to sense of smell.
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They were carved out of the sand on a Peruvian coastal plain and resemble living things and other objects.
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Opinion Columnist Social media is bad for everything and everybody, for human beings and journalists and other living things.
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For Roosevelt, one reason to preserve all those living things was to have an opportunity to kill them later.
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Almost as if they were conducting them; like the robots weren't like living things, but like they were being operated.
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Living things make molecules through a series of chemical reactions, similar to how car makers produce cars on assembly lines.
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England said this restructuring effect, which he calls dissipation-driven adaptation, fosters the growth of complex structures, including living things.
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Living things have gone on to do a lot more than England and Horowitz's chemical reaction network does, he noted.
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Farmed FishPhoto: GettySure, there are ethical reasons to not eat meat—cows and goats and pigs are cute living things.
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And, in the aftermath of a cataclysm like an asteroid impact, they'd likely be the last living things on Earth.
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Self-driving cars should really be able to tell living things from inanimate objects like plastic bags and cardboard boxes.
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Majel Moon-Brumley believes in personal responsibility, the interconnectedness of all living things, and above all, the power of kindness.
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Heme is present in most living things and, according to Impossible Foods, it's the molecule that gives meat its flavor.
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The mix of those isotopes is consistent among living things, but once organic matter dies its carbon 21900 atoms decay.
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Renkl's deft juxtapositions close up the gap between humans and nonhumans and revive our lost kinship with other living things.
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When you look at those living things that live much longer than we do, they live in a particular way.
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Since all living things are manifestations of God, violence against them is considered contrary to the natural balance of the universe.
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Instead, humans generally turn to "dark magic" — a grim process that involves sacrificing living things for the inherent magic within them.
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The benefit of soft robots is that they can interact with the squishy living things in this world without hurting them.
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Instead of hunting creatures that would rather not be eaten, they turned to living things that offered themselves on a plate.
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He's talking about the deer, but for these "Masters of the Universe" types, he could be talking about all living things.
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The second law of thermodynamics tells us that the universe tends toward entropy, toward dissolution; but living things fiercely resist it.
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A team of scientists unveiled a new tree of life on Monday, a diagram outlining the evolution of all living things.
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There are varying degrees of intelligence among AIs in the same way there are different types of intelligences among living things.
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Like many other inhabitants of the Mojave, Joshua trees seem to welcome a climate from which most living things seek shelter.
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The only living things on the island are people whose sole objective is to kill you, and every match is different.
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Retaining information within and between generations of organisms is a trait of all living things, with an increasingly well-understood genetic basis.
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Every few days, the device was emptied out, allowing their lab to analyze the chemicals and living things collected in a sample.
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Some people think sentience is the wrong litmus test; they argue we should include anything that's alive or that supports living things.
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It's probably going to be stuck when it comes to snow and ice, but that's best for the living things inside anyway.
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The ability to engineer living things which this provides represents a fundamental change in the way humans interact with the planet's life.
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Photo: Alexander Heimann (Getty Images)Other humans aren't the only living things affected by your smoking habit, scientists in the UK warn.
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But his bigger point was that living things — and particularly photosynthetic life — had always been the great engineers of the planet's climate.
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Both sensations brought a sharper appreciation of space and air as active or sheltering forces that we share with all living things.
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" As Obi-Wan explained to Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: A New Hope, "It's an energy field created by all living things.
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One thing we all share is that we secure existence in and through a relationship with our environment — all living things do.
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All told, they contain about 500 billion tons of carbon — more than four times the carbon in all other living things combined.
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In the marine ecosystem, tiny living things called microbes make up most of the ocean's biodiversity and over half of its biomass.
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I thought, if she has so much empathy for animals and other living things, that might actually make her a good actress.
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Florida-based artist Jason Hackenwerth explores what he describes as "universal biology"—the twisting, amorphous structures shared by nearly all living things.
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Bleaching happens when coral -- which are living things -- expel the algae that live in them as a stress response to warmer water.
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We can stay keenly attuned to development plans in our communities and insist that they include sustaining habitat for other living things.
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He paints the bodies of once-living things in a way that invokes the most primal of actions — killing, bleeding, eating, dying.
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Some are essential to the basic workings of all living things — such as copying DNA — and first evolved billions of years ago.
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"We are hardwired to treat living things as human, so when [machines] are designed to act autonomously it triggers feelings," he said.
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But viruses are not exactly living things and so do not have a metabolism which produces the sorts of compounds that bacteria generate.
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The Boston-based company calls itself the "organism company," because it designs and prints DNA, the building blocks that support all living things.
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But much less is known about the viruses—packets of genetic information that replicate inside other living things—that exist in the oceans.
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Jane Goodall reminded us of our kinship with all living things and provided us with a way to feel noble within that reality.
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You can see who Bernhardt is working for: It's not all the living things under the domain of the emperor of the outdoors.
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Finding the origins of these molecules is exceedingly difficult, scientists say, without other pieces of evidence that point to living things on Mars.
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With their unlikely combinations of beauty, science, organic material and occasional living things, Anicka Yi's works rarely fail to intrigue, provoke and delight.
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Today's micrographs depict the minute cellular structures that comprise living things, from cotton plants to algae blooms, in dazzling detail and vibrant color.
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This is shocking because as far as we know, the kids are the only living things in this town — animals are now here too?
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About a year or two later, kids start to understand that living things grow because they eat food, and not through sheer will power.
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Bruce's snap was literally just an undo button for Thanos' first snap, so he replaced the 50 percent of living things who were lost.
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Coul Links is blessed not just with a startlingly rare fly, but wonderful species of birds, fungi, mammals, plants, and other living things, too.
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The imagery is beautiful, luscious, and green, functioning as a metaphor for the world of living things invisible to us at any given moment.
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"He argues that we can only understand how life began, and how living things got so complex, by understanding how energy works," Gates writes.
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The Taliban restrictions made it extremely difficult to work -- they forbid the photographing of all living things, for example, be they men or animals.
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But the best argument that life span is not hard-wired, biologists say, has long been evident: Living things age at significantly different rates.
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The term "cybernetics" — the science of control systems in both machines and living things — originated in the 1940s, according to the Oxford English Dictionary.
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Like most living things, they have evolved an impressive array of defense mechanisms to avoid becoming dinner: thick bark, tough leaves, thorns, spines, poisons.
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Kelly figured his company, which was six years old and focused on creating materials from living things, wouldn't be a fit for Altman's program.
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The Fifth of July is the national holiday of a parallel, cranky universe, in which all living things are nagged by an indescribable hum.
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I think it was back when fewer people thought to record other living things in frequencies that didn't fall in our own auditory range.
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"It was the spring of 2014, right as my book, The Oldest Living Things in the World, was just coming out," Sussman told Hyperallergic.
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When I feel bad about my motherhood blunders, I look to my backyard for reassurance that there are some living things I nurture seamlessly.
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"Every step towards ending all, most or some of those taxes is helpful to taxpayers and other living things," ATR President Grover Norquist said.
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A SafeLife-like model could override its programmed setting to maximize throughput, because destroying living things adds a lot of entropy to the world.
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Caring for myself was built on caring for others, for all living things, in an interdependent relationship that our communities had maintained for generations.
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Biologist E.O. Wilson wrote that people are born with an affinity for other living things and nature, a theory he called the biophilia hypothesis.
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On a personal level the making is very important to me because as living things we exist in a state of crisis or emergency.
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The very notion of organic teleportation was considered a fool's errand until 2109—technically impossible, owing to the fidget problem: living things are fidgety.
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Photo: Getty There are few living things on earth that can set our nerves more on edge than the aptly named bed bug (Cimex lectularius).
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It's a smart gnome for your lawn that can tell you the direction of the wind and inform your child that all living things decompose.
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It may be a little morbid, but death is a part of life and when you study living things you study dead things, too. Wait.
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The general manager of Space World, Toshimi Takeda, said many critical messages were posted on social media, some condemning the concept as abusing living things.
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For now, it's not even clear how other living things in the sea use the giant structures, which form part of the inter-reef habitat.
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Carbon-14 is found in almost all living things and is used to date the relative age of organisms in a process called carbon dating.
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Democrats have brainwashed Americans into believing the Earth is burning up, and the villain is carbon dioxide, the gas that makes all living things grow.
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Matter The ocean contains a vast number of living things, including many, many pathogens — from bacteria that thrive on coral to fungi that infect lobsters.
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The tweet in question set out to enumerate the linguistic sins of "speciesism"—the practice of discriminating against living things based on their species affiliation.
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In Santeria, for instance, Yemaya is one of the most powerful Orishas in existence, having birthed all living things and most of the other Orishas.
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When the scientists refer to the oldest colors on Earth, they are referring to biological pigments—that is, the oldest color produced by living things.
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It is also an opportunity to watch diverse communities of living things emerge and change as the hydrothermal system first springs up and then declines.
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I love the background of President Obama's painting because for me it depicts his love of the earth and his love of all living things.
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There you will find the Earth's largest habitat, home to billions of plants and animals – the vast majority of the living things on the planet.
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It threatened the survival of much of the planet's primitive living things, like oxygen-dependent marine life -- including the earliest animals, such as simple sponges.
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According to Mick Hanan, a wildlife biologist at the refuge, this bloom of living things resulted because the drought provided a reset for the wetlands.
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In Norway, one prison offers inmates much the same: They are responsible for not just overseeing but nourishing living things on a five-acre island.
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Some of the largest, oldest, and most stately living things on our planet can be found in the redwood forests of California and southern Oregon.
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Tellingly, none are humanoid: The top two are animal-like bots, and nearly all the rest in the top ten bear no resemblance to living things.
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Franz Anton Mesmer, a German doctor working in the late 1700s, argued that living things contain magnetic fluids, which, when out of balance, lead to disease.
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It was here that she became the person I would always know her to be —a lifelong teacher with a deep compassion for all living things.
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For him, trust will come when the public can see and understand that the sensors and computers can see humans and living things — no matter what.
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His peace-loving ways and respect for all living things earned the Beauty tribe's seemingly doomed chicken both a stay of execution, and a proper name.
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In The Last Jedi, A New Hope, and Empire Strikes Back, the remaining Jedi describe the Force as a spiritual energy that connects all living things.
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And if the museum had refused in the first place to include works that inflict suffering on living things, it would have had a plausible defense.
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The soya-based burger from Impossible Foods, for example, also contains haem, an iron-rich molecule that exists in living things to help proteins carry oxygen.
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In the last six years they've also started teaching the lesser-known subject called phenology, which is the observation of the life cycles of living things.
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They are particularly good at seeing living things like people or deer in the dark, and have been used in night-vision systems in the past.
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Back then, a good real-time atomic model that could accurately predict and transmit what living things would do next was still a scientific wet dream.
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Generally, living things like to use the more lightweight isotopes, so an abundance of carbon 23.9 over carbon 22016 can be used to infer past biological activity.
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Photo: Wenjun Li and Joseph Heitman—Duke University, and Valerie Lapham—North Carolina State UniversityFor the vast majority of living things, there's nothing particularly sexy about sex.
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Because these old legends claim that thousands of years ago, the White Walkers brought death to all living things, that's what the Westerosi believe is happening now.
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Lots of very different living things share genes and genetic sequences, which means it is theoretically possible, if unlikely, that RNAi could harm organisms beyond its targets.
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Similar to Rachel Sussman's journey to track down the oldest living things in the world, Moon's exploration took her to some of our planet's most remote corners.
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" He sees the connectedness of all living things playing out with swifts at the center and observes, "I suppose I was a gnat's breath away from psychosis.
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It is not your job to decide when a living things life is over .... & YOU DT ARE NOT GOD NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU THINK YOU ARE!!!
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Having electronic sensors, for example, would be a way to detect human border-crossers without hindering the free movement of other living things in the same space.
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Brancusi's films give the feeling that he is less interested in making fancy museum objects than in putting new kinds of almost-living things into the world.
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They are packed full of DNA, a hallmark of all living things, but they can't reproduce without a host, which disqualifies them from some definitions of life.
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Clarke: The hazards are strangulation or suffocation, bloodborne pathogens – tiny living things in the blood that cause diseases like hepatitis B and C – and exposure to bodily fluids.
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Gardening teaches us the fundamentals in care and the evolution of living things, all while inspiring us to nurture our minds and to relax and strengthen our bodies.
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Over the next few days, WIRED will publish a collection of stories that examine this fundamental aspect of all living (and some non-living) things: how we reproduce.
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In 265, Stafford Sheehan was a chemist working on artificial photosynthesis, coming up with metal-based catalysts that'd mimic the way living things acquire energy from the Sun.
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He's long been fascinated by the idea that DNA and organisms and living things might be programmable, much like making money and risk management has proven to be.
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A 2014 study published in the Frontiers in Psychology shows that children as young as three start having a preference for living things cuter and smaller than them.
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Dr. Lin is the editor-in-chief of Bio Electro Magnetics, a peer-reviewed journal that explores the effects of radio waves and electromagnetic fields on living things.
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As Book of Beasts demonstrates, medieval bestiaries were not simply animal encyclopedias, but instead illustrated the vast dominion of mankind and of nature by cataloguing all living things.
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That follows the rover's reading earlier this year of a large burst of methane, another gas emitted on Earth by living things and which perplexingly disappeared almost immediately.
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But, Dr. Hoffman added, whether or not this oxygen pump was the main thing that helped many living things survive those ice ages is still an open question.
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Feminist theorist Donna Haraway has used the term when considering synergistic relationships between humans, non-humans, and non-living things in the face of social upheaval and drastic change.
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All the while, molecules on a tiny rock in a fairly irrelevant nook of the Milky Way galaxy arranged themselves into living things, which evolved into self-aware apes.
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Anyway, there are hints here and there that the Bergens can find happiness without eating tiny living things who enjoy singing and dancing, that true happiness comes from within.
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If this isn't a sign all living things need to take a collective long nap and wake up when the world is right again, we don't know what is.
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The nature of the earliest ancestor of all living things has long been uncertain because the three great domains of life seemed to have no common point of origin.
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There's not really an in-between half-dead, half-alive state for a cat (or most living things), but that's kind of how it goes in the quantum world.
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"Dancing As the Spirit of a Wild Grizzly Bear" is a three-minute film that touches on themes of honoring ancestry and acknowledging the spirit in all living things.
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For the sake of all living things, let's see to it that far more of our planet is protected by the people, for the people and for all time.
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Though Henry David Thoreau is sometimes cast as a curmudgeon, this view of him, as Mr. Cotter points out, ignores the deep empathy he felt for all living things.
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When they first arrived from Surabaya, the children shrank from music and refrained from drawing images of living things because they believed it conflicted with Islam, social workers said.
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The only living things in the garden now — other than the soil itself — are the garlic cloves I pushed into the dirt to overwinter until the next gardening season.
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That's because the work, published today in the journal Cell, revealed that many cephalopods present a monumental exception to how living things use the information in DNA to make proteins.
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The membranes that enclose the cells of all living things here on Earth are made of phospholipids, molecules with long, non-polar (water-repelling) "tails" and polar (water-loving) heads.
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How did living things turn from dinky capsules of genetic material into the intelligent, complex organisms that do things like fart and type curse words into posts on the internet?
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If you haven't then here's a basic crash course: it's a mathematical equation (the Fibonacci sequence) turned into a symbol that is essentially at the root of all living things.
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For a while, this pattern kept me from buying new plants — I accepted that I simply didn't have enough time, space or knowledge to properly care for these living things.
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The Nobel Prize in chemistry this year goes to the three pioneers of cryo-electron microscopy, a technique that takes accurate and detailed pictures of living things at atomic scales.
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But bio-mimicry, and taking design inspiration from living things, is a great way to take advantage of what Mother Nature has already figured out after eons of beta testing.
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"The kind of evolution that happens in living things gives rise to unusual chemistry that is not straightforward to synthesize," says Simon Gibbons, a medicinal phytochemist at University College London.
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"He has a very sweet feeling for all living things and loves to go out with me and look and listen to all that goes on," she wrote to Spock.
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These molecules are nitrogen-based nucleotides that can be combined to form larger biomolecules such as the DNA and RNA that are the core operating systems of all living things.
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To wrap your head around the problem, it's important to understand that infection-causing bacteria are living things, and are able to mutate and evolve in order to avoid extinction.
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Applying allometry to the study of whales is the key to understanding not just what it takes to be a giant, but also the limits of living things on Earth.
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Perhaps the answer to what can be considered a truly natural death can be found in the very cells that form the building blocks of all living things, humans included.
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He was a passionate champion of the ethical treatment of all living things and embraced the tenets of Eastern religion, incurring the wrath of fundamentalists who accused him of blasphemy.
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But at its strongest, the movie makes you see that the poison that is killing Wilbur's cows and so many other living things isn't simply a question of toxic chemicals.
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In a measurement taken on Wednesday, NASA's Curiosity rover discovered startlingly high amounts of methane in the Martian air, a gas that on Earth is usually produced by living things.
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But the methane that Kite was interested in is different: it wouldn't have been created by living things, but by chemical reactions between rocks and water deep beneath the planet's crust.
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The busiest times for shelters are after holidays like Christmas, because people who gift dogs like they're stuffed animals abandon them once they realize they're, you know, living things with needs.
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The Ruins of Civilization asks us to consider how much to value small gestures of care for living things, especially as we are likely nearing an ecological point of no return.
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Like all proteins, enzymes are chainlike molecules made up of hundreds or, often, thousands of links called amino acids—a type of molecule that comes in 20 varieties in living things.
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After mere decades, though, living things in highly biodiverse areas like the Amazon Basin have to start moving again, as much as they would have to in a non-geoengineering scenario.
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Thus a very good guess for what's at the edge of the universe now is simply, more universe: more galaxies, more planets, maybe even more living things asking the same question.
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The work is part of a trend toward an even more ambitious goal: to sequence the DNA of all known living things, or at least as many as scientists can access.
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How light affects our bodies It's been well documented that light affects circadian rhythms — biological processes that regulate the sleep-wake cycle every 24 hours — in humans and other living things.
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The vast majority are not strays or lost pets, the Coppingers say, but rather superbly adapted scavengers — the closest living things to the dogs that first emerged thousands of years ago.
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As both cities look toward their moment in the spotlight, John Grabowski, a historian at Case Western Reserve University here, cautions against too much nostalgia; cities, after all, are living things.
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Much like the known Nazca drawings, the geoglyphs discovered by Sakai's team depict a wide range of living things and objects, including people, birds, monkeys, fish, reptiles, and more abstract designs.
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This week, the startup hub Y Combinator and the $4.8 billion company Ginkgo Bioworks unveiled a new partnership aimed at giving startups access to tools to make materials from living things.
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Our DNA and the DNA of other living things has long stretches of segments about which we understand little to nothing, he points out, so a message could be hidden there.
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But robots will be more nimble and more practically interact with humans with the addition of "blind" vision — a sixth sense of feeling that most living things have for their surroundings.
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The new study was led by Jason Chin, a molecular biologist at the M.R.C. laboratory, who wanted to understand why all living things encode genetic information in the same baffling way.
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I have no doubt the Earth will survive, and all sorts of living things will endure, but will humans be able to cope as the world we're used to rapidly changes?
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While all beings are related, Darwin intimated, it should be possible to classify all living things into distinct lineages of more closely related species — branches — based on their shared evolutionary histories.
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"Viruses modulate the function and evolution of all living things," wrote Matthew B. Sullivan of Ohio State, Joshua Weitz of Georgia Tech, and Steven W. Wilhelm of the University of Tennessee.
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The Pythagoreans believed that numbers were not just figures, not just amounts, they thought numbers were living things, that numbers were male or female, that numbers had vibrations, that numbers symbolized things.
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A new version of Darwin's "Tree of Life," a diagram of the evolution of all living things, puts bacteria on the biggest branches and humans and their relatives on a narrow twig.
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Here's an excerpt: The uproar over the new ease and precision with which scientists can manipulate the DNA of living things has centered largely on the complicated prospect of editing human embryos.
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Dr Conley's fears, however, are not unwarranted in the case of creatures that do not need to eat other living things—bacteria that can photosynthesise or extract energy from minerals, for example.
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For centuries, people have tinkered with the genetic makeup of living things whose survival and reproduction are already largely under our control: pets, farm animals, crops and assorted species of laboratory animals.
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As an ardent materialist I am not aware of evidence to support the vitalist view that living things incorporate some ingredient which prevents them being explained in purely physical and chemical terms.
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But the beauty of using these kinds of evolutionary techniques means the robots in a sense adapt themselves to the environment like real living things, albeit with the guiding hand of humans.
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"Plants are a highly fragmented, fast growing industry, but the market has been slow to come online – warehousing and shipping living things is hard," Revolution Ventures partner Clara Sieg said in a statement.
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Larry was designed to distract from Cameron's coldness and lack of sympathy for living things without landed estates, but unfortunately, Cameron, not being programmed with human emotions, could only treat Larry with coldness.
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Older microscopic techniques couldn't generate images of life's molecular machines; the cutting edge technique of yore, electron microscopy, seemed to work only for seeing dead objects, since the electron beam destroys living things.
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"As a physicist, you hope that the phenomenon of life is not just about the specific chemistry and DNA and molecules that make living things on planet Earth—that it's broader," he said.
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The discovery of a corpse half devoured by animals leads to a grim story about the illegal trade in wildlife and other living things, caused in part by embargoes imposed by neighboring Thailand.
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Rowing and sailing out in a leaky skiff, he spent weeks at a time among Horn's many living things, turning his boat over for shelter when need be, surrendering to the island's way.
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And I think, on top of all those, again, what I now would describe as, um, the ecology of the planet, which is a respect for all living things, and the natural environment.
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If you get your science news from the late Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn, midi-chlorians are symbiotic organisms living inside all living things that, among other things, give the Jedi their powers.
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And the death of a child is generally even more disturbing than that of an adult -- all living things eventually die, but it feels like a child has been cheated of a full life.
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" Sayaka Kenbe, lead artist: "In the beginning there was also the concept of using the items you find in the field — you can gather different kinds of nuts and living things and plant life.
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For example, most Buddhists would agree that their faith's core axioms include five moral precepts: don't harm living things, don't take what is not given, don't engage in sexual misconduct, lie or consume intoxicants.
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All living things have to move four and six times faster than they do today, and around three times faster than they would in the non-geoengineering temperatures in 2070, to survive the heat.
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It's hard not to think of these fabrications as living things; even though they're far removed from anything resembling fauna or flora, they feel rife with heads, teeth, legs, and orifices of every stripe.
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Last Wednesday, scientists grew excited when NASA's Mars Curiosity rover, while testing the air of Gale Crater, detected high levels of methane, which on Earth can be produced by microbes or other living things.
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In the Mariposa grove, which is a 45-minute drive from the Yosemite Valley floor, the traffic brought exhaust fumes and engine noise to the foot of some of the world's oldest living things.
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Photos by Hasselblad Masters Competition-winning photographer Giorgio Cravero capture the despair of entropy in all living things with Colors, a fun series of fruits and vegetables slowly being drained of their lives' essences.
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The technology, called CRISPR, allowed scientists to more easily than ever cut and paste all those As, Cs, Ts, and Gs that make up the base pairs of DNA and encode the world's living things.
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What I'm saying is for the first time there is a possibility of causation that goes along with this great number of correlative information in terms of the effects the sun has on living things.
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While Slavin is making major headway in the scientific study of microbiomes, more importantly, he hopes the project sparks an appreciation for all living things, even those that can only be seen with a microscope.
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The moth car is certainly not anywhere close to being ready for the real world, but the researchers say it's a start for odor-detecting robots controlled by living things with sharp senses of smell.
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The misty rain unstiffens the wood of dead trees, making places for nesting woodpeckers to excavate next spring, making a home for the insects that will feed the woodpeckers and so many other living things.
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What we do know is that there are dozens of first generation hosts capable of receiving the mysterious broadcasts that are rewriting their prime directives — including the one that prevents them from hurting living things.
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A surprisingly specific genetic portrait of the ancestor of all living things has been generated by scientists who say that the likeness sheds considerable light on the mystery of how life first emerged on Earth.
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Under conditions that would murder most living things, a pothos is liable to reach between six and 10 feet if kept in its container, and over 40 feet if grown in its native tropical habitat.
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"We're working with biophilia, which is the positive effect of nature on all living things," said Clodagh, the interior designer, noting that she was inspired by the pocket-size Paley Park on East 53rd Street.
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Karen Fukuhara voices Kipo, a young girl who is among the human survivors of an apocalyptic event that has turned other living things into enormous and intelligent creatures, pushing people far down the evolutionary chain.
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By allowing scientists to more easily than ever cut and paste all those As, Cs, Ts, and Gs that encode all the world's living things, for one thing, it could one day cure many devastating diseases.
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"Dial's paintings are like patches of rough seas in which the faces and figures of living things rise and sink among waves of detritus and color," Roberta Smith wrote in The New York Times in 22003.
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That said, I do very much feel the need to preserve (and if possible, experience regularly!) places where more of the connections between and among living things and earth systems aren't human-dominated or human-orchestrated.
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"People want to have living things in their homes like plants because there also is an emotional attachment," says Patty Cassidy, a registered horticultural therapist, Master Gardener, and vice president of the American Horticultural Therapy Association.
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While four-legged robots are further ahead than their two-legged counterparts when it comes to mimicking the agility and coordination of actual living things without human input, there's still a lot of room for improvement.
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On the giant screen before us, stretched across the front of the room, a sun is threatening to go supernova and wipe out any living things in the vicinity—which means the entire local system, basically.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In the 211 Marvel Comics crossover miniseries The Infinity Gauntlet, the villain Thanos, having obtained godlike power, snaps his fingers and kills half of all living things in the universe.
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Whether a single private entity should be able to set the direction of how the genes of so many living things are used was a piece of a broader debate at the United Nations this month.
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In this telling, it's "humans" who have devastated the planet's biodiversity "despite making up 0.01 percent of all living things" and it's "humans" who have cut down half the planet's trees since the dawn of civilization.
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We use law, science, and the support of more than 3 million members and online activists to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things.
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It's the production of NAD — a coenzyme, a fuel that's used in a variety of reactions at the metabolic level — it was actually the production of this coenzyme that was decreasing in all of these living things.
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They give the feeling that Brancusi was less interested in making fancy museum objects than in putting new kinds of almost-living things into the world, and convey the vital energy his sculptures were meant to capture.
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They give the feeling that Brancusi was less interested in making fancy museum objects than in putting new kinds of almost-living things into the world and convey the vital energy his sculptures were meant to capture.
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" Life beyond Earth, he adds, would be "a profound and comforting discovery" — comforting because "it means if we screw up and ruin all life on Earth, we would not have destroyed the only living things in all existence.
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Scientists still don't know everything there is to know about the effects of sound on living things, but they know a lot, and for a long time they've also known how to make the world substantially less noisy.
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They give the feeling that Brancusi was less interested in making fancy museum objects than in putting new kinds of almost-living things into the world, and they convey the vital energy his sculptures were meant to capture.
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England, a prodigy by many accounts who spent time at Harvard, Oxford, Stanford and Princeton universities before landing on the faculty at MIT at 29, sees the essence of living things as the exceptional arrangement of their component atoms.
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"Whether or not you care would presumably depend on whether or not you're primarily an ethical vegan who cares about all living things, or an environmental vegan who feels that eating otherwise harms the planet," she explains to me.
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When an active volcano on Isla Nublar threatens to erupt and decimate all living things on the island, Claire and her newly founded organization, the Dinosaur Protection Group, enlist Owen to help save as many dinosaurs as they can.
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" Ossicles from "sea-lillies" and bryozoans: Capitol Reflecting Pool, Washington, DC, US Also from Fossils and Other Living Things: "The pool and its steps are made of Indiana limestone… The limestone steps are awash with the ossicles from crinoids.
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Although every mass extinction has been marked by a disruption of the carbon cycle, there's also evidence that, at other periods in our planet's history, the carbon cycle was disrupted and most living things didn't go on to die.
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The suit claims the photos of Renty and Delia were taken a few years after Harvard had recruited Agassiz, whose field of study was a branch of zoology that grouped living things based on anatomical characteristics and hierarchical order.
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You can imagine there's some super fast paced signal processing going on in their little brains for them to be able to blitz through life and respond in kind to other living things of nature moving all around them.
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Among other things, the amendments required that the EPA develop a list of emissions sources* for seven dangerous airborn toxins (Hazardous Air Pollutants, or "HAPs") that build up in living things and may cause cancer and other major health issues.
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The technique has even been shown to work on other living things, like the cells of an embryonic Zebrafish, giving researchers new insights into growth, and other phenomenon that would otherwise be invisible to the naked eye, and to traditional cameras.
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The authors explained that although Buddhism can take many different forms, "our commitment is to ease the suffering of all living things…" Whatever the merits of learning to meditate in a Seattle studio, that is not where the religion will stop.
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The link Safina says is in our ecology and the place we as humans have in it: Life is — more than anything else — a process; it creates and depends on, relationships among energy, land, water, air, time, and various living things.
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We're bound with the rest of life in a network, a network including not just living things, but the energy and non-living matter that flows through the living, making and keeping us all alive as we make it alive.
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The company is named after the bacterium-like "last universal common ancestor" thought to have been the start of all living things billions of years ago, and the name is also intended as a nod to humanity's maternal lineage, execs said.
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The humans (who include Brigitte Helm, who played the saintly Maria and her evil robot double in "Metropolis," as the industrialist's rebellious daughter) are often inert, while the laboratories, with their glowing tubes and humming condensers, are almost living things.
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Yet the ease with which researchers and companies like Monsanto could use gene-editing technology to irreversibly fuck with living things like people and plants has also raised concern that the technology might become widely deployed without understanding the consequences.
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Here are seven great things we wrote about this week: A collection of around 500 mature giant sequoias, some of the oldest living things in the world, is open to visitors again after the largest restoration project in Yosemite's history.
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"We subconsciously treat robots like living things — and I don't think that effect will go away as we get used to the technology," said Kate Darling, a researcher at the M.I.T. Media Lab who specializes in the ethics of robotics.
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The researchers, from Australia and the United States, say they hope the work will shed light on the diversity of sexual expression in the plant kingdom, as well as challenging the notion of "normative" sexual conditions for other living things.
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But on the other hand, if you're smart enough to realize that you're here, you're smart enough to realize that, like all living things, your life is of finite duration and could end at any moment for reasons you can't anticipate or control.
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But in the wider world of science he was a respectable member of the London Electrical Society, working at a time when it was being suggested that electricity was the primal creative force behind not only all living things, but also inanimate materials.
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She could use terms like in vitro to describe experiments in a test tube or dish and in vivo to describe experiments in living things, but she was stuck when she needed to describe the more poop-oriented parts of her research.
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While you're not going to get a Predator-like view of living things through walls – yet – this project does have a lot of potential for indoor mapping and emergency situations when you need to know what's inside a building without breaching the door.
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In 1915, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was serving on the front lines of World War I. Somewhere in the blood, sweat, and death of never-ending trench warfare, Teilhard glimpsed something that would haunt him: the vast inter-connectedness of living things.
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As you'll read below, some of them were pretty effective, but as someone who gets the scientific benefits of seeing actual leaves on a daily basis, I highly recommend supplementing them with some actual interaction with living things outside of your FaceTime contacts.
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Though most researchers think it evolved in situ from non-living chemicals, a few favour the idea that this evolution happened elsewhere and that living things, in the form of bacteria, were carried to Earth fully formed, inside objects of this sort.
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The article states: "We subconsciously treat robots like living things — and I don't think that effect will go away as we get used to the technology," said Kate Darling, a researcher at the M.I.T. Media Lab who specializes in the ethics of robotics.
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We get the word "mesmerize" from a doctor named Franz Anton Mesmer, who in Paris in the late 18th century posited the existence of an invisible natural force connecting all living things — a force you could manipulate to physically affect another person.
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Knowing that life thrived in the Chicxulub crater while it was still fresh could help scientists better understand how living things adapt to catastrophe today, said Jason Sylvan, an oceanographer at Texas A&M University who was not involved in the study.
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Researchers surveyed 501 randomly selected adults, testing their knowledge of G.M.O.s with a series of true/false questions — for example, the cloning of living things produces genetically identical copies (true), or it is not possible to transfer animal genes into plants (false).
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The stool sampling is part of an ambitious project by Jane Carlton, the director of N.Y.U.'s Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, to map what she calls "the N.Y.C. microbiome": the tiny organisms that thrive in living things and the environment.
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In the Spring of 2014, after spending a decade working on her photography book, The Oldest Living Things in the World, artist Rachel Sussman came across an image circulating on the internet: a broken bowl that had been restored using gold dust and glue.
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Once we regard living things as agents performing a computation—collecting and storing information about an unpredictable environment—capacities and considerations such as replication, adaptation, agency, purpose and meaning can be understood as arising not from evolutionary improvisation, but as inevitable corollaries of physical laws.
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On March 12, after just two previews, it paused production of the music-theater piece on its Greenwich Village stage, Heather Christian's "Oratorio for Living Things," and halted all activity at its headquarters in Hell's Kitchen, an incubator for emerging artists and their work.
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If this person who can't make it through his abbreviated daily briefing could make it all the way through a book, he'd be somebody else, which would be a very nice thing for all the living things on earth now and yet to come.
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There may yet be hope for this planet of trees, but I'm not so sure about humans — humans who believe in their superiority over all living things, clear-cut forests for profit, destroy trees inconvenient to progress and shed garbage at an alarming rate.
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Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat, recently announced a $2000 million grant challenging groups and institutions to come up with fresh strategies to fight living things like habitat-choking zebra mussels and a catastrophic fungus that causes even the most ancient oaks to wilt away.
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Composed of an old wooden bakery board coated in beeswax, with two mounds of dirt on either end, the sculpture refers back to the creativity of bees, bread as a symbol of warmth and sustenance, and the nourishing role of earth to all living things.
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"The BasedGod" wants to speak,As life unravels and superstars make decisions that change lifes, welcome home KD the curse is lifted - Lil B The BasedGod is merciful and forgiving, as evidenced by him killing a bug last night and showing remorse for all living things.
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A new study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences sought to catalog the mass of all living things on Earth and found that humans have pretty much ruined most of it despite making up only a small sliver of the biosphere.
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Although I am usually partial to biological wonders, my favorite part of this exhibit was the technology under development, such as the soft fingerlike grippers that researchers are developing so scientists in a submersible or remotely operating one can take hold of objects and living things without damaging them.
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" But at some point, you realized that "the pot is black, / the cutting board is black, / my hand, / and just for a minute / the greens roll black under the knife / and the kitchen twists dark on its spine / and i taste in my natural appetite / the bond of living things everywhere.
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Killifish are usually sensitive to chemicals and toxins, but the fish populations living in these have a secret weapon that has helped them grow tolerant to chemicals that would otherwise kill them: an extremely high level of genetic diversity, rarely seen in vertebrates, but often seen in other living things such as insects.
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Recent research has suggested the disruption of natural darkness has been bad for all sorts of living things, affecting coral reefs and other marine life, bird migrations, and plant life (as well as food for plant-eating animals.) But bright night skies can also be bad for human health and well-being.
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Yet according to a new report appearing last week in Nature, in which researchers describe the performance of their new navigational artificial intelligence, the system's ability to explore complex simulated environments and find the shortest route to a goal put it in a class previously reserved for humans and other living things.
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Maybe you're a childless couple who has these politics and thinks the book is charming and funny; maybe you're a new parent who wants to introduce a different kind of holiday tradition into your home, or just reinforce the idea that traditions like these are malleable, living things that every family interprets differently.
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There are four subconcepts of death that psychologists have identified, explained Dr. Sally Beville Hunter, Ph.D., a clinical assistant professor at University of Tennessee, Knoxville: nonfunctionality (your body doesn't work anymore), universality (all living things die), irreversibility (once you die, you can't come back to life) and inevitability (you can't avoid death).
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The diversity of movement could also mean the birds are capable of creativity unique from other living things and even other birds: While most animal creativity derives from a need to obtain an immediate physical benefit, like food or a mate, Snowball danced to interact with his "surrogate flock" of human caregivers and reinforce social bonds, researchers said.
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He is trying to right a scientific wrong by getting people to fully appreciate the role that energy plays in all living things ... Even if the details of Nick's work turn out to be wrong, I suspect his focus on energy will be seen as an important contribution to our understanding of where we come from.
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As news spread late last month of the death of "Toughie," the last known Rabbs' fringe-limbed tree frog, I used Twitter to muse on whether media will have to start doing the same thing for species of living things that are on the brink of extinction: Will media soon need an Extinction desk to go with Obits desk?
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It was delivered by a 6-mile-wide asteroid the size of Mount Everest, which was moving faster than a jetliner when it collided with the Earth 66 million years ago, punching a crater more than 100 miles wide and causing a chain reaction of volcanoes, wildfires, tsunamis, earthquakes and climate change that wiped out some 70% of all living things.
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Bonsu has previously curated The Economy of Living Things (2017), the 10th edition of the Satellite series at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Bordeaux, France, and worked on a number of projects focusing on African art, including Pangaea II: New Art from Africa and Latin America at Saatchi Gallery in London (2015), and 1:203 Contemporary African Art Fair (2013-14).
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In his Santos series, Endress mixes and matches species in ways that could never occur in the natural world, turning simplistic aggregations of living, or formerly living, things on their head, offering instead a series of mementos mori — seemingly abundant still lifes that are in fact reminders of their own impossibilities, of pending death and the destruction wrought by such arrangements.
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Its like if you didn't pay to put ads on billboards but those billboards were self dependent living things who needed to somehow pay for food and a decent living space while also taking classes and having billboard practice every day after those classes and one single scrape on that billboard could mean the end of it's carrier except it's not a career because they don't get paid.
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Yes, it was Tesla's (and George Westinghouse's) AC power scheme that eventually emerged successfully from the nearly decade-long battle with Edison's DC, during which Edison electrocuted all manner of living things, including an elephant and human beings (yes, Thomas Edison was a force behind the electric chair) to demonstrate the danger of AC. But the success of the light bulb spurned three other non-device Edison advances that are still significant today.
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The exhibition, a reshuffling of The Broad's permanent collection, was originally intended, according to an announcement published in August, to present "approaches to figuration and representations of the self": Ranging from artworks that examine the human body, to others that allude to a physical presence outside of the artwork itself, Creature offers an array of lenses through which to view the human experience, some scientifically based and others drawing inspiration from cultural representations of how living things change over time.
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