Sentences with phrase «on human things»

For you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things.»

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If this idea sounds familiar — OK, even vaguely familiar — that's because De Brouwer was inspired by the Star Trek Tricorder, a handheld device that could examine living things and offer data on activity imperceptible to the human eye.

And yes, the shimmery, glimmery cranberry sauce I crave each November for precisely two meals a year — Thanksgiving dinner and the ritual post-Thanksgiving 10 p.m. white bread - turkey - cranberry sandwich — is composed of things that are almost surely antithetical to human health: Two of the four ingredients on most of the cans I've seen are high - fructose corn syrup and (plain old standard) corn syrup.

«The good thing is that it's not toxic to humans and has been shown to not have any adverse effects on human health,» said Gubler, a professor emeritus at Duke University and a former head of the CDC's dengue program.

Another thing Bossa Nova did was to design the robots to look more «friendly» to humans by installing a small display screen and lighting on its small body.

«The human - computer speech interface is the next big thing,» says Nigel Fenwick, a digital business and technology analyst with Forrester, who says Alexa and similar systems were integrated with just about everything on the floor: refrigerators, light fixtures, house - keeping robots, security cameras, door locks, cars, speakers and headphones, shower heads, air conditioners, and the list goes on and on.

On this year's list, robots are going places no human has ever been, «big data» is doing things that weathermen have never been able to master, carbon is being captured from waste and turned into fuel simultaneously, fiber optic cables are searching for oil, and future well blowouts are being averted (maybe).

Human resources accosts you with endless forms and pointless videos on ergonomics, IT forgot to set up 16 essential things, and your supervisor, while well - meaning, manages to simultaneously overstuff your brain with details you'll never remember and fail to give you the information you need to actually get started with your job.

Instead of manually passing data, these «always on» devices in the plugged - in world of the Internet of Things do it automatically without human intervention.

After 11 years of studying the habit, and a lifetime battling it, Steel — now a professor of human resources and organizational dynamics at the University of Calgary's Haskayne School of Business — has become the world's leading authority on not getting things done.

Of course, having more information on a client is a good thing, but it doesn't address the fact that human advisors are still more expensive than most online services.

In a summary of their findings in Harvard Business Review, the researchers explain that «humans learn to automatically pay attention to things that are habitually relevant to them, even when they are focused on a different task.»

It makes you human on the days when things aren't perfect in your business.

«The hand and writing things — that's just human nature,» says Edoardo de Martin, director of the Microsoft Canada Excellence Centre, which in February set up shop on two sprawling floors covering 3.5 acres of the former Eaton's and Sears flagship.

On Sunday, engineer Susan Fowler published a blog post detailing what she diplomatically dubbed her «strange» year working at Uber — a tenure that she says included, among other things, a) her manager propositioning her on her first day at work; and b) her repeated complaints about the incident ignored and dismissed by the company's human resources department, under the aegis of not sullying the guy's career for an «innocent mistake.&raquOn Sunday, engineer Susan Fowler published a blog post detailing what she diplomatically dubbed her «strange» year working at Uber — a tenure that she says included, among other things, a) her manager propositioning her on her first day at work; and b) her repeated complaints about the incident ignored and dismissed by the company's human resources department, under the aegis of not sullying the guy's career for an «innocent mistake.&raquon her first day at work; and b) her repeated complaints about the incident ignored and dismissed by the company's human resources department, under the aegis of not sullying the guy's career for an «innocent mistake.»

But as writer Matt Thomas thoughtfully pointed out on his blog recently, things were wildly different for the vast majority of human history.

The simple things will have a huge impact on human health.

The human thing to do is bring it to work, whether on a subconscious or conscious level, and then sometimes work is the catalyst for that stress.

We humans don't typically agree on all that much, but there is at least one thing that an impressive amount of us accept: which hand is easiest to control.

Microsoft's (msft) ill - fated Tay bot experiment in which online commenters taught the bot — basically software that takes on human characteristics powered by artificial intelligence — to say racist and sexist things also illustrates this point.

«One of the most interesting things we've noticed over the last decade is the ability of math and machines to replace human judgment, particularly expert judgment,» Rabois said on Founder Calls, a new podcast run by Box CEO Aaron Levie.

«Our managers look at three key areas — passion, proven history, and an employee's willingness and ability to adapt to change and take on new things,» David Stafford, chief human resources officer and executive vice president of personnel for Michelin North America, told Business Insider.

Broad Listening, on the other hand, claims that it can identify why people do things, or at least give the insights into why, so that a human can figure it out completely.

The company relies on human labor, and Airbnb Trips, he argues, is technology in the service of bringing people together, to experience new things in real life, not on screens.

Why it sucks: This strategy relies on the human aversion to having things taken away.

But as the Silicon Republic series points out, the more computers, AI and digitization enter our work and lives, the more important focusing on the things that make us human becomes.

This is the phrase which would motivate any human being «Life is too short to be spending your time on things you hate, so focus your time and energy on things that you love.»

Other than Post, only a handful of scientists are working on lab - grown meat; others believe the future lies in plant - based substitutes, ones so good they could fool even the most discerning palate, although Post maintains that we humans will always have an appetite for the real thing.

One of the things we're always considering at FlexJobs is how we can strengthen and maintain our company culture, encourage friendly relationships to grow among teams, and engage with one another on a human level.

But it is one thing to state that all human beings have some access to God's law within and through human nature, quite another to expect natural law theories based on reason alone to persuade others about contested moral issues in a context where such theories are stripped of their foundations in God as creator, lawgiver, and judge.

So how do you go from that reasoning to «Since it wasn't accidental then it must have been this ancient male diety named (fill in blank depending on religion) who loves me and knows me and cares for me and wants me to perform rituals that have nothing to do with morality like prayer, not eating certain things, sabaath and many more just because he said so, even though we have no record of him saying anything, just records of humans who wrote things down that they claim he said, but I want to believe it all so badly I will base my beliefs on no other evidence than «it just can't be accident».

One more thing CA... I contribute every day to your country... Whenever I shop at Subway or WalMart or Target... some of that money goes directly back to your country... so suck it up and learn to stay on topic... this isn't about who lives where, this about some religitard dictating basic human rights!!!

We are but mammals on a planet and there is not a thing we can do about it as the human was here on earth long before our Religion or the story of Jesus or Muhamid.

Jefferson said some critical things about religion and human nature - that were spot on... Martin Luther apparently actually hated a group of people to the point that he wanted them gone.

Unfortunately in my case, I've probably gone to excess the other way... after 43 years of being (in my view) threatened with hellfire for every cotton - picking thing (including the «sinfulness» of being born in the first place because it's a well - known scriptural fact that every human is born sinful and separated from G - d, with a heart that does nothing but desire evil and no way to please G - d even when righteous), threatened with being «left behind» in the rapture (should I fail on some doctrinal (belief) point at the crucial moment)... I refuse to consider ANY possibility of hell at all.

The more you grow to see them as an actual three - dimensional human being, the easier it will be to engage them on contentious issues without things blowing up in your face.

If people halfway understood eternity, however, the focus would not be on such «human» things.

Sadie Sadie The slaughter on both sides will continue until either Christians and Muslims realize that they are the same and are in fact human beings, or one of the Prophets actually comes back and set things straight.

Your mistrust of a fellow human being based on your perceived superior position is the reason that religion is the most destructive force against the very thing you, as a Christian, hold dear.

We are all fine and need to focus on being human rather than the play things of gods..

In other words, a properly ordered will (one that leads toward good things in good measure) following closely on the heels of right reason (one that perceives and presents to the will goods really perfective of the human person) goes a long way to putting the passions in their place (which is not, emphatically, squashed way down into a virtual black hole).

This challenge led to a finger - wagging review by Hitchens in The Atlantic and a series of punch - counterpunch exchanges in various transatlantic venues, all of which obscured both the thoughtfulness of Amis» meditations on grief and his discovery of the depths of human depravity: «Hitler - Stalin tells us this, among other things: given total power over another, the human being will find his thoughts turn to torture.»

These numbers compare with 69 % of all people surveyed who «believe there is solid evidence that the average temperature on Earth has been getting warmer over the past few decades» and 57 % who «believe humans and other living things evolved over time.»

The author (s) of this story lacked perspective on their calendar, or maybe they wanted to debunk astronomical principles of order in favor of making the statement that God made all that is in the universe in one «work» week a nice juxtaposition between divine and human potential to get things done.

On the contrary, we can now envision all trees as analogical actualities, as transcendent symbols that participate in the reality that they signify, as having likenesses to us despite their differences from us, and thus as linking natural things with both human and divine things — and perhaps also with things demonic.

The idea that a being would create the entire thing — with 400,000,000,000 galaxies, EACH with 100, 000,000,000 starts and even more planets, then sit back and wait 13,720,000,000 years for human beings to evolve on one planet so he could «love them» and send his son to Earth to talk to a nomadic group of Jews about sheep and goats in Iron Age Palestine (while ignoring the rest of the 200 million people then alive) makes no sense to us.

As humans embraced science you see, they learned things, such as the fact that lightning is not caused by a lightning god, thunder not by the thunder god, the sun is not a god, on and on.

You know, when I think about «empire» — Roman or Egyptian or Chinese or Russian or American — and consider both accomplishments and damage inflicted (human and otherwise), and then think about what Christianity might have to say on the subject, the first thing that comes to mind is «to whom much has been given, from him much will be required.»

School taught me how many wives Henry VIII had, helped me glean information about Australia's mining industry and even taught me the French word for «station», but nobody told me anything about the one thing you never believe will happen when you're young but happens to every human on the planet.

Obviously, that biblical law was written by ignorant men, and because humans are changeable, we have «evolved» our beliefs on such things and do not recognize what the biblical laws require — because they are immoral.