Sentences with phrase «by the objects around»

Vo's conceptual work serves as a reminder of the personal and political meanings carried by the objects around us

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In relation to the space around it the Earth is weightless.But early man felt that the Earth (a very huge object) must be held up by something.

The Protestant bishop of Karachi, for example, has been stopped twice in the past year by Christians who object to his plan to develop commercial space around the outer wall of St. Andrews, the second - largest Protestant church property in Karachi.

Zen begins with the ordinary individual who is separated from his own true Buddha nature by the false dichotomies of a «Buddha» far back in history, or now in Nirvana; or, more existentially, man as separated from the world around him by a subject - object dualism.

First, he distinguishes from classical empiricism a revisionary description of experience according to which sense perception is neither the only nor even the primary mode of experience, but is rather derived from a still more elemental awareness both of ourselves and of the world around us» (PP 78).6 On Ogden's analysis, both the classical and this first type of revisionary empiricism «assume that the sole realities present in our experience, and therefore the only objects of our certain knowledge, are ourselves and the other creatures that constitute the world» (PP 79) 7 With these «two more conventional types of empiricism» he contrasts a «comprehensive» type of revisionary empiricism distinguished from them by its consideration of the possibility (and then also by its claim) that the internal awareness it asserts together with the former revisionary type is «the awareness not merely of ourselves, and of our fellow creatures, but also of the infinite whole in which we are all included as somehow one» (PP 87, 80, 85).

He was forced to recant his discoveries by the catholic church because they were inconsistent with the prevailing beliefs that all celestial objects orbited around the earth.

One advantage that a broader duration will have over the briefer durations with which it is contemporaneous is its capacity to sum up successive briefer duration; making them simultaneous.22 We have already seen that this is Bergson's explanation of the manner in which the successive «vibrations» of objects around us are transformed by us into stable, unchanging surfaces.

Unlike objects, which enter into experience by virtue of the «intellectuality of recognition,» events are lived through, they extend around us: «They are the medium within which our physical experience develops, or, rather, they are themselves the development of that experience» (PNK 63).

Are there any leads from the world of science of today suggesting that the individual entities of creation from protons to people are not simply objects pushed around by external forces?

Around 6 months of age your baby's eyesight hand - eye coordination will be improving by leaps and bounds, allowing them to pick up and hold objects.

You stimulate your baby by talking to her, touching her, being affectionate, showing her the world around her, and introducing objects for her to see, feel, taste, and experience.

That way you'll know that by 3 or 4 months most babies can grasp and reach for objects, for example, and around 9 months most can stand while holding on to something.

«Once your baby starts to sit up by herself and hold objects, make sure you get active, too — get down on the floor and play with her, chase her around when she gets more mobile, crawl, jump up and down, and so on — you get exercise while teaching her physical tricks.»

However, whether your baby is an early talker or not, be sure to encourage your baby to chatter by using proper words when talking and also frequently point out objects around the house.

Go around your home, room by room, and secure any furniture (e.g. dressers, bookcases, tables, wardrobes) or larger object such as lamps that could potentially topple over.

He may also be terrified by harmless objects around him.

You can foster the development of your baby's hand grasp by placing an infant rattle or soft toy in the palm of her hand and letting her close her fingers around the object.

By the time tour bundle of joy starts exploring the world around him you will have all the required objects for baby proofing installed at home.

The visual learner is believed to learn best through sight, while the tactile / kinesthetic learner learns best by manipulating objects and moving around.

The study found a relationship between the size of the central object and the speed of the flickering produced by the disc, suggesting the physics of the accretion must be very similar around these different astronomical objects despite them being completely different in other ways, such as size, age, temperature and gravity.

Meanwhile, enormous ground - based observatories like the Giant Magellan Telescope in Chile and the Thirty Meter Telescope in Hawaii, both scheduled to open their eyes around 2020, will perform the more time - consuming work of measuring the masses and densities of the planets found by TESS to determine whether they are rocky objects, gassy ones, or something else entirely.

Led by Renu Malhotra, a Regents» Professor of Planetary Sciences in the UA's Lunar and Planetary Lab, the team found that the four Kuiper Belt Objects with the longest known orbital periods revolve around the Sun in patterns most readily explained by the presence of a hypothetical «Planet Nine» approximately ten times the mass of Earth.

Relying on modern forensic techniques, such as contour and trajectory analysis of the traumas, the authors of the study showed that both fractures were likely produced by two separate impacts by the same object, with slightly different trajectories around the time of the individual's death.

But it does not work well for illumination around transparent objects, like semi-transparent shadows from glass objects, or illumination by specular surfaces (so - called caustics).

A team led by Shree K. Nayar, T.C. Chang Professor of Computer Science at Columbia Engineering, has developed a novel sheet camera that can be wrapped around everyday objects to capture images that can not be taken with one or more conventional cameras.

For example, a researcher would shake a box, accompanied by the sound of an object bouncing around inside.

Scientists in Singapore have discovered a way to make objects disappear from view by bending light around them.

But only six decades after Sputnik's launch into pristine skies, the orbit around Earth is now filled with nearly 18,000 objects tracked by the United States Strategic Command.

It was thought that moons form around planets just as planets form around stars, by coalescing from a gaseous disc surrounding a central object.

The telescope is built around a 34 - inch - wide beryllium mirror, cooled by liquid helium to — 450 °F to eliminate the infrared noise that every warm object emits.

Radar observations by the U.S. Air Force and by amateur hobbyists revealed that after each commercial satellite was deployed, an additional small object flew far away from the jettisoned rocket booster, only to later turn around and fly back.

The region of space around an object where a satellite could orbit indefinitely is called the Hill sphere, roughly defined as where the object's gravitational field is stronger than that exerted by another object outside the sphere.

Research done by Dr. Mel Goodale, from the University of Western Ontario, in Canada, and colleagues around the world, is showing that echolocation in blind individuals is a full form of sensory substitution, and that blind echolocation experts recruit regions of the brain normally associated with visual perception when making echo - based assessments of objects.

They are focused on applications for autonomous vehicles, some of which already have similar laser - based systems for detecting objects around the car, but other uses could include seeing through foliage from aerial vehicles or giving rescue teams the ability to find people blocked from view by walls and rubble.

Instead, we determine its mass by measuring how its gravitational pull influences the motion of objects around it.

The cloaking technique renders an object invisible by bending light of specific frequencies around the target.

For example, building a useful invisibility cloak — the kind that could hide a person or a military tank — requires crafting many little devices that pick up a ray of light on the far side of an object, away from the observer, and then relay that ray, row by row, around the object.

By tightly controlling the bending, or refraction, of microwaves as they pass through a custom - built material, the Duke researchers could force them to detour around an object so that the microwaves are neither absorbed nor reflected.

The Duke cloak, constructed from a synthetic structure called a metamaterial, prevented those disturbances by bending light waves around the object, allowing them to continue flowing like water in a stream around a rock (concept shown at right).

He's the man who recently stirred up a hornet's nest by finding lots of new objects orbiting in the outer reaches of the solar system, one of which — Eris — is around 1,400 miles wide, about the same size as Pluto.

When such objects land on a reef and are shoved around by the waves, they break up the coral.

A platform tiled with ultrasound - emitting speakers can get small objects to hover, spin, move around and get reeled in as if pulled by a tractor beam (shown).

The telescopes also were key parts of an international program to look for planets around other stars by means of gravitational microlensing, in which the gravity of a small object passing in front of a star briefly amplifies the star's light.

The researchers visualized the flow by lacing the water with tiny plastic beads and tracking them with laser light, showing that as the drag crisis set in, the object's wake shrank and the water flow stretched smoothly around the object.

Gravitational lensing is a phenomenon caused by an object's influence on the space - time around it.

In the Lyme disease system, the researchers got around this confounding factor by looking at diversity in the unexpressed cassettes, which would not have been the object of direct selection because they have no known function on their own; they simply exist as a way of increasing the potential diversity of the VlsE protein.

Through a technique called gravitational microlensing in which the light from a background object is bent by gravity around a foreground object.

By studying the dance of two Earth - orbiting satellites, Italian physicists have detected the subtle twisting of spacetime around a massive, spinning object.

The scans showed etches around the edge of the object, each separated by five degrees — proving that it is an astrolabe.

Galileo was the first person to discover that Jupiter was not alone, but that it was actually accompanied by other celestial objects that revolved around it.