Sentences with phrase «eyeblink of»

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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.

Toads are hugely bigger, can tongue - strike in an eyeblink and swallow all kinds of nasty stuff.

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).

The eyeblink conditioning is stored in a small number of cells in a particular region of the cerebellum.»

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.

The gardening time amounted to a geological eyeblink: not millions of years, and not even hundreds of thousands of years.

Instead, with the help of the inspired editor, Joe Bini, we catch abrupt, arresting glimpses of Joe's past in eyeblink flashes.

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.

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.

We're hardly more than an eyeblink away from the fall of Troy, and scarcely an interglaciation removed from the Altamira cave painters.