Sentences with phrase «big brain question»

Answer your teen's Big Brain question with a «Yes!»

As part of your «Nine big brain questions» special (3 April, p 26), Celeste Biever made a reference to the familiar problem that we «have no way of proving we are not the only self - aware individuals in a world of unaware «zombies»».

Not exact matches

With all of the intelligent changes Panda and Penguin brought to the table, it was only a matter of time before one of Google's big brained developers found a way to «smarten» search engines up enough to take a question and look at the context rather than seeing the words within the query as separate entities.

What if we want to stand up to him, and say, look, buddy, you made us with great big questioning brains, and so we used our brains to question your existence because you did such a crappy job with that dumb book you call the bible trying to convince people you exist.

I get that your view of church and pastors is that they are zombie - like, feeling on brains, forcing mindless conformity, condemning question marks with big b baseball bat exclamations.

As NASCAR began the 2014 season with the sport's biggest race, the Daytona 500, one of the questions to ask is how many of these drivers will suffer a concussion during the course of the year, how many of them will have it properly diagnosed and fully recover before they get behind the wheel, and what will be the long - term effects of these brain injuries?

«Their little brains might be trying to figure out what they're seeing — the colors, the faces, the sounds — but whether they're really absorbing it in a way that can be called learning, that's the big question,» says Guernsey.

They've told you what their plan is, Romney said what, 1.8 % top tax rate, to be offset with unspecified loopholes, loved the loopholes wording, makes the brain dead Republican voters think he means for big business, and the rich, fools, its easy to say which ones, why Dodge the question mitt?

Mathematicians investigating one of science's great questions — how to unite the physics of the very big with that of the very small — have discovered that when the understanding of complex networks such as the brain or the Internet is applied to geometry the results match up with quantum behavior.

Before neuroscience could tackle its biggest question — how the brain transforms chemical reactions and electrical pulses into cognition — it had to wrestle with the tiny.

«From this we can begin to answer some of the big questions about the workings of the brain and consciousness which seem to depend on connectivity,» she says.

While hundreds of circular RNAs (circRNAs) are abundant in mammalian brains, one big question has remained unanswered: What are they actually good for?

The big question these researchers are asking now is whether the intricacy of tasks we can perform depends on the complexity of the multi-dimensional «sandcastles» the brain can build.

Grafman, an affable, gentle man with large eyes, is using his scanners to peek into brains as they wrestle with big questions such as politics and religion.

One of the biggest questions in the field of neuroscience is how the brain rewires itself in response to changing behavioral conditions — an ability known as plasticity.

Hustvedt: The big question for brain research has been, how does all this get put together?

The next big question is whether the increase in brain metabolism could lead to neurocognitive damage down the road.

But mapping a few neurons does not give Seung enough data to go after the really big questions about the brain.

«The big - picture question is whether there is a way to support the developing fetal brain to improve outcomes, and lower the risk of schizophrenia,» says Dr. Bassett.

But for Dunbar, a key question remains: Why was that energy directed toward developing a bigger brain, and not some other body part?

SOMETIME in the distant past our ancestors» brains grew sophisticated enough to ponder life's big questions.

In this book, Dean Falk explains how the study of those ancient brains — or at least, the impressions they left in the skulls they occupied — may help to provide an answer to one of the biggest questions: where did we come from?

«One of our big questions was thinking about an early - onset disorder and linking it to early - onset brain anomalies.

New research on the related individuals, however, began with different, yet no less important, questions: How was Neanderthal physiological development different from that of modern humans, and how and why did Neanderthals evolve such big brains?

Even if further studies show the drugs restore normal neuronal migration, however, a big question looms: Will giving the drugs after birth, when the brain's basic wiring diagram is set, be too late?

TKF: What are the big questions about the gut - microbiome - brain connection that researchers are trying to answer right now?

MAZMANIAN: Another big question is whether we can treat brain disorders, such as autism, by aiming therapies at the gut.

This year, TreeHugger asked some of the biggest green brains — from novelist Margaret Atwood to architect Michelle Kaufmann to scientist David Suzuki — a simple but open question: If you were in charge, what would you fix first?

They wasted years of brain power on dragon slayer crap, sun nut theories, UHI, color palettes, goddarian nonsense, and they avoided the big question: how much warming.

«They are the intellectual elite, the brains the rest of us rely on to make sense of the universe and answer the big questions.

WE MUST LEARN TO LOVE UNCERTAINTY AND FAILURE, SAY LEADING THINKERS Planet's biggest brains answer this year's Edge question: «What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit?»

Just under half of partners responding to Legal Week's Big Question survey said the scale of cuts will lead to a considerable brain drain from a sector already contending with low billing rates, with 8 % claiming they will have an enormous impact and a further 40 % saying they will make a small contribution to lawyers moving away from publicly - funded work.