Sentences with phrase «about small humans»

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While most of us care enough about our fellow human beings to want them to be sufficiently fed and housed, for entrepreneurs, hiring employees is both a necessary step for growth and a drain on the limited resources of small, growing companies.

So just think about that, we're in the pennies and small dollar business, so in order to do that much revenue, we're totally dependent on human behavior.

Atoms and sub-atomic particles are much smaller than humans, so why would God be interested in, or care about them.

So we curled on the bed together and I told this small person trying to figure out how to be human about my love and about God's love, about how we live within this love in these moments of challenge.

Reorienting your life around what you believe about God and what it means to be truly human and believing every small life or act of justice matters comes with a cost.

It is really bizarre that the GOP bellows about wanting «small» government and more «freedom» while at the same time working to destroy human rights and true ability to choose for oneself.

So, it was not just the small group of Jesus» followers who were confused about the future; many in Roman society were searching for a system of meaning that would make sense out of their experience of human life.

No one tells you how much wisdom resides in these small humans, how much they will teach you about love and life and friendship and forgiveness and worship.

So if the catholic church was really serious about relieving human suffering they would promote family planning an help people have smaller families.

Genetic evidence offers impressive support for human evolution and also strongly suggests that our ancestral population has never been smaller than about 10,000, «Mitochondrial Eve» and «Y - chromosome Adam» notwithstanding.

But we have to set against this the fascination of the small, so that in itself, the size of insects doesn't explain much about human attitudes toward them.

Sometimes it's been writing letters to government about human trafficking, speaking up in a dozen small ways.

Religion is so deep - seated a human interest that it can be snowed under but never completely stifled, and on every campus there is a nucleus of students — sometimes a good many, sometimes a small minority — who care about their faith.

In short, it means caring about and for the future, by investing something of yourself in nurturing those persons, causes, and values which will live after you and will help in some small way to make the planet a better place for the children of the human family.

I swore that there would be a small alien tearing its way out of my stomach in about 8 to 12 hours, only after it had taken over my thoughts and found my human body was no longer needed.

As I lay there, trying and failing to reach him and too scared to go back to sleep, I thought about how it would be to be a helpless baby or small child, scared and alone in the dark, unable to reach out for the comfort of human contact from those I trusted and loved the most.

Because these monomers are so toxic, it takes very small quantities to be harmful to humans, so it is important to know about the monomers before you put the polymers next to your skin or in your home.

One small problem with your argument... earlier, you complained about comparing humans to other species (monkeys), and yet here you compare humans to cows.

It might sound a little scary at first, a small human being born into a pool of water, but think about the atmosphere your baby has been living in while inside you?

Carbon nanotubes are a tube - shaped material which can measure as small as one - billionth of a meter, or about 10,000 times smaller than a human hair.

Podcast host Steve Mirsky talks with human evolution expert Kate Wong about the small group of humans who survived tough times beginning about 195,000 years ago and gave rise to all of us, a story told in the cover article of the August issue of Scientific American, our 165th anniversary edition.

«Social research has a history of using both small - scale experiments and computer models to explore questions about human behavior — but there are very few examples of how to use these two techniques in concert,» says William Rand, a computer scientist and assistant professor of business management in NC State's Poole College of Management who is co-lead author of a paper describing the work.

Miniature human livers, about the size of small plums, have been made in the lab for the first time.

«Our study indicates that this small viral protein, Tat, directly binds to about 400 human genes to generate an environment in which HIV can thrive.

Ken had programmed these figures so that they captured a small truth about human relationships, in much the same way that someone else might express a fleeting insight in a poem or a short story.

Spinal cord injuries place a huge burden on the health system — about A$ 150 million a year in Australia, according to figures from the Department of Human Services and Health — so even a small cut in the frequency of such injuries would represent a huge saving to public hospitals, as well as benefiting people in general.

Our ideas about later human evolution, meanwhile, have been shattered by the remains of a tiny, novel human species with a small but intricately folded brain.

Despite its many parts, the entire organism is a single cell of only about 10 microns in diameter, which is smaller than most cells in the human body.

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.

Using simple statistics, without data about published research, Ioannidis argued that the results of large, randomized clinical trials — the gold standard of human research — were likely to be wrong 15 percent of the time and smaller, less rigorous studies are likely to fare even worse.

Ray Baughman, Ph.D., took a bundle of nylon fibers about the width of ten strands of human hair and wound them into a long, tight coil, just like an old - fashioned telephone cord but on a much smaller scale.

Materials • Rubbing alcohol (70 percent isopropyl alcohol) • Measuring spoons • Small bowl • Three long strands of human hair (about 20 centimeters long) • Cotton swabs • Measuring tape or ruler • Thin, flat piece of plastic that can easily be cut (about 8.0 cm long and 8.0 cm wide), such as from the lid of a disposable deli container • Scissors (strong enough to cut the plastic piece) • Dime • Tape • Two small nails • Glue • Scrap piece of wood or flat Styrofoam (about 25 cm long and 10 cm wide) • Hammer • Pencil or pen • Hair dryer • Plastic box that can be sealed and is large enough to fit the wood or Styrofoam piece inside of it • Wet sponge or small towel (either paper or cloth) Preparation • Make a solution of 25 percent rubbing alcohol and 75 percent water by mixing one tablespoon of water with one teaspoon of rubbing alcohol in a small Small bowl • Three long strands of human hair (about 20 centimeters long) • Cotton swabs • Measuring tape or ruler • Thin, flat piece of plastic that can easily be cut (about 8.0 cm long and 8.0 cm wide), such as from the lid of a disposable deli container • Scissors (strong enough to cut the plastic piece) • Dime • Tape • Two small nails • Glue • Scrap piece of wood or flat Styrofoam (about 25 cm long and 10 cm wide) • Hammer • Pencil or pen • Hair dryer • Plastic box that can be sealed and is large enough to fit the wood or Styrofoam piece inside of it • Wet sponge or small towel (either paper or cloth) Preparation • Make a solution of 25 percent rubbing alcohol and 75 percent water by mixing one tablespoon of water with one teaspoon of rubbing alcohol in a small small nails • Glue • Scrap piece of wood or flat Styrofoam (about 25 cm long and 10 cm wide) • Hammer • Pencil or pen • Hair dryer • Plastic box that can be sealed and is large enough to fit the wood or Styrofoam piece inside of it • Wet sponge or small towel (either paper or cloth) Preparation • Make a solution of 25 percent rubbing alcohol and 75 percent water by mixing one tablespoon of water with one teaspoon of rubbing alcohol in a small small towel (either paper or cloth) Preparation • Make a solution of 25 percent rubbing alcohol and 75 percent water by mixing one tablespoon of water with one teaspoon of rubbing alcohol in a small small bowl.

In order to speed the process and reduce the financial burden on small companies that dominate small tech start - ups, U.S. and Canadian researchers suggest that the United States should prioritize which materials should undergo the most rigorous testing based on what is already known about their toxicity as well as the potential human exposure.

The robots are about the same size as a small human diver, but can reach depths of 1000 metres and travel the ocean for months, covering thousands of kilometres.

The gecko is one of nature's best climbers, thanks to millions of microscopic hairs, with features about 20 to 30 times smaller than a human hair, that allow it to climb on virtually any surface.

«Until now, the focus has mainly been on conserving small parts of a reef in marine protected areas,» said Prof Bellwood,» - we're talking about broader approaches to change the relationship between humans and coral reefs to reduce human impacts across the whole ecosystem.»

Judging from fossil remains, scientists say the Boskops were similar to modern humans but had small, childlike faces and huge melon heads that held brains about 30 percent larger than our own.

(A nanometer is very small — a human hair is about 100,000 nanometers wide!)

This will cover a pilot project in a small region — about 1/1000 of the human genome — containing the genes for the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), proteins that present snippets of pathogens to immune cells.

The detector can measure features as small as 40 micrometers cross and 5 micrometers tall — about as well as the human fingertip.

Ara Norenzayan writes that «up until about 12,000 years ago all humans lived in relatively small bands» (17 March, p...

They found that in small primates such as spider monkeys, weighing about 6 kilograms, mutations — substitutions of DNA bases — occurred about twice as rapidly as in humans, who weigh on average 70 kilograms.

By now, the fossils have made it clear that these pioneers were startlingly primitive, with small bodies about 1.5 meters tall, simple tools, and brains one - third to one - half the size of modern humans».

In the center is a hole poked through the metal layer with a diameter of about 300 nanometers — about 1,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair.

In contrast, perovskite solar cells depend on a layer of tiny crystals — each about 1,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair — made of low - cost, light - sensitive materials.

Malinski's team has developed unique methods and systems of measurements using nanosensors, which are about 1,000 times smaller in diameter than a human hair, to track the impacts of Vitamin D3 on single endothelial cells, a vital regulatory component of the cardiovascular system.

These structures of carbon may be tiny — a nanotube's diameter is about 10,000 times smaller than a human hair — but their impact on science and technology has been enormous.

Upon learning about Darwin's theory that all modern humans descended from a common ancestor close to the gorilla and originated in Africa — a continent that had fascinated him since he was a small child — he decided he would dedicate himself to tracing human origins.

His Field Emission Electric Propulsion (FEEP) system produces the smallest thrust of any space engine ever: It is designed to counter the force of sunlight on a spacecraft — about the same as that of a single falling human hair.