Sentences with phrase «of urban myths»

Snopes.com, confirming its transformation from debunker of urban myths to just another political hack «fact checker,» cites some speculative comments made in 1930 by Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius to conclude, «In essence, the relationship between carbon dioxide and climate had already been firmly established by the early 20th century.»

we have the internet and this makes the fun of urban myths and legends to share and lie about.

In fact, bankruptcy is a great solution even though people carry all sorts of urban myths and irrational fears about filing bankruptcy.

The Their Finest star is to front Sky Arts» Marilyn Monroe and Billy Wilder, formerly known as It's Me, Sugar, alongside Rome's James Purefoy, who plays Billy Wilder, as part of its Urban Myths strand.

Rocha is understood to be producing a number of other one - offs as part of the Urban Myths strand.

Online dating has been around for quite some time now, and even though it gained popularity and community members, it also suffers from being linked to a couple of urban myths.

«This is simply one of those urban myths,» he said.

It is kind of an urban myth, if you'll pardon the pun: there is a story afoot that people are leaving the suburbs and moving back to the cities.

Along the lines of urban myth.

Over the years, it has become something of an urban myth that Guardiola lacks warmth and does not interact closely with his players.

Is this the birth of another urban myth?

I used to think that sustainable happiness and inner peace were a bit of an urban myth — until I discovered a few key happiness lessons that transformed the way I felt about myself, and the way I showed up to the world.

In a call with reporters Tuesday, Orr said «I think that it is a little bit more of an urban myth about students just blowing off the test when they sit down with it.

The claim that global warming is an artifact of the Urban Heat Island Effect is simply an artifact of the Urban Myth Effect.

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Chip Heath says there's plenty entrepreneurs can learn about branding their businesses from the persistence of silly urban myths.

It may sound like an urban myth, but in the backstage area of the Matterhorn Bobsleds ride, there is a small attic space with a basketball hoop and a cramped area for cast members to play quick games between shifts.

One of the most persistent myths in America today is that urban areas are innovative and rural areas are not.

But what I do know is this: From that sharing of tips, tricks, rumours and urban myths emerges a gaming experience with more sense of community than anything I've seen in years.

Lawrence Cameron I am not a mythicist, but I do know of examples where urban myths grew up around people while they were still alive from Sabbati Sevi to Haille Sallasie

Early last year, when news broke of Joseph Fiennes playing Michael Jackson in the U.K. anthology series Urban Myths, the backlash and uproar was swift.

They merely accept the urban myth of evolution without checking out the facts for themselves.

All the guff about Kos does two jobs on the field — his own and covering for Merts — is the stuff of fairytales and ridiculous urban myth.

Contrary to common belief, many young fathers have real strengths; and the stereotype of the young buck who impregnates the neighbourhood is largely an urban myth: the single most powerful predictor of adolescent fatherhood is being involved in a long - term relationship with the baby's mother (Hanson et al, 1989).

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And while drinking beer does not increase your milk supply, as urban myth suggests, consuming alcohol of any kind may decrease the amount of milk your baby drinks.

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And then there's the urban myths, the «old wives tales», the out of date information and some other stuff people have posted on the web that's just plain wrong (and sometimes dangerous).

«I am grateful to my hon. Friend for asking that question, because it enables me to puncture one of the great urban myths in the immigration debate, which is that most immigration comes from within the European Union.

The party failed to kill off the urban myth that Labour overspending caused the crisis, and gave credibility to Conservative claims about the economy by signing up to austerity - lite; Miliband's personal ratings were never within spitting distance of Cameron's; falling oil prices finally increased real wages; and the SNP «threat» was mercilessly deployed to scare off English voters.

There is an urban myth that dogs can smell human emotions, now it seems to be true: dogs can sense a person's emotional state just by sniffing a sample of their sweat

These questions are just a sample of the urban lore investigated in our newest eBook, Fact or Fiction: Science Tackles 58 Popular Myths.

Biologist Robert Sapolsky is a leading challenger of what he calls the «urban myth of inevitable aggression.»

«There is both truth and urban myth in what you are hearing,» wrote a program officer, who went on to point out that a qualitative score of «excellent» doesn't mean as much as you might think.

Many contemporary urban legends or «myths» surround our popular understanding of what makes for a good cardiovascular workout.

The Urban Legends of Hashimoto's I wanted to share some of the most common myths and questions I hear about food, the thyroid and Hashimoto's.

As the case often with myths and «urban legends,» many of the these are based on facts that have been misunderstood and twisted.

If you've been single for a while it can be all too easy to view tales of lasting love and marriage as some sort of sign for an urban relationship myth, meant only for the very handsome, the very rich or the very lucky!

Yet, easier overall doesn't always mean easier on an individual scale — and if you've been single a while it can be only too easy to view these tales of lasting love and marriage as some sort of urban relationship myth, meant only for the very handsome, the very rich or the very lucky.

Contrary to urban myth, the personal section of most quality newspapers are full of likeminded individuals all looking for a partner to share their lives.

Clark and his screenwriter A Ray Moore had only Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, Michael Powell's Peeping Tom, the»60s urban myth of the babysitter and the man upstairs, and Italy's gialli, to guide them in their invention of the tropes that would come to dominate the horror landscape of the late»70s and»80s.

Tarantino's films aren't so much stories as strings of anecdotes: movie moments, urban myths, conversations strewn with pop culture references.

It is part of the forthcoming Urban Myths season, which features The Sex Pistols vs Bill Grundy, starring Steve Pemberton, When Bowie Met Bolan (Lion TV), starring Jack Whitehall as Marc Bolan and Luke Treadaway as David Bowie, The Dali and The Cooper (Me & You Productions), starring David Suchet, Noel Fielding and Sheila Hancock and Public Enemy feat.

Still wondering if she's the victim of a harmless urban myth, she tries one other test: Watchers of the video have their faces distorted in photographs.

As he combs through East Los Angeles searching for any kind of clues he can find, he stumbles upon a larger, more sinister conspiracy than he ever imagined, involving billionaires, celebrities, urban myths, and even pop culture as we know it.

It's a bit difficult to believe that Kearney isn't more readily identifiable by others, but if you can swallow that Bobby Z is mostly a legend (or urban myth), perhaps you can also swallow that a man as obsessed with Bobby Z for years wouldn't have seen a single picture of him.

By «cage - busting,» I mean finding ways to rethink the web of rules, regulations, contracts, and routines that have accreted over the past century, and to shrug off the self - imposed cage created by urban myths, professional norms, and a «culture of can't.»

Although the series is now over a decade old, many of the recommendations made by the task forces are still relevant today, such as providing effective professional development for teachers and principals, professionalizing teaching, political and policy challenges like bipartisanship, and dispelling myths about the challenges of leading urban districts.

Using third or fourth grade reading scores to plan prison construction may be an urban myth but it's no joke that poor literacy skills are strong predictors of a whole host of serious social problems.

Earlier, the committee had heard how it had become an urban myth in schools that teachers needed to mark in green and purple ink and give very detailed assessments of the work.

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