Sentences with phrase «factoids like»

Or «How to cherry pick factoids you like from a barely understood text book you have just skimmed, without really having thought about working through thoroughly»

The problem is with factoids like «temperatures are rising» being used to arm moral and political arguments.

That would be relevant information (as opposed to i.e. random factoids like Mohatdebos above says).

When you bill something as «Professional Highlights,» please don't give me a factoid like «25 years in transportation management.»

Not exact matches

Well a little factoid on me is I NEVER liked mustard — ever.

They look like hats designed in the basement of a middle - aged dad who learned everything about NFL teams from factoids he garnered off Wikipedia.

Among other revelations from the «Dufnering» man himself was the little - known factoid that the Wanamaker Trophy holds 43 beers and the universally acknowledged opinion that Rory Sabbatini was the least liked golfer on tour and fortunate to make his living in a non-contact sport.

Bearing in mind also the analysis in today's Grauniad, and other posts like Anthony Painter's at LabourList, it looks as if the facts are now being separated from the Cameroonian factoids and myths.

Like most other dating sites, there are also «About Me» factoids to complete at will, including a mandatory indication of your level of religious observance, ranging from culturally Jewish to extremely observant.

Last but not least, Universal's U-CONTROL feature offers three unique pop - up video displays for each film: «Setups & Payoffs,» for those who never picked up on stuff like the Twin Pines Mall / Lone Pine Mall gag — though often this track resorts to simple factoids, as if bored; «Storyboard Picture - in - Picture Comparisons,» which is, I hope, self - explanatory; and a reconfiguring of the DVD's «Trivia Track.»

Garner's repeated attempts at realistic football - speak end up sounding more like she's reading factoids off the back of a Wheaties box.

This year's nominees are the source of the kind of fun factoids and useless trivia movie mavens gobble up like so much artificially flavored popcorn.

If it is a genuine crap detector you'd like for your agency, I suggest you inquire as to the program Triond.com and Factoids uses.

There is also an extensive franchise section where you can find out all manner of statistical information about your favorite team, along with almanac - like capsules presenting interesting factoids.

It is on the prodigious research and love of trivia that inform Mr. Brown's stories (this one makes mincemeat of all those factoid - heavy wannabes, like Matthew Pearl's «Dante Club»), the ease with which he sets them in motion, the nifty tricks (Dante's plaster death mask is pilfered from its museum setting, then toted through the secret passageways of Florence in a Ziploc bag) and the cliffhangers.

Like her (amazing) earlier collection, The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits, the stories in Astray are all based on real historical factoids,

FINAL FACTOID on this issue: Like anything in life, you get what you pay for.

I can't verify if this is one hundred percent true or not, (mainly because I don't want to Google it just to find out that it's not true — I like this factoid, even if it's as fake as Britney Spears» singing voice) but I read somewhere that the guys at GamePro couldn't beat a single level of that game, leading several forum members to unofficially dub them GameNoob.

Morano's entire job is to aggregate every misleading factoid, every attack on climate science or scientists, every crank skeptical statement from anyone in the world and send it all out periodically in email blasts that get echoed throughout the right - wing blog world and eventually find their way into places like Fox News and the Weekly Standard.

Another interesting factoid is that the highest SST measured by ARGO buoys is also right around 34.4 C. High readings cluster at 30C like there's almost a brick wall at that temperature with rare departures above it to a maximum of a bit under 35C.

So that is what a factoid looks like.

Always cherry - picking his factoids to deflect the conversation to where he would like it to go.

«We probably won't push people off pyramids like the Mayans did, but Slooh [a live - streaming global network of telescopes] will very much celebrate this extraordinary day of light with fascinating factoids and amazing live telescope feeds.»

While questions requiring a factoid often result in the right answer, more complex queries often (when put to the likes of Siri, for example) return a collection of various passages.

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But that was before we discovered Slacker Radio — the hip radio alternative that arguably does a better job finding music that you're going to like while sprinkling in little factoids about the songs and playlists you select.