Sentences with phrase «much on a human scale»

Your process takes place very much on a human scale.

Not exact matches

I just do nt get why god gets a pass philosophically when we immediately condemn a human when they do pretty much the same thing but on a much smaller scale.

But evolution has worked on much smaller scales too, producing finely honed nanostructures — parts less than a millionth of a meter across, or smaller than 1 / 20th of the width of a human hair — that help animals climb, slither, camouflage, flirt, and thrive.

Ray Baughman, Ph.D., took a bundle of nylon fibers about the width of ten strands of human hair and wound them into a long, tight coil, just like an old - fashioned telephone cord but on a much smaller scale.

The human brain connectome has not yet been fully mapped at the cellular or the macro (high - level structural and functional) scale, though efforts to do the latter are much further along than the former — which has only just even become possible (more on that later).

Right now, stem cell products are commonly produced on a very small scale to use in lab experiments, but we need to make them in much greater orders of magnitude for use in future human therapies.

To this end, his work often relies on anthropology and human history as much as it does on genome sequencing and computation, in order to decipher the subtle genetic signatures that appear when species undergo major events such as population bottlenecks, large - scale migration or dispersal events, or the development of resistance to disease.

It should not come as too much of a shock when the pod bursts and a giant monster crawls out, and the humans are suddenly faced with a danger on a scale that can not be ease to reconcile.

It stands on two legs like a human, has gills, green scales and, like Elisa, doesn't speak, but somehow the pair find themselves having much more in common than you may have expected.

These interests have remained central to his practice and extend into the large group of modestly scaled wall works made between 2002 and 2011, which contain not only the metal tool parts and carved wood found in much of his oeuvre but also symbolically loaded materials such as human hair and the asafetida bags traditionally worn on the body to ward off disease.

Looking at a map of metropolitan areas and how much space they occupy, in terms of impact on the record, I wonder if they couldn't be thought of more as a human ecosystem — say on the scale of fossil reefs.

This line from the 2007 report's chapter on human health is about as straightforward as any language can be: «Despite the known causal links between climate and malaria transmission dynamics, there is still much uncertainty about the potential impact of climate change on malaria at local and global scales.»

But there remains far too much natural variability in the frequency and potency of rare and powerful storms — on time scales from decades to centuries — to go beyond pointing to this event being consistent with what's projected on a human - heated planet.

The total size does not change much on human time scales, and our contribution to changes in the composition is tiny (less than 0.1 %).

However, on climate time scales there has not been detection (much less attribution) of increasing disasters (intensity or frequency) to human - caused climate change

Normally on human time - scales the climate in one place does not change too much, so we get used to it and mistakenly think that it will never change, after all it has not changed in our life - time.

The chaotic perturbations that we seem to think are catastrophic on a human scale barely rate a ripple when the perspective aperture is opened much wider.

Since much of this context can be algorithmically generated rather than relying on human fact checkers, the system could scale much more quickly to different languages and locations around the world.