Lifesaver pores are 15 nanometers.

But these pores here are special.

That these clogged arteries that you see on the upper left, after only a year become measurably less clogged.

Don't stay in too long. It opens the pores.

A clogged throat makes him wheeze, asthmatic bronchitis.

Someone clogged the furnace, and it's smoking up the place.

A permeable geological formation has pores that permit liquids or gases to pass through.

A year later, it s not as clogged normally, it goes the other direction.

One is hierarchical pores, and the other is a macro molecular nanoscale porosity in the material.

Every red blood cell of your body right now has these hourglass shaped pores called aquaporins.

Pores like these conduct electrical current and are responsible for all the communication in the nervous system.

And so blocking balls joints and, in more serious cases, clogged arteries, causing death from stroke.

And that's because there's some little bit of fear, little bit of resistance or just clogged mechanisms.

You can see that the skin pore structure changes enormously from stretched skin pores to the regular skin texture.

The pyramid, if we jam things in the bottom, can get backed up like a sewer line that's clogged.

As we zoom in on one of these purple neurons, we see that its outer membrane is studded with microscopic pores.

The San Francisco harbor was clogged with 600 ships at the peak because the ships would get there and the crews would abandon to go search for gold.

And as a golfer and as a kid, one of the things that really sort of seeped into my pores, that I sort of lived my whole life, is process.

We find life at the bottom of every long term, long distance drilling core into the center of rock that we bring up and there's bacteria in the pores of that rock.

We have major problems in disrupted ecosystem flow that the pyramid may not be working so well, that the flow from the base up into it is being blocked and clogged.

The Committee regrets that the large number of election petitions currently before the High Court has so clogged the system that other proceedings, including trials for homicide, have been inordinately delayed.

And even when you close the pore which neurons can do, they can open and close these pores to generate electrical activity even when it's closed, because these ions are so small, they can actually sneak through, a few can sneak through at a time.

Clogged credit pipes With banks balance sheets contracting, too many small and medium size companies are unable to mobilize credit for investment and growth. Recognizing that it will take years until banks are properly stabilized, America needs to build new conduits for credit.

Large pools of savings in sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, and insurance companies could be used, for example, to meet emerging economies huge financing needs for infrastructure and urbanization. But the channels for such investment which could go a long way toward boosting global growth are clogged.

By contrast, a country riddled with regulatory shortcomings will find its arteries of commerce clogged and foreign investors spooked by unpredictable quality and unfair competition from unscrupulous producers. In developing countries, poor quality regulation and implementation are formidable barriers to entrepreneurship and investment, according to a World Bank report.

So of course, the fastest way to get a message anywhere was to send it to this guy, who would send it back in time and get it there super early, so every message in the Internet started getting switched through this one node, and of course that clogged everything up.

Not only are America s public schools starting to look second rate, but so is its infrastructure, which had long been a source of national pride. How many travelers nowadays can fail to note the difference between Asia s new, efficient airports and the aging, clogged antiques in some major US cities?

It has pores, it has sweat glands, it has all these things that work together very dynamically and very efficiently, and so what I propose is that our building skins should be more similar to human skin, and by doing so can be much more dynamic, responsive and differentiated, depending on where it is.

To skeptics, green shoots of recovery will not bloom without access to the credit spigot, which is still clogged by balance sheet damage in many banks. But, though the road back to full employment and sustainable growth will not be built overnight, progress on it may be faster than most observers expect.

Likewise, international cooperation is just as critical to success today as it was 70 years ago. Because the balance sheets (public, quasi public, and private) with the capacity to invest are not uniformly distributed around the world, a determined global effort which includes an important role for multilateral financial institutions is needed to clear clogged intermediation channels.

By that is meant essentially a public interest in allowing the economy to evolve flexibly, so that resources move from uses that have become unprofitable to ones that have a higher potential. A clogged up economy, one that does not permit such creative destruction and adaptation to new circumstances, is one that will not grow sustainably.