Sentences with phrase «use shorter sticks»

To snag the treat, the birds had to use a short stick to ferret an intermediate stick out of a tube.

New Caledonian crows are adept at fashioning tools with leaves or sticks to get to their food, at times even using a shorter stick to get to a longer stick which they then use to reach the food.

In a 2007 experiment conducted by graduate student Alex Taylor and colleagues at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, the crows used a shorter stick to grab another that was long enough to get food outside their reach.

The innovation group wasn't taught how to use a short stick to extract a long stick from the toolbox, but did learn other techniques.

When tasked with reaching a snack in a hole using a short stick on a string and a longer stick trapped in a toolbox, all of the crows pulled it off.

The training group learned six activities — such as how to use a short stick to extract a long stick from a toolbox — that together could help them get meat with long and short tools.

Not exact matches

I mean, disaggregating that flyer and putting a hockey stick on Facebook, the green running shorts on Instagram and using all of the digital channels.

I had a pound of cauliflower florets that I needed to use, so I tossed them with four small, smashed garlic cloves, a teaspoon of cinnamon, a half teaspoon olive oil, and three cinnamon sticks (short and fat).

His inexplicable woes with the short stick continued, however, as he missed some shots around 10 feet and under — putts he used to be able to make in his sleep.

Whether or not Mitchell used the word pleb, this was an ignoble exchange between an ambitious, self - important politician with a short fuse and policeman sticking to his security brief.

They freed the short stick from the string, used it to dislodge the long stick, and used the long stick to obtain their food.

I recently purchased short wooden sticks, like popsicle sticks but smaller, to use in my creams that are in a jar.

Was all excited about adding another set of LT (Large TALL) T - Shirts to my wardrobe only to find out Joseph Abboud uses a short measuring stick for his tall measurements.

I usually stick with that theory too but I feel like when it gets warmer and you get used to the whole tank top and shorts look a romper with arms and legs showing doesn't bother me anymore.

I have a pair of shorts on standby to use when needed, but otherwise I'm sticking to this list through the middle of December!

Perfectly timed button presses are important if you want to make short work of your opponent while the analog stick is used to register a spin on the disc depending on how you rotate it, its direction can change leading to a curve that can confuse the opponent.

It was a time of «seat - of — your - pants, barely - making - it, scrappy - renegade, throw - enough - stuff - against - the - wall - that - you - hope - something - sticks» filmmaking, and thankfully, we have Used Cars as one of the better examples of this short - lived comedy movement.

If you opt for the DCT «box then, rather than the tall shifter used in ordinary BMW's equipped with automatic transmissions, you get the short, teardrop - like M stick.

Gearbox must stay a manual, so I'd stick to the 6 speed manual, but I would go with shorter 2nd, 3rd and 4th while using 6th as a very big overdrive for fuel economy.

Still, that short bed will be a sticking point for many pickup users, especially those who use the trucks for business.

Mad Shadows would have been much stronger if Bonadonna had: 1) skipped the Narnia - like use of many fantasy races and just stuck with humans, and 2) skipped the Robert E. Howard - like «short hand» of using near IDs for things drawn from reality («Falkings» for Vikings, etc.).

Although I could have pitched some of my books to traditional publishers, I didn't want a gatekeeper making a decision about whether readers would or would not be interested.For example, my Vanquish Writer's Block (originally titled The Visual Writer) book is fairly short but packed with tips on using images when you're stuck.

They make a good point that most people use options wrong, and get the short end of the stick.

STOP giving into the short - term temptations of «fast - money» by over-trading and over-leveraging your account and not sticking to your trading plan — you are using the reflexive system too much!

After you've set up your budget, you can use a tracker to make sure you're sticking to your long - and short - term savings goals.

When using a personal loan for relocation expenses, you'll likely want to stick with a shorter loan term to reduce the interest you pay on your relocation costs.

You want to use a company that has a strong reputation in the investment community so that you don't get the short end of the stick.

The LendUp Ladder was designed to help borrowers who were stuck using financial products with short term benefits but no long term solutions: over time it gives customers access to credit reporting loans (not to mention larger loans at lower rates)[5].

The HO - 3 policy (the most popular homeowners insurance policy nationwide) is often used to compare relative rates between states; when you compare the average cost of an HO - 3 policy throughout the country, $ 804 a year, to the average cost of insuring a home in Texas, $ 1,409 a year, it is easy to see that Texas homeowners may be getting the short end of the stick.

Can't decide whether to use a total - market bond fund or stick to short maturities only?

«Pets don't usually care for the booties when first put on,» Dr. Plunkett says, «but after a while of walking around like they are stuck on sticky trap for a short amount of time, they get used to them.»

If your dog has already been trained to walk using a retractable leash politely, we recommend sticking to the shorter length leashes (those extending only six feet), so you have greater control at all times.

We generally don't recommend tube cages for syrian hamsters at all, but if you are set on using one we recommend only using them with short haired hamster breeds that are less likely to get stuck, and making sure that you keep the cage in a highly visible area in your home so you'll notice right away if your hamster gets themselves into a tight spot.

You can also use boxer shorts to cover the incision (stick the tail through the opening).

Pontius still seems to be getting the short end of the stick, I barely remember actually using him during most puzzles, but it's satisfying, enjoyable stuff.

I started to get the feeling that PS3 owners were getting the short end of the stick with PS plus free games but now I see that Sony just uses these games as the mint on the pillow the morning after... after they already have your money and you've been...

Pros: Engrossing story, good adventure puzzles, combat doesn't get in the way Cons: Way too short, use of right stick button causes occasional problems

You need to plug the Arcade Fight Stick into the PS4's controller using the shorter USB lead that comes with the arcade stick, and then plug the longer (3 metre) cable into the PS4 itStick into the PS4's controller using the shorter USB lead that comes with the arcade stick, and then plug the longer (3 metre) cable into the PS4 itstick, and then plug the longer (3 metre) cable into the PS4 itself.

[4] He has also curated numerous exhibitions in many other distinguished museums around the world, including Events of the Self: Portraiture and Social Identity, The Walther Collection, Germany; Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art, International Center of Photography; The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945 — 1994, [14] Villa Stuck, Munich, Martin - Gropius - Bau, Berlin, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and P.S. 1 and Museum of Modern Art, New York; Century City, Tate Modern, London; Mirror's Edge, Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Tramway, Glasgow, Castello di Rivoli, Torino; In / Sight: African Photographers, 1940 — Present, [15] Guggenheim Museum; Global Conceptualism, Queens Museum, New York, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, List Gallery at MIT, Cambridge; David Goldblatt: Fifty One Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, AXA Gallery, New York, Palais des Beaux Art, Brussels, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, Witte de With, Rotterdam.

He has curated numerous exhibitions in some of the most distinguished museums around the world, including Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art, International Center of Photography; The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945 — 1994, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Gropius Bau, Berlin, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and P.S. 1 and Museum of Modern Art, New York; Century City, Tate Modern, London; Mirror's Edge, Bildmuseet, Umeå, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Tramway, Glasgow, Castello di Rivoli, Torino; In / Sight: African Photographers, 1940 — Present, Guggenheim Museum; Global Conceptualism, Queens Museum, New York, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, List Gallery at MIT, Cambridge; David Goldblatt: Fifty One Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, AXA Gallery, New York, Palais des Beaux Art, Brussels, Lenbach Haus, Munich, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, Witte de With, Rotterdam; Co-Curator of Echigo - Tsumari Sculpture Biennale in Japan; co-curator of Cinco Continente: Biennale of Painting, Mexico City; Stan Douglas: Le Detroit, Art Institute of Chicago.

Of course, one could decide that proxies are too risky to use, throw out everything before the instrumental record — which would give you a hockey stick with a very short handle.

************** «witchtistics»: use of a «witch stick» (eg, least squares regression) to «divine» the global temperature temperature trend (or other climatological trends) over short time periods.

Also, like you say, in his inexorable quest to remove any hockey stick shape whatsoever from the historical paleoclimate record, McIntyre insisted on using only PC1 — even though MBH98's short - centred PCA methodology required that all significant principle components were captured.

Careful there... it may well be true that with short centering (and variance normalization), a hockey stick like pattern tends to become PC1, against whatever type of noise is used as a background.

The HO - 3 policy (the most popular homeowners insurance policy nationwide) is often used to compare relative rates between states; when you compare the average cost of an HO - 3 policy throughout the country, $ 804 a year, to the average cost of insuring a home in Texas, $ 1,409 a year, it is easy to see that Texas homeowners may be getting the short end of the stick.

Following guidelines from the experts, the writer used short snippets of information, sticking to skills that will set this candidate apart from others and emphasizing areas of experience other applicants may not have.

She uses short phrases to describe her skills and sticks to those that are relevant for a grant assistant.

Use short sentences where possible and stick to the truth.

The powder all over, the mixing, the bits that just won't mix, the bumpy paint, the completely unpredictable way it sticks to some areas and not others (even after using milk paint primer), the way its flaked up in random pieces larger than can be considered attractive «patina,» even after waxing, its short shelf life... The experience (disclaimer — I did not use the Miss Mustard Seed brand) really drove home how lucky I was that acrylics were invented!