Sentences with phrase «power of nudges»

Read more about the power of nudges: Knowing you're being manipulated doesn't stop it from happening

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The question is, will you harness the power of word - of - mouth marketing for your small business by giving it a nudge in the right direction or will you choose to stick your head in the sand and hope for the best?

Some argue that nudging overlooks the power of simple rules - of - thumb for making decisions that people can learn to wield on their own.

Nuclear becomes the cheapest alternative in 13 % of counties, displacing coal and, perhaps surprisingly, nudging out solar power in parts of the Southeast, Midwest, and Northwest.

It takes huge blasts of rocket power to free spacecraft of Earth's gravity, but only a tiny nudge to correct a satellite's orbit, dodge space debris, or counter the slight but pernicious force of sunlight.

But understanding the power of diet and lifestyle factors that nudge the microbiome towards health is empowering, and many are doing just that!

But the film doesn't really have time to dig into deeper themes or nudge us to appreciate the difficulty of implementing a utility we largely take for granted — for these men, power is simply power, and they each race to gobble up exclusive contracts with one city after another.

But depending on who's writing and drawing her, the comics» depiction of this amorphous power has been inconsistent: Her luck comes off as more or less just making things happen — bullets hit, or lightning strikes, or she's saved by the slightest of nudges.

Sure, it's a tale we've all heard before — find the inner beauty or power or what have you — but it's done well in this case with very little cliché and a lot of clever humor that doesn't feel like a big wink - wink - nudge - nudge to adults.

Mostafa has published G.O.L and his personal story at two different online magazines before Beyond the bombs and See change magazine, Mostafa has passion to write about the entrepreneurs» success stories, he is currently working as reporter at Nudge where he published several articles (The power of social entrepreneurship, Co-working spaces in Egypt, and EYouth) and he used to work as reporter at Ayiba Magazine where he published as well several articles (Afropolitan Diary Mostafa Shahat, Entrepreneurship in Egypt and Empowering African Youth).

In 2015, the New York Times published the article Helping the Poor in Education: The Power of a Simple Nudge.

Sit all day at a steady 70mph and select the goody - two - shoes Eco Pro mode (softening the effect of the accelerator, making the Optimum Shift Indicator more keen and reducing the power consumption of the climate control and heated mirrors and seats) and I'm sure it'd easily nudge up towards 50mpg and something like 600 miles on a tank.

The 500 kg Morgan weighs less than half the 1200 kg Toyota, so its 80bhp doesn't sound as paltry as it could be when pitted against its foe's 197bhp — the 3 Wheeler's power - to - weight ratio of 163bhp / ton is nudging the GT86's 167.

Stay neat and tidy and the chassis is beautifully neutral, just nudging into faint understeer if you turn - in too fast, while squeezing on the power as the corner unfolds gets the rear - end working to its maximum, with a degree or two of oversteer as reward.

You can power out of a corner long before the steering wheel is straight without fear of understeer, tightening the car's line thanks to the added nudge of the rear wheels.

The added power of the RS5 is one thing, but have Audi been able to give the overall driving experience a bit of a nudge as well?

Most stateside Range Rover Sport models will be fitted with either Land Rover's well - regarded 3.0 - liter supercharged gas V6 (340 hp / 332 pound - feet) or its 5.0 - liter supercharged gas V8, the latter of which sees power nudge upward to 518 hp (from 510) and peak torque set at 461 pound - feet.

A short nudge of the power switch merely puts it in and out of a power - saving sleep mode, the prolonged hold really cuts / reinstates power.

(Read «Soft but significant power in the Paris Agreement,» a Nature commentary by Jennifer Jacquet and Dale Jamieson of New York University, for more on the nudge - style strength in the agreement.)

This could be seen as a tribute to the relative political power of the fossil fuel industries and high - consumers of fossil energy (large corporations and the affluent) versus the power of the unemployed and youth; the former are treated, if at all, with gentle «nudges» while the latter are viewed as «clay to be molded» by elites.

When we focus our attention on a particular direction, our own native energy, in the form of attractor energy patterns, begins to beckon the energy of the cosmos to nudge us forward in that direction (see Power vs. Force by David Hawkins Ph.D. for more detail on this phenomena based in theoretical physics).