Sentences with phrase «humans use about»

Humans use about 15 terawatts of average power per year.
On a global scale, the new results suggest that humans use about 10,700 cubic kilometers of water per year, more than all the water in Lakes Michigan, Huron, Ontario and Erie combined.
Humans use about half the world's ice - free surface, mostly for food production.

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In a realm of swirling, incomprehensible big biological data — which is, perhaps, another way of thinking about the human body — the opportunity to use computer learning to better anticipate which drugs will work well (and not so well) in any one person is one we shouldn't pass up.
You can ask these bots just about any homework - related question — math problems, questions about the population of a city, trivia, political curiosities — and they will happily oblige, using a cheerful tone that mimics human speech.
According to the synopsis about the show, «Using science and storytelling, Hidden Brain reveals the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior.
McCue says that using human editors (as Apple (aapl) also does for its curated news feature), makes Flipboard much less susceptible to the «fake news» problem that some users have complained about on Facebook (fb).
«The human uses his or her intuition and ideas about what to do and ideas about long - term strategies and uses the computer to verify the various things and to do simulations,» Togelius says.
«ICE is the growth sector — and I am loathe to use that language because we're talking about human beings here.
The same team behind the research into due dates also discovered another way humans are irrational about deadlines — and a way you can use this fact also to your advantage.
While we can't use sterile mice to make any definitive conclusions about humans, the twins study, published in the journal Science last year, provided clear evidence that the microbiome is involved in weight gain — something earlier research had only suggested.
It's a strategy AT&T used to great effect in the 1970s to sell long - distance telephony — «Reach out and touch someone» — and again in the 1990s with a series of spots about distant spouses and overworked moms to sell human connection in the nascent digital age.
When chatting, humans use their eyes to send tacit signals about conversational turn - taking.
Over the weekend, he used the shooting victims as a human shield to create some sort of doubt about the FBI's Russia investigation, and his staff characterized the tragedy as a «reprieve» from the bad publicity they'd faced over the last week.
In a sense this is about inequality, and the diverging fortunes of different bank employees: At the high end, banking remains a human enterprise of valued professionals interacting face - to - face with clients, including, if the clients want, by using terrible terrible voicemail.
So arbitration is never intended for allegations about human decency; it's just been filtered into being used in that way.
In a rare appearance Dr. Chandan Sen, Director, OSU Center for Regenerative Medicine & Cell - Based Therapies will explain how this breakthrough came about and how the technology is leading to other medical discoveries and how the principle can be used to generate any tissue out of skin or fat which is abundant in human body.
«I got really interested in trying to understand how we could model human behavior through social media because there's residue of who we are in everything we do and here we had lots of little behaviors that we could use to try to understand a little bit more about who you are.»
This survey was conducted online within the U.S. by Harris Poll on behalf of CareerBuilder among 374 HR professionals (employed full - time, work in Human Resources and use, have primary or shared decision - making about the Human Resource system at their company) and 319 job seekers (unemployed, employed full - time or part - time and have applied for a job in the past six months) ages 18 and over between June 2 and June 25, 2014 (percentages for some questions are based on a subset, based on their responses to certain questions).
In particular, the firm uses a combination of artificial intelligence and human analysis to forecast the index about a month out.
The theory behind it is simple: If Facebook has experimented on its users to find new and exciting ways to get us to use it in the way they'd prefer, we should also feel free to experiment on Facebook, and see if those experiments change how we think about what we share with one of the biggest repositories of human data in history.
We have learned a great deal of these leading executives and family members about such issues as Sustainability, Human Capital, Reporting, Security, and the use of Strategic Outsourcing for such services as the External CIO, Client Reporting, Concierge Medicine, Travel, and Household Staffing, among others.
Her allegations get at a core concern about the Trump presidency: that he may have used (indeed, may still be using) his money and power to make sure the ordinary rules of human behavior don't apply to him.
Eco-modernism is about finding new technologies and financing models that allow humans to prosper while using less land, water, fuel, and energy and interfering less with the natural world.
The Coen brothers have a long history of using violence, gore and offbeat humor to make deeper points about society and human nature.
The concept of God did not spring out of thin air - intelligent humans created him and then thousands of years later used the idea to explain what they did not understand and / or like about evolution.
Of course, the thoughts about the world that scientists have had and the discoveries that they have made are often eligible to be used for the exploitation of the resources of the world for the satisfaction of human wants.
I think too that if we're going to start using the Sacred Text for prooftexting our particular understanding of human psychology then what about the claims of Jeremiah that speaks of the unknowability of the human heart?
It's extremely humbling to think about God using us to give birth, adopt or foster other human beings, while also helping form them into adults.
What about some 2,000 proteins that are used by a human cell as enzymes?
Less polemically but still in the Enlightenment tradition, Montesquieu used the example of the reducciones in his Spirit of the Laws to work through questions about the common good and the role of the state in procuring human happiness.
No, when I think about God being redeemed, I am referring specifically to how we humans have tried to use Scripture, theology, and tradition to tie God down into a box.
As Wellhausen once remarked, everything that Jesus said (save, I think, his teaching about God's «seeking the lost») can be found in the highest and best Jewish teaching; although Wellhausen had to add that much more may be found in this teaching which Jesus eliminated or rejected — our Lord's human genius here, if the word may be used, was in his selectivity.
Using modern terms, we should say that the Bible records a development of thought about human nature in both its sociological and psychological aspects.
Catholicism stresses the «like» of any comparison (human passion is like divine passion), while Protestantism, when it is willing to use metaphors (and it must if it is to talk about God at all), stresses the unlike.»
These have been used in newsletters in Willesden Green, London, as a way of inviting parishioners further to come together to reflect about and freely discuss the past and present undermining of human life.
As in even the most intimate of human relations there are facts for psychologists to discover and use towards man's self - understanding, so there is no limit to what may be found out about what happens in prayer.
Many also use 1 Corinthians 2:12 - 13 to defend Inspiration, which talks about expressing spiritual truths with spiritual words taught not by human wisdom, but by the Spirit of God.
With the changing demographics in America, including the racial and ethnic, socioeconomic, immigration, and biblical justice challenges of our day, it is more important than ever for people of color to have safe places to live authentically, serve humbly, and use their influence and experiences to shape our theology (what we know and believe about God) and our praxis (the ethics of our human behavior or what we actually do).
The story could be heard and understood by anyone who had experienced the depth of love in a family with its dilemmas and decisions, and Jesus uses it as a lesson about God which is reflected in the human situation.
Maybe you meant the opposite and were talking about humans: those humans who aren't so bright tend to reproduce more because their God told them to or because they won't use birth control and now they are overpopulating the planet leading to a loss of natural resources and the ultimate demise of the species due to ignorance.
Such technology includes producing, using, and destroying human embryos, which, says columnist Susan Martinuk in the National Post, may also raise some questions about «human dignity and worth.»
Kaufman is unafraid to be — to use two of his favorite adjectives — both human and humane, honest about both his caution and his passions, and in that he provides even those of us who disagree with him with an admirable model of how to be a theologian.
«That is about what your «proof» amounts too.The old, humanistic slight of hand.Men use human reference to try to explain the unexplained to one another.That is as close as we can get to describing God accurately.Point of fact, your bogus «proof «is no proof at all.
Using what we know about biology both have been around longer than humans so neither could be caused by humans.
In the history of Western philosophy, the terms pleasure, happiness, and satisfaction have been those most commonly used to describe what is valuable in and about human subjectivity.
Along similar lines, physiologists believe that the human eye is capable of distinguishing among more than six million hues, and yet the fact that we typically use only about a dozen words to describe colors suggests that we see them much less richly than we are capable of doing.3
The teachings of Carolyn Myss about the Archetypal Patterns all humans share (The Wounded Child, the Victim, the Saboteur... there are many) can greatly open a persons eyes to the behaviors that lead to unbalance and chemical use.
In her view, the labels we use do not express, but rather distort, the most important things we can know and say about our own sexuality and human sexuality in general.
In my view, the labels we use do not express, but rather distort, the most important things we can know and say about our own sexuality and human sexuality in general.
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