Sentences with phrase «known phenomena called»

Pay attention: There is a well known phenomena called crank magnetism; cranks seem to be attracted to cranky idea just like magnets.

This is a well - known phenomena called «digestive leukocytosis», in which there is a rise in the number of leukocytes — white blood cells — after eating.

There is a well known phenomenon called crank magnetism — cranks are attracted to cranky ideas just like magnets.

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This well - known psychological occurrence is called «frequency illusion» or, more colorfully, «the Baader - Meinhof phenomenon,» and you can make it work for you instead of against you.

Psychologists have known for a while about a phenomenon called «reciprocity of liking»: When we think someone likes us, we tend to like them as well.

A quantum computer instead uses quantum bits — called qubits — which are atomic - scale structures that, through a phenomenon known as «superposition,» can be both zero and one at the same time.

It's called «cognitive dissonance», which is a well - known phenomenon.

The second thing that should be said regarding this meaning of the supernatural is that the surprising and frightening phenomena are really no different in essence from what is generally called «natural».

Dewey's thoroughly secular «common faith» — which he did not hesitate to call a secular religion — could accommodate Christianity, on the condition that the latter drop the claims to truth and authority that identify it with the historical phenomenon known as Christianity.

«That ordering of known phenomena which we call the world,» writes Buber, «is, indeed, the composite work of a thousand human generations.»

I read this book on a flight to San Diego, which seemed to pass in the blink of an eye — mainly because, although I was intimately acquainted with the phenomenon of «biblicism,» I'd never known what to call it.

When David Yeager came to Stanford as a psychology graduate student in the mid-2000s, the department was home to some of the biggest names in the psychology of education, including Claude Steele, best known for his discovery of a phenomenon called stereotype threat, and Carol Dweck, famous for her work on student mindset.

This trade wind strengthening, which occurs during a the negative phase of a phenomenon called the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (also known as the Pacific Decadal Oscillation), pushes warm water westward and and changes Pacific Ocean circulation.

No one knows for sure just how the procedure, Gelsinger's liver function and his immune response are all connected, but Wilson now believes that the teen died from a rare phenomenon called antibody - dependent enhancement.

We do know that when testosterone builds up in animals, it causes a phenomenon called the winner effect.

The effect is called the fractional quantum Hall effect, and it's an esoteric embellishment of an already esoteric phenomenon known as the Hall effect.

This phenomenon, confusingly called true polar wander, is known to happen on Mars, where huge volcanic eruptions change the planet's weight distribution, but it is controversial whether that could happen on Earth.

Ask the person to explain what they know: People who feel sure of their position set a high bar for contrary evidence, Ditto says, but often such confidence stems from a misperception that they know more than they actually do, a phenomenon researchers call the illusion of explanatory depth.

Alan Chattaway's call to name the phenomenon where something is known more widely by an erroneous name than by its...

In response to Alan Chattaway's call to name the phenomenon of something being known more widely by an erroneous name...

In one of the new papers, Reich and a cast of dozens of collaborators chart the spread of an ancient culture known by its stylized bell - shaped pots, the so - called Bell Beaker phenomenon.

In May climatologists Michael Roderick and Graham Farquhar of the Australian National University released data suggesting that a little - known trend, commonly called solar dimming, is a global phenomenon.

When we are reading a story or watching a movie, we know that we can not or will not act to change what is occurring, a phenomenon philosopher Immanuel Kant called disinterestedness.

Specifically, the findings explain how a particular gene — called fkbp5 — is involved in a phenomenon known as «fear extinction,» through which animals and humans disassociate with fearful memories of a traumatic experience, such as war, assault or a natural disaster.

Materials scientists working to build tiny machines called microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) struggle with surface interactions, called van der Waals forces, that can make nanomaterials sticky to the point of permanent adhesion, a phenomenon known as «stiction».

However, when an explosive aurora occurs, known as a breakup, it sometimes leads to another phenomenon called «flickering.»

In mammals, a phenomenon called sperm capacitation, which is where the sperm becomes activated by substances originating from the female organs, has been known for a long time.

The magic trick behind the paper is called gravitational lensing, a well - known phenomenon for astronomers that is based on Einstein's theory of general relativity.

I suggest we call it the «self - healing effect» to remind ourselves that it's just a measurable phenomena related to the body's known self - repair mechanisms.

Exactly why the body fails to respond to insulin, a phenomenon called insulin resistance, is not known, but risk factors include being overweight, inactive or older than 45.

When adrenal stress is high, the body steals a hormone called pregnenolone from cholesterol to make more cortisol — a phenomenon known as pregnenolone steal.

However it's very common for the media to label and treat Muslims as one entity, and a more recent social media phenomenon has been for muslims themselves to judge and call each other out for not being Muslim enough despite the well known facts that there are differences in the various school of thoughts.

The resulting, amorphous phenomenon, called «The Shimmer» («Area X» in VanderMeer's novel) invites exploration and human intervention, since it may well destroy Earth as we know it.

In the post-apocalyptic world of God Eater, a strange phenomena called «Oracle Cells» have led to the creation of powerful beasts known as Aragmi.

The film follows an expedition into a mysterious zone called Area X. Lena (Portman), a biologist and former soldier, joins a mission to uncover what happened to her husband (Isaac) inside the zone — a sinister and mysterious phenomenon that is expanding across the American coastline, known as The Shimmer Once inside, the expedition discovers a world of mutated landscape and creatures, as dangerous as it is beautiful, that threatens both their lives and their sanity.

Even in developed nations like the United States, there's a growing phenomenon called «hidden hunger,» random bouts of food insecurity when consumers don't know when or where they'll have their next meal.

The general gist is that the main protagonist Hyde is drawn to a power called Existence (EXS) and a phenomena called «Hollow Night» which lets him see shadowy creatures known as «Voids», usually invisible to the human eye.

To this end, the artists both embrace and resist what they call «post-truth materiality,» a phenomenon — largely catalyzed by digital technologies — where objects and materials are no longer necessarily what they appear.

it's simply due to a well - known phenomenon in the arctic called permafrost.

In my post just before the Put Solar On It team got to the White House several weeks ago, I admonished McKibben, whom I've known for a very long time, for not adequately considering «the real - world hurdles before setting a goal» — the hurdles in this case being the Secret Service, Obama's political strategists, and the molasses - like phenomenon that White House officials called the «deliberative process.»

I know about a physical phenomenon called «stochastic resonance»: Some noisy systems may greatly amplify weak signals, expecially if thresholds are involved.

Species of cyanobacteria in the genera Synechococcus and Synechocystis are known to be the catalysts of a phenomenon called «whitings», which is the formation and precipitation of fine - grained CaCO3 particles.

The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change notes shortcomings that call into question the decision - support relevance of climate - model output on the space and timescales advertised by UKCIP, and calculating implied probability distribution functions doesn't solve issues of model inadequacy: We often see that there are relevant phenomena our models just can't simulate, and thus, we know that probabilities implied by our models are irrelevant without knowing how to fix them.

The secret of floating ice has long been known: a phenomenon we call hydrogen bonds.