Sentences with phrase «century after his experiment»

Now, more than a century after his experiment, 24 countries are using geothermal power.

Not exact matches

Isaacson noted Da Vinci's «willingness to challenge received wisdom would lead him to craft an empirical approach for understanding nature that foreshadowed the scientific method developed more than century later... His method was rooted in experiment, curiosity, and the ability to marvel at phenomena that the rest of us rarely pause to ponder after we've outgrown our wonder years».

Secondly, the turn of the century witnessed the rise of abstract art and, after World War I, the poetic experiments of the surrealists, both of which served to familiarize the educated public with the non-figurative and dream worlds.

In science news around the world, NASA's Cassini mission is about to take its final plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn after 13 years providing an unprecedented view of the planet and its moons, a fight over whether to preserve or develop of one Europe's oldest gold mining sites heats up again, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves the first cancer gene therapy for people, a U.S. court gives a green light to a $ 1 billion lawsuit brought by the Guatemalan victims and survivors of mid — 20th century syphilis experiments by research institutions including Johns Hopkins University, and more.

The first accurate measurement of G was not made, in fact, until 1797, more than a century after the discovery of the law of gravity, and it arose from a classic experiment performed by the English nobleman Henry Cavendish.

After experimenting with a variety of herbs and supplements, he says he stumbled upon valerian — a plant that has been used as a mild sedative in Europe for centuries.

They range from examples by Flemish artists working in Britain in the 16th and 17th centuries, to British artists» experiments in modernism after the First World War.

This new work, inspired by a series of famous 20th - century psychological experiments, is entitled Opening Skinner's Box (after the Lauren Slater book of the same name) and will be presented at the Wex March 29 — April 1, 2018.

It is comprised of nine themed sections, including: «New Lands» (on shows such as Magiciens de la Terre, The Short Century and After the Wall); «Biennial Years» (which documents influential biennials such as the Documentas [10, 11, 13] and the Berlin and São Paulo Biennials); «New Forms» (including experiments in exhibition - making such as Do It and NowHere); «Others Everywhere» (on «identity politics» shows such as In a Different Light, Phantom Sightings and the 1993 Whitney Biennial); «Tomorrow's Talents Today» (on influential group exhibitions of emerging artists such as Helter Skelter and Sensation); and «History» (on historical surveys such as Inside the Visible, Global Conceptualism and WACK!).

A quarter of a century before, in 1981, her last husband had died in agony after accidentally infecting himself with spinal meningitis during an experiment.

Analyzing about 500 wells and the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) estimated storage, the authors showed a continued depletion of groundwater lasting a full year after drought; this phenomenon was not observed in earlier records before the 21st century.

After all, sometimes experiments have unknown problems and biases — witness the rejection of the sun centered universe falsification (rejection) due to the failure to detect stellar parallax due to Earth's orbital position around the Sun — something present but too small to detect for many centuries.

For instance, plotting against in an experiment with an abrupt forcing (such as 4xCO2) should give a straight line (red) if were constant, but instead there is almost always some curvature implying that temperature changes a more for the same forcing change after a century or so than at the start (blue line).

In 2013, after Franklin and Johnson teamed up with the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for a small logging experiment near Roseburg, Oregon, protesters camped out for months among the limbs of the largest trees — some a century old — to block the project.

Not long after a tsunami washed over Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plants in March 2011, causing a partial meltdown, it appeared to many that humankind's half - century experiment with nuclear power might be in permanent jeopardy.