Sentences with phrase «of the nerds in»

«In the past, biology has been a backwater type of activity — a bunch of nerds in a lab.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower meets Revenge of the Nerds in this tale of a teen misfit who seeks to take down the bro next door, but ends up falling for his enemy's sister and uncovering difficult truths about his family in the process.

If not for the continuous invocation of anthropogenically generated pending catastrophes this whole debate would have occurred between groups of nerds in the faculty lounge lunching on PB&J sandwiches because the grant money coming in wouldn't cover the cost of a Big Mac Extra Value meal.

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The day's announcements included a new version of the Android OS for the smartphone in your pocket; the new Nexus 7 tablet computer for the couch; a set - top sphere called Nexus Q to pipe music and movies to your TV; a cloud - computing platform for your business; and the ultimate in cyber nerd fantasy, Google Glass, a pair of Android - enabled glasses to stream data directly into your eyeballs.

Evan Shapiro, executive vice president of NBCUniversal Digital Enterprises, announced the new service in a presentation Thursday morning in New York, where he hammered home the idea that comedy is the most popular genre for streaming programming and that Seeso aims to provide content curated for and by «comedy nerds.»

And, having played ultimate throughout summer camp as a kid (often with Marc), briefly in college, and for two seasons in a scrappy New York City league (yes, I realize I'm officially coming out of the nerd closet here), I was invited to play Thursday.

In perhaps the quintessential nerd combo, a clever artist by the name of Greg Koening concocted a unique iPhone case that replicates the famous «carbonite freeze» scene from Star Wars: Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back.

Effective altruism has been called «altruism for nerds,» and revolves around the idea that quantitative approaches can be used to determine the best possible use of resources — time and money in particular — to maximize the good those resources can do for humanity on a global scale.

Even as a child growing up in the 1940s in Dinuba, Calif., the son of a dentist, he was something of an action nerd.

But whatever the cause or causes, the nerd - ward shift in business is significant, according Brendan Wallace, co-founder of Identified.

Combine this insatiable demand for talent with a sub-cultural shift of regarding labels such as «nerd» and «dweeb» as positive indicators of nuanced passion rather than pariah - like brands, and you end up with many more people interested in coding.

In the 80s you had Revenge of the Nerds, and now we have the «brogrammer» culture.

Rubin gestures toward a very large Nerds box (the World's Largest Box of Nerds, in fact), a wall of Hello Kitty gear, and another featuring Marilyn Monroe T - shirts, lunch boxes, and even chocolate bars with her face on the wrapper (the company recently bought the exclusive candy rights to her likeness).

As the founder of nerd - oriented e-newsletter GeekChicDaily, Peter Levin was the Batman to Hardwick's Superman, unlikely allies who fought in the same universe.

In it, space nerds of all stripes will find a ton of engineering to marvel at, including a 35 - story space vehicle (and even the prospect the intercontinental rockets that could get you from London to New York in under a half an hour), as well as plenty of discussion of the many technical challenges to realize this dreaIn it, space nerds of all stripes will find a ton of engineering to marvel at, including a 35 - story space vehicle (and even the prospect the intercontinental rockets that could get you from London to New York in under a half an hour), as well as plenty of discussion of the many technical challenges to realize this dreain under a half an hour), as well as plenty of discussion of the many technical challenges to realize this dream.

We were a bunch of tech nerds pitching a virtual customer service solution at a fashion event in New York City.

Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin bonded while interning at NBC, and the self - described «news nerds» discovered that for people whose job doesn't require much knowledge of what's going on in the world, current events knowledge tends to fall to the wayside.

«We're in the business of creating and growing businesses, so, we are start up nerds,» says Smithmier.

It strikes me, in reading Snyder's collected stories, that the «cool kids» of tech are imposing on women the lousy environment they once suffered through — back when they were the nerds who got teased and hassled.

If you think Joffe's comments are the ravings of a paranoid cybersecurity nerd, you're in denial about your DVR, cable modem, and smart refrigerator.

LINUX may be popular in the engineering and computer industries but it hasn't broken into wider use because of its «nerd» image, says E-Syn Engineering managing director Frank Veldkamp.According to the Linux Networking Overview «How To» by Danie...

Robbins» epiphany came in the nick of time considering that the DOL rule is due to be released Wednesday, inevitably placing a premium on advisors who toe the fiduciary line, says Michael Kitces, writer of Nerd's Eye View.

One of the original founders of NextGen, 34 - year - old Michael Kitces, partner and director of research at Pinnacle Advisory Group in Columbia, Md., and publisher of The Kitces Report and the blog Nerd's Eye View, says that over the next year or so, advisors will continue to struggle with the «really difficult market environment.»

Just a few years ago it seemed like bitcoin was a singular force, which in retrospect was incredibly naive since it's open source tech managed by a bunch of fighting nerds.

That is: the mind caught in an alien body; the not - quite - genius nerd who's «the king of foreplay» or will do anything to «get laid» and, really, anything to have a relational life with a pretty girl; the highly erotic metrosexual who turns the whole cosmos into a romantic tale that has room for appreciating «The Good Wife»; the guy who is better than he says (but still genuinely short on manliness), but who is creepy in his ingenuity when it comes to using his robotic gadgets for personal satisfaction.

Because not only was he mostly unnoticed and thought a weirdo and a nerd in high school, he still goes through life that way; awkward, patronized, not the center of any group.

Nerding out over an online video game or a fantasy series or a beloved sitcom isn't bad — that kind of deep passion can drive culture forward — but when that love is self - contained, it's useless, and that makes the diverted goals of Ready Player One's book and movie feel in counter to one another.

As a Star Trek nerd, I remember the Klingons would dream of dying in battle — dying well.

She plays the sort of person who was too cool to be a nerd but was always more popular on Tumblr than in real life.

Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament by Peter Enns:: I'm just cracking this open as part of the amazing Reading in Transit book club for theology nerds.

Suffice to say: self - confessed «nerds» around the world, people perhaps a little like Hazel and Augustus, who don't quite fit in but want a full life and a better future, have found purpose and fellowship through the pioneering leadership of the Green brothers.

They are so about the coming revenge of the nerds that they forget that even scientists and philosophers have to be animated by erotic longings that could only exist in beings with bodies, minds, and other stuff too — in persons.

«If we're going to expand our base and we're going to draw in more people to recognize the virtues of living in a secular world, we need to appeal to more than just that geek and nerd subset of the population.

To the delight of Tumblrs everywhere, the first photo of Sherlock «s Benedict Cumberbatch as Wikileak's Julian Assange in the new Assange biopic The Fifth Estate has graced the Internet with its nerd - blessing presence.

She did say that «One thing that kind of happened is I thought it was a lot more plausible but not necessarily true, in the same way that I'm a big Harry Potter nerd and I can see how the whole world works and think about the dynamics of that world without thinking it's true.

Speaking about the film recently in Los Angeles, Cera — who in this film, takes some refreshingly bold steps away from his usual one - note nerd persona — and co - writer / director Edgar Wright (who also did the zany cult classics Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz) discussed the meaning of the film, the stretching Cera had to go through for the role, and the way in which the film's hyperkinetic action sequences are really just the same as the dance scenes in Grease or a Gene Kelly movie.

Give it a rest, because even a bully in a school yard would know that out of nothing nothing happens, but of course it would take the nerd to conceive what the bully would not get even perhaps at a ripe old age, that what was always before the something which lead to the «thing» on the bully's hand was the Infinite and that what's on the bully's hand can be infinitely divided, or that between the bully's pinky and thumb exists an infinity in itself, as is between the number 1 and another number 1 (one unit and another unit), which make 2, or that the bully's hand will at one infinitely minute point in time disolve into the INFINITE, give it a rest Tom, Tom with the spelling, since you can not comprehend what lays between the fine letters, let alone conceive the truth, and distill knowledge from the ore your inadequate imagination fails to mine.

Julie earned a Masters in English for the sheer pleasure of stories (nerd alert), served urban youth the past four years through a ministry in West Dallas, and recently joined the chaplain's office at Wheaton College as the Ministry Associate for Spiritual Care.

Truthfully, because I am a huge nerd, this fall I am looking forward to the release of the third book in Veronica Roth's trashy (yet oddly enthralling) trilogy: ALLEGIANT.

Since you know I'm a healthy food and fitness nerd, let me just tell you about some of the awesome ingredients in this easy overnight oat recipe and how each helps support optimal health and peak performance for your sport.

And for anyone who suspects that hemp brownies are truly a throwback to the 60s, let me say, first of all, that the hemp seeds in these are the edible kind, so you are not ingesting any mind - altering chemicals whatsoever here (unless you count the flood of serotonins in the brain due to their heavenly taste); and second of all, hemp is not the same thing as hash, and of course the classic hippie confection was a hash brownie; and third of all, how the heck would I even know, because I never did manage to consume any of the latter, even in my undergrad days, because I am such a nerd that nobody ever offered me any, and hash brownies never appealed to me, anyway — I mean, why sully your chocolate with psychedelic drugs?

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While the rest of the gang relaxed on the porch, I hunkered down on her living room sofa, fully embracing my food - nerd standing and indulged in a few issues from the late 90s.

The Ferrero Group and its affiliated companies («Ferrero»), a global confectionary group, announced that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Nestlé USA's confectionary business, with more than 20 iconic American brands, including chocolate favorites such as Butterfinger ®, BabyRuth ®, 100Grand ®, Raisinets ®, Wonka ® and the exclusive right to the Crunch ® brand for confectionary and certain categories in the US, as well as sugar brands such as SweeTarts ®, LaffyTaffy ®, and Nerds ®.

Add a theme and, when in doubt, don't be afraid to err on the side of nerd - dom.

The coffee program alone would put the nerdiest of coffee nerds to shame: Beans are brewed in a half - dozen methods (AeroPress, V60, etc.), and baristas dream up concoctions like The Notorious F.I.G. (cold - brew with fig - amaro syrup).

It's no secret I am a meal prep nerd... I love the process of creating a weekly meal plan, making a list, shopping, and spending a couple of hours on Sunday in my kitchen prepping for the week ahead.

Instead, he got into some weird, overly lengthy feud with Dolph Ziggler where Dolph didn't look like a nerd the entire time, and in 2017 - 2018, that is like, the only point of Dolph Ziggler.

Play a competition once in a while and you'll be able to compete and make friends with a whole bunch of fellow table tennis nerds like me!»

Charlotte had spent weeks basically calling Bayley a nerd who was no better than the other nerds in the audience, and Bayley has been trying to tell her that actually, being a nerd is good and is also the source of her power.