Sentences with phrase «long puzzled over»

Scientists have long puzzled over the origin of all the extra CO2 that appeared as the great ice sheets melted.

Lacking written records of his people, researchers have long puzzled over how the complex 1000 - year - old Chacoan society was organized.

Researchers have long puzzled over the shorter life span of larger male ungulates, or hoofed mammals.

Professor Larry Barham, Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool, added: «Archaeologists have long puzzled over what these round stones were used for — they're about the size of a tennis ball but much heavier.

Biologists have long puzzled over why certain mossy plants are found only in the Arctic and at the very tip of South America, but not in between.

Scientists have long puzzled over how the particles form, however.

Dr. Delitto, a physical therapist, and his SHRS colleagues have long puzzled over why some patients reacted well to physical therapy (PT) and others to surgery.

Physicists have long puzzled over whether black holes destroy information or conserve it — now a proposed lab experiment could use a plasma wave to find out

Not all species sleep alike, however, and scientists have long puzzled over which aspects are truly fundamental.

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In the 129 public addresses that Pope John Paul II delivered over those five years, in four long sequences of a varying number of weeks, he went back to the Word of God to try to fathom the Creator's intentions in this puzzling work of His.

North American Christians who recall Jane Russell's description of God as a «livin» doll,» who have suffered through the death - of - God debate, who are now puzzling over the «process» God, and who are generally confused by God with a body, God without a body, or God as eternal spirit, are no longer close to the place where Luther was in his God - walk.

Reed sits at the fraternity table in a knit cardigan and a candy - striped shirt, working at the New York Times crossword puzzle as black men who long ago joined the brotherhood of heroin nod out over steel trolleys laden with dishes on which spaghetti reds and egg - yolk yellows have dried like the caked layers on an artist's palette.»

Klopp views managing as a puzzle, piecing the team together patiently over a long period of time.

I still find this whole segment a bit puzzling — just because Dino is afraid to turn his successful business over to a complete stranger (and one who doesn't have a great track record of instituting changes with long term success — just ask Huntington, W. VA) doesn't really tell me anything meaningful, except that Dino is a smart businessman.

Psychologists have puzzled long and hard over savant skills, which confound their traditional understanding of intelligence.

Most relate to climate, environmental, and social science, but the new request appears to reflect a much more ambiguous filter: For the first time, it contains several awards in the physical sciences, including one that has led to patented software to detect whether a computer has been taken over by malicious software and another that explores a long - standing mathematical puzzle.»

They found that subjects given the opportunity to select a course of action based on their own opinions (for example, giving a speech for or against teaching psychology in high school) persisted longer in a subsequent puzzle - solving activity than participants who were either given no choice or pressured to select one side over another.

The tail markings reveal that it is the same humpback whale, which puzzles researchers because the over -6,000-mile trek is two times the typical seasonal journey of a whale, not to mention that it's a female; males whales are the ones who normally travel long distances.

How nerve cells within the brain communicate with each other over long distances has puzzled scientists for decades.

Scientists have long been puzzled over why some species of amphibians are on the decline while others stay healthy.

Crick puzzled over the fact that memories tend to last much longer than proteins typically do in living cells.

However, researchers have long been puzzled by the fact that, over the long term, the steady fall of marine snow can not account for all the food consumed by animals and microbes living in the sediment.

How such a massive morphological change occurred over a relatively short evolutionary time has long puzzled biologists.

As much as I'd enjoyed myself, I'd been left with a few things to puzzle over, and potentially a long time to puzzle over them, as we weren't expecting to meet again until I was done with University, in five weeks» time.

Long before severe discrepancy became synonymous with LD, practitioners puzzled over the inability of some children of average and superior intelligence to master academic concepts.

If you saw her in The Social Network and were puzzled over how she could portray tougher - than - tough computer hacker Lisbeth, then wonder no longer.

I actually prefer detective / mystery games with clever puzzles over the basic object search, as long as they are clever and not too easy or way too difficult.

Sklar was puzzling over how much retirees should withdraw from their portfolio each year, given the uncertainty over how long they'll live.

Factoring in taxes and insurance rates into your overall investing strategy is a small piece of the puzzle, but one that can have a real long - term impact on your operating margins over time.

The soundtrack is excellent, but the limited variety means that if a puzzle takes you a little longer than others, you will hear the same bit over and over again.

It is over in an hour (maybe longer depending how many of the puzzles stump you).

By combining feedback from players of the original with Blitz Games Studios knowledge and experience, every area of the game has been given an overhaul: * New animations for every character, new graphics, user - interface and effects * Complete voice - acted English dialogue, and French & Spanish translations of a script four times bigger than the original * New puzzles, and sub-quest making the game over twice as long * Four new endings dependent on the players actions, and playable epilogue * Context - sensitive controls, and improved «feel»

I didn't find myself banging my head against a puzzle for too long and, while the solution isn't always obvious, exploring the different areas looking for clues never wore out its welcome over the course of my 10 hours at the party.

Creatures When dropping Toki in a nest, birds now have a «cooldown», so they won't instantly pick you up again when walking out of the nest Birds don't stop anymore when they sense vibration, making them less annoying when accidentically stomping near them No more random sorting of creatures: they all appear on their assigned depth value, preventing smaller creatures from sometimes getting lost behind bigger creatures Fixed the «spawning multiple camera birds» bug Slug corpses can't kill anymore, so no more accidentally walking into them and dying Bugs When stomped, berrybugs and copybugs now always hop the same distance (3 tiles), making their behavior more predictible Berrybugs now briefly stop if they detect an edge above their heads while walking on the floor, making it easier to stomp them onto a wall Copybugs and berrybugs get stunned when they're in the trajectory of a to be spawned bubble, so they can't hop / roll away before bubble is spawned Glowy berrybugs now use the same turn animation as normal berrybugs, so no more faster glow bugs Frogs and bubbles Bubbles now prioritize Toki Tori over other entities, so no more accidental berrybug ballooning Added a small delay before catching an entity in a bubble to allow for catching Toki Tori, even if he's a little further away than an entity Added possibility to queue a «turn by whistle» while the frog is running towards a berrybug, so you don't have to wait before being able to let the frog face the desired direction Fixed a problem where a fat frog won't belch anymore Achievements In - menu achievements system, including progress achievements Added a number of new achievements Tokidex completion is now a progress achievement (you can see how far along you are) Fixed the Fried Chicken achievement, so it's less hard to get All electrocuted entities now count for the X-Ray Enthusiast achievement Menu Completely new, streamlined and fast to access menu system Ability to set language from menu New font Graphics Improved presentation of telepathic Ancient Frog messages, fixed a problem where sometimes they'd spawn multiple times Fixed black flickering when buttonbashing during fades and level transitions Screenfades are now 100 % black Added button prompts to the first time you need to use whistle and stomp Areas and puzzles Added l - ife area for Ife < 3 Added an extra landing stone in the wasteland area Added more snow globes: — RRB - Water mountain approach: berrybug in the «pro» puzzle can no longer be lost Water mountain top: frog for Ancient Frog puzzle now starts bloated, added light to make «pro» puzzle easier to execute Shaft top: Small tweak to make sure berrybug isn't killed by the slugs midway through the level Water cave: made the light shaft where you need to whistle the hermit crab a bit wider, created hole for frogs at end of level to prevent them from falling down, made some «pro» puzzles a bit more forgiving Dark forest: lowered warp when entering dark area, so it's easier to travel up with a bubble Lava cave: improved bat puzzle Meadow: made some pro puzzles less difficult Hideout: removed alternative solution for Ancient Frog puzzle Descent: made it easier to pick up fat frog at beginning

Over an hour long, the score dynamically changes throughout the game, fiddling with the player's emotions and enhancing the intrinsic beauty of the puzzle solving experience.

Replayability stems from every gameplay element including therapeutically completing over 100 puzzles, a huge amount of customisation options, showcase mode acting as a wonderful screen saver, and local multiplayer for 2 to 4 players in competitive or co-operative gameplay which will collectively have players returning long after completing each of the jigsaws.

Over a year after its discovery, a long - locked puzzle door in Battlefield 1 is finally open.

A great balance between visual novel and action, disturbing story and challenging puzzles, this is a horrific and sinister experience that will linger in your mind long after Halloween is over for another year.

In Season Match 2 you need to go through a long journey full of riddles and abounded with puzzles so you will have to think your every step over.

Another dangerous obstacle and puzzle device comes in the form of darkness, or rather a purple / blue fog that damages Garcia over time if he stays inside it for too long.

[Platform: PSP digital; Release: 2014]-- A classically - styled dungeon crawler from Nihon Falcom, the storied developers of the highly - acclaimed Ys and The Legend of Heroes RPG franchises, Brandish: The Dark Revenant puts players in the role of swordsman Ares Toraernos as he climbs his way through over 40 sprawling floors of monsters, traps and puzzles in an attempt to escape a long - forgotten underground labyrinth.

This game is a unique as far as puzzles go, a lot of I haven't come across before, and I enjoyed them very much... some took me quite a while to solve The game opened in widescreen... a definite plus, hate having to change things There are 3 modes of play: Easy - Expert - Pro... Expert players will love this game as there is no hand holding at all... no sparkles, no hints and no skips I played the Easy mode where hints charged in about 15 seconds and not much longer for skips I quite like the HOS as well... lists, silhouettes and find one thing to open or find another object but done differently than the norm There are no voice overs, which I didn't mind for a change, not an overly lot of dialogue to read either Graphics were good without being spectacular.

Richard B. Alley of Penn State has long been a source I call on when I'm puzzling over the latest study of ice trends in the Arctic or Antarctica.

The stability of the earth's temperature over time has been a long - standing climatological puzzle.

I also like that you've got a puzzle in the works — I just said to my kids that I wanted to get a new big puzzle for over the long winter months!