Mark Kendall: A needle-free vaccine patch that ’s safer and way cheaper Filmed June 2013 at TED Global 2013 Edinburgh‚ Scotland Transcript 0:11 It ’s a pleasure to be here in Edinburgh‚ Scotland‚ the birthplace of the needle and syringe. Less than a mile from here in this direction‚ in 1853 a Scotsman filed his very first patent on the needle and syringe. His name was Alexander Wood‚ and it was at the Royal College of Physicians. This is the patent. What blows my mind when I look at it
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The relationship between the gods and humanity in The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Odyssey are the same. In each saga‚ the gods seem to live nearby and are always present. Both epic poems portray humans as simply at the mercy of the gods. The gods feel that it is their duty to intervene if they feel that man is traveling off course from his destiny. However‚ the gods are not all powerful. Each god has a certain domain and cannot control another gods’ domain. All the gods including Zeus‚ the
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According to Plato everything in our world is just an image of the perfect object. In The Cave by Plato he describes how these people are chained up and they see these shadows on the wall. These shadows are an example of the objects we see in our everyday life (the visible world). Plato says that there is such a presence of “The Good” and that this Good rules this perfect spiritual world in which there is only truth and knowledge. I believe that the good that Plato is talking about is symbolic of God. God
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CHAPTER ONE THIS DATA SHOWS THE VARIATION OF HIV/AIDS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN COUNTRIES: Number infected 22.5 mil Percentage of infected who are woman 61% Adult ’s prevalence rate 5.0 Adults and children newly infected 1.7 mil Adults and children deaths due to aids 2006 1.6 mil (72% of global aids deaths) Access to ARVs
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AirThread Connections “as-is” • Upside Valuation of AirThread Connections: AirThread has strategic fit with current ACC operations Potential synergies for future service offerings • Recommendation: Purchase AirThread Connections for amount between $8.162 B and $13.525 B. ACC Outline of Valuation Steps • Base-Case Valuation of AirThread Connections: Calculate the present value of free cash flows Project the terminal value of ATC’s operations Calculate the present value
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The 1920’s and 1980’s are similar in many ways. Their similarities are social‚ economical‚ and political. Some of the similarities between the decades are Prohibition and the War on Drugs‚ the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and 1987‚ and the influence of music on society. Prohibition was passed as the 18th amendment‚ that importing‚ exporting‚ transporting‚ and manufacturing of alcohol was to be put to an end. Prohibition did not achieve its goals. Instead‚ it added to the problems that it intended
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years to recall or pull information from. And those years had been spent as a sex toy not a fox. It was than Lola realized she had simply fallen back to being that‚ and now she was sitting locked and forcing a sweet boy to have to claim her.
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Plato and Aristotle Plato and Aristotle were two philosophers who made an impact on philosophy as we know it as today. Plato is thought of as the first political philosopher and Aristotle as the first metaphysical philosopher. They were both great intellectuals in regards to being the first of the great western philosophers. Plato and Aristotle each had ideas in how to better life by improving the societies in which they were part of during their lives. The views of Plato and Aristotle look different
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down it blue prints. This is due to the fact that it seems that Plato is more concerned about the happiness of the state as a whole even if it means some individuals must suffer‚ the government is not elected by its citizens and the interests of the ruling class rule over the city. These are but a few of the elements of a totalitarian state. However it can also be argued that even though Plato’s Kallipolis may appear totalitarian‚ Plato has done so as he would want man to reflect on the ideas he has
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earth. Knowledge can be sought in different ways but to truly seek knowledge‚ one has to read‚ understand through experience and believe what the word of God says about faith. Acquiring knowledge through our five senses and faith‚ both give us insight on competing ways of getting at the truth. A person who reads‚ write and believes in the word of God will become rich with knowledge but the latter will not. Moreover‚ in order to achieve knowledge‚ one has to be taught it or teach him or herself (because
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