Sentences with phrase «great age of human»

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It's a strategy AT&T used to great effect in the 1970s to sell long - distance telephony — «Reach out and touch someone» — and again in the 1990s with a series of spots about distant spouses and overworked moms to sell human connection in the nascent digital age.

Ancient religions should welcome the political achievements of modernity while calling modernity to open its windows and doors to a world of transcendent truth and love: ``... the great achievements of the modern age» the recognition and guarantee of freedom of conscience, of human rights, of the freedom of science and hence of a free society» should be confirmed and developed while keeping reason and freedom open to their transcendent foundation, so as to ensure that these achievements are not undone....

But the great boon of Catholicism to the world is that it can also stand outside the ebbs and flows of history to see that human nature — the truth in which love appears — remains unchanged from age to age.

The March 12, 2015 issue of Nature magazine contains an essay — not an original thesis, rather a summation — by two English geographers entitled «Defining the Anthropocene,» the subject of which is whether (and starting when) human activity has so altered the global environment as to constitute a new geologic age: the Anthropocene Age, as successor to the 11,000 - year Holocene Epoch that is itself part of the larger 2.6 million year - old Quaternary Period (or Great Ice Agage: the Anthropocene Age, as successor to the 11,000 - year Holocene Epoch that is itself part of the larger 2.6 million year - old Quaternary Period (or Great Ice AgAge, as successor to the 11,000 - year Holocene Epoch that is itself part of the larger 2.6 million year - old Quaternary Period (or Great Ice AgeAge).

But it is a burden that falls with greatest weight on us humans of the industrial age who have been and are, by any measure, the humans most guilty of desecrating the world and of destroying creation.

First, since process thought concerns itself with the totality of human experience, it must necessarily take very seriously the fact of the religious vision and the claim of countless millions of people of every race and nation and age to have enjoyed some kind of contact with a reality greater than humankind or nature, through which refreshment and companionship have been given.

I do indeed believe, but I believe as one of a great company of men and women, from many ages, of all races and classes, rich and poor, simple and learned, who in one way or another have been drawn to find the truest key to the meaning and purpose of human existence given focal expression in Jesus Christ.

To be more biblical means the greater use of the Bible in sermons as well as in religious education, and instruction as to how to understand the Bible both in its historical setting and as the Word of God speaking to the human spirit in every age.

I have always found it very strange that these who call themselves successors of the apostles, I mean some poor men — preachers of humility and repentance — should possess great wealth, wallow in luxery, and fill posts more proper to satisfy the vanity of the age and the ostentation of the great than to occupy men who must meditate on the nothingness of human life and on the quest for salvation.

It was the age of Confucius in China, of the Buddha in India, and of Mahavira, founder of Jainism, the period also when the principal Hindu Upanishads were written, of Lao - tzu and the flourishing of Taoism in China, of the prophet Zoroaster in the Middle East, of the great transformative prophets Ezekiel, Jeremiah and second - Isaiah in Israel, and finally this was the period of the birth of philosophy and science and what we call Western culture in Greece, all these developments at the same time arising independently in different cultures for reasons not yet fully understood — a kind of quickening of human consciousness all over the globe.

Such forms of expression are subject to great variety in the course of history, for they are the product of the fertile human imagination, and their popularity depends upon the prevailing mood of an age, and upon the capacity of their symbolism to communicate with the «ring of truth».

Our age is in need of a great philosopher; one who can thread his way, step by step, through the intricate labyrinth of reasoning into which scientists have been led, eyes riveted to earth, by the desire to improve our human lot, the desire to destroy life, or mere common curiosity; one who can keep his mind, at the same time, open to the metaphysical implications of all he learns, and at last put the wholecorpus of our knowledge together in one grand synthesis.

I do not intend to close on an eristically apologetic note; i.e., «See, oh moderns, how even the greatest genius of our age saw that the only reasonable response to the human dilemma without Christ is despair.»

If you've reached the age of 40 you should realize that Jesus was a man, a great man, a man to be revered for teaching us about good and evil, compassion, a man to be respected and admired, as a great human being who taught us all something useful.

@center: i think it takes more faith to buy into the rantings of bronze age sheepherders than i do believeing in the ability of my fellow humans to create great feats without the need of any god.

In fact, the more unfortified human milk a set of study subjects received as premature infants, the greater whole body bone size and density they exhibited at 20 years of age.

In animal models, exposure to cigarette smoke or nicotine during fetal development alters the expression of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in areas of the brainstem important for autonomic function, 28 alters the neuronal excitability of neurons in the nucleus tractus solitarius (a brainstem region important for sensory integration), 29 and alters fetal autonomic activity and medullary neurotransmitter receptors.30 In human infants, there are strong associations between nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and serotonin receptors in the brainstem during development.31 Prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke attenuates recovery from hypoxia in preterm infants, 32 decreases heart rate variability in preterm33 and term34 infants, and abolishes the normal relationship between heart rate and gestational age at birth.33 Moreover, infants of smoking mothers exhibit impaired arousal patterns to trigeminal stimulation in proportion to urinary cotinine levels.35 It is important to note also that prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke alters the normal programming of cardiovascular reflexes such that there is a greater - than - expected increase in blood pressure and heart rate in response to breathing 4 % carbon dioxide or a 60 ° head - up tilt.36 These changes in autonomic function, arousal, and cardiovascular reflexes might all increase an infant's vulnerability to SIDS.

Meanwhile, recent human studies indicate that aging is associated with an increase in somatic mutations in the hematopoietic system, which gives rise to blood cells; these mutations provide a competitive growth advantage to the mutant hematopoietic cells, allowing for their clonal expansion — a process that has been shown to be associated with a greater incidence of atherosclerosis, though specifically how remains unclear.

One of his greatest goals is to convince people of the importance of using both younger and older animals in research that is meant to be translatable to aging humans.

«We initiated the Great Ape Aging Project 20 years ago because we saw an aging chimpanzee population under human care that would need geriatric attention for disorders similar to those affecting aging humans,» said Joseph Erwin, Ph.D., research professor of anthropology at the George Washington UniverAging Project 20 years ago because we saw an aging chimpanzee population under human care that would need geriatric attention for disorders similar to those affecting aging humans,» said Joseph Erwin, Ph.D., research professor of anthropology at the George Washington Univeraging chimpanzee population under human care that would need geriatric attention for disorders similar to those affecting aging humans,» said Joseph Erwin, Ph.D., research professor of anthropology at the George Washington Univeraging humans,» said Joseph Erwin, Ph.D., research professor of anthropology at the George Washington University.

Similar to humans, increasingly larger volumes of amyloid beta plaques and blood vessels were found with greater age.

The results, published in the American Journal of Human Biology, confirm that the subjects who experienced the greatest increase in levels of aggression by ten years of age were those whose cortisol levels had also increased during those two years.

«We initiated the Great Ape Aging Project 20 years ago because we saw an ageing chimpanzee population under human care that would need geriatric attention for disorders similar to those affecting ageing humans,» said Dr. Joseph Erwin, research professor of anthropology at the George Washington University.

The Mars Society is pleased to announce that it has joined the online Marspedia project started by two other space advocacy groups - The Mars Foundation and The Moon Society - in an effort to build out a great resource for people of all ages to learn more about the planet Mars, promote the human and robotic exploration of the Red Planet and encourage STEM education.

After the great fall from the cataclysm around 13,000 years ago humans fell into a dark age and much of the civilization knowledge was lost.

Health improvement (allowing to post - pone / escape the diseases and thus live, healthier / disease - free longer, but not above human MLSP of around 122 years; thus these therapies do not affect epigenetic aging whatsoever, they are degenerative aging problems not regular healthy aging problem (except OncoSENS - only when you Already Have Cancer - which cancer increases epigenetic aging, but cancer removal thus does not change anything / makes no difference about what happens in the other cells / about what happens in the normal epigenetic «aging» course in Normal non-cancerous healthy cells) Although there is not such thing as «healthy aging» all aging in «unhealthy» (as seen from elders who are «healthy enough» who show much damage), it's just «tolerable / liveable» enough (in terms of damage accumulating) that it does not affect their quality of life (enough yet), that is «healthy aging»: ApoptoSENS - Clearing Senescent Cells (this will have great impact to reduce diseases, the largest one, since it's all inflammation fueled by the inflammation secretory phenotype (SASP) of these senescent cells) AmyloSENS - Dissolving the Plaques (this will allow humans to evade Alzheimer's, Parkinsons and general brain degenerescence, allowing quite a boost; making people much more easily reach the big 100 - since the brain is causal to how long we live; keeping brain amyloid - free and keeping our memories / neuron sharp / means longer LongTerm Potentiation - means longer brain function means longer heavy brain mass (gray matter / white matter retention seen in «sharp - witted» Centenarians who show are younger brain for their age), and both are correlated to MLSP).

Telomere length predicts both cellular health and disease in rodent models and humans.8 Shorter telomeres predict onset of cardiometabolic diseases of aging.9 Chronic stress is associated with higher inflammation, shorter telomeres, and lower activity levels of telomerase, the cellular enzyme that elongates telomeric DNA.10, 11 Levels of amyloid beta (Aβ) proteins circulating in the blood appear to be stress - related in rodent models12 and may be affected by stress reduction, and greater Aβ42 / Aβ40 ratios are associated with lower risk of dementia.13

By the end of the Pleistocene, when the last great ice age ebbed, other human ancestors were gone, humans had settled the Americas and long - range weapons like spears and arrows were common — and the average mass of mammals had fallen from nearly 100 kg (220 pounds) to less than eight.

Wouldn't it be a great achievement if the anthropocene, the age of human dominance on Earth, goes down in history as an era of rethinking and changing behaviour?»

LA JOLLA — In their powerful new road map for greater health throughout our lives, Salk President and Nobel laureate Elizabeth Blackburn and health psychologist Elissa Epel explain an important aspect of the aging process in humans at a fundamental level.

We've found a strong connection between pesticide exposure in pregnant women and lower IQs in their children; pesticide exposure in children themselves and a greater risk of ADHD; and pesticide exposure and both cancer and Parkinson's disease in humans of all ages.

If you ever write another book, it'd be great to make some comments about soreness in the body because I think most humans feel «it's just» part of ageing when it's likely not to be.

Remember when you are approaching middle age and suddenly find yourself with a great deal less energy that you are used to, that it might be a result of a deficiency in human growth hormone.

«Given the long and established history of curcumin as a spice and herbal medicine, its demonstrated chemopreventive and therapeutic potential, and its pharmacological safety in model system, curcumin, the bioactive extract of curcumin, promises a great future in human clinical studies designed to prevent and / or delay age - related diseases,» explained the authors of a review on these and other animal studies involving curcumin.

The untold history, the knowledge of the ages long gone, lost civilizations, the occult, the hidden powers of the human brain, the supernatural... — this all is of great interest to me.

Morgan Freeman's mollycoddled and on meds, suffering the indignity of being infantlised by an idiot son, Kevin Kline's got a great wife but a boring life and is subsequently sexually dysfunctional and depressed, Robert De Niro's a widower whose only human contact is a soup making neighbour, while Michael Douglas, in a set up that must have presented the actor with the greatest challenge of his career, plays a rich old pervert who's eschewed commitment most of his adult life but is now about to settle for a woman less than half his age.

The World Health Organization predicts that by 2020, depression will be the second greatest cause of human suffering cross all ages.

-- Daniel H. Pink, author of To Sell is Human and Drive «Digital Leadership is a great one - stop shopping place to learn about all the key ingredients you will need for success in the digital age.

She absolutely loves people and kisses and does great around humans of all ages.

Match - a-Paw is the Humane Society of Greater Miami's program designed to promote young adult dogs (between the ages of three and six, or as we like to call them, «Paws over 21» in human age.)

Unfortunately, once we are over the age of ten, many of us humans seem to forget just how great it feels just to have FUN and PLAY.

Kittens have the greatest capacity for learning — including adapting to humans — between the ages of 2 weeks and 14 weeks.

In our age of narcissism, we have lost this link to something greater than ourselves — the collective unconscious, the numinosum, and, in many cases, human history.

Science has helped demonstrate that we have entered the Anthropocene, an age in which humans, through our «great acceleration,» have become a planetary force and left a signature — in fallout, carbon, plastic and more — that could mark the dawn of a geological age of our own making (if not yet our own design).

Candidates for the starting point for the age of humans range from the dawn of agriculture to the age of plastics and fallout and the «Great Acceleration» of greenhouse gas growth and other environmental impacts.

Clearly human activities can affect climates — we all grew up learning that the desertification of much of North Africa was due to goats, and we know that some local climates are determined by human activities in the region — but human activity is unlikely to have caused the Viking period warming, the great cooling after 1300, the Little Ice Age, and such; and the warming beginning in 1800 or so is very unlikely to have been caused by human activities.

It is also about the increasingly trendy idea of the Anthropocene: the suggestion that human impact on the planet is so great that we have, collectively become not just a geological force but the dominant one in the modern age, and that our impacts will be seen in the geological record for eons to come.

The evidence of the size of climate zone shifts and the associated changes in atmospheric heights from Mediaeval Warm Period to Little Ice Age to date suggests that the natural solar and ocean induced changes in the effective radiating height are far greater than anything that could be achieved by human emissions.

Still, the human contribution to climate was presumed to be far outweighed by the great cycles of ice ages revealed in fossil and geological records.

GW is THE TOPIC of our age (perhaps all human ages — if that «runaway» thing kicks in (see previous topic, # 74 & 75)-RRB-, and RC is great!