Sentences with phrase «on human legs»

«The weather isn't on our team, but we're doing pretty good here,» said Johann König, whose König Galerie had sold Katharina Grosse's vividly colored painting o.T. (2017) for $ 140,000 ($ 173,000), and a gigantic Erwin Wurm bronze — a giant red suitcase walking on human legs — also for $ 140,000.

It's like stepping on human legs.

Not exact matches

Among some of Toyota's developments for the disabled or elderly include a strap - on robotic leg for people who lost the use of their limbs and a so - called human support robot designed to fetch and retrieve objects for people unable to do so.

With his record running times, Bolt stretched the limits of human achievement, sending physicists scrambling to explain what made him so special ---- in essence, his longer, stronger legs create more ground force to propel him forward ---- and ponder the possibility of anyone on the planet ever running faster.

By the end of the book, Animal Farm has been renamed Manor Farm and the ruling pigs are walking on two legs like the humans they overthrew.

This is great, but if you really want to see what what God's love looks like, look to Jesus dying on a cross for the sins of the world, including the sins of those who are whipping his back and legs until his skin is gone and then laying that back on a rough and splintery wooden cross to crucify him, and continuing the torture until he's unrecognizable as a human being.

This means you've certainly got a leg up on many of your human brothers, if this scripture is indeed God's word.

Interestingly, as Lerer points out, Toad stands up straight on two very human legs, while Ratty and Mole are rendered simply as animals.)

With millions of pounds of 1080 - treated baits on Western lands, one ponders the issue of how much of this poison is absorbed by grazing livestock from contaminated grasses, and subsequently transferred to human stomachs in a leg of lamb or roast of beef.»

He might walk on four legs, be covered in fur and be named T - Rex, but he's got a place in my heart just the same as my human children.

Orangutans on two legs bolster the notion that humans did not have to crawl before they could walk

Understanding what combination of mutations could transform H5N1 into a human pandemic virus gives epidemiologists a leg up on preparing countermeasures; they can, for example, test existing vaccines against the new strain.

Lucy had a smaller skull than later humanlike species, but her other bones showed that she walked upright, helping researchers reconstruct how humans began walking on two legs.

By contrast, humans, who have a shorter pelvic bone called an ischium (informally known as a «sit bone»), can hyperextend their legs in a way that generates less force on the hamstrings at the knees.

«My work has focused on developing technology that translates electrical signals in human muscle into signals that control powered prosthetic limbs — such as decoding muscle signals to tell a prosthetic leg that it needs to walk forward or step up onto a staircase,» says Dr. Helen Huang, senior author of a paper on the work and an associate professor in the joint biomedical engineering program at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Meanwhile, Herr continued working on what would prove to be key to the solution: springs that use the same principle as the human leg.

By PAT SHIPMAN Ever since Plato described humans as «featherless bipeds», we have recognised walking upright on two legs as a defining characteristic of humankind.

The new small, affordable sensors, like the $ 100 Fitbit, can wirelessly log all sorts of human metrics: brainwave patterns during sleep, heart rates during exercise, leg power exerted on bike rides, number of steps taken, places visited, sounds heard.

Lab tests are now being conducted on the bone, which Schablitsky suspects is from a human arm or leg that was butchered and then cooked.

On the ground, moving from fruit tree to fruit tree, bonobos often stand and walk on two legs — behavior that makes them seem more like humans than chimpOn the ground, moving from fruit tree to fruit tree, bonobos often stand and walk on two legs — behavior that makes them seem more like humans than chimpon two legs — behavior that makes them seem more like humans than chimps.

Humans have a unique kind of locomotion — we're bipedal, meaning we move around on two legs rather than four.

The remnants of a remarkably petite skull belonging to one of the first human ancestors to walk on two legs have revealed the great physical diversity among these prehistoric populations.

But horses, like humans, are unable to shift their weight off all four legs; they compensate for the additional force by keeping their feet on the ground longer.

The impact of all these many - legged critters on human health remains unclear.

After taking measurements and collecting observations on nine living primate species, including humans, Carrier concluded that the living apes with the shortest legs for their body size, like gorillas and orangutans, are those that spend the least time in trees.

Evolution, our coping strategy Presented with fragmented vegetation and greater distances between sources of food may have led to the evolution of human bipedalism — walking upright on two legs — around six million years ago.

Neaderthals had brawn, but early humans had a leg up on brains.

These mice developed hallmark signs of PD in their brains and behavior: loss of dopaminergic neurons in the SNc, impaired generation of new neurons in one of the few regions capable of producing them in adult organisms, and impaired muscle coordination similar to human victims of Parkinson's (as evidenced by difficulty in rearing up on their hind legs)(Figure 2).

A forty percent complete skeleton, many of her large bones had been preserved through fossilization and from these, and in particular the femur (thigh bone) and pelvis, we know she stood upright and moved about on two legs and it was claimed she walked in the same manner as humans today: a straight legged stride, knees extended, posture upright.

By 1.8 million years ago, a species called Homo ergaster was about as tall as living humans, with long legs and stiff feet that were only good for walking on the ground.

The ability to walk on two legs was later followed by other human evolutionary trends that lead to tool manufacture and the enlargement of the brain.

Moving through arm exercises using small hand weights, we found our way to the barre, where we pulsed through plies, tendus, leg lifts, jumps, ball squeezes and arabesques until the whole class was quivering around on shaky legs like human jellies.

For humans, nodding off while balancing on one leg is out of the question.

As humans evolved and began walking upright on two legs, their glutes developed.

I know I've mentioned this before, but several years ago you almost could always find me in a tee and leggings (aside from nighttime), and it took me a while to get on board with dressing like a put - together human being on a regular basis.

What we really needed was a robot - on - human sparring session which ended with Atom getting overexcited and ripping off Hugh Jackman's left leg and beating him over the head with it.

An Amazing Fps game with Amazing graphics... Also the most violent game I've ever played plus with the realistic graphics it makes it gruesome... The aliens (Stroggs) like to experiment on humans, people are shown with parts of their face torn off, intestines hanging out, there is a scene where you can see your characters legs being sliced off by a bloody saw while strapped down, limbless people are attached to machines, some strange experiments like that, Do nt play this game if you are a little kid or some idiot thats going to copy what you see in this game...

Ben (voice of Sam Elliott) is a cow who for years has been the leader and sober voice of reason among the animals at a farm where the critters are a bit unusual — they can walk on two legs, talk, swim, and act like humans, though they have the good sense to avoid doing these things while humans are around.

The humans are on their last legs, all but wiped out by the virus started in the last movie.

The CGI is obviously no match for the defining practical work use on the 1982 original (who can forget the decapitated human head that sprouts spider legs?!)

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.

He borders on cruel when he shoots a bad guy in the leg, uses him as a human shield while shooting other bad guys in the face, then finishing his first victim with a couple of shots to the dome.

For example, Miller explains that when a pet food label lists chicken by - products as the protein, that means a chicken carcass that has had all of the meat used for human consumption removed (breast meat, wings, thighs, legs), but still contains the cleaned organ meat and bones with leftover meat on them.

Puppies can't resist humans who sit down on the floor with legs spread apart so, while they're easily persuaded to come by this very simple gesture, make the most of it by using their name, sparingly, but making a huge fuss when puppy arrives.

Environmental allergens are a bit more difficult to control although over the counter anti-histamines work on our four - legged friends just as well as they do on humans.

Your four - legged buddy will quickly figure out that having humans on his property isn't so bad.

The Chin is basically a quiet dog, but enjoys entertaining his humans with his signature «Chin Spin», where he turns in fast circles, dancing on his hind legs.

(unless a strap goes over the back and around the unaffected leg, it will probably not stay on) Much like back problems in humans - there is no agreement among physicians or veterinarians as to what the best treatment really is.

First, they will «lift their legs» all over my house (see the section on house - training) and second, they are afraid of coming home with an «alpha» dog (no dog wants to be an «alpha» dog, the humans should be «alpha»).

By nature, most cats prefer frequent, low intensity encounters with their humans, like a rub on the leg, a jump on the lap or a flop across the computer keyboard.