Sentences with phrase «humans a long time»

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Tests show that the human brain can only concentrate on something for so long at a time.

NEW YORK — Facebook doesn't think hookups are meaningful and doesn't want you to date your friends — but it's known for a long time that its vast map of human connections could help people find long - term partners.

«And you wonder where he gets all of the time and energy and discipline to do it because human nature says that after you've been good at something for a very long time, you typically either get distracted or your intensity or focus wanes.

On human time scales, that's a long time,» Duncan Brown, an astronomer at Syracuse University who's a member of the LIGO research collaboration, previously told Business Insider.

In a non-union environment, employers can dump employees any time, for virtually any reason as long as it doesn't violate human rights laws.

«We wanted to see if workers would use these devices over a long period of time, and we found the design of the device is critically important,» says Lucas Carr, assistant professor of health and human physiology at the University of Iowa.

Thirty - three musical pieces, each 10 seconds long, a tutorial on how humans keep time, and when we will be listening for a response.

The company has moved from research on rats to the cusp of human trials in less than five years at a cost of less than $ 5 million, a process that can often take twice that long and cost many times more.

With his record running times, Bolt stretched the limits of human achievement, sending physicists scrambling to explain what made him so special ---- in essence, his longer, stronger legs create more ground force to propel him forward ---- and ponder the possibility of anyone on the planet ever running faster.

To have the prison alone, with no human contact for long periods of time.

When I used to do a lot of recruiting we used to call it «hanging yourself» because people who talk for long periods of time without seeking feedback are generally not self - aware or good at human interaction.

Most of us instinctively assume that technology relentlessly marches forward, but there have been times before now in human history — after the Egyptians built the Pyramids, for instance, or after the multiple advances of the Roman Empire — when the civilizations that followed could no longer do what had been done before, and perhaps there's a complacency and arrogance in assuming that this won't happen again.

And Boeing intends to be a key player in the initial push to send humans to Mars, maybe even beating Musk to his long - time goal.

Rather, it is to remind you that the next time you are tempted to buy into something that promises emotional excitement and rapid payoffs, to over-leverage yourself or take more risk than you should; consider, instead, looking to one of the 50 or 100 incredible businesses that are as close to sure long - term bets as anything in human civilization.

«The European sense of privacy as a fundamental human right has been codified in law for a long time,» Michelle De Mooy, the director for privacy and data at the Center for Democracy & Technology.

Finally, it's going to be a long, long time before human - driven cars get banned from city streets, if ever.

For people living in rural areas, where wait times for driverless Uber or any kind of public transit are completely unreasonable, yet don't have money to burn an extra $ 10k on their car to make it autonomous, will continue to buy old - fashioned human - driven cars with gas pedals and steering wheels long into the future — and will not accept not being able to drive their cars into cities.

In times of extreme market stress, it pays to remember human ingenuity and the long term resilience of the developed world.

We have long argued that our value investing philosophy stands the test of time because it only requires that: first, human nature does not change; and second, we maintain our discipline.

We human beings are fettered and weakened by many vices; we have wallowed in them for a long time and it is hard for us to be cleansed.

Around the same time Gangadhar joined Cruise, the company also hired long - time Netflix executive Tawni Cranz to be its new chief human resources officer and former program manager at Google Maps Ashwin Prabhu to be its head of mapping operations.

Not long ago, technology and automobile companies were talking as though the time was just around the corner when human drivers would be sharing the road with cars and trucks barreling along the highways under machine...

In fact, for a computer to access the entirety of the information it contains takes a very long time, whereas a human brain can access anything in a matter of a seconds because of that non-dual approach to storage and processing.

Humans have sought to discover the meaning of life for a very long time.

Just because the carbon dating was wrong for a long time doesn't prove that everying is only 6,000 years old, and that dinasours ate humans.

When the time is right, he leaves that reality for the bigger, truer reality, where he is able to see another dimension to human life, and he finds that he is no longer bound by the laws of the universe that once held him.

I personally ping - ponged back and forth between religion and non-religion for a long time before accepting that we humans are truly only guessing at things, and likely inventing things, that are impossible to know for sure.

I do know this, I waited for a very long time (in human years) for God to move on me.

You just have to take the time to think about it long enough to see that these ancient written texts were written by humans with less knowledge about science than we have now.

Indonesia has the largest Muslim population and it has experienced productive and peaceful times in the decade since the Bali Bombings, actively committed to redressing a long history of human rights abuse and repairing once - frayed bonds with modern neighbors like Australia and New Zealand.

We have been chasing our tails for a long time when it comes to self - knowledge, and the whole human / non-human distinction evades us, especially when we are attempting to be «objective,» because we tend to think that true objectivity is possible and even desirable, when in fact true objectivity doesn't exist.

100 % at the beginning 100 % during the time of humans 100 % long after we no longer exsist.

I think knowing that he was a long time and very trusted confidante of Pope John Paul II, knowing he had experience as disciplinarian of the clergy, and knowing he had a clear (as any human can) understanding, and knowledge of scripture is why he was picked to be Pope.

Dec. 18, 2013 — The most complete sequence to date of the Neanderthal genome, using DNA extracted from a woman's toe bone that dates back 50,000 years, reveals a long history of interbreeding among at least four different types of early humans living in Europe and Asia at that time, according to University of California, Berkeley, scientists.

I have spent a long time studying spiritual human behaviours.

to Jake, in every era or times in the past, humans have different perception of reality, because our knowledge improves or changes toward sophistication, For example during the times of Jesus, there was no science yet as what we have today, since the religion in the past corresponds to their needs, it is true for them in the past, but today we already knew many new ideas and facts, so what is applicable in the past is no longer today, like religion, we have also to change to conform with todays knowledge.The creation or our origin for example is now explained beyond doubt by science as the big bang and evolution is the reason we become humans, is in contrast to creation in the bibles genesis,.

Darwin's theories showed that complex forms of life, including the human, had come into existence by a gradual process over very long periods of time.

While a definition of faith as subjectivity — i.e., authentic human existence culminates in faith — could be real in Kierkegaard's time, it can no longer be so at a time when the death of God has become so fully incarnate in the modern consciousness.

Psychologists have been trying to solve the human mystery for a long time, everything is not simply explained like love, hate, devotion, etc..

Jesus Christ is the «Elect One,» not by some effort of human nature alone, for that would not be real election, but by God's eternal purpose which «from the beginning of the world» — and long before it, too, if we may so speak — has determined that «in the fullness of the times» there shall be just such an actualization of the potential God - Man relationship as Christian faith discerns in Christ our Lord.

Even then, and for a long time thereafter, human existence was still predominantly rural and village - like.

Although I have my personal belief regarding these things here, as long as I can not offer watertight Scriptural evidence for my confidence, I can only copy and paste some verses which could point to the fact that God meets every human being twice or even three times during his lifetime in order to show him the way he should go and to bring him to repentance.

It would be rash to deny the appeal this tragic view has for us humans, all of whom are beset at times (sometimes for long periods of time) with the apparent absurdity of events and experiences.

We should be glad that, in a time when we have not known how to address this human longing, others have been able to help.

Babylonia, situated on a broad low plain between the rivers at their widest points, was very fertile and had developed an advanced culture as early as 3500 B.C.. From this region comes the famous Code of Hammurabi which, dating from long before the time of Moses, shows high ethical discernment regarding the establishment of justice in human relations.

After experiencing the events of his time and witnessing the political rise of Constantine and the defeat of the persecuting emperors, he no longer believed that persecution was merely the human consequence of the demon's attempt to frustrate the divine message.

But Blessed Mother Teresa's radiant witness will survive as long as truth and tenderness survive in the human heart — which, God willing, will be until the end of time.

thinks, that the Tigris and the Euphrates have not a common source, that the Dead Sea had been in existence long before human beings came to live in Palestine, instead of originating in historical times, and so on... We are able to comprehend this as the naive conception of the men of old, but we can not regard belief in the literal truth of such accounts as an essential of religious conviction... And every one who perceives the peculiar poetic charm of these old legends must feel irritated by the barbarian — for there are pious barbarians — who thinks he is putting the true value upon these narratives only when he treats them as prose and history.

If that was true, there would be no need to tell people about how sinful and deepicable they are, how they need to be «saved» and how they can be «saved» by believing there was a human sacrifice made on their behalf a long time ago.

I have thought for a long time that Driscoll is a deeply damaged human being, greatly in need of good therapy.