Sentences with phrase «fascinating people at»

We're so excited to present Visionaries, a new video series that explores the creative process one fascinating person at a time.

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That's according to a tidbit of wisdom in the business book Dinosaur Brains: Dealing With All Those Impossible People at Work unearthed by Farnam Street, a consistently interesting blog dedicated to hunting down just these sorts of fascinating ideas in out - of - the - way places.

Roughly One in Four Americans is Online «Constantly» More than a quarter of U.S. adults consider themselves online «almost constantly» according to survey data recently released by the Pew Research Center, a figure that jumps to nearly 39 percent for younger people in the 18 - to -29-year-old age group, and Kurt Wagner looks closely at some of the survey's fascinating statistics.

It's always fascinating that people will scoff at 800 pages of ancient manuscripts now called the Bible, but as soon as any scrap of ancient manuscript comes along that presents a different story, that scrap is revered as more significant than the 800 pages.

But each year, it results in a fascinating look at American spirituality — especially with the recurrent themes of people tweeting how they plan to give up social networking for the 40 day season of fasting.

Isn't it fascinating how quickly the catholic church picks up on the fact that the American people can again be influenced by fear and hate and now they are angry at the nuns for not using these tactics to «grow» the church.

I have always found it fascinating (and I'm sure God has, too) that people will be believe the 6 o'clock news, weather forecasters, doomsdayers, and even gossip but take God's Word so ljghtly... if at all.

People who do are at risk of being viewed like zoo animals (fascinating, compelling and somewhat repulsive).

While some people find in this idea a fascinating plan of action, there are many others who shudder at the thought.

I think it would be fascinating to look at, and ponder what that persons life was like, a life that was once all concealed inside of it.

If only we could all have the esteemed privilege of watching the intellectual diarrhea you spew forth here in person... I bet it is both thrilling, fascinating, and repulsive to watch all at once.

aren't bloggers lovely people — sounds like a great place to eat out at — and a generous place too — the raw nachos sound fascinating — one of these days I might get out and try some raw foods in Melbourne — hope you are enjoying the snow

But, as Artist Marc Simont shows here and on subsequent pages, the most fascinating pastime at any boat show is people watching

With so many teams looking for a new GM, and many of them looking at the same people, it will be fascinating to see who strikes first in hiring a new one this winter.

Beautiful, amazing, odd, strange, fascinating and sometimes sad objects; a whole lot of interesting people; tired bones (from walking and hefting all day) and tired eyes (from looking at so much stuff); a lot of quick decision making and haggling (neither of which are skills I excel at); and what I love most of all - an entire day of uninterrupted conversation, laughter, food, and stories with a dear friend.

Most people find the idea of having more than one baby at a time fascinating.

«What's fascinating about the polling at the moment on Corbyn is that normally people take quite a while to make up their mind about the leader of the opposition....

«It is fascinating that this happens in some people and not others,» says Glenn Geisler at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

«It's a fascinating model,» says Richard Weiner, a neuroendocrinologist at the University of California, San Francisco, who notes that stress - related hikes in cortisol correlate with an inhibition of reproductive function in people, too.

I find this position very rewarding in that I get to meet very interesting academics as well as people at all levels in industry who are experts in fascinating fields of science and technology.

And it again, it brought home to me the way in which Martin Gardner was at the hub of a vast universe of brilliant, sparkling intellect — including people like Marvin Minsky [at] the M.I.T. artificial intelligence lab; and John Conway who at the time was in England and later came to Princeton and who invented so many deep and fascinating mathematical ideas, especially the Game of Life, to which Martin devoted several columns and which was an incredibly important thing in bringing new ideas to the world of computation and about the cellular automata; and Donald Knuth at Stanford, the great computer [scientist]; Perci Diaconis a statistician who is fascinated by paradoxes of probability and a great magician as well; and Ray Hyman, a psychologist who had a spent a great deal of his life debunking people such as [Uri Geller]; and James Randi, one of the great magicians of our era who also was one of the most important debunkers of pseudoscience in the world.

«The findings for this study are not only fascinating but potentially very important, because they point toward a new paradigm: different people react differently, even to the same foods,» says Eran Elinav (@EranElinav), a researcher in the Department of Immunology at the Weizmann Institute and another of the study's senior authors.

is one that is addressed by many people working on fascinating theories in their basements around the country and the world — and we hear from a lot of them — but this is a profound look at that question as opposed to some of the things that may be some dabblers in physics have come up with.

«I found these shows fascinating and couldn't understand why some people didn't share my enthusiasm, so I used to try and explain things to them — what I had learned at school and, later on, stuff about microbes and disease.»

Elie Dolgin gave a fascinating insight into genetic influences that might lie at the root of some people eating beyond...

Mariette: You raise a fascinating area of what some people have looked at the moral responsibilities that we have as well, especially around emerging diseases or fast - moving diseases and the need to understand them scientifically, where we know for a fact, as you've said, we can mitigate some symptoms, but we're also trying to gather data so that we make sure our therapeutics are very sound.

Yet it is fascinating how many people seem unable to realize the difference between movement at the hips and movement at the waist.

It's fascinating what can be done, but then you look also at what's probably on your plate unless you're buying at the farmer's market or you know what you're doing or maybe paying 20 % more for your vegetables because you know the name of the person who grew them and because you knew that they cared enough to take these things.

I was just at the annual nutrition conference hosted by the Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) a month ago in DC, and heard a presentation of a fascinating study where they did a randomized study comparing 2 vs. 6 meals per day for 12 weeks, with the exact same number of total calories consumed, and then they did a «crossover», where the people eating 2 meals switched to 6 meals and vice versa.

I actually think it's a combination of intuition and design; the people who run these sites are often smart, some even very, very smart (the monthly blog entries at «OkTrends: Dating Research from OkCupid» is an often fascinating read that shows just how smart the math guys who run OkCupid — a popular, ad - supported free dating site — really are).

Brendan Gleeson's bittersweet look at the role of the Catholic Church in the lives of modern people is darkly emotional, hilarious and fantastically fascinating.

I was a big fan of Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank at Cannes 2009, but this is her going even further to show how talented she is at capturing the fascinating lives of people most of us completely ignore (or even despise).

Even though Julian Assange has gone from notorious hacker to exiled cause celebre (hell, Lady Gaga of all people paid him a visit at the Ecuadorean embassy in London), his saga remains fascinating and important.

As each fascinating step in this event is viewed from all angles, it's the people involved at every stage that are honored.

SCREENED AT THE 2004 TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL: It only stands to reason that one of history's most despised and justifiably vilified people would also be one of the most fascinating.

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Four years working at Aston Martin Racing and many more years competing in various national GT Championships have exposed me to a wide range of experiences meeting some fascinating people and seeing some interesting sights along the way.

But Krull's sweeping chronicle of people reputed to have personal pipelines to the future — from the Oracle at Delphi to Leonardo da Vinci and Jean Dixon — makes fascinating, illuminating reading.

The people at our table were a fascinating bunch — they had worked everywhere from a school library, a public library, a community college library to a prison library.

This author is very, very good at creating awful people that are sort of fascinating to follow in a sort of creepy way.

Whether she's imagining the history of an ancient manuscript, as in People of the Book, or an English town determined to survive the plague in A Year of Wonders, Pulitzer Prize - winning novelist Geraldine Brooks is a master at bringing history's little - known but fascinating stories to life.

«At Bouchercon I discovered a wonderful, supportive, fun, dynamic and exciting world, filled with fascinating, sometimes slightly crazy, people.

At a time when Afghanistan has been thrust into the forefront of America's collective consciousness («people sipping lattes at Starbucks were talking about the battle for Kunduz»), Hosseini offers an honest, sometimes tragic, sometimes funny, but always heartfelt view of a fascinating lanAt a time when Afghanistan has been thrust into the forefront of America's collective consciousness («people sipping lattes at Starbucks were talking about the battle for Kunduz»), Hosseini offers an honest, sometimes tragic, sometimes funny, but always heartfelt view of a fascinating lanat Starbucks were talking about the battle for Kunduz»), Hosseini offers an honest, sometimes tragic, sometimes funny, but always heartfelt view of a fascinating land.

It was fascinating to see the different stages authors were at in their careers and it was great to see so many people at the convention learning how market themselves more effectively.

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And what I find fascinating is that we continue to grow at an amazing pace, which shows there are many more people out there looking to get into this industry year after year after year.

On the other hand, plan a trip to the world famous city of Mapungubwe, proof of civilization on the African content between the 11th and 13th centuries, and home to fascinating artifacts, such as the golden rhino, as well as irrefutable proof that local peoples were trading with the East at the time.

All in all — super fascinating to get so many perspectives of my business and hear their advice for each person at my table.

It is always fascinating to go back and have a look at the ways people lived and what made them do the things they did.

Amazing food (particularly the burritos), fascinating people, wine tasting, giant redwoods, exploring San Francisco, the Napa Valley and Berkeley; making new friends, a warm welcome, some serious mini golf at Myrtle Beach, riding on the back of a Harley, canoeing on the river, rummaging through thrift shops and seeing some fantastic wildlife.