Sentences with word «eyeblink»
Twenty - five years is a mere eyeblink in the story of Egyptian, Mayan or even medieval English art, but it is a long time in the modern or (weasel word) post-modern context, and if one is given a single programme - a mere 55 minutes - to bring the story up to date from where The Shock of the New left off when we finished making the series, one is bound to fail.
theguardian.com
But findings from deep drilling in the Songliao Basin show that the climate swings on land were far more drastic, with average annual temperatures going up or down by as much as 20 °C over tens of thousands of years — a geological eyeblink.
Richard Thompson, now professor emeritus of psychology, biological sciences, and neuroscience at the University of Southern California, trained rabbits in what is called eyeblink conditioning, in which the sound of a musical tone is paired with a puff of air to the eye.
That seems to raise an obvious queston: how is it that a relative eyeblink of time can be so definitive with regard to a warming trend that as far as I know has been significantly exceeded in the past?
«I'd call that major downsizing in an evolutionary eyeblink,» he says.
Later, as researchers watched videotapes of the suspects» accounts, they tallied verbal signs of cognitive load (such as fewer spatial details in the suspects» stories) and nonverbal ones (such as fewer eyeblinks).
In a revolutionary eyeblink, a....
That may be why the axis of Earth's magnetic field is cockeyed, leaning these days to the east, while a few geologic eyeblinks ago it tilted to the west.
They also validate eyeblink studies as a powerful research tool, Jones says.
I noticed, between eyeblinks, Pete Postlethwaite, Liam Cunningham, Polly Walker, Danny Huston, Alexander Siddig, Nicholas Hoult (A Serious Man), Jane March (The Lover), and Elizabeth McGovern — who also appears, in flashbacks, as Hit Girl's mom in Kick - Ass.
Instead, with the help of the inspired editor, Joe Bini, we catch abrupt, arresting glimpses of Joe's past in eyeblink flashes.
The gardening time amounted to a geological eyeblink: not millions of years, and not even hundreds of thousands of years.
Our lifetime here, no matter how long, short, or painful; or pain - free [whatever that may be] will be an eyeblink in the span of Eternity... I believe our souls were created for Eternity; not this small span on this broken planet.
Toads are hugely bigger, can tongue - strike in an eyeblink and swallow all kinds of nasty stuff.
The eyeblinks are particularly interesting because whereas rapid blinking suggests nervousness, fewer blinks are a sign of cognitive load, Vrij explains — and contrary to what police are taught, liars tend to blink less.
The meaning of Thompson's finding was clear: He had found an engram encoding the association between the puff of air, the tone, and the eyeblink, showing for the first time that the destruction of one particular set of neurons could wipe out one particular memory.
The eyeblink conditioning is stored in a small number of cells in a particular region of the cerebellum.»
But the Lake Victoria cichlids far surpass Darwin's finches in the astonishing speed with which they diversified: the more than 500 species that live there and only there today all evolved within the past 15,000 to 10,000 years — an eyeblink in geologic terms — compared with the 14 finch species that evolved over several million years.
You yank your leg up in an eyeblink.
The instigation of the eyeblink is even faster than the blink itself.
From an evolutionary perspective, 300 years is an eyeblink.
For example, learning to close one's eyes for a few seconds when one feels an eyeblink tic coming on can suppress the tic.
The sight gags, most of them quick as an eyeblink, are shrewdly timed; considerable credit goes to editors David Burrows and McKay, who really know how to bite off the end of a scene at precisely the right moment.
(It's an eyeblink in the finished product.)
As much as I've been critical of various implementation details of LCFF and whether the base was sufficient, I have to hand Brown an enormous amount of credit for changing the school funding formula to benefit low income and underresourced schools and for the remarkable political feat of getting it done in an eyeblink.
She could sense the cameras behind the mirrors too, recording her every eyeblink and muscle twitch, and the watchers behind the cameras, the guards, doctors and technicians employed by the state and the millions watching at home, feet propped up on the coffee table, a beer or a soda in one hand, eyes fixed on the vidscreen.
I would have bought this in an eyeblink if it was worldwide.
Yes, over a small fraction of geologic time we've seen the evolution of hominids and over a tiny, almost imperceptible period of time, the evolution of humans followed over an eyeblink of geologic time, the growth and flourishing of human civilization.
We're hardly more than an eyeblink away from the fall of Troy, and scarcely an interglaciation removed from the Altamira cave painters.
This is a geological eyeblink.
But a good cert on a Human Resources resume can take you from Barney Fife to proto - Dave - Ulrich in an eyeblink.
Follow the plan above, and your babysitting resume will go from Bart Simpson to Lisa in an eyeblink.
I agree that 45 days is a eyeblink in investing in real estate.