Sentences with phrase «grand experiments in»

They can also be considered grand experiments in the future of Uber.

Only those living in the gated moral world of elite America can possibly imagine that our grand experiment in sexual liberation has not come at a great cost to the most vulnerable.

«In the face of climate change, the Adirondack Park, as a grand experiment in protecting an intact ecosystem while balancing the economic needs of its residents, is more important than ever before,» she said.

«In many ways, this has been a grand experiment in how to introduce a product to the market in a new way,» Maynard says.

Earlier in this piece, I mentioned that I'd be writing more about a show in my Best TV of 2017 piece next week, and you can be SURE to read more about David Lynch's grand experiment in that piece as well.

The film follows Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson), a young coder at the world's largest tech company who's invited by his boss, Nathan (Oscar Isaac), to participate in the grandest experiment in human history, involving a robotic girl named Ava (Alicia Vikander), the world's first sentient AI.

But for the most part, the Chicago Public Schools's grand experiment in 21st - century education is already showing signs of progress.

Writing for the Washington Post, Lindsay Layton reported the NOLA district closed the remaining neighborhood schools as part of a «grand experiment in urban education for the nation,» shifting local control of public schools by voters and their elected representatives to privately operated charter schools.

She is Mathinna, the adopted daughter of the island's governor, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane, and the subject of a grand experiment in civilization — one that will determine whether science, Christianity, and reason can be imposed on savagery, impulse, and desire.

For some, for too many, for the old me, in this great nation of ours — this grand experiment in the land of opportunity and free speech, of where every person's opinion counts, of whiners and information overload — it seems hard to be happy.

Almost eight months ago, at Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo, Mark Waid unveiled his grand experiment in digital comics, Thrillbent.

Dividend FIREman's grand experiment in creating multiple income streams is still in its infancy.

These passages make me think of other great memoirs cataloguing spousal indiscretion — in particular Norris Church Mailer's A Ticket to the Circus, about Norman Mailer's «grand experiment in monogamy» with the author, his sixth and last wife, which of course was a failure («I'm not going to talk about the numerous girlfriends, but you know who you are, and there are many more of you than you think,» she writes).

The artist's movement around the square building, synchronically edited to seem as if he is walking from one screen to the next, will be a grand experiment in colour, light and shadow.

Thus can this grand experiment in renewable energy transition strategy be enabled in the Golden State.

It appears Google Compare's grand experiment in online comparison shopping for auto insurance is dead — for now at least.

Thanks for coming, but Public Access, our grand experiment in community contribution is no more.

Not exact matches

He didn't respond to comment for this story, but on Tuesday said this on Twitter about the grand Disney Infinity experiment: «I'd like to think that we contributed to the legacy of Disney in some way and created memories for you, your friends and family w / our game.»

If the Fed and the Government had not printed trillions starting in 2008, Amazon's grand experiment would have expired.

After witnessing unconventional monetary policies push financial markets to new heights, investors seem to be losing faith in this grand experiment.

He experimented with in massachusetts, and will bring it to America on a grand scale.

In year three of The Grand Harbaugh Experiment it should be noted that Michigan finally won't finish third in the B1G East like they had in his first two yearIn year three of The Grand Harbaugh Experiment it should be noted that Michigan finally won't finish third in the B1G East like they had in his first two yearin the B1G East like they had in his first two yearin his first two years!

Residents in three areas will be lab rats for the anti-rodent experiment: Bushwick and Bed - Stuy in Brooklyn; The Grand Concourse in The Bronx; and the Lower East Side, East Village and Chinatown in Manhattan.

With the election of Ben Walsh, Syracuse has truly entered a time of what the independent called «a grand experiment» in nonpartisan politics.

He is pledging a «grand experiment» in non-partisan government.

A grand experiment is about to begin in English schools: computer science will join the three Rs as the fourth core subject for kids as young as 5

SHANGHAI — China will soon begin its grand experiment to rein in climate change, using the nation's regionwide carbon markets as the building blocks for what could become the world's second - largest emissions trading market.

Humans are caught up in a grand planetary experiment of lowering the ocean's pH, with a potentially devastating toll on marine life.

In this book, biologist and science writer Dugatkin and Trut recount this grand experiment.

During the 12 - day at - sea experiment called GLAD (Grand Lagrangian Deployment), the research team deployed 300 GPS - equipped custom drifter soff the UM Rosenstiel School research vessel F.G. Walton Smith in a region where wind - driven continental shelf currents mix with buoyancy - driven Mississippi River outflow currents and deep eddy - driven currents in the Gulf of Mexico.

In the pages that follow, we examine his novel theory and the grand experiment he has proposed to put it to the test.

But in 1926 pioneering forestry scientists in the pay of the British colonial government started a grand experiment to reseed, and it's now the only place in the world where there is a very large tract of artificially seeded rainforest — one which has slowly been regenerating for nearly 90 years.

I'd like to add an observation consistent with Benjamin Libet's experiments, which showed volunteers» brains initiating movement before they became consciously aware of an intention to move, as mentioned in «The grand delusion» (14 May, p 35).

«Hurricane Harvey was, among other things, a grand ecological experiment,» said Miller, the principal investigator on the grant and the Godwin Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in Rice's Department of BioSciences.

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As an experiment in genre mixing, an art - house curiosity, a new way of handling the grand theme of adolescence, and an example of the inherent powers a film score can possess; yes, it's really great.

He didn't respond to comment for this story, but on Tuesday said this on Twitter about the grand Disney Infinity experiment: «I'd like to think that we contributed to the legacy of Disney in some way and created memories for you, your friends and family w / our game.»

U.S. DRAMATIC Grand Jury Prize: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Alfonso Gomez - Rejon Audience Award: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Alfonso Gomez - Rejon Directing Award: The Witch, Robert Eggers Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: The Stanford Prison Experiment, Tim Talbott Special Jury Award — Cinematography: Diary of a Teenage Girl, Brandon Trost Special Jury Award — Excellence in Editing: Dope, Lee Haugen Special Jury Award — Collaborative Vision: Advantageous, Jacqueline Kim, Jennifer Phang

The experiment in place - based education earned the 17,000 - student Grand Rapids school district a coveted $ 10 million grant from XQ: The Super Schools Project in 2016, one of 10 awards made to schools and districts around the nation that challenge conventional ideas of what high school is.

Sir Peter and his son, Cameron, were special guests at the school for the afternoon and were treated to a science - themed lunch, a tour of the school and helped the children conduct experiments in the new, dedicated physics lab, before the grand opening.

Each legislator is equipped with the same information about the void in proof of vouchers» effectiveness, yet it doesn't stop them from using our children in this grand experiment.

In short, this is a grand experiment with only theoretical assurances.

The refurbished Grand Prix track, updated to full FIA spec, is too fast for this guy to learn in a few laps (or maybe ever), especially when there are streams running across a handful of the apexes and exits as refurbishers experiment with drainage.

In a wonderful prologue, Spufford labels the grand experiment of «Red Plenty» a skazki - a Russian fairytale.

Told in alternating chapters, these four variations on a character's life are disorienting until the novel establishes a quadraphonic rhythm, and it becomes clear that Auster is conducting a grand experiment, not only in storytelling, but also in the endless nature - versus - nurture debate, the perpetual dance between inheritance and free will, intention and chance, dreams and fate.

Here's one final thought: I found my publishing route by participating in Eric Flint's grand fan - fic experiment, where he allows anyone who has the desire to write and submit stories in his Ring of Fire universe, the best of which are selected for publishing in the Grantville Gazette e-magazine, with the best of the e-magazine stories selected for the Grantville Gazette hard copy anthologies.

It is 1994, and in the desert near Tillman, Arizona, forty miles from Tucson, a grand experiment involving the future of humanity is underway.

But the end of this grand experiment is now in sight, if only because there are just three episodes remaining.

Shinobi Legions was likewise a tremendously solid platforming game; in a way one of the last of its kind as games turned to the Grand 3D and FPS Experiments.

Like the procedural culture experiments currently going on in Ultima Ratio Regum, a recent mod for the grand strategy game Crusader Kings II (2012) is trying its hand at procedurally generating a whole world.