Sentences with phrase «failed experiment at»

The Pixel - C was a failed experiment at unifying our digital lives.

If you're willing to put in the time, you'll have no trouble getting your head wrapped around the time warping realities of a failed experiment at Riverport University and the impact it has had on Quantum Break's two lead characters, Jack Joyce and Paul Serene.

For Marvel, Deadpool's regenerative powers are explained as Wilson being the final failed experiment at Weapon X before the breakthrough with Wolverine.

Silas Chou's failed experiment at Thakoon is not the end of «see now, buy now,» but it does underscore the limits of the approach for smaller brands and the sheer scale of investment and effort required to make it work.

Not exact matches

In September, with Bitcoin's value at $ 5, Nobel Prize — winning economist Paul Krugman wrote an op - ed piece on the currency, concluding that the experiment was doomed to fail.

After attempting this experiment for a month and failing many times (what would YOU have done at the grocery checkout with four kids and a full cart only to realize you forgot cash??)

I tried the experiment and god failed miserably and at every opportunity

These gifts combined with a free university education to so many people for whom there were then no appropriate jobs, as well as a civil war, led to the failure of the experiment failed, but in a time when it is clear, at least to me, that global pursuit of more and more wealth is suicidal for the human race, I think it would be worthwhile to study such efforts.

I would like to offer two reasons why the speech experiment failed to take root at Candler: 1) my inability to identify, claim and integrate my emerging performance perspective on preaching with the dominant image of communication in the theological school.

The headlines were deafening this week — if current trends continue, the last Christian at Boston's historic Park Street Church will leave the faith in a few decades, join a Wiccan coven on Harvard Square, tell her live - in atheist boyfriend that Christianity is dead, and we'll all just move on from this failed Christian experiment...

After 15 years of failed experiments, a cloning breakthrough was accomplished by scientists at Oregon University recently.

Baking experiment fail # 1: I forgot to look at the conversion and it isn't a 1:1 substitution.

As always now Arsenal are trailing the competition and should we fail to convince Simeone we will be looking at a manager who will be an experiment and likely inferior to the managers the other top 7 teams have.

At this point we've experimented with pairing Embiid with Jah (fail) and Jah with Noel (fail... to my surprise and disappointment).

Guardiola don't seem to have the answer to Klopp's system right now, he experimented at Anfield and failed miserably.

I don't think it wwould be a good idea for Walcott to try again to be a centre - forward, as that experiment failed miserably at Arsenal, and of course England already have a nailed - on Number 9 in Harry Kane.

Secondly, Wenger needs to become far more flexible when it comes to his formation selections... remember this is the same individual that hadn't used a 3 - back system for 20 years and only conceded to the experiment when the proverbial shit hit the fan... you know it killed him to adopt «Conte's» system, which is probably why he resisted so long; in fact his stubbornness to adjust even earlier might have cost us the 4 hole... much like most sports that have tactical formations, every team should have a «base» offensive and defensive scheme, but they likewise need to have some inherent flexibility depending on the opposing teams tactics and / or when specific substitutions are made... how many times have you watched a Wenger - run team make a late substitution but not change their shape on the pitch... furthermore, how many times have you seen our team fail to make the necessary adjustments at halftime due to Wenger's tactical stubbronness, which often led to giving up goals in the early minutes of the second - half... the best teams in the world know how to make halftime adjustments whereas we always seem to be surprised when the opposing team throws a wrinkle into the mix following halftime... this my friend is soccer 101

Whilst it can be a useful exercise to use pre-season to experiment with formations and tactics this should be reserved for the latter stages of a game once substitutions are made.Crucially Arsenal failed to use game time to acclimatise the players who are likely to start the Season to one another and to continue to develop a team philosophy which had proven so successful in a crucial game at the end of last Season.Reverting to type will only have one end product and it won't go down well with the Arsenal faithful.

The 52 - year - old's reputation is in tatters after his failed spell at Manchester United, and an experiment gone wrong at Real Sociedad, but this is the same man who worked wonders at Everton for a decade.

Thomas had been the last pick in the 2011 NBA Draft, thrived for the Sacramento Kings anyway, was dealt by them after three seasons, came off the bench for the Phoenix Suns in a failed three - guard lineup experiment, and ultimately was traded for scraps at the deadline.

Will the Minister accept that this experiment is failing, because it is not providing fair assessment, and look again at how best to obtain accurate results in these important exams for young people?

Both Smith and Klein were in charge for at least part of the failed experiment that was the Democratic majority of 2009 through 2011.

Then in 2007 came the disheartening news that the Mini Booster Neutrino Experiment (MiniBooNE, pictured) at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, had failed to find evidence of them.

Tristan Bekinschtein at the Medical Research Council's Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, UK, says he has tried to do the same experiment on adults, but failed, as they woke up.

For someone who's an expert and «not a technician,» this level of incompetence is surprising — especially given that I successfully repeat the experiments that SciZ failed at.

Many physicists argued that other factors besides dark matter could explain DAMA's signal, so for years, other experiments tried and failed to confirm it — including XENON10, also at Gran Sasso.

As a result, researchers can end up repeating the same failed experiments, putting patients at unnecessary risk.

Thus this small inquisitorial experiment had failed to support the theory that, at the end of the day, scientists of goodwill would come together to underpin the search for truth.

According to Haughey, after many failed experiments to determine the brain's messenger, he visited his colleague and collaborator Daniel Anthony at Oxford University, who introduced him to the concept of «exosomes» — miniature vesicles released from cells.

The original experiment by Fleischmann and his colleague Stanley Pons failed to demonstrate anything at all.

Monkeys typically find other monkeys impossible to ignore, and this experiment was no exception: the monkeys often failed at the reward task because they looked at the faces, especially if the faces depicted emotion.When humans are torn between paying attention to two different things, it triggers a «conflict» circuit in a brain region called the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) which is part of a larger brain structure controlling rational thought and emotions.Using a tiny sensor implanted in the dACCs of the monkeys, Platt's group was able to measure the electrical activity of single neurons.

His experiments began with failed attempts in central Manchester between 12 September 1945 and then continued at Jodrell Bank in December 1945.

As you can see from the data graph below, THC metabolite levels go down much more slowly using the expensive detox kit (priced at $ 125) and failed to reach acceptable levels (below 10g / ml) even after the end of the experiment 65 hrs after detox began,

You've nudged pushed me to experiment and explore, and in those moments when my trials failed dismally, told me to «walk it off» and laugh because, at the end of the day, it's just clothes.

Nor in watching mindless torture porn like Hostel; a genre increasingly viewed as the favorite pastime of failed experiments in parenting, moreover, and thus to be avoided at all costs.

But to consider it a failed experiment, or a quixotic folly, would be meaningless because the film works on terms that are entirely its own: if it resembles anything at all, it's the uncategorizable, uncanny extraterrestrial artifacts left behind on Earth by the alien visitors in the Strugatskys» Roadside Picnic.

Bunny needs the work, having lost, in succession, the full pension due a retired police major, his golden parachute running security for Johns Hopkins (both casualties of his experiment, «Hamsterdam,» to legalize drugs in his district, which yielded both a 14 % drop in violent crime and a massive political shitstorm), and his security job at a downtown hotel (the result of his failing to give special treatment to a «friend of the hotel» who beats up a hooker).

Trevorrow, along with screenwriter Gregg Hurwitz, utterly fail at pulling off this genre - smashing, Rube Goldberg-esque experiment.

At first, the experiment seemed poised to fail, due to a dramatic drop in birth rate.

For decades, American schools have been engaged in a failed experiment, attempting to cram more content into a typical teaching day than humanly possible, asking children to learn overwhelming content at younger and younger ages without taking the time to build the foundation skills needed for learning success or behavioral success, and creating anxiety - filled classrooms in which children are less likely to fall deeply in love with learning.

His unprecedented autonomy allowed him to engage in bold experiments regarding the governance and operation of the city's schools, expanding choice at all levels of the system by closing failing schools and opening charter schools, decentralizing authority, and creating a new accountability system to drive innovation.

For example, Michael Deshotels, a former executive director of the Louisiana Association of Educators who is now a paid lobbyist for the union, claimed in a recent blog post that the NAEP results prove White «has failed miserably at all his efforts and our children have suffered while he experimented with untested, unsound theories.»

Since 1983, when A Nation At Risk warned Americans that its public schools were failing at an alarming rate, reform has taken on many different forms, with some experiments yielding more success than otherAt Risk warned Americans that its public schools were failing at an alarming rate, reform has taken on many different forms, with some experiments yielding more success than otherat an alarming rate, reform has taken on many different forms, with some experiments yielding more success than others.

With more than a quarter of its schools deemed failing and at risk of being taken over by the state, Shelby County Schools Superintendent Dorsey Hopson hired Sharon Griffin, a hard - charging, no - nonsense Memphis native, to oversee what has become a life - saving turnaround experiment.

At its worst, it was a failed experiment to rebadge existing cars from Toyota's global portfolio and attempt to market them to millenials who didn't want to be told what was «cool.»

My complaints about the previous CR - V were already minor — basically, that it was loud at freeway speeds, the doors sounded thin and hollow and the volume knob was left off the radio in some kind of failed ergonomic experiment.

However, that time also coincided with intensification in my Buddhist meditation practice, higher attendance at more and longer meditation retreats, many periods (years, not months) of unemployment, and fewer intimate relationships, so the experimental «controls» fail for THIS experiment.

The Food Network and the stars it spawned are such ubiquitous figures in our kitchens and living rooms, it's hard to recall that at its founding the network was a seat - of - the - pants experiment that virtually everyone expected to fail.

Amazon did experiment with the DX, which was a 9.7 inch e-reader, but they released it at a time when touchscreen devices were not the norm and customers failed to buy it in droves.

Today, booting up my Kobo to see if I could sell the thing on eBay and get at least some of my money back from this failed experiment, it booted up with a black bar across the top and a blank screen.