Sentences with phrase «about human numbers»

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Crowdfunding is all about the numbers, but the humans behind the risky campaigns are often hard to calculate.

«There are about 100 billion neurons in a human brain, which is about the same as the number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy.»

You Can Negotiate Anything, probably the most entertaining of the books, skips any allusion to scholarship about the human tendency to defer to authority, instead citing an old Candid Camera episode in which a surprising number of highway drivers confronted with the sign «Delaware Closed» actually turned around.

«Personal finance is oftentimes more about human behavior than it is the numbers,» he said.

The mythical friend Gabriel was the mythical friend of Jesus the Messaih accompanying him all time as per the Quran readings... this mythical friend is the right hand for God and was sent to nearly all messengers of God to deliver teachings from God to his messengers and Gabriel is the only Angel that has minimum number of wings reaching the sixth heaven as a limit... as per my readings and narrow knowledge... Reality you are playin with fire here show respect even if you are agnostic about all as you are only human and do not know the unknown of see the unseen or touch the untouched or feel the unfelt because even when you are alone you are not alone.

I'm NOT just talking about «bible believers» (yes, Christians and Jews believe in human evil, but so do a wide variety of religions, AND philosophical systems, AND political systems, AND individual thinkers), and you and I both know that we're not just talking about «millions», but BILLIONS — the number of those who believe in human evil FAR outnumber you.

Based on its assumptions about human beings, it argues that the greatest good of the greatest number is served best when each person works aggressively for his or her own economic interest.

Adam, to suggest your SUPER inflated numbers (most were killed due to conditionso f war, including by their own governments failure to to give two squirts of piss about them and using then as human shields) somehow makes my country's actions in the war on terror equivalent to terrorism itself is beyond offensive to me.

They have accepted the fact that vast numbers of members of the human race have spoken or written about some such awareness, however it may have been conceived, of a presence which is believed to be more than human, and they have told us that they have experienced a power that seems to come from beyond, above, and below the level of human enabling.

Just think if it were the opposite (and why not since we have about double the number of humans on this planet than we can feed in the next 50 years), just think if YOU were only allowed to marry someone of the opposite s3x..

The United States is one of a dwindling number of nations unenthusiastic about the application of world law when applied to its own conduct, but for reasons supplied by the author, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is still a tool for people of conscience to use in the struggle for a world more respectful of human digHuman Rights is still a tool for people of conscience to use in the struggle for a world more respectful of human dighuman dignity.

When this belief was coupled with the notion of a last judgement which would not occur until God «had accomplished the number of his elect», in words from still another prayer, it said something about the corporate nature of human life, the equally corporate nature of whatever destiny men have, and the need for patient waiting until our fellowmen have found their capacity for fulfillment along with us.

We must not hide our eyes from the fact that what we have called secularization is an entirely new phenomenon in human history, that it has been brought about by a number of new factors in human knowledge, the more important of which we have looked at, and that for these reasons a secularized culture has come to stay, at least in some form.

Moreover, each human being must be constituted of many millions of these «unit - happenings» or «experiences,» because Hartshorne affirms that persons have about ten new ones per second and that they fit together so smoothly that the transitions between them go largely unnoticed.12 And inasmuch as everything in the universe is composed of similar unit - experiences or actual entities, the number of them that occurs at any given instant of time (if we may legitimately speak of such instants) must be stupendously large.

As the Eastern Seaboard begins cobbling back together some semblance of normalcy following the superstorm's landfall, sad numbers are being confirmed about the loss of human life.

In voting for someone who I think will help reduce the number of abortions, I vote for someone who does not share my conviction about the sanctity of human life.

Calhoun reasons that the ideal number of human beings on earth is about nine billion.

And the reason is that the best economists spend their lives emphasizing that economic life is not about numbers, but about the triumph of the human mind when given the freedom to innovate and respond.

Whatever one thinks about its legality, abortion has nothing to do with advancing human «health,» and a large number of Americans regard it as a gravely wrong act of violence, not only against unborn children but also against women.

Vermont 2 -1-1 is a simple number to dial for information about health and human service organizations in your community.

The reported slave auctions have raised questions about whether European Union migration agreements meant to curb Mediterranean crossings are instead turning human traffickers into slave traders as increasing numbers of migrants find themselves stuck in Libya, penniless, desperate and vulnerable.

The European Court of Human Rights has also attracted controversy recently with concerns increasing about the number of national court decisions that are overturned by the ECtHR and the huge backlog of cases waiting to be heard.

His resolution comes before a Common Council committee Tuesday night, after a number of faith groups, community organizations and individuals expressed concern about civil and human rights under the incoming Trump administration.

So when we go about stereotyping, let us be wary of the number of human beings we are hurting.

«Mr Whittingdale: Is my right hon. and learned Friend concerned about the possibility that the large number of injunctions that appear to be being granted on a routine basis suggests that the courts are paying insufficient regard to section 12 of the Human Rights Act 1998, which was intended to protect press freedom?

It was originally headlined «Human Rights Act to remain in PLACE after Brexit as British equivalent «shelved»» and contained a number of factual inaccuracies about the European Union and the Human Rights Act.

Until now, roughly 150 imprinted genes have been found in mice and about half that number in humans.

But it's difficult to tell whether those numbers measure ignorance about science, because belief in human evolution is closely tied to religious belief, especially in the United States.

There have been a number of significant pandemics in human history, generally zoonoses that came about with domestication of animals - such as influenza and tuberculosis.

The highest number of respondents, 35 percent, said climate change was caused about equally by natural changes in the environment and human causes.

As opposed to human creations like the page numbers in this magazine, I'm now talking about numbers that are basic properties of our physical reality.

These represent about 50 percent of the total estimated number of human protein - encoding genes.

The entire human brain is about 75,000 times heavier than the 0.02 gram of processing circuitry in the retina, which implies that it would take, in round numbers, 100 million MIPS (100 trillion instructions per second) to emulate the 1,500 - gram human brain.

«Similarly, a number of studies have found that telling people about the 97 % scientific consensus on human - caused global warming has a neutralizing rather than polarizing effect.»

Even with the limited number of subjects, the human research has already confirmed the monkey findings and answered important questions about how the brain works.

The BBC team used clever analogies and appealing graphics to discuss three key numbers that help clarify important questions about climate change: 0.85 degrees Celsius — how much the Earth has warmed since the 1880s; 95 % — how sure scientists are that human activity is the major cause of Earth's recent warming; and one trillion tons — the best estimate of the amount of carbon that can be burned before risking dangerous climate change.

Humans seem hard - wired to make impersonal things seem personal and so try to personalise numbers by projecting something about themselves onto them.

Steve: What's really interesting is we are all always hearing about, you know, chimps and humans are 98.7 percent the same, 99 percent the same, whatever the number happens to be depending on how you do your sequences.

The real human brain contains about 100 billion neurons, so scientists are getting close — in raw numbers, at least.

Instead of making unrealistically simplistic assumptions about human behaviour and the properties of markets, we can harness the number - crunching power of modern computing, coupled with our emerging understanding of the physics of complex systems, to rebuild economic theory from the bottom up.

One of the puzzling and fascinating things about humans is that we have the ability to form enormous groups — the United States, with 290 million people, or Britain, with 60 million people — that are led by very small numbers of individuals.

The DQN scored about 20 % to 30 % more points than humans at classic games like Space Invaders and Pong, and for others, such as Breakout and Video Pinball, it racked up more than 10 times the number of points.

Residing in large numbers outside the nucleus of every cell, mitochondria contain their own DNA, with unique features that «may require a reassessment of some of our core assumptions about human genetics and evolutionary theory,» concludes Wallace, director of the Center for Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Cranberries also contain a number of compounds that benefit human health — including some that have been shown to inhibit the growth of tumor cells — and sequencing work may reveal more about them.

In fact, it's a representation of the numbers 1 through 10; the atomic numbers of several elements important to life on Earth; information about DNA; a representation of the human form; a graphic of the solar system; and a graphic of the transmitting telescope.

In the study, we were concerned with the quantity of sulphur dioxide emissions, with numbers that are equally astonishing: In the beginning, the eruption emitted about eight times more sulphur dioxide per day than is emitted from all human - made sources in Europe per day.»

These differences suggest that the ancestral population of apes that gave rise to humans, chimps, and bonobos was quite large and diverse genetically — numbering about 27,000 breeding individuals.

Before then, humans may have thought about numbers the way monkeys (and babies) still do today.

Earlier this year, scientists at University of California, Los Angeles, and Advanced Cell Technology of Marlborough, Massachusetts, reported in The Lancet about the safe and successful use of RPE cells derived from human embryonic stem cells, rather than iPS cells, to treat a different type of AMD in a limited number of human patients.

In the process, about 100 entangled photons are present, which, according to current knowledge, is the precise number needed to create the impression of light in humans.