Sentences with phrase «as an experiment which»

So you can't use the heat or humidity as an excuse for that defeat, let's just leave it as an experiment which went wrong and move on.

They do come to the appropriate conclusion: «You can look at climate change as an experiment which mankind has — to its horror — found itself performing on the planet.

You can look at climate change as an experiment which mankind has — to its horror — found itself performing on the planet.

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For my costs, I'm factoring in only the extra parts I bought as part of my mining experiment, which include the three GTX 1060 graphics cards, a cheap processor, a cheap motherboard, and a power supply.

He has described GM methods, which are employed on around 10 % of the world's arable farmland, as a «gigantic experiment with nature and the whole of humanity which has gone seriously wrong».

The experiment itself was simple: a hundred and forty - five undergraduate students were given a standard test of creativity known as an «unusual use» task, in which they had two minutes to list as many uses as possible for mundane objects such as toothpicks, bricks, and clothes hangers.

Researchers Christine Exley of Harvard Business School, Muriel Niederle of Stanford University and Lise Vesterlund of the University of Pittsburgh recently did a set of experiments related to female aggression in on - the - job negotiations in which, as they write, «we saw that women hurt themselves financially when they followed a blanket recommendation to always ask for more.»

Which brings up China's approach to its growing clusters of biotech startups mentioned up top — or, as I called it, the «science experiment.»

Lee's research team experiments with technology for creating objects in an «additive» manner like Carbon3D's machines as opposed to a «subtractive» manner in which objects are created by cutting away at large hunks of materials.

The experiment was so successful that the company instituted work - from - home throughout the company, which also (as a side benefit) allowed the company to grow without adding expensive office space.

In this column I've shared how much my experiment not flying has improved my life, which I say as someone with family all over and work that I used to think required flying.

But the most important consequence of the XENON100 analysis is with regards to the controversial claim of dark matter detection by researchers at the DAMA / LIBRA experiment in Italy, which is in conflict with the results from many other detectors such as the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search.

Education seems to have an impact, and diet may as well, whether skewed toward antioxidants and anti-inflammatories, or toward the drastically lower caloric intake with which one scientist is experimenting.

McAvoy also noted that as an independent media company, The Onion has been «forced to run a tight financial ship,» which has made it difficult for the company to experiment with or invest in new things.

In another experiment, rather than prime participants for particular roles, testosterone levels were used as a marker of which study subjects were inclined towards dominating power structures and which less interested in leading.

The modernized facility, which houses the business library, will include new study spaces, more natural light, both zero - noise and social - learning zones, as well as a «technology sandbox» where students can experiment with digital gadgets, such as 3D printers.

In one instance, Google conducted an experiment to see if RankBrain could make accurate predictions of which pages would rank highest as compared with a team of search engineers.

According to Kosinski, Kogan found a way to mirror the data and methodology being used for the myPersonality experiment, which he referred to as «psychographics.»

The company is in the midst of experimenting with facial recognition technologies at the company's New York labs, which it is looking at as a possible solution for secure mobile payment transfers.

He ran an experiment in a hotel in which he polled people on whether or not they reused towels during their stay and as expected just over 50 % did.

I'd add one thing — entrepreneurs need an environment in which they can experiment and fail, and specifically, an environment in which failure is tolerated and accepted, and doesn't result in them being branded as failures.

Carefully controlled experiments not only attempted to divine the shape of a demand curve — which shows just how much of a product people will buy as you keep raising the price, allowing retailers to find the optimal, profit - maximizing figure.

Science is not influenced by belief as you suggest because many scientists with different beliefs validate the experiments, unlike religion which is pure belief with no evidence.

They use several failed experiments that «prove» life came from nothing such as the Urey / Miller expirement (which actually proved nothing and created death, not life) That is the biggest problem that people have with they way it is taught.

Schwartz effectively engages this literature, especially the experiments by Benjamin Libet, which usually get interpreted as supporting the materialist view that conscious will is an illusion.

Be that as it may, in 1948, in the article Rationalistic Criterion in Metaphysics Hartshorne writes: «The method logically appropriate to this program [i.e. the program of metaphysics] is to experiment with diverse definitions and alternative axioms or postulates, in search of a set — if we are so lucky as to find it — which can be given definite and consistent meaning» (RPM 438).

Thechief difficulty is with the idea of science as the study of that which is under our control and can be subjected to examination and experiment.

Why not choose some other set of beliefs on which to conduct this grand experiment, such as Judaism, Shintoism or Scientology?

But Evans bridges the divide between the belts in her new book, The Year of Biblical Womanhood, the result of an experiment in which she lived the Old and New Testament's instructions for women as literally as possible for an entire year.

Doing so would not lead us to treat animals like people but rather to treat the weakest people like animals, opening the door to such things as conducting medical experiments on the cognitively disabled, which has already been proposed in bioethics literature.

For example, experiment in role - playing with various ways in which a couple might handle a breakdown of communication on a subject such as disciplining children.

A principle arrived at by abstraction from one order of facts, is confronted with facts from another order of experience, as a test of speculative applicability: «The success of the imaginative experiment is always to be tested by the applicability of its results beyond the restricted locus from which it originated» (PR 5/8).

Even a small experiment like skipping one meal is enough to demonstrate to most of us the degree to which we have become addicted to food, not only as our bodies require and enjoy it, but also for organizing our days.

If you assume that the mass was all electromagnetic or that it all behaved in the same way as electromagnetic (which was perhaps suggested by cathode ray experiments which showed that the ratio of e by m actually went as 1 divided by the square root of 1 - v2 / c2, then it follows that particles get heavier in this ratio.

Philosophy is great when dealing with abstract, human concepts (beacuse it's process is based around the human as the standard) but without some way to test philosophical treaties, you are just doing thought experiments which may or may not have any bearing on events in the «real» world.

We, as poets and scientists alike, are invited to explore and research, experiment and doubt, and question and sing in the laboratory of His Kingdom, moved by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars.

As he goes on to say in Federalist Number 39, the republican form is also demanded by «that honorable determination, which animates every votary of freedom, to rest all our political experiments on the capacity of mankind for self - government.»

Not only then could God upset the experiments of the scientists, should He so choose, but also He had already delivered to the church a supernatural body of knowledge to which the experimental scientist as such had no counter.

: A young girl has this pet, which is sort of a pig / cow / hippo hybrid, but it's going to be experimented on by this giant corporation to use as livestock, so she has to save it.

From the very beginning of the American experiment with freedom, the churches and ministers have been perceived as providing religious services, without which the experiment could fail.

CNN: «Bible Belt» meets «Borscht Belt» Rachel Held Evans bridges the divide between the belts in her new book, «The Year of Biblical Womanhood,» the result of an experiment in which she lived the Old and New Testament's instructions for women as literally as possible for an entire year.

Then, pious as it is to think of Him, while the pageant of experiment or abstract reasoning passes by, still such piety is nothing more than a poetry of thought, or an ornament of language, a certain view taken of Nature which one man has and another has not, which gifted minds strike out, which others see to be admirable and ingenious, and which all would be the better for adopting.

Though some of the splashier and more publicized experiments of the «wired church» attract the most attention and concern, most congregations that use computer technology are simply trying to make the ministries in which they are already engaged more effective, attractive and applicable to the lives of the people they serve, especially the young, for whom these technologies are as familiar a part of everyday life as using the telephone — a mobile unit, that is.

For Whitehead, the unit - actualities are «experiment occasions,» which are always in some degree «self - creative» and each such occasion contributes to the divine consciousness, which regards it with «tenderness» after it exists and inspires it with his ideal for its coming - to - be as it comes into existence.

Similarly, the status of the human embryo, and the value placed upon it, have come under increasing scrutiny over the past decades, and even since DP in 2008 it has become increasingly normal to assume that it is morally acceptable to destroy embryos or to experiment upon them.12 The increasing sense of a loss of respect for human life in its earliest stages is linked to the abandonment of male - female lifelong marriage as the normal structure in which human life begins and is cherished.13 DP emphasises that «human procreation is a personal act of a husband and wife, which is not capable of substitution» (DP 16).

Like other public philosophers such as Walter Lippmann, John Courtney Murray, and Reinhold Niebuhr, he understood that the self - evident truths on which this experiment is premised are not self - evident to most people; they have to be rediscovered and rearticulated in every generation.

Senses is normally the hearing (listening), seeing (reading), touching (feeling), tasting, smelling and those have a role in creating ones back mind to think and come out with a conclusion of an idea through which he becomes to find out and work out a way to personalize as your own experiment or experience.

If the phenomenalists are helping us break the mould that prevents us looking at these, we will have them as allies — if not, forget phenomenalism this time round, as we need this more primitive, but also more proliferating and glorious vision of perception, in order to get a basis for these new areas, where we are trying to investigate something which Isn't the contribution of the mind, and which you can refer to so as to verify or falsify your experiment.

Hitchens, who won the vote among the 2,700 capacity audience by a factor of 2:1, characterised religion as «a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and ordered to be well» creating a «celestial dictatorship» which was «greedy for praise from dawn to dusk.»

«Elementary» is used in an operational sense and varies with the circumstances.1 Particles which may be regarded as noncomposite in low - energy experiments show definite structure in high - energy ones.