Sentences with phrase «idea of needles»

Or, like many people, maybe you just don't like the idea of needles or having blood drawn for testing.

Some people hate the idea of needles.

The Department of Health has supported the idea of needle exchanges for drug users in Britain since 1987 on the grounds that HIV is a greater potential threat to public health than hard drugs.

Not exact matches

And spectacles like last night's three - hour test of human willpower only underscore a big problem: Traditional news outlets have made presidential debates — arguably our country's most important televised forum and exchange of ideas — into mind - numbingly boring talk - a-thons, where a bunch of rich, powerful people needle each other for hours about past career decisions while dodging any question of substance.

For example, since they all thought the Middle Ages believed the universe was small and cozy, we read the passage in Ptolemy's Almagest where he concludes that the universe is unimaginably vast, and calls the whole earth (which Eratosthenes had accurately measured as about 8,000 miles in diameter) a needle prick compared with the universe; and we read Boethius» Consolation of Philosophy, which popularized this idea; and even a typical sermon that used the idea to show how great God was to have created such an enormous universe.

In research published last year, Joanna Morgan of Imperial College London and her colleagues put that idea to the test by setting pine needles on fire in the lab.

But they should probably get used to the idea that computers may already be better than people at finding needles of truth in enormous haystacks of data.

Lead author Jeffrey Karp, a researcher at Brigham and Women's Hospital, has a habit of looking to the natural world for adhesive ideas, such as gravity - defying gecko feet or grasping porcupine needles.

Just an idea to change things up and tilt the needle more in the direction of strength training.

Dave Asprey: We can indeed and you've given listeners several really good ideas here, and hopefully we move the needle for millions of people with this conversation.

Get Out plays on the themes of idyllic subsocieties with dark secrets established in Stepford Wives and the racial discomfort of dramas like Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and sets it to a thrumming Twilight Zone-esque anxiety attack, needling the idea of black culture and white privilege in potent, majorly poignant manners.

For now, I see my role as helping people understand their problem and the system that produces it, test possible change ideas as part of their theory of improvement, and fail fast to learn quickly to identify high leverage changes in their local contexts that are actually moving the needle on student outcomes.

But apart from finding a good idea with a high degree of conviction, one needs to maximize the payoff from the same to move the needle in a portfolio.

If they're still not getting the idea, you can take a syringe (without a needle) and squirt a small amount of gruel directly into the back of their mouths.

It was just really interesting that she made, just, like a really good point about these kinds of concerns and these kinds of moments, and then she kind of needled a little hard on the idea that people who care about this stuff are like shouting, or preaching, or being angry, or dramatic, and that was like, I have such a huge issue when people like get my politics completely correct, or like, they have the same feelings that I do but they sort of undermine other people's reactions about it.

The idea of isolating an action from its context results in the conception of a series of «machine - like objects,» which perform «non-practical» actions (as opposed to what a machine would usually do): a machine that smokes cigarettes, a machine that tries to thread a needle, a machine that cries, etc..

That leaves private investment vehicles and, honestly, legal and professional publishing just isn't sexy — especially not so at the moment — so it'd have to be an investor with a raft of ideas to develop the business rather than the standard «let's buy the company and count the money» approach... and those investors are rarer than a needle in a haystack these days.

Others who would appreciate the lack of an exam include those who are not fans of needles, those who are just too darn busy, those who don't want to fast for twelve hours, and those who just do not like the idea of a medical exam!

So the issue isn't ideas - great, important ideas that can «move the needle» as one of my clients puts it.

The ideas that I'm suggesting for your winter living room will help your home still feel snug, warm, and cozy for the rest of the winter — sans pine needles and sap.