Sentences with phrase «modern inventions»

Brooks Kushman's practice in this space reflects the realization that modern inventions often integrate aspects of several different scientific disciplines.

Around 1910, he began contributing cartoons to magazines like Life and Judge, doing cartoon series like «In Ye Goode Old Days» (in Life), «In Ancient Times» and «Ancient Sources of Modern Inventions» (both in Judge) throughout the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s.

+ Modern Inventions Collective exhibition co-curated with Sylvia Suarez.

The target - date retirement fund is among the greatest modern inventions that benefit individual investors.

Two years ago, on Verne's birthday, National Geographic featured eight modern inventions that are surprisingly — or maybe not so surprisingly — similar to inventions created by Verne himself.

Modern inventions used to make lives easier harm the planet.

She points out the modern inventions that changed the quality of dairy for the worse, such as artificial hormones, pesticides, and pasteurization.

This books shows how he foreshadowed modern inventions, offering a window into the future.

Modern inventions (like flushable liners and the diaper sprayer) have taken the grossness factor out of this issue.

Thus, modern inventions have reinforced the democratization of society by obliterating the duality of manual labor and intellectual labor and by making it possible — even necessary for the sake of efficiency — for everyone to engage in the kinds of work reserved in aristocratic societies for gentlemen.

It's possible, but this «selling your soul to the devil» idea is a modern invention.

Now THAT would be a modern invention to be proud of... too bad it doesn't exist.

While Mary may have never been called an apostle, there was an apostle Junia (Rom 16:7 — the «of note among the apostles» that the ESV and other masculinist translations try to pigeonhole this into is a modern invention, not at all supported by biblical Greek; it was only even created when the masculinists finally had to admit that there was no manuscript evidence for transforming the name into «Junias», a masculine form), and there certainly was a Priscilla who «instructed Apollos» (Acts 18) and who was lauded by Paul as a «fellow worker» (Rom 16:3), as were numerous other women, such as Phoebe the deacon (Rom 16:1).

To say that the words of our doctrinal formulations must resonate if they are to retain their constitutive power is not a modern invention.

The current form of the Bible that typically sits on our bookshelves is actually a modern invention.

I say that, because I disagree with the modern invention of the sinners prayer.

it is a modern invention that is rarely seen outside of the foothills of afghanistan, designed solely to make women invisible.

This is a modern invention due to the extensive scientific knowledge we have today about conception and the development of an unborn baby.

Aside from the basics and generic marvels of modern invention (roof over my head, car, cell phones, internet, elevators, dishwashers, tampons, etc, etc), in my own life and particular circumstances I'm especially grateful for my Ergo baby carrier, very involved and very good Grandparents on both sides, a very involved and very amazing husband, and the luxury of eating out more often than I should.

Dads are not liking the made up modern invention names that are getting popular these days.

We think of journalism as a modern invention, but fans of WT Stead can probably lay claim to his being the first investigative journalist of the Victorian era.

The evidence suggests that an intercontinental, networked world isn't just a modern invention, Lawler writes.

«Childhood, as we now know it, is a thoroughly modern invention,» says anthropologist David Lancy of Utah State University in Logan.

It is only a modern invention to have group classes where everyone does the same practice together.

The toilet is a modern invention, conceived in the 16th century.

Soy milk is a modern invention — a cheap, mass produced product «fortified» with an undigestible form of calcium as well as synthetic Vitamin D2 which has been linked with hyperactivity, coronary heart disease, and allergic reactions.

Vegetarian protein is higher quality than animal protein, that is wrong, but we surely don't need a lot 15 - 20 % of our calories from protein, getting fats in your diet is ok too, we need fats for some of our vitamins, and it is quite natural for us to eat natural fats, oils are a modern invention.

Although the story of Virabhadra may be an ancient one, the asana is mostly a modern invention.

But with the unnatural process of irradiation, we can continue the unnatural but cheap practice of feeding cows corn, which they can't digest, so we can continue the unnatural process of consuming lots and lots of this modern invention called the cow.

It may be interesting to know that sulphuration of wine is not a modern invention but in fact one of the oldest preservation methods known to men and was rountinely practiced by the ancient Greeks and Romans (besides sulphur they also added resins for that purpuse — hence the famous retsina).

If you want to enhance your look indo western layered, Anarkali for a party is the modern invention.

All - wheel drive is a more modern invention, and it works by splitting power between the front and rear axles.

Abstract art is usually thought of as a modern invention, but its history in Turkey goes back centuries, even millennia.

Day - Glo, both as color palette and modern invention, tricks the eye into believing that inanimate objects emit inherent electricity.

The preliminary reference procedure is not a modern invention.

A personal profile sounds like a modern invention.

Can lights are a modern invention, so historic - home enthusiasts might not be terribly excited about...

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Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman Epps says «smartwatches are sci - fi inventions that are already anachronisms in this modern world,» while Gartner analyst Carolina Milanesi says the Gear is «more an overpriced toy than a device that really drives value to consumers.»

Best known for his invention of the modern alternating current electricity supply system, Tesla exercised religiously.

More famously, Twain lost the modern - day equivalent of millions on a publishing invention called the Paige compositor, which never really worked.

That invention, by Chester Carlson, a patent lawyer, led to the creation of the modern copy machine.

To make this point is to disagree with the subtitle of Harold Bloom's recent opus, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, which credits Shakespeare with the creation of the modern self.

His knowledge of modern linguistics led him to assert: «Language is a human invention, in that it reflects social convention regarding the relationship between the sound and the meaning.

She shows how the covenantal invention of identity can be violent, in both ancient Israel and modern states.

II.m), parallels the concluding concern of Science and the Modern World with «Social Progress» in the face of a technology that has mastered the invention of inventions and accelerated the pace of occupational change well beyond any past rate, which was always less than one generation per major innovation.

In spite of its innumerable positive contributions, modern science has played its part in the creation of phenomena that threaten the planet with extinction: the despoliation of the non-human natural world and the invention of weapons capable of omnicide.

«One of the effects of modern liberal Protestantism has been gradually to turn religion into poetry and therapy, to make truth vaguer and vaguer and more and more relative, to banish intellectual distinctions, to depend on feeling instead of thought, and gradually to come to believe that God has no power, that he can not communicate with us, can not reveal himself to us, indeed has not done so and that religion is our own sweet invention» (p. 479).

In a wonderfully concise passage in his 1940 preface to Adolfo Bioy Casares's The Invention of Morel, Jorge Luis Borges — taking issue with Ortega y Gasset's elevation of «psychological» fiction over the «fantastic» — offers a devastating critique of the pretensions of a great deal of modern «psychological realism»:

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The office of modern education is to nurture humaneness within the new world generated by the progress of invention.