From that vantage point, it can be hard to remember the human scale.
Few remember the number of steps Neil Armstrong took when he landed on the moon, but they remember he was the first human being who stepped on the moon.
Now researchers have shown for the first time that an animal other than a human can remember the social context of a past event, and use this knowledge to adjust its behaviour and plan for the future.
If there is a single lesson to take away from these indictments, it is that we must always remember that human nature dictates that the invisible hand that moves markets and economies gets every nudge it can, by any means fair and foul, from anyone who can contrive to gain power over it.
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Mr Ball next treats us to a brisk description of the human eye (remember rods and cones from school biology?), an explanation of why Newton was right and Goethe wrong about the composite character of white light, and an account of the 19th-century regimentation of the continuous colour spectrum by means of colour wheels and other classifying devices.
Remember that despite the current economic climate the human need to belong and be understood is still paramount.
He also couldn't remember any of their names so he turned the microphone over to the head of human resources who he hoped might have a better memory and bail him out.
More often than not - as was the case in Peru's biggest mass grave exhumation and human remains restitution in Putis, Ayacucho - they themselves remember knitting the jumper or turning up the trousers worn by the victim.
Remember the South Korean researcher who was later found to have fabricated data that he cloned human cells?
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"I remember as a small child him talking about the greatest area of discovery was still the human brain, " he said.
Remember also, the population of the time was growing at a rate never before seen in human history so fast that early economists like Malthus wrung their hands over whether such growth could be sustainable.
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"Assuming the site is handled with respect, virtual memorials respond to a basic human need to remember our deceased family, friends and colleagues, " said Robert M.
Remember, the benchmark is Consumer Web companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter, which deal with hundreds of millions of human data-creating nodes, amounting to petabytes of flow.
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