Sentences with phrase «by rock paper»

Not exact matches

Pat shuffles through the contestants to choose a winner for the house similar to the way today's smart assistants can be asked to make decisions: by flipping a coin, rolling a die, playing rock - paper - scissors, choosing a number, and so on.

athiests were dropped off by alien space ships when their family tree paper ended, with a rock that told them that God does nt exist because the earth is too old.

I talk with a 70 - year - old Red Rock Sioux, her hair white and braided, surrounded by cardboard boxes of letters, discarded magazines and papers.

In recent years, that job has been completely taken over by my boys, who love creating the «scene» now themselves (complete with a daily rock - paper - scissors for who lights the candles).

«Whether it's by the flip of a coin or a game of rock, paper, scissors, Republicans will eventually figure out who their candidate is,» said McMahon campaign spokesman Evan Stavisky.

In their paper, published in Nature Communications, Atmospheric oxygen regulation at low Proterozoic levels by incomplete oxidative weathering of sedimentary organic carbon, the University of Exeter scientists explain how organic material — the dead bodies of simple lifeforms — accumulated in the earth's sedimentary rocks.

«It is one thing to show that broken bones and modified rocks could have been produced by people, which [this paper does],» says Don Grayson, an archaeologist at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Mr Seshadri, who is the lead author of the journal paper, said, «By naming the frog after its habitat, we hope to draw attention to the endangered rock formations that are of ecological importance.

The paper presents the results of National Geographic funded fieldwork by an Anglo - Puerto Rican team, who uncovered extensive and undocumented rock art deep inside the islands labyrinthine cave systems.

By mixing kitchen spices with playground sand, then burying a treat in some spices but not others, Eichenbaum created a mouse IQ test he calls Rock, Paper, Scissors (but that could more logically be called Pepper, Paprika, Ginger).

A previous paper by Garrick - Bethell and some of the same coauthors described the effects of tidal stretching and heating of the moon's crust at a time 4.4 billion years ago when the solid outer crust still floated on an ocean of molten rock.

In yet another consistency check, a second simulation paper in Nature reports that reverberations through the crust caused by the collision could account for a known decline in magnetism in Martian rock on the opposite side of the planet from the dichotomy.

Dr Alice Samson, co-author of the paper from the University of Leicester School of Archaeology and Ancient History, explains: «Scientific analyses from the team have provided the first dates for rock art in the Caribbean — illustrating that these images are pre-Columbian made by artists exploring and experimenting deep underground.

The paper was co-authored by Harvey West, Timothy Horn and Christopher Rock of NC State; Lena Thorsson, Mattias Unosson and Peter Skoglund of Sindre Metals; and Evelina Vogli of Liquidmetal Coatings.

He could find and grab a coffee cup placed on the center island in his kitchen; play soccer with his daughter Emma in their large downstairs playroom, kicking the ball back and forth over some 15 feet; play rock - paper - scissors; and compete in a game of tic - tac - toe by identifying x's and o's on paper mounted on an easel.

In a series of papers published online today in Science, researchers report that according to Dawn observations, Vesta did indeed agglomerate enough rocky debris as it grew to heat itself by the decay of the rock's radioactive elements.

In another paper by Chi - Yuen Wang of UC Berkeley and colleagues, the researchers note that enhanced permeability of regional rock may be behind changes to groundwater levels up to 150 kilometers from the Pawnee epicenter.

Copy of technical paper by Research Director Paul Robinson on long - term groundwater contamination at two uranium mill tailings sites in New Mexico titled: GROUNDWATER RESTORATION LONG BEYOND CLOSURE AT THE HOMESTAKE - MILAN AND UNITED NUCLEAR - CHURCH ROCK URANIUM MILL TAILINGS PILES, NEW MEXICO, USA: FULL - SCALE PROGRAMS REQUIRING MORE THAN 20 YEARS OF ACTIVE TREATMENT (24k document) in: «Proceedings of Conference on Uranium Mining and Hydrogeology - II», Claudia Helling, et.

The paper also shows that planet c likely has a solid rock surface, and could have eruptions of silicate magmas on its surface driven by tidal heating, similar to Jupiter's moon Io.

The first paper, published this week in the journal Nature, relates to microscopic grains of rock detected by Cassini in the Saturn system.

Last year, the soil science community was rocked by reports that an editor, Artemi Cerdà, was accused of citation stacking — asking authors to cite particular papers — boosting his profile, and that of journals where he worked.

«It's very exciting that we can use these tiny grains of rock, spewed into space by geysers, to tell us about conditions on — and beneath — the ocean floor of an icy moon,» said the paper's lead author Sean Hsu, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

The image was followed by a blank screen, and then text appeared instructing Sorto to imagine making the corresponding hand shape with his right hand — a fist for the rock, an open hand for paper, a scissors gesture for scissors, a pinch for the lizard, and a spherical shape (loosely analogous to the Vulcan salute) for Spock — and to say which visual image he had seen, as the neuroprosthetic device recorded the activity of neurons in the PPC.

According to the new paper, low - temperature serpentinization — when rocks are geochemically altered by the conditions around them — also happens on Enceladus.

By the way, the doctors who care enough to do insurance paperwork and are good functional medicine people, I'm not saying you're not, I'm just saying that so many of the rock stars just realized... They wake up one day and they're losing sleep and they're spending hours and hours of their precious time as a healer who spent 20 years learning how to help someone, instead of helping someone they're signing papers, and like, «You know what, I'm done.»

Jersey, gorgeously shot by Benjamin Kračun, is a place of crashing surf, towering rock cliffs, impenetrable dark forests: in «Beast» civilization is a paper - thin layer over pure chaos.

Rock Paper Dead is the new horror film made by Tom Holland, director of the original Fright Night, Child's Play and Thinner.

Paper Towns actress Caitlin Carver plays a small role as Nancy Kerrigan in the film, a performance that peaks during a thrilling recreation of the well - documented knee - clubbing scandal (perpetrated by associates of Harding) that rocked the sports world — and nearly ruined Kerrigan's shot at competing in Lillehammer.

I start by playing rock, paper, scissors the old fashioned way, just so they get the idea of how the game works.

Year 7s also took part in a workshop provided by two coding experts from Signals, a creative digital learning provider and successfully programmed mini Microbit computers to play «rock, paper, scissors»!

Coming to consensus, by the way, can be anything from the students running a quick pro / con debate, majority rules vote, or even a rock / paper / scissors smack down.

Part of the vicious circle: not selling enough books, must cut costs, make book shorter by shrinking the font, no one wants to read the book... Another rock, paper, scissors game that indies can take over.

I'd never heard Rock, Paper, Scissors called this either, and was quite surprised to see this slide at a presentation by Hugh, wherein I figured he spelled «Rochambeau» oddly.

The show features works by Charlene Broudy who finds inspiration in the vibrant colors of Costa Rica, new works by Carolyn Fox featuring luxuriously wide flowing lines suggesting rock, water, sand and sky, and Steven Gilbar, a self - taught artist who experiments with mixed media and collage on paper and canvas, drawing from this histories of both mediums.

The idea of SimCity running in an offline mode is borne out by Kotaku's tests of the game simulating merrily along for 20 minutes with an unplugged connection, an anonymous Maxis insider directly refuting Bradshaw's claims to Rock, Paper, Shotgun, and Mojang boss Markus «Notch» Persson's personal anecdotes.

Behind the scenes there is a basic rock - paper - scissors system going on that defines combat with the likes of pikemen faring better against cavalry, but in reality the enemy tends to throw big blobs of mixed units at you and the only real way to respond is doing the same, thus fights tend to be resolved by whoever has the biggest blob, or in many cases by the heroes.

I know I said that I was going to try to write a review daily this week, but I got distracted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun advertising that they're looking for a new writer.

The defender can counter these attacks by tapping (or holding) the same exact button that the attacker presses for an attack, so this becomes a simple game of paper, rock, scissors for four attack turns.

Controller ports are determined by Rock - Paper - Scissors using a 1221 layout, with 1 being the team that won the Rock - Paper - Scissors.

The game itself was positively previewed by many gaming sites, including: Rock Paper Shotgun, Kotaku, Indie Statik, Gamezone, Gameranx, Gamezebo or Greenlit Gaming.

We'll Go Some More A-Roving: Extrasolar By Adam Smith at Rock, Paper Shotgun, August 26, 2011 «The website is a good read and there's at least a polite nod toward actual space science history.»

As many RTS, units» strength and weaknesses are dictated by a sort of rock - paper - scissor correlation, meaning that no unit is invincible but always has one or more units that if used correctly, will counter it with ease and move on to attack.

By hitting the grapple button, you and your opponent will end up in a rock paper scissors type game where you both fight for position and the advantage of gaining the upper hand earlier in the match.

They all follow the fundamental rock - paper - scissors of strategy games but manage to feel fresh at the same time by expanding and giving every unit that little bit extra.

Rock Paper Shotgun Indie Panel — Saturday 11AM «The 5th Annual International RPS Indie Mud Wrestling Championships», hosted by John Walker.

The first speakers have already been announced — Chris Avellone, Creative Director at Obsidian, lead designer on «Planescape: Torment» and a host of influential RPG's, is joined by «Child of Light» lead programmer Brie Code of Ubisoft, Cara Ellison, writer at The Guardian, Rock Paper Shotgun and more, and Swedish industry guru Per Strömbäck will moderate a panel named «Founders of the Nordic Games Industry».

The result of each clash was different and seemed to be influenced by rock - paper - scissors button inputs.

The biggest Super Bar gain will be obtained by doing the Pressure / Manual - Double into one of your character's «Rock / Paper / Scissors» Special Moves.

by Steve Chubaty and Trevor Johnson A gentlemanly duel of Rock Paper Scissors among wizards.

- Stages: Battlefield [Dream Land 64], Final Destination [Ω Midgar, Ω Suzaku Castle and Ω Wily Castle], Lylat Cruise, Smashville, Town & City - First stage is decided by (Rock Paper Scissors) best of 1.