Sentences with phrase «dodo by»

Tom Brakke, tjb research, @researchpuzzler: I loved The Song of the Dodo by David Quammen and am mulling over Ray Dalio's Principles.

The latest news is the car will be going the way of the dodo by 2020.

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(Dodos which, incidentally, are now extinct in case you did not know that either, I'm sure would have been completely offended by my reference to them in comparing your intelligence).

the dodo was eaten into extinction by a bunch of ignorant pioneers.

By Leyla Loued - Khenissi The Island of Mauritius is located east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean.It was once the home of the now - extinct dodo bird.

They have solidified the roster by adding Gary Medel, Dodo,...

They have solidified the roster by adding Gary Medel, Dodo, Yann M'Vila, and most recently Pablo Daniel Osvaldo.

Trouble is that, even under the three concussion grading systems in most common use in the 1990's and early 2000's (Dr. Bob Cantu's 2001 so - called «evidence - based» guidelines, 1 the 1991 Colorado Medical Society (CMS) guidleines, 2 and the 1997 American Academy of Neurology (AAN) 3 guidelines)- all of which have long since gone the way of the dodo, by the way - and even if Smith's blurred vision had cleared up in less than 15 minutes, which, as it turned out, it didn't, he still would have been considered to have sustained a Grade 1 or mild concussion.

Joy News» Manasseh Azure in his latest expose claims President John Mahama (then Vice President) was presented with a new Ford Expedition vehicle as a gift by Burkinabe contractor Djibril Kanazoe, allegedly for helping him to secure contracts for fencing Ghana's embassy in Burkina Faso and also winning the 46.4 km European Union funded Dodo - Pepesu Road Contract.

The gift, according to reports, was prior to an attempt by the contractor, to win a bid to execute the Dodo Pepeso - Nkwanta road construction project.

In recent years, he has been contacted by a museum with access to Captain Cook's leg bone, a plumber with a plan to bring back the dodo, and a couple of elderly Italians who wanted to clone their dead cats.

The dodo was extinct by 1693, less than one hundred years after the discovery and colonization of Mauritius by the Dutch.

The dodo skeletons described in this Memoir were discovered more than a century ago by an amateur naturalist, Etienne Thirioux, who was a barber by trade.

The fossil discoveries made by barber and amateur naturalist Etienne Thirioux between 1899 and 1910 include some of the best dodo remains existing today, including the only complete skeleton known from a single bird (housed in the Natural History Museum in Port Louis, Mauritius), and another largely complete skeleton (housed in the Durban Natural Science Museum in South Africa).

The dodo represents one of the best - known examples of extinction caused by humans, yet we know surprisingly little about this flightless pigeon from a scientific perspective.

The number of specimens of great auks, dodos, passenger pigeons and many iconic extinct species in museum collections is vanishingly small compared to the numbers that were cooked, killed for their feathers, shot for sport, or eaten by introduced species, such as cats.

The social science considerations of using genomic technologies for conservation were presented by historian Mark Barrows, author of «Nature's Ghosts: Confronting Extinction from the age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology,» and environmental law professor, Alex Camacho, author of «Going the Way of the Dodo: De-Extinction, Dualisms, and Reframing Conservation».

Rick was touring American universities and conservation institutions on a prestigious Young African Leaders Initiative Mandela Washington Fellowship (a program begun by President Barack Obama in 2010) when he contacted me to discuss how Revive & Restore might work with the Mauritius community to use biotech for conservation, including for reviving the Dodo.

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Social worker Miss Finch makes the arrangements for Big Bird to be adopted by the Dodo Family, a two - parent, two - child clan living in Oceanview, Illinois.

The sonourous 4.2 L naturally aspirated V8 has gone the way of the dodo and it will be replaced by a lower - revving, likely more powerful and efficient trurbo engine.

In a candid piece published by The Dodo, the author, who'd worked at a shelter, remorsefully describes having wrongfully denied an application.

«I was enamored by this little one - eyed pup who clearly endured so much pain,» she told the dodo.

«This means that, although assessed by an appropriate expert to be a pit bull terrier type, he can be returned to his owners, following court approval with conditions, most of which are mandatory under this legislation,» the council noted in a release sent to The Dodo.

«Though the fight is not over, we are extremely disappointed by today's decision and particularly preoccupied by not being able to continue finding adoptive homes in Montreal for all of our healthy and behaviourally - sound dogs, regardless of their physical appearance,» Alanna Devine of the SPCA Montreal said in a statement sent to The Dodo shortly after the court decision.

Recently, Lana was featured in The Dodo, who reported that the sad dog was in need of a forever home by May 20th.

«The ASPCA actively supports safety net programs across the country, which enable owners to keep their pets in their own homes by providing services such as access to affordable veterinary care or help with pet - friendly housing,» Dr. Emily Weiss, vice president of research and development for the ASPCA, told The Dodo.

New Jersey «will counter the USDA info blackout by prohibiting any pet store from sourcing a pet unless the breeder waives its «so called» right of privacy and has its inspection reports on the USDA website,» New Jersey Senator Raymond Lesniak, who has been working to crack down on inhumane puppy mills supplying dogs to New Jersey pet shops, told The Dodo.

«I was enamored by this little one - eyed pup who clearly endured so much pain,» Boyd told The Dodo.

«Pretty much every time we walk by their kennel, CC is either sitting on Chewy or draped over him or curled up against him,» Animal Rescue League of Iowa spokesperson Jessica Jorgenson told The Dodo, an online publication that focuses on animal issues.

More recently: The Dodo published a recap of Conniff's op - ed on March 24th, followed by a response from cat behavior consultant and UC Berkeley PhD candidate Mikel Maria Delgado two days later and, yesterday, a response I wrote on behalf of Best Friends Animal Society.

As reported by The Dodo, the photo reached exactly who it needed to — Rescuers Without Borders, a nonprofit organization dedicated to rescuing homeless dogs in Turkey and giving them a new life with loving owners.

The year Anthony Caro made Window, he was described by critic John Richardson as making sculpture so new that it made Barbara Hepworth's work look dead as dodo eggs.

Other works included in Soft White bear a liveliness that ranges from the whacky humor of Dodo Bird Lamp, 1991, by Tom Otterness to the excesses of «Victorian» mutation in R.M. Fischer's The Incandescent Ones, 1988.

A rare example of the extinct bird, this Dodo skeleton is a composite from the material collected from Mau - ritius by Sir Edward Newton in the 1870s and sent to his brother Alfred Newton, Professor of Comparative Anatomy at Cambridge University.

The show includes works by established figures Joseph Beuys, Mary Corse, Eric Fischl, Anselm Kiefer, Bruce Nauman, Gerhard Richter, Ai Weiwei, Jane and Louise Wilson, and David Wojnarowicz alongside works by others who deserve to be better known, such as Naoya Hatakeyama, Dodo Jin Ming, Dora Longo Bahia, and Serban Savu.

Also on display now are selected works from the MOCRA collection by Salma Arastu, Frederick J. Brown, Maria Magdalena Campos - Pon, Junko Chodos, Michael David, Eleanor Dickinson, Jordan Eagles, Nancy Fried, Ian Friend, Archie Granot, Donald Grant, Steven Heilmer, Carolyn Jones, Tobi Kahn, Adrian Kellard, Robert Kostka, DoDo Jin Ming, Charlotte Lichtblau, David Quinn, Daniel Ramirez, James Rosen, Christopher Schulte, Susan Schwalb, and Thomas Skomski.

2009 The Malady of Writing, MACBA, Barcelona, ES Zeno Reminder (in collaboration with Mariana Castillo Deball), Performa 09, New York, US Exhibition at Labor Gallery, Mexico, MX Planet of Signs» — curated by Guillaume Desanges at Le Plateau, Paris, FR A Fantasy for Allan Kaprow — curated by Mai Abu ElDahab and Philippe Pirrote, at CIC, Cairo, EG KAAP (the little biennale) curated by Mark Kremer, Fort Ruigenhoek, Utrecht, NL The Happy interval, Gallery Tulips & Roses, Vilnius, LT 2008 Nameless Science, curated by Henk Slager at Apex art, New York, US Fuga di un Piano (in collaboration with Mariana Castillo Deball), Manifesta 7, IT The Flight of the Dodo, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, IE Arte BA - art fair, with 713 Gallery, Buenos Aires, AR MiArt - art fair, 713 Gallery, Milan, IT 2007 Panorama de las artes visuales en Córdoba», Museo Caraffa, Cordoba, AR A for Alibi, De Appel Center for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, NL Shelter 07, public space intervention, Hardewijk, NL Levity at The Drawing Center, New York, US 2006 Alguns Llibres D'Artista (a few artists books) Roma Publications at ProjecteSD, Barcelona, ES Longitude, part of the group show fumus fugiens at Smart project space, Amsterdam, NL 2005 A Poetics of Place, Utrecht's former county - court, Utrecht, NL 2004 Rendering, Mirta de Mare ruimte voor actuele kunst, Rotterdam, NL 2003 Open Studio Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL 2002 Open Studio Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL

Climate change will go the way of the dodo, just as the belief by the mainstream scientists of their day, that the earth was flat, and that you would fall of the edge if you were venture too far beyond the horizon.

Consider just one example: the hundreds of thousands of rare birds and endangered bats slaughtered in the US every year by the wind farms that Hillary Clinton applauds (and will no doubt go on subsidising) and that Donald Trump loathes (and will no doubt starve of subsidies and cause to become as extinct as the Dodo).

How about — We must do something urgent about AGW because...... otherwise future generations will regard us as even more stupid than the people who felled the last tree on Easter Island, or the Dodo hunters, or the 19thC whalers or the Grand banks cod fishermen, or CFC manufacturers... Or any of the other examples from history of human activities damaging a common resource by overuse.

As defined by Oxford Dictionaries: Dodo An old - fashioned and ineffective person or thing.

The first assumption is that print is on its way out and dead as a dodo, soon to be completely replaced by online publications, ebooks, and the like.

But the practice of recording time by hand on paper timesheets really does need to go the way of the Dodo bird.

The click wheel is going by way of the dodo.