Sentences with phrase «like ordinary humans»

Not exact matches

When ordinary human characters perform heroic deeds, they tend to be technoheroes: Scientists or astronauts who use supergadgetry — laser guns, minicomputers or the like — to repel equally technological threats.

Besides the conditions of society itself, under which family and friends had primary responsibility for the care of the dying and the dead, memento mon were spread throughout culture: in the church's art, in morality plays like Everyman, in drinking songs, in the ordinary artifacts of everyday life (e.g., in Austria a towel hanger portraying a human form split down the middle: one half a beautiful young woman, the other a skeleton) To be sure, the specter of death (and judgment) has been used as a form of social control.

But just like everyone else, parents of kids with special needs crave plain, ordinary human contact.

Ordinary human skin behaves like a memristor, a device that «remembers» the last current it experienced and varies its resistance accordingly.

Even ordinary studies of human physiology, for example, suggest that humans are so adapted for intense physical activity that a sedentary lifestyle spawns modern - day scourges like diabetes and heart disease.

Reading Animals in Translation is like looking at a photographic negative of ordinary human behavior and consciousness.

While the Hartle - Hawking model ended up overrun with Boltzmann brains, ordinary human - like consciousnesses prevailed in the newer model.

Two months ago, several scientists in Wisconsin and Japan announced that they had successfully created a type of stem cell from ordinary human skin cells that seems to be able to function exactly like an embryonic stem cell without the need to create or destroy human embryos.

Dr. Yamanaka's discovery — how to transform ordinary adult skin cells into stem cells that, like embryonic stem cells, can develop into any cell in the human body.

After completing his postdoctoral training at Gladstone, Dr. Yamanaka discovered an innovative technology that transforms ordinary adult skin cells into stem cells that, like embryonic stem cells, can develop into virtually any cell type in the human body.

Shinya Yamanaka MD, PhD, a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institutes has won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of how to transform ordinary adult skin cells into cells that, like embryonic stem cells, are capable of developing into any cell in the human body.

These surrogates move like ordinary folks (obviously a bit more mechanized) and can even do some extraordinary things, like survive long drops and bad accidents, make high jumps, and operate functionally without certain limbs and after what would be human - disabling attacks.

As previously reported, Jenkins has already confirmed that Kristen Wiig will be playing the sequel's baddie, Cheetah, a were - cheetah who typically looks like an ordinary woman but has the ability to morph into a human - cheetah hybrid, with increased speed, strength and agility, in «Wonder Woman 2.»

Ultrasound is like ordinary sound except it has a frequency higher than humans can hear.

At first he applied that insight to most ordinary items of American life, especially humble edibles, all those cheeseburgers and ice cream cones and pillowy wedges of pie, made even more dream like because they were rendered in soft materials, with their inevitable hint of the pliancy of the human body, and splattered with mock - Abstract Expressionist drizzles of paint.

Most of this electricity goes toward pumping air into wastewater at conventional treatment plants where ordinary bacteria use oxygen in the course of digestion, just like humans and other animals.»