Sentences with phrase «professor norman»

But Professor Norman Lazarus is quoted in Road.CC:

«There are lots of estimates as to what we can expect to see in the near future, but the best known (and controversial) figure comes from Professor Norman Myers, who argues that climate change could cause 200 million people to be displaced by 2050.

In supporting cast roles are Morgan Freeman as Professor Norman, Choi Min - sik as Mr. Jang, and Amr Waked as French police captain Pierre Del Rio.

Throughout the film, whatever is happening with Lucy, there's bits from a lecture by Professor Norman (Morgan Freeman) on what might happen if we could access 100 % of our brains instead of 10 % (the 10 % percent thing is a myth, but just go with it).

Determined not only to wreak primal revenge on her captors but also to acquire more and more knowledge, employing her increasing array of powers and skills — she contacts Professor Norman (Morgan Freeman), a neuroscientist who is lecturing about cerebral capacity at a university in Paris.

Before you know it, Lucy has boarded a plane for Paris, where she steals a police car, careers around the city on the wrong side of the road, and engineers a meeting with Professor Norman, the one man who may be able to save her.

Therefore, one is able to comprehend the passion of Abraham Foxman, head of the Anti-Defamation League, and the equal fervor of former DePaul University professor Norman Finkelstein, pilloried and even banned from Israel for declaring that Israel perversely draws upon the Holocaust to justify its oppression of Palestinians.

In a charming but clumsy manner, we are set up for the whole story early on by intercuts to a lecture by professor Norman (Freeman) on brain capacity.

She meets Professor Norman and some colleagues of his who, despite their accumulated scientific wisdom, do nothing except gape at how awesome she is and then help her to take all the CPH4 in order to crank it up to 11 and achieve 100 percent cerebral capacity.

Freeman plays a renowned neuroscientist, «Professor Norman» (no first name necessary), who is delivering a lecture to a packed crowd of well - heeled attendees.

In addition to offering a variety of silly, daily - calendar - level bromides, Professor Norman makes the point that, when endangered, species focus on self - preservation, but when circumstances are safe, they focus on reproduction.

At 80 percent, she grows slithery black tendrils and transports Professor Norman and his colleagues with her into an all - white limbo, kind of like where Harry Potter went when he was dead in that last movie.

Here's some of what Besson cuts into the action as Professor Norman lectures to the Sorbonne and Lucy gets a grip on what's happening: rapid - fire montages of wildlife rutting (the credits include a thanks to Howard Hall Productions for «Indian rhino mating»); a caveman inventing fire and sparking man's industrial creativity; and Lucy's namesake, the possible «missing link» between mankind and the ape world, kneeling by a stream and staring into the camera, as if to ask «Who are you people?»

She seeks out brain expert Professor Norman (Morgan Freeman), who spends much of the movie in exposition mode, in an attempt to understand what's happening to her.

Freeman's Professor Norman gets the lucky task of looking amazed a lot, and at the end, the film tries to do something in tribute to Metropolis that I don't understand what it was.

Fortunately, we know exactly what this development means, because the progress of her cranial development is cross-cut with a lecture on exactly that subject by the Paris - based scientist Professor Norman (Morgan Freeman).

Along with Professor Norman and his genius scientist friends (you can tell they're in the genius club because they all wear the same white lab coat), Lucy teams up with a cynical French policeman (Egyptian actor Amr Waked) to bring down her enemies.

We indirectly learn the reason from Professor Norman (Morgan Freeman), a neuroscientist whose lecture is intercut throughout the first act (It is, in turn, intercut with montages visualizing what his key points).

After consuming the entirety of the work of Professor Norman (Freeman, The LEGO Movie), the leading neuroscientist in the field of untapping brain's amazing latent powers, she pays him a visit to harness these new energies.

The reason soon becomes clear: Rather than being restricted to the use of a mere 10 % of her brain, she is suddenly able to access 20 %, and then 30 %, and so on — an unprecedented feat whose implications are unpacked at some length by the Paris - based researcher Professor Norman (Morgan Freeman).

Twelve of those precious hours are devoted to flying from Taipei to Paris, where Professor Norman lives and where the other drug mules are converging.

Besson then throws various ticking clocks at us: Lucy has to capture the drugs from the other three mules, with the help of a French narcotics officer named, seriously, Pierre Del Rio (Amr Waked); Lucy has to hook up with legendary brain - guy scientist Professor Norman (Freeman) before her physical form shuts down entirely; and of course, Mr. Jang is in hot pursuit, although he and his thugs become less and less interesting as the story goes along.

Things get tiresome when Morgan Freeman enters the pic as the respected know - it - all American science Professor Norman, on a lecture tour in Paris to spin his far - out theories about the brain and lament that mankind only uses ten percent of its brain while dolphins use twenty.

Professor Norman then puts forth the question of the hour «How can human access more of our cerebral capacity?»

We then travel forward «billions» of years to modern day China and meet the present - day Professor Norman (Morgan Freeman), talking about Darwinian evolutionary theory.

The new study by Dr Mansfield and UNSW Associate Professor Norman Wildberger is published in Historia Mathematica, the official journal of the International Commission on the History of Mathematics.

Immigration scholar and computer science professor Norman Matloff recommends, in an article at Bloomberg, that, «Rather than offering work visas and green cards to all foreign students attaining U.S. postgraduate degrees, legislation should focus on facilitating the immigration of top talent.»

«So, in essence one branch of the federal government is funding unemployed ITers to «retrain» for something well beneath their qualifications, while another federal agency is approving work permits for foreign students [for jobs] that unemployed Americans could easily do,» writes the man to whom I owe my knowledge of this piquant contrast, computer science professor Norman Matloff of the University of California, Davis.

Professor Jim Al - Khalili, President of the BHA Phillip Pullman, author Dan Snow, historian and broadcaster Tim Minchin, musician and writer Dr Simon Singh, science writer Ken Follett, novelist Dr Adam Rutherford, broadcaster and science writer Sir John Sulston FRS, Nobel Prize winning scientist Sir David Smith FRS FRSE, eminent botanist Professor Jonathan Glover, philosopher Professor Anthony Grayling, philosopher Nick Ross, broadcaster CJ De Mooi, actor and professional quizzer Virginia Ironside, writer Professor Steven Rose, scientist and writer Natalie Haynes, comedian and writer Peter Tatchell, human rights campaigner Professor Raymond Tallis FMedSci, physician, philosopher and author Dr Iolo ap Gwynn FRMS, scientist and mountaineer Stephen Volk, screenwriter and author Professor Steve Jones, Professor of Genetics, science writer and broadcaster Sir Terry Pratchett OBE, Fantasy fiction author, satirist Dr Evan Harris, Former Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament and Vice-President of the BHA Dr Richard Bartle, Professor of Computer Game Design Sian Berry, Green campaigner, politician and author Professor John A Lee, Consultant Histopathologist and Professor of Pathology Professor Richard Norman, philosopher Zoe Margolis, author Joan Smith, journalist and author Michael Gore, CVO CBE Derek McAuley, General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches Lorraine Barratt, former member of the Welsh Assembly Dr Susan Blackmore, writer and broadcaster Dr Harry Stopes - Roe, Vice President of the BHA Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC (Hon), human rights lawyer Adele Anderson, actor and singer Dr Helena Cronin, Co-Director, Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science Professor Alice Roberts, Anatomist, author and broadcaster Professor Chris French, Professor of Psychology, editor of The Skeptic Sir Tom Blundell, scientist Maureen Duffy, poet, playwright and novelist Baroness Whitaker, Labour peer Lord Avebury, Liberal Democrat peer Richard Herring, writer and comedian Martin Rowson, writer and cartoonist Tony Hawks, comedian, writer, musician and philanthropist Peter Cave, philosopher and author Diane Munday, campaigner Professor Norman MacLean, Biologist Professor Sir Harold Kroto FRS, Nobel prize winner, Professor of Chemistry Sir Richard Dalton, former Diplomat Sir David Blatherwick, KCMG, OBE, Diplomat and writer Michael Rubenstein, writer and legal expert Polly Toynbee, columnist and broadcaster Lord O'Neill, labour peer

Balmer recognized, though, that the Dallas commitment to dispensationalism reflected a more basic commitment to a «high» view of scriptural authority and a clearcut view of biblical inspiration, so he had set out as well a few of the writings of noted «inerrancy» crusader and Dallas professor Norman Geisler.

«Since its completion, the book has been endorsed by prominent scientists including Philip Skell, a member of the National Academy of Sciences; Scott Turner, an evolutionary biologist at the State University of New York; and Professor Norman Nevin, one of Britain's leading geneticists.»

Professor Norman Finkelstein is currently seeking tenure at DePaul University in Chicago.

Not exact matches

«This person just seems to have full - on picked a random time to target a bunch of very innocent people, and that is what is very scary about this and surprising,» said Stephanie Carvin, a former Canadian national security analyst who is now an assistant professor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa.

Business ethics professors say The Business Ethics Blog is...»... the best thing that ever happened to Business Ethics courses... clear and intelligent presentation of the real ethical stakes behind the current headlines...» [Prof. Wayne Norman, Duke University]

Norman Wirzba Senior Fellow, Kenan Institute for Ethics Professor of Theology, Ecology, and Agrarian Studies

Roy Culpeper is a Senior Fellow of the University of Ottawa's School of International Development and Global Studies, Adjunct Professor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, and a Fellow of the Broadbent Institute.

I lost one of my best friends to suicide less than two years ago and through a Professor my friend and I had at different times, another student game me a copy of the writing by Norman Vincent Peale.

Joseph Fitzmyer is in the Department of Biblical Studies, Catholic University Washington, D.C. Norman Golb is Rosenberger Professor of Jewish History and civilization at the University of Chicago.

Dr. Balanoff is professor of history at Roosevelt University in Chicago, where she recently presented this paper at a symposium in observance of the 100th anniversary of Norman Thomas's birth.

Norman Weinberger, a cognitive sciences and psychology professor at the University of California at Irvine, says in one study, babies as young as four months old seemed to know when researchers played the «Happy Birthday» song incorrectly.

«Contrary to the prevailing scientific opinion about the biological effects of nitrite and nitrate, our data support the view that humans may require these dietary components from birth — from nature's most perfect food,» said Norman G. Hord, Ph.D., M.P.H., R.D., the study's lead author and an associate professor of food science and human nutrition at Michigan State University (MSU).

The principal investigator on the AFFIRM project is Professor Jane Norman, who works at the University of Edinburgh Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Reproductive Health.

Professor Jane Norman at the Medical Research Council's Centre for Maternal and Fetal Health in Edinburgh is leading the AFFIRM study.

Kate Norman Frómeta, is a certified nurse midwife and an assistant professor in the department of obstetrics, gynecology & reproductive sciences at the University of California, San Francisco.

· Richard Norman, emeritus professor of moral philosophy at the University of Kent.

Andrew Copson, Chief Executive, British Humanist Association Peter Cave, Chair, Humanist Philosophers Professor Richard Norman, University of Kent Nasreen Rehman, British Muslims for Secular Democracy Dilwar Hussain, Policy Research Centre, Islamic Foundation Simon Barrow, Ekklesia Nick Spencer, Theos

Richard Norman, Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Kent, commented, «Religious Education is not just a matter of learning about religions.

Dr Catharine Abell, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Manchester Dr Arif Ahmed, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Cambridge David Archard, Professor of Philosophy, Queen's University Belfast Helen Beebee, Samuel Hall Professor of Philosophy, University of Manchester Simon Blackburn, former Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, Fellow, Trinity College Cambridge, and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, UNC - Chapel Hill Margaret A. Boden, Research Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Sussex Dr Stephen Burwood, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Hull Dr Peter Cave, Lecturer in Philosophy, Open University Andrew Chitty, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Sussex Michael Clark, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Nottingham Antony Duff, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Stirling John Dupré, Professor of Philosophy of Science, University of Exeter Dr Nicholas Everitt, Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy, University of East Anglia Simon Glendinning, Professor of European Philosophy, LSE C. Grayling, philosopher and Master of the New College of the Humanities Dr Peter King, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Oxford Dr Brendan Larvor, Reader in Philosophy and Head of Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire Dr Stephen Law, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Heythrop College, University of London Ardon Lyon, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, City University London H. Mellor, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge Peter Millican, Gilbert Ryle Fellow and Professor of Philosophy, University of Oxford Richard Norman, Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Kent Eric Olson, Professor of Philosophy, University of Sheffield David Papineau, Professor of Philosophy, King's College London Derek Parfit, Professor of Philosophy, University of Oxford Duncan Pritchard, Professor and Chair in Epistemology, University of Edinburgh Janet Radcliffe Richards, Professor of Practical Philosophy, University of Oxford Jonathan Rée, philosopher and author Theodore Scaltsas, Professor and Chair of Ancient Philosophy, University of Edinburgh Peter Simons, Professor of Philosophy, Chair of Moral Philosophy and Head of the School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin Tom Sorell, Professor of Politics and Philosophy, University of Warwick Dr Tanja Staehler, Reader in Philosophy and Head of the Department of Philosophy, University of Sussex Thomas Uebel, Professor of Philosophy, University of Manchester Dr Nigel Warburton, philosopher and author Keith Ward, Regius Professor Emeritus of Divinity, University of Oxford John White, Emeritus Professor of the Philosophy of Education, Institute of Education, University of London Stephen Wilkinson, Professor of Bioethics, Lancaster University RE professionals (other than teachers):

Professor Sir Norman Williams, former president of the Royal College of Surgeons, said the planned reform could «transform the quality of care» at the weekend.

Dr Vuong's work was conducted in collaboration with Professor Ben Mol, from the University of Adelaide's Robinson Research Institute, a member of the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute's Healthy Mothers, Babies and Children theme; and Professor Robert Norman, also from the Robinson Research Institute, University of Adelaide and a leading fertility unit, Fertility SA.