Sentences with phrase «on primitive»

In nature, green indicates water so we are reassured by green on a primitive level.

Compared to those, Android Messages still relies on a primitive method where you receive SMS, MMS, and RCS through your mobile phone carrier.

A focus of the installation is relationships, and Pfeifer juxtaposes human behavior with plant life to comment on the primitive truisms of personal relationships.

As others have noted, the IPCC Team has gone absolutely feral about Salby's research and the most recent paper by Dr Roy Spencer, at the University of Alabama (On the Misdiagnosis of Surface Temperature Feedbacks from Variations in Earth's Radiant Energy Balance), for one simple reason: both are based on empirical, undoctored satellite observations, which, depending on the measure required, now extend into the past by up to 32 years, i.e. long enough to begin evaluating real climate trends; whereas much of the Team's science in AR4 (2007) is based on primitive climate models generated from primitive and potentially unreliable land measurements and proxies, which have been «filtered» to achieve certain artificial realities (There are other more scathing descriptions of this process I won't use).

Cons: Tidal power relies on primitive technology and limited locations, can result in negative ecological consequences if dams are used, and is not yet economically competitive.

Virtually every argument I've seen here against that prediction is a straw man, usually based on primitive and unwarranted design assumptions.

Recent exhibitions of Pica's work have focused on primitive technologies for listening and eavesdropping — glasses against walls, string telephones and makeshift television aerials.

His perspective changed as a Harvard freshman where, in a course on primitive art, he studied African masks in the ethnological museum, and then saw recently made films and heard audio recordings of rites in which similar masks were used.

On the other hand, the execution can verge on the primitive, and so perhaps Pettibon's is a kind of idiosyncratic folk art like graffiti — you can almost imagine it appearing overnight scrawled across the walls of an underpass, or the previously pristine screening erected around the construction site of some shiny new high - rise development.

Meanwhile, nine other artists, including Mark Handforth and Huma Bhabha, have each created a sculptural jewelry display for the show based on the primitive - looking steel masks Calder made for an exhibition in 1940.

Whereas too many current racing games rely on primitive texture changes and pre-determined damage which never looks truly realistic, these cars deform dynamically at the exact point of impact in a shower of debris, striking the perfect balance between realism and spectacle.

Spectacular settings, authentic Resort architecture with accent on primitive design elements and warm friendly Balinese hospitality, in its purest form, define Waka Resorts.

There are times, as you round a steep corner, you'll feel the urge to do what so many of the local people do when navigating the bends, the dips and harrowing passages on this primitive rout; genuflect and send up a little prayer of thanks when you've made it to the next spot that isn't clinging to the edge of a hundred foot drop safely.

My very picky 12 - year - old Aussie Cattle dog chowed down on your Primitive Natural formula today.

Within 2 months of starting her on Primitive, the lesions began to fade and were completely gone within 4 months.

I started him on the Primitive Natural in January of this year and he has not had a seizure since.

Some children read blocks of short stories they've written; others improvise on primitive fragments they've scrawled across the page.

I think it confuses as much as it clarifies, puts more stress on primitive systems than they can bear, and promises to unnecessarily entangle a useful management tool in personalities and public reputations.

I should come clean with the admission that Emmerich's films, more often than not, work for me on some primitive, Neanderthal level.

Why is it that a nation so advanced still relies on primitive courses of decision - making?

There he locates the next shred of information carved on a primitive plank stowed in the Queen's desk.

Robbed of our technology by an advanced and sentient AI, known as Archos, everyday people are forced to become soldiers, relying on primitive weaponry in a fight against a growing army of synthetics that threaten to rid Earth of human kind.

This is the fifth installment in a series of posts in which I am laying out the most salient points from my 2012 Real Food Summit talk, «Weston Price on Primitive Wisdom.»

Since this section was based on my June, 2011 blog post, «Understanding Weston Price on Primitive Wisdom — Ancient Doesn't Cut It,» it makes little sense to write another post about it in this series.

These recipes usually consist of only a handful of ingredients, all of which are gluten - free, whole and unprocessed and many of which are dairy - free (dairy products are still allowed on the primitive diet) and low in sugar.

This is the fourth installment in a series of posts in which I am laying out the most salient points from my 2012 Real Food Summit talk, «Weston Price on Primitive Wisdom.»

Magnus Endress et al., «Early Aqueous Activity on Primitive Meteorite Parent Bodies,» Nature, Vol.

«The Daohugou Biota gives us a look at a rarely glimpsed side of the Middle to Late Jurassic - not a parade of galumphing giants, but an assemblage of quirky little creatures like feathered dinosaurs, pterosaurs with advanced heads on primitive bodies, and the Mesozoic equivalent of a flying squirrel,» lead author Corwin Sullivan, an associate professor at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, was quoted as saying in a press release.

Based on the primitive oviraptors such as Caudipteryx, Yulong should be feathered, although we could not find feathers due to the poor preservation condition.»

After overcoming Urey's initial resistance, they designed three apparatuses meant to simulate the ocean - atmosphere system on primitive Earth (3).

Such a shift would have had a significant impact on the appearance of the planet, whose topography in this early configuration was recalculated by Matsuyama with the aim of examining the effects of the relief on primitive Mars.

Those two rates enable us to compute the total amount of amino acids that were formed on the primitive earth.

«Advanced western civilization has had a destructive effect on all primitive civilizations it has come in contact with, even in those cases where every attempt was made to protect and guard the primitive civilization,» he said in a 1979 interview.

The photochemical processes taking place in Titan's atmosphere, astrobiologists believe, may provide clues of how organic molecules — and eventually living things — were generated on the primitive earth.

In Ferris's lab, Hébrard conducted research on the formation of RNA oligomers — potential precursors of life — on clay minerals believed to be present on the primitive Earth.

Mostow: Yeah, I mean, I believe that 1,000 years from now, historians will look back at the time we are living in right now, and in distance like this, this decade or maybe even these couple of years as a turning point in the history of mankind; not [unlike the way] we look back on primitive man, when they discovered fire and how that world is changing society.

«What we want is to get a grip on those primitive phenotypes based on genome sequences.

It is now that you are able to begin communicating with your baby, albeit on a primitive level.

It's the Christian activists I hate., The ones who want t omake laws or tell us all how to live based on their primitive sky - superst.

It has come to be taken for granted, for instance, that Islamicists, Indologists, Sinologists, and Japanologists are «specialists» of Islam, Hinduism, Chinese religions, and Shinto, respectively, and that anthropologists are «specialists» on primitive religion.

In 1937 Talcott Parsons observed that the real significance of Durkheim's work on primitive religion lay in his recognition not that «religion is a social phenomenon» but that «society is a religious phenomenon.

Until recently a specializing student could elect a course on primitive religions, in advanced work, though even there this took a minor place alongside studies of the more advanced great faiths — especially Buddhism, on which Chicago has been concentrating.

Atheists rely on evidence and science; theists rely on primitive texts written decades after imagined events with no evidence whatsoever to support the stories.

He consider the sort of chemical mélange that is likely to have arisen from spontaneous, garden - variety chemistry on the primitive Earth, prior to the origin of life.

Her earliest work on the relationship between ritual purity and holiness, and her later work on the true literary and theological meaning of the Book of Leviticus do much to counter the neo - Freudian view that Judeo - Christianity is based on a primitive, superstitious, patriarchal, taboo ridden ideology.

But, if they try and effect social policy, such as denying gays their rights based on their primitive superst.ition, then they, likewise, must be reigned in.

What I object to is when Christians try to tell non-believers what they must (as opposed to «should») do on these or any other issue, based on their primitive sky supersti.tion.

After being spoiled by $ 100 - million epics from the MCU, it's easy to get hung up on the primitive special effects, but the early Superman movies capture what we love about comics: heroism, hope and fun.

Not exact matches

It's so primitive, in fact, that we share essentially the same system with nearly every creature on Earth.

While he used to think glasses were the future of augmented reality, Zuckerberg said he envisions a «new platform,» based on the camera, that will replace today's «primitive tools.»