Sentences with phrase «into human shape»

This exhibition will present several of Camille Utterback's highly original interactive digital installations including Text Rain, in which letters seem to drop slowly and come to rest on the projected image of the gallery visitor, forming words and nonsense syllables into human shape.

► Lightning strikes a lighthouse and we see a close - up of gel spreading and becoming larger at the base of the building where a small fire burns briefly; a wall of gel rises like a curtain from a jungle forest into the sky, making noises like muttering and muffled roars as we hear that the phenomenon is spreading and destroying all species on Earth; five scientists armed with military rifles enter the area to find trees that have become covered with flowers, woody plants have grown into human shapes covered with blossoms, the bodies of three missing soldiers have been engulfed with vines, moss, and lichens that have grown out of the bodies and the head of a soldier is found in a path (we see no blood or facial expression).

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The plunge into space, the acquisition of new weapons, the breakthroughs in medical and other sciences are shaped largely by their own internal dynamics... The human being, while being the inventor, is simultaneously the prisoner of the process of invention.10

In short, anyone who appreciates the rapid change in historical circumstances and does not flee from this into a ghetto; anyone who knows that there is and always has been a mutable, human law of the Church, and that this kind of change has always been practised; anyone, moreover, who reflects that the Church not only has the right but the duty of shaping its canon law in accordance with changes in the times, will not be surprised at the change in many legal regulations which he is living through at the present time, but will recognize and accept this as a sign of the vitality of the Church and its pastoral care.

We must move beyond the humanistic ideals that have shaped our cultural traditions and invent, or reinvent, a sustainable human culture by descending into our instinctive resources.

But this was a dim and vague affair, presumably taken to be a way in which the «spirit» breathed into human life when God shaped the «dust of the earth,» as the legend in Genesis tells the story, would never be utterly destroyed — after all, it had been breathed by God and hence must be indestructible even if largely irrelevant to whatever the future, beyond death, held for men and women.

The meaning of the liberal arts as educating the «free adult male» was transformed into a program of enhancing human freedom, but this was always perceived in terms of forming and shaping a person.

The Christian revelation has always been apprehended as the Word of God, not merely a word about life, but the entry into human history of a new meaning which has become operative in shaping the course of history.

Again, with like sarcasm, he ridicules the entire faith and vogue of idols: one cuts a tree for firewood, using it for heating and for cooking; but still a sizable piece remains, until as an afterthought it is given to a craftsman who, with a deal of labor, shapes it into a pretense of human form — and then men bow down to it and say, «Deliver me, for thou art my god!»

Perhaps more dramatic illustrations are found in hospital wards where a visitor's warm «hello» turns on the light, opens the shutters, straightens the linens, and brightens the faces; or in rural America where a major business transaction is sealed by one man giving his word to another; or in the quiet guidance of Anne Sullivan who with the one word «water» brought Helen Keller into the world of human experience; or in the nation - shaping speeches of Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill.

Human beings bring into being, out of innumerable possibilities for human existence, cultural modes that shape our very humaHuman beings bring into being, out of innumerable possibilities for human existence, cultural modes that shape our very humahuman existence, cultural modes that shape our very humanity.

The narrative of Gideon bringing only three hundred warriors into battle against the combined might of the Midianites and Amalekites, blowing trumpets that resulted in God setting «every man's sword against his fellow» among the enemies» army (Judges 7:22), is a colorful expression of God's capacity to shape the result of any human conflict.

Maybe it is the grindingly long, 162 - game season, which allows for so many promising and disheartening plotlines to take shape, only to dissolve again along the way, and which sustains even the most improbable hope past any rational span; or maybe it is simply the course of the year's seasons, from early spring into mid-autumn — nature's perennial allegory of human life, eloquent of innocent confidence slowly transformed into wise resignation.

The people who make it their business to study or order human society (ethnologists, politicians, political economists, etc.) do so in practice as though Social Man were wax to be molded into any shape they choose.

Yet in spite of all our wishing and wanting and hoping for time to freeze them in that perfectly small shape, they grow into these tiny little humans — ones who sometimes — blissfully — still gift us fleeting reminders of the babies they once were: Like when their eyes catch the light a certain way, and we remember the first time they opened them.

My boys love heart - shaped cubes of color tossed in the tub Also to tint shaving cream into paint... just not for human consumption.

Search for one of 78 species of butterflies on the sanctuary, listen for birds, notice how humans have shaped the landscape, and peer into ponds to find frogs staring back at you!

Poisons have shaped human history and seeped into our legends, giving rise to both superstitious antidotes and life - saving scientific discoveries.

In the second stage, it «unposes» the virtual human created from each frame, making them all stand with arms out in a T shape, and combines information about the T - posed people into one, more accurate model.

In many ways, Pinker's book The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature, which will be published this month, may be his most ambitious yet — an attempt to show that the entire range of human thought is built on the «scaffolding» of a few core concepts that shape our understanding of the physical and social worlds and form the basis for the way we interpret reaHuman Nature, which will be published this month, may be his most ambitious yet — an attempt to show that the entire range of human thought is built on the «scaffolding» of a few core concepts that shape our understanding of the physical and social worlds and form the basis for the way we interpret reahuman thought is built on the «scaffolding» of a few core concepts that shape our understanding of the physical and social worlds and form the basis for the way we interpret reality.

As we spread into the cosmos, the route we take will be shaped by old and familiar human desires — and perhaps even a dash of religious fervour

We employ similar pathways to shape our parts as embryos, but over the course of evolution, humans may have lost the ability to tap into it as adults, perhaps because the cell division required for regeneration elevated the likelihood of cancer.

So if you hook your millimetre - wave detector up to a video display, a human being comes into view looking like a bright, human - shaped fluorescent light bulb.

«We can implant these fiber - shaped electrodes into the human body to consume essential oxygen, especially for areas that are difficult for injectable drugs to reach,» says Wang.

The cone - shaped vehicle, designed to carry humans farther into space than ever before, is reminiscent of the Apollo capsules that flew astronauts to the moon, but it is a third larger.

Because proteins need not have exactly the same sequence of constituent amino acids to fold up into roughly the same shape, the researchers then had to work out the range of sequences that would mimic the structure of this human peptide.

In his new book Why Humans Like to Cry, neurologist Trimble delves into how evolution and culture seemingly shaped the human brain to express emotion on a higher level than the rest of the animal kingdom.

«We speculate that their identification in our analysis suggests that sun exposure may have shaped Neanderthal phenotypes and that gene flow into modern humans continues to contribute to variation in these traits today.»

If lamprey software can help people with spinal injuries, it will be in the shape of animal brain circuitry realised on a chip wired into a human being — a kind of cyborg sandwich.

Making up 70 billion of the nearly 86 billion neurons in the human brain, these relatively simple cells are tightly packed into the cerebellum, a broccoli - shaped structure tucked under the back of our brain.

The research, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (PNAS), indicates that rod - shaped particles (150 nanometers in diameter by 450 nanometers long) penetrated human cells about four times faster and traveled farther into the cells than particles with more balanced dimensions (such as 200 nanometers by 200 nanometers).

«Within 3 weeks after expression of the NeuroD1 protein, we saw in the microscope that human glial cells were reinventing themselves: they changed their shape from flat sheet - like glial cells into normal - looking neurons with axon and dendritic branches,» Chen said.

Proteins must fold into three - dimensional shapes in precise ways to do their work within human cells.

These were seeded into a tissue scaffold, formed into the precise shape of the human jaw bone by using digital images from a patient.

«Modern humans, on the other hand, made lots of different kinds of bone tools that took advantage of the properties of bone, to be ground into specific shapes like points, awls and smoothers,» McPherron added.

A few years ago, scientists figured out why: the receptor that the virus uses to get into cells is shaped differently in a human nose than it is in a chicken egg.

The findings will «open the door to further investigations into the biological basis of intelligence, exploring how the brain, genes, nutrition and the environment together interact to shape the development and continued evolution of the remarkable intellectual abilities that make us human,» Barbey said.

Our firm is committed to all facets of company building and brings together a rich combination of scientific, financial and operational expertise to shape promising science into a value - rich portfolio poised to have a profound impact on human health.

They inserted mutated and normal human FABP7 genes into star - shaped glial cells called astrocytes.

«And it's the only organ in the human body that has this capacity to stretch like that but then snap back into shape.

This was followed by the development of a big pool of knowledge about the human body and it's mysteries, together with more efficient methods for shaping it into an ideal art form.

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A woman develops a tattoo - like mark on her arm, then begins to grow tiny twigs and buds along one arm and she walks away into a meadow, where we see she has become a woody human - shaped plant covered with small flowers and another person develops a figure - 8 mark on one forearm, but she changes no further.

The line at the Department of Motor Vehicles, its shape and duration endlessly mutating into something beyond human comprehension.

And if our memories shape us into the people we are, who's to say that Walter Prime, who grows easier and more natural the more he hears of his living prototype, isn't capable of becoming as human as Marjorie?

Take a closer look at The Shape of Water, however, and its florid whimsy subsides into a stark, clear and eminently contemporary human parable, streaked with fury against traditional hierarchies of power in America.

In addition to the ever - popular pastime of shaping volcanoes out of clay and pouring baking soda and vinegar into the hollows to make them erupt, students and parents learned about aerodynamics, electricity, the human body, chemistry, and physics.

Year 6 Science Assessments and Tracking Objectives covered: Describe how living things are classified into broad groups according to common observable characteristics and based on similarities and differences, including micro-organisms, plants and animals Give reasons for classifying plants and animals based on specific characteristics Identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system, and describe the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood Recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way their bodies function Describe the ways in which nutrients and water are transported within animals, including humans Recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago Recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents Identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution Recognise that light appears to travel in straight lines Use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain that objects are seen because they give out or reflect light into the eye Explain that we see things because light travels from light sources to our eyes or from light sources to objects and then to our eyes Use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain why shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them Associate the brightness of a lamp or the volume of a buzzer with the number and voltage of cells used in the circuit Compare and give reasons for variations in how components function, including the brightness of bulbs, the loudness of buzzers and the on / off position of switches Use recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit in a diagram

Parents have a fundamental right - written into the various international covenants protecting human rights - to choose the schooling that will shape their children's understanding of the world.

Taking as its subject the very worst aspects of human nature - our propensity for crime, cruelty, and bloodshed - it shapes that disruptive material into order, wholeness, and meaning.