Sentences with phrase «fascinating observations of»

Jan. 16, 7:06 p.m. Updated Jason Goldman, nudged by an Alexis Madrigal post, has looked further into crow behavior and come up with other fascinating observations of crow behavior.

A fascinating observation of the Everest disaster but no more than that.

Dessler made a fascinating observation of cloud feedbacks in some of the models he looked at in - A determination of the cloud feedback from climate variations over the past decade, A.E. Dessler, Science 330, 1523 (2010); DOI 10.1126 / science.1192546 He writes, The sign of the short - wave feedback shows more variation among models; it is positive in five of the models and negative in three.

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Marty's lengthy discussion of the role of denominations is fascinating — especially his observations (which I find convincing) about the continuing relevance of denominational entities in our reportedly «postdenominational» religious culture.

One fascinating observation: Harkinson notes the connection between the clarity and logic of computer programming and the internal consistency of much of libertarian theory, something that helps to explain why the tech world has been such a hotbed of libertarianism since the beginnings of the web.

Ed Balls provides a Brownite version of recent Labour history and some fascinating observations about the role of civil servants.

There is some fascinating observations about the role of civil servants and how to use them to implement policy.

«This is a fascinating observation that will take some time to decipher properly,» says Michael Vogeley of Drexel University in Philadelphia.

He says that one of the more fascinating observations that RBSPICE has provided his team involves the injections of ions and electrons from the Earth's geomagnetic tail into the ring current, which is the large electrical current that surrounds the Earth.

Our itinerary weaves together two dimensions of this fascinating continent: spectacular landscapes with unmatched views — to the horizons and skyward — in remote areas of Chile and Peru; and a legacy of engineering, architecture, art, and philosophy that includes a tradition of astronomical observation dating back two millennia.

Dr. Arcadio Rodaniche, one of the paper's co-authors, was the first to record the species» striking appearance and describe its uncharacteristic behaviors both in the field and in captivity during the 1970s, but his unprecedented observations were so unique that they were largely ignored at the time, leaving the octopus's fascinating behavior unstudied for decades.

This is «a fascinating new step forward,» says Didier Queloz of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, who, along with Michel Mayor, made the first observations of an exoplanet around a normal star.

«This project was a cohesive dynamic of three scientists from different research backgrounds coming together to investigate a fascinating observation,» says Hartwell, the paper's lead author and an oceanographer affiliated with the University of Akron and the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

There has been no shortage of proposed explanations that have been put forth in order to account for the unusual observations, from the more mundane ones which include the presence of cometary fragments and large disk of debris from planetary collisions within the star system, to the more imaginative and fascinating ones which have invoked the presence of an extraterrestrial super-civilisation that is in the process of constructing gigantic megastructures around the star itself.

OK Cupid has done a great job of dredging up some fascinating and super controversial social observations from their members stats.

The most frustrating thing about Anger Management isn't that Sandler is back to his old tricks, it's that there are observations embedded here about the state of our culture in decline that exhibit a genuine insight and cynicism that could have made for a fascinating satire rather than this unintentional one.

The Scarlett Witch's talent for mind control, in the form of plunging the superheroes back into the unresolved traumas of their past exposes vulnerability and puts the fascinating observation that strength is a matter of staying in the present.

A fascinating tale of Hollywood yore about an unsolved murder that happened on a weekend yacht trip organized by William Randolph Hearst (Edward Herrmann), The Cat's Meow contains the same kind of intelligent class observation that was featured in Gosford Park.

It's a correct and judicious observation, one that helps to «explain» a fascinating and provocative movie, particularly if one sees it alluding directly to the specter of AIDS.

This image shows one of the more fascinating observations that could help you sell more books: Shoppers spent more time looking at «Books In This Series» than «Customers Also Bought...»

Celebrated by critics and readers alike for «interweaving history, fascinating trivia and acute observation» (New York Times Book Review), Simon Winchester is the bestselling author of the nonfiction books The Professor and the Madman,... more

The writing reminded me a lot of Anne Tyler's — it will be enjoyed by fans of domestic, community drama, but made all the more fascinating and unique because its observations are from within the male perspective.

His first dispatch from the trip is live, and it's a fascinating mixture of traveler's observations and quotations from the rarely - seen Cuban leader.

Here you'll find plenty of ecosystems to explore and study, as well as a fascinating research facility with lab areas, observation tower, rustic trails and greenhouse.

The observation is aptly quoted in the doorstop of a catalog for «Tony Oursler: The Imponderable Archive,» a fascinating and amusing exhibition at the Hessel Museum of Art at the Bard Center for Curatorial Studies.

«Scherer is a fascinating artist exploring how contemporary desire and fantasy manifests in relation to celebrities in today's climate of observation and publicity,» says SI director Simon Castets of the artist.

Here it seems proper to resuscitate both Andy Warhol's famous observation that «being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art,» and to paraphrase an aphorism often attributed to the actual Picasso: mediocre artists borrow, great artists steal.

The wind is our most immediate predictor of weather, an endlessly fascinating phenomenon for human observation and discussion.

Updated, 3:10 p.m. Using climate models and observations, a fascinating study in this week's issue of Nature Climate Change points to a marked recent warming of the Atlantic Ocean as a powerful shaper of a host of notable changes in climate and ocean patterns in the last couple of decades — including Pacific wind, sea level and ocean patterns, the decade - plus hiatus in global warming and even California's deepening drought.

It's been fascinating over my career to look at ever - better satellite observations and ever - better model simulations and see that fingerprint pattern of human effects literally emerging from the noise.

Fascinating this idea of OBSERVATION versus IMPOSITION (MODELING).

I recently listened to a fascinating radio interview with Thomas Homer - Dixon, who has some relevant observations on the Pakistan floods and the root causes of why they were so catastrophic.

As usual, a fascinating series of observations.