Sentences with phrase «by osmosis»
«I spent a decade learning by osmosis from all the brilliant people around me,» says Hunter, who is considered one of the founders of bioinformatics.
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While you can't completely shield your children from whatever crises you face (even if they're not directly involved, kids are notorious for picking up on stressful situations their parents face, as if by osmosis), you can do other things to minimize their exposure to the stress.
I think I learned ceramics almost by osmosis since mum has been working with clay in one form or another for as long as I can remember.
Students in these areas aren't learning about the mainstream economy by osmosis from friends and neighbors.
You can't help but be inspired by osmosis.»
For those kids not lucky enough to learn cooking by osmosis at home (unlike the kids of most Lunch Tray readers, I'm guessing), who is going to teach them?
If you could learn by osmosis by sleeping on textbooks, Michael would have been an honorary professor by now.
Root pressure is created by water moving from its reservoir in the soil into the root tissue by osmosis (diffusion along a concentration gradient).
At the same time, if too much saltcollects in the soil around the plant, a pressure differential arises, and water is sucked from the roots by osmosis.
We employ only engineers and we teach design within the company by osmosis.
And some people with mental illness think they can get «assessment values» from other people by osmosis or ESP.
I had gotten a law school education by osmosis, and one of the first things law students learn is «Never ask a question to which you don't already know the answer.»
I don't think new friends join by osmosis.
«I did not get qualified by osmosis when they awarded me the franchise.»
Water keeps moving by osmosis until equilibrium is reached, this is when the concentration of both solutions is the same.
Carpenters - and spouses of carpenters (because we learn a whole lot by osmosis, don't we?)
But even with you pledging to be on your best behavior on a regular basis, there does need to be some teaching and explaining involved — manners can't be learned strictly by osmosis.
While some children seem to learn to read by osmosis, there are many who are not interested in learning to and who will probably need more «teaching».
But even with respect to the older child, I believe that Satter would say (and she indicated as much in an email to me) that with respect to any behavior at the table, whether it's eating vegetables or putting one's napkin on one's lap, children learn far better by osmosis — by observing your behavior — than through any overt parental pressure, which more often than not can backfire.
So they learn useful life skills by osmosis.
Instead, inflammation causes the mucous cells of the nose to release their own liquid, although the concentrated plasma proteins could attract liquid by osmosis as they seep towards the nasal cavity, he says.
This process is accomplished by using cryoprotectants composed of typically large sugar molecules that make a more concentrated solution around the cells, which by osmosis and diffusion causes water to move out.
Peter Fournier writes that proposals to produce electricity in Norway by osmosis of fresh water into seawater are impractical (4...
Because humans lack a suitable enzyme in the small intestine to digest it, a majority of lactitol reaches the large intestine, where it then becomes fermentable to gut microbes (prebiotic) and can pull water into the gut by osmosis, causing a laxative effect.
To be honest, I am growing a bit weary of this notion that you can somehow learn yoga by osmosis, especially when it comes to yoga teachers.
Water follows electrolytes by osmosis; when you sweat, you end up losing both.
A lot of spouses I know joke that they have «ADHD by osmosis.»
But that was auditory learning; I absorbed the language by osmosis, by hearing and speaking it every day, as much out of necessity as scholastic joy.
Yet our children, however much they seem to have been born with iPods growing out of their ears, haven't learned to handle digital communications by osmosis, any more than they innately knew how to write a résumé or hold a fork.
She'd scooped up handfuls of confetti and stray glittery feathers and plastic jewelry from the curb and stuffed them in her pockets, trying to absorb frivolity by osmosis.
Meeting in person, whether you're actively involved or a quiet, passive listener, can impart by osmosis more than you might find online with effort.
In retrospect, what we did do that contributed to his overall preparation by osmosis for the Canine Good Citizen title is playing games indoors.
The high temperature of the water has a vasodilatory effect, and when combined with the high saline density, it increases metabolic exchanges by osmosis, thereby aiding the draining and detox effect.
Unique talents aside, you have to appreciate Vamp for making Raiden a more interesting character purely by osmosis.
One can immerse oneself in the slivers or fields of bare cotton, stained by osmosis or the artist's touch.
This recovery is prompted by the osmosis that takes place when our subconscious minds unexpectedly release information that activates memories of past experience.
The expansive white ground reverberates with an exquisite tint of pink, appearing as though the red of the circle seeped slowly out by osmosis to the porous surface area surrounding it, balanced at the other pole by extended halos of faint blue that saturate the white around Gottlieb's brushstrokes.
I think most of the groundwater enters the oceans through seeps driven by osmosis.
Many things in this business have no «for sure» answers, leaving much to be interpreted by osmosis, when if just a few extra minutes spent before the signings on the dotted line were employed, much of the less than desirable paperwork would be the order of the day.
They are taught by osmosis, as consequence, together with being taught how to succeed — which in this business, no one cares enough to teach us.
It doesn't happen by osmosis!
And what the press writes becomes part of the political mood music of the broadcasters, as if by osmosis.
You can just absorb knowledge almost by osmosis, so much knowledge on there.