For many years after Mister Harrison's work was completed, the idea of using a clock to learn longitude was rejected.

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And the idea was that gravity did work on the water and falling, and that work led to the generation of heat.

焦耳的想法是,重力对水，做了功。

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It will surface back up in another piece of work or another idea at some point in your life.

在某个时刻，旧点子会以另一种形式重新出现,或者另一个想法在会出现在你的生活中。

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What Lanier describes as "mashup" culture -- where nothing is quite a whole work but rather snippets of things remixed together -- leads to aggregation of aggregators such as FriendFeed, where it's hard to tell the source of a work, idea, or quote, and where there is barely any context, if any at all.

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Even for such a hermitical figure as Thoreau, idea work was not a solitary activity.

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Other work supports the idea that it is nutrient recovery which is driving the process.

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