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Their radioactive decay dates when the rocks were buried in the cave when they fell in the entrance together with the fossils. – Darryl Granger	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This acidity weakens enamel making it a lot more prone to staining, tooth decay and breakage. – Rhonda Kalasho	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The ‘looking the other way’ has been empowered bysomething that isn't exactly a moral decay or failure, but it encourages moral failure. And that is bureaucracy. – Bill Bennett	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Look the other way, don’t get involved, don't get in trouble, you'll have to go to court, you can get sued and so on — so people look the other way, the ‘looking the other way’ has been empowered bysomething that isn't exactly a moral decay or failure, but it encourages moral failure. And that is bureaucracy. – Bill Bennett	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Heat carried in slowly moving groundwater systems is contributing to the decay of submerged permafrost, creating large sinkholes in some areas and ice-filled hills called pingos in other areas. – Charlie Paull	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Since this is the first study of the decay of submerged permafrost, we don't have long-term data for the seafloor temperature in this region. The data we do have aren't showing a warming trend in these waters 150 meters( almost 500 feet) deep. – Charlie Paull	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Each party sees the other as heading toward decay and lacking the moral and political right to behave as it does. – Fyodor Lukyanov	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It’s a rude awakening to the government and to the politicians, if you have decades of continuously destroying your public health system, and then now you have a pandemic, you cannot then overturn that decay ... in one year or in six months. – Norman Matara	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
When you see green bananas in Illinois, you know they are fresh, and you know they did not grow here, like bananas, Pu-244 and Sm-146 decay over time. So if we find these radioisotopes on Earth today, we know they are fresh and not from here -- the green bananas of the isotope world -- and thus the smoking guns of a nearby supernova. – Brian Fields	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It’s just another indication of the social and moral decay of our society. – Rita Hayes	added by anonymous 3 years ago
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. – Harold Wilson	added by RobertHaigh 3 years ago
[ The studies ] would take a potted plant and put it in a small chamber... three feet by three feet by three feet... and they would inject a particular volatile organic compound( VOC) into the chamber... and watch it decay over time, and that decay is what they would contribute to the plant clearing the VOC, that does occur in the chamber, but it's the microbes that are absorbing the VOC, not the plant itself. – Michael Waring	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded. – Charles-Louis de Secondat	added by Normando 4 years ago
Weve got everything from the head almost to the tip of the tail, we dont have much in the way of flippers. They were lost to decay, or maybe they were bitten off. – Donald Henderson	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The means the D0 and the anti-D0 dont decay at the same rate, and thats what we call CP violation. – Sheldon Stone	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
In every declining civilization there is a small ‘remnant’ of people who adhere to the right against the wrong, who recognize the difference between good and evil and who will take an active stand for the former and against the latter; who can still think and discern and who will courageously take a stand against the political, social, moral, and spiritual rot or decay of their day. – Donald S. McAlvaney	added by Normando 5 years ago
Once again the halls of Congress reverberate with odes to rugged individualism, state sovereignty, and contempt for the centralized super-state, these are bloodless battles Jefferson Davis could never fight but, they are no less vital for the future of American civilization. As our cities decay and our standards and spiritual traditions deteriorate, America is searching for a better way. Walker Percy urged us to look South to recover community, stability, and sense of place in God's order which we have regrettably lost. That is a tall proposition but it is certainly one Jefferson Davis would understand and certainly one for which Jefferson Davis would fight. – Secretary Wilkie	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Corruption is not a cultural phenomenon but it is the result of a political regime in decay. We are absolutely certain that this evil is the principal cause of social inequality and of economic inequality, because of corruption, violence has erupted in our country. – Lopez Obrador	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Radioactivity has a half-life, it does simply decay away in roughly a day or two. – David Brenner	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
It can also have something to do with decay, for example, mold on bread or vegetables have certain visual cues and characteristics that are similar to trypophobic stimuli. So, while we're not completely sure yet, it does seem to be some kind of evolutionary trait that will help or facilitate survival. – An Lee	Found on CNN 6 years ago
If you, for example, think of a tablespoon filled with DNA; that would include all of the information on Facebook and Wikipedia and Twitter - and all that just in that small heap of DNA. Whereas nowadays you need enormous server farms and cooling and maintenance because the current methods decay over time, in that tablespoon you would have everything very stable in a very small space with a guaranteed stability for a very long time. – Robert Grass	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If the market stays in a range for an extended period of time, my retirement account will be dead money that inflation could erode, with options, I can place non-directional trades that make money through time decay. – Sean Henderson	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
With options, I can place non-directional trades that make money through time decay. – Sean Henderson	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Fossil flowers are rare under any circumstances, and those in amber provide the only evidence of (ancient) tropical flowers, since the rapid decay of such delicate objects under conditions of high heat and humidity prevents their preservation in sedimentary deposits. – George Poinar	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

Their radioactive decay dates when the rocks were buried in the cave when they fell in the entrance together with the fossils.

– Darryl Granger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This acidity weakens enamel making it a lot more prone to staining, tooth decay and breakage.

– Rhonda Kalasho

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The ‘looking the other way’ has been empowered bysomething that isn't exactly a moral decay or failure, but it encourages moral failure. And that is bureaucracy.

– Bill Bennett

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Look the other way, don’t get involved, don't get in trouble, you'll have to go to court, you can get sued and so on — so people look the other way, the ‘looking the other way’ has been empowered bysomething that isn't exactly a moral decay or failure, but it encourages moral failure. And that is bureaucracy.

– Bill Bennett

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Heat carried in slowly moving groundwater systems is contributing to the decay of submerged permafrost, creating large sinkholes in some areas and ice-filled hills called pingos in other areas.

– Charlie Paull

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Since this is the first study of the decay of submerged permafrost, we don't have long-term data for the seafloor temperature in this region. The data we do have aren't showing a warming trend in these waters 150 meters( almost 500 feet) deep.

– Charlie Paull

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Each party sees the other as heading toward decay and lacking the moral and political right to behave as it does.

– Fyodor Lukyanov

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It’s a rude awakening to the government and to the politicians, if you have decades of continuously destroying your public health system, and then now you have a pandemic, you cannot then overturn that decay ... in one year or in six months.

– Norman Matara

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

When you see green bananas in Illinois, you know they are fresh, and you know they did not grow here, like bananas, Pu-244 and Sm-146 decay over time. So if we find these radioisotopes on Earth today, we know they are fresh and not from here -- the green bananas of the isotope world -- and thus the smoking guns of a nearby supernova.

– Brian Fields

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It’s just another indication of the social and moral decay of our society.

– Rita Hayes

added by anonymous
3 years ago

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

– Harold Wilson

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

[ The studies ] would take a potted plant and put it in a small chamber... three feet by three feet by three feet... and they would inject a particular volatile organic compound( VOC) into the chamber... and watch it decay over time, and that decay is what they would contribute to the plant clearing the VOC, that does occur in the chamber, but it's the microbes that are absorbing the VOC, not the plant itself.

– Michael Waring

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

– Charles-Louis de Secondat

added by Normando
4 years ago

Weve got everything from the head almost to the tip of the tail, we dont have much in the way of flippers. They were lost to decay, or maybe they were bitten off.

– Donald Henderson

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The means the D0 and the anti-D0 dont decay at the same rate, and thats what we call CP violation.

– Sheldon Stone

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

In every declining civilization there is a small ‘remnant’ of people who adhere to the right against the wrong, who recognize the difference between good and evil and who will take an active stand for the former and against the latter; who can still think and discern and who will courageously take a stand against the political, social, moral, and spiritual rot or decay of their day.

– Donald S. McAlvaney

added by Normando
5 years ago

Once again the halls of Congress reverberate with odes to rugged individualism, state sovereignty, and contempt for the centralized super-state, these are bloodless battles Jefferson Davis could never fight but, they are no less vital for the future of American civilization. As our cities decay and our standards and spiritual traditions deteriorate, America is searching for a better way. Walker Percy urged us to look South to recover community, stability, and sense of place in God's order which we have regrettably lost. That is a tall proposition but it is certainly one Jefferson Davis would understand and certainly one for which Jefferson Davis would fight.

– Secretary Wilkie

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Corruption is not a cultural phenomenon but it is the result of a political regime in decay. We are absolutely certain that this evil is the principal cause of social inequality and of economic inequality, because of corruption, violence has erupted in our country.

– Lopez Obrador

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Radioactivity has a half-life, it does simply decay away in roughly a day or two.

– David Brenner

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It can also have something to do with decay, for example, mold on bread or vegetables have certain visual cues and characteristics that are similar to trypophobic stimuli. So, while we're not completely sure yet, it does seem to be some kind of evolutionary trait that will help or facilitate survival.

– An Lee

Found on CNN
6 years ago

If you, for example, think of a tablespoon filled with DNA; that would include all of the information on Facebook and Wikipedia and Twitter - and all that just in that small heap of DNA. Whereas nowadays you need enormous server farms and cooling and maintenance because the current methods decay over time, in that tablespoon you would have everything very stable in a very small space with a guaranteed stability for a very long time.

– Robert Grass

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If the market stays in a range for an extended period of time, my retirement account will be dead money that inflation could erode, with options, I can place non-directional trades that make money through time decay.

– Sean Henderson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

With options, I can place non-directional trades that make money through time decay.

– Sean Henderson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Fossil flowers are rare under any circumstances, and those in amber provide the only evidence of (ancient) tropical flowers, since the rapid decay of such delicate objects under conditions of high heat and humidity prevents their preservation in sedimentary deposits.

– George Poinar

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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