i have two green ballsand three purple balls so how many ballsdo i have altogether? so two green ballsand three purple balls is going to be 5 balls altogether. we can count them; one, two, three, four, five. now what if we did somethinga little different? let's start with the five balls,and let's take away two. let's subtract two of these balls. take away one and two,and what are we left with? we are left withone, two, three balls. we're left with three balls. you might see a pattern here;two plus three is equal to five but if you start with fiveand take away two, you're going to be left with three. look how they're arranged. two plus three is equal to fiveand five minus two is three. it works the other way around. if i start with fiveand i were to take away three, if i subtract one, two, three,what am i left with? i'm left with one, two,i'm left with two. so two plus three is five,three plus two is five, which is another way of sayingthat five minus two...
it's just beautiful, isn't it? it's just mesmerizing.it's double hel-exciting! you really can tell, just by looking at it,how important and amazing it is. it's pretty much the most complicated moleculethat exists, and potentially the most important one. it's so complex that we didn't even knowfor sure what it looked like until about 60 years ago. so multifariously awesome that if you tookall of it from just one of our cells and untangled it, it would be taller than me. now consider that there are probably 50 trillioncells in my body right now. laid end to end, the dna in those cells wouldstretch to the sun. not once... but 600 times! mind blown yet? hey, you wanna make one? (oh dear god) of course you know i'm talking about deoxyribonucleicacid, known to its friends as dna. dna is what stores our genetic instructions-- the information that programs all of our cell's activities. it's a 6-billion letter code that providesthe assembly instructions f...
- imagine if someone got richoff of selling a pet rock. (laughs) keep watching. so we live in a world nowthat makes earning money easier than ever. with the internet and other technologies, we have many more avenues to pursue other than the traditional nine to five. but that also means that people who have hairbrained schemes toget rich can actually make it happen. in fact, some people haveused the most brilliant as well as the mostinsane ways to get rich. basically, the followingstories are either going to make you shakeyour head in disbelief or ask why you didn'tcome up with it yourself in the first place. so without further ado, hereare 10 unbelievable ways people got rich. number one is the thrift store find. in 2007, michael sparkswas browsing through his local thrift storein nashville, tennessee when a rolled up document caught his eye. knowing a thing or twoabout american history, he purchased the parchment for $2.48. later that week, thedocument was authenticated and it was...
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