Sentences with phrase «famous example of this phenomenon»

The most famous example of this phenomenon is known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - a floating accumulation Marine Debris comprised largely of plastic trash located north of Hawaii.

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18) The fact that there is a later punk - driven attempt to democratize rock fame (and not in the fatuous way that Andy Warhol's «15 - minutes of fame» comment suggested) or that pop / disco artists like Michael Jackson and Madonna will pick up on Bowie's fame - playing and image - emphatic example, in Madonna's case overtly subordinating the music to the prerogatives of notoriety, do not alter what ALMOST FAMOUS is showing us, that rock can be thought of as a social phenomenon / scene that one might belong to («you're too sweet for rock and roll» is said not by a musician to a musician, but by a groupie to a rock writer), that is as fame - focused as it is music - focused.

Like Charles Darwin's famous finches, which evolved a wide range of beak shapes and sizes to exploit the different foods available in the Galápagos Islands, these cichlids represent a textbook example of what biologists term an adaptive radiation — the phenomenon whereby one lineage spawns numerous species that evolve specializations to an array of ecological roles.

The most famous example is probably the double - header of Armageddon and Deep Impact in 1998, but the phenomenon continues to this day.

Interestingly, Einstein was a major contributor to furthering understanding of this phenomenon, for example he co-authored the famous EPR paper.