Geoff Mulgan

The end of life is likely to be an important focus for innovation. Most people die in hospitals, tied up with tubes and with their bodies pumped full of drugs. Yet most would rather die at home and with more control over the timing and manner of their death.

English Educator

Joan Rivers

Part of my act is meant to shake you up. It looks like I'm being funny, but I'm reminding you of other things. Life is tough, darling. Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything; otherwise, we're going down the tube.

American Comedian

Richard Lamm

I think we're rapidly approaching the day where medical science can keep people alive in hospitals, hooked up to tubes and things, far beyond when any kind of quality of life is left at all.

American Politician

Mandy Harvey

My feeling of security really went down the tubes when I couldn't hear anymore. When it got dark, I'd get very afraid because I can't hear people coming up behind me.

American Musician

Dakota Fanning

ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked.

American Actress

Jack Kevorkian

I would not want to live with a tube in my neck and not be able to move a finger. I wouldn't - that to me is not life.

American Activist

Virgil Abloh

I don't come up with ideas in a test tube; I come up with ideas by breaking test tubes. That's how I've always been.

American Designer

Tyler Perry

I have a fear of tubes and tunnels. Going through any tunnel causes me great anxiety.

American Actor

John Dyer

I apply paint directly from the tube and with my fingers.

Artist

Rob Kardashian

American Celebrity

The term is often used in construction, plumbing, or laboratory settings.

Industrial Context

In science, 'tube' may refer to specialized equipment, like a test tube.

Scientific Use

Anything cylindrical and hollow can be referred to as a 'tube'.

Shape Recognition

In modern electronics, tubes are considered outdated technology.

Obsolete Technology

The term is associated with older electronic devices, like early TVs and radios.

Historical Gadgets

In old electronics, 'tube' often relates to the production of images or sounds.

Sound and Vision

In the UK, 'tube' specifically refers to the London underground train system.

British English

The word 'tube' can evoke the idea of daily travel routines for Londoners.

Daily Commute

Sometimes 'tube' means the subway system in a casual or slang context.

Slang Use

A 'tube' can be a form of packaging for semi-liquid products.

Packaging

We often use 'tube' for items where you squeeze to extract the content.

Squeeze to Use

The term can indicate how much of a product is left within.

Capacity Indicator

 it supported his idea that weight was the deciding factor. A variation on the experiment used two tubes with one having a large bubble at the top. If Galileo's interpretation had been correct, the bigger vacuum in the second tube should have exerted more suction and lifted the mercury higher. But the level in both tubes was the same.

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 In another experiment, orangutans figured out how to reach peanuts at the bottom of long tubes by spitting water into them. While orangutans are able to pass cognitive tests with flying colors, there are certain problems that they need our help to solve. Indonesia has the world's highest rate of deforestation,

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 that maybe we could make infection resistant catheters or stents or breathing tubes and then finally I'm just telling you one little vignette that's about Pseudomonas we work on lots of globally important pathogens in my lab and we're having similar success doing these kinds of strategies in other

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 Shy but ambitious pig farmers, however, can purchase a -- this is true -- a sow vibrator, that hangs on the sperm feeder tube to vibrate. Because, as I mentioned, the clitoris is inside the vagina. So possibly, you know, a little more arousing than it looks. And I also said to her,

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 Forget the maglev train. They want to use magnetic levitation to transport capsules of people through depressurized tubes at speeds of up to 700 miles an hour. This would be the world's most efficient transport system if they can get it to work.

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 so wormhole is basically a thin tube of space that connects to very very distant parts of space so it's almost like a tunnel it's a little part of space you go in there and you pop out somewhere else in the universe on tunnel through

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 The tiny oocyte moves along the fallopian tube. A pregnancy can only occur if the egg is fertilized by a sperm cell within the next 24 hours. Otherwise, the egg's escapade ends, and the window for pregnancy closes for that month.

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 thus, enabling fast current-switching. The ability to amplify signals also made the triode crucial for radio and long distance communication. But despite these advancements, vacuum tubes were unreliable and bulky.

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 followed by problems with thinking and memory that can, in some cases, even result in dementia. The culprit is a protein called tau. Usually, tau proteins support tiny tubes inside our axons called microtubules.

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 over her head it's very nice now she at least will know that the tube and the environment have interesting possibilities laurel is also going to be helping me take care of the octopus

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