Sentences with phrase «own decks of cards»

The product is a rechargeable solar - powered LED lantern that inflates like a balloon, and collapses to become thinner than a deck of cards.

I asked Nelson for a technique that would help anyone (even me) memorize something that seems impossible — memorize the order of a shuffled deck of cards.

And, without realizing it was happening, learning to memorize a deck of cards helped me develop techniques that make me a lot better at remembering the names and faces of people I meet — as well as a bunch of other things.

No one has ever memorized a deck of cards in under 60 seconds on the first try.

(The MegaDo also raised more than $ 65,000 for charity, auctioning off items like a Qantas deck of cards, British Airways pajamas, model airplanes, fluorescent yellow rain suits worn by American's ground crew, two free tickets to Europe and 60,000 American miles.)

Getting acquired while producing no revenue is like performing a card trick without the deck of cards: the magician simply explains how magical the trick is, never actually showing it.

When one shuffles a deck of cards, one is really randomizing it — the whole point of shuffling.

In getting laid at such an early age in my or anyone's Life will eventually play in their Life's deck of cards and in dealing this deck one does ever come across the once were cards to ever be reminded of times» past.

Another strategy available to a self - complimentary moral innocence, confident in its purity, locates fault in some other object — a deck of cards, a bottle of whisky, the curves of a person's body, an unpopular race, a fraternity.

The recommended serving size for chicken breasts is 3 oz cooked (about the size of a deck of cards).

Make this salad without plating anxiety: Treat the daikon rounds like a deck of cards and let them fall where they may.

Now that the earth had shaken and the whole deck of cards had spilled on the floor, it made no sense to hide what I'd been holding.

Without Johansen to win the draw or provide more threats, the Predators weren't playing with a full deck of cards.

Considering some of the nutty questions and requests that are sometimes asked of draft prospects at the NFL Scouting Combine, the use of a deck of cards by Browns offensive line coach Bob Wylie isn't too outrageous.

But, the memories you create at each family gathering will live on in the physical representation of them — even if it is only a deck of cards.

Or play War with a deck of cards.

About 3 ounces (around the size of a deck of cards) makes up a serving.

As your child gets older you can include small travel games, books with mazes, and even a deck of cards.

Break out the backgammon set, a deck of cards, or the Scrabble board.

Resurrect Family Game Night — Dust off Candyland, Monopoly, Scrabble, a deck of cards or whatever other board games you've forgotten in the closet.

It just seems like life is going to give us the full deck of cards before giving us the Ace.

All of these Positive Discipline Tools are available in our deck of cards.

Based on the best selling Positive Discipline series (rooted in the work of Alfred Adler and Rudolf Dreikurs), this deck of cards includes 52 tools that teach skills for dealing with «misbehavior» in ways that teach social emotional learning at the same time.

Give your child some wooden blocks or a deck of cards or any stack - able items.

Non food ideas: stickers, Silly putty, sidewalk chalk, deck of cards, Yo - Yo's, play dough, bubbles, skipping ropes

Playing Go Fish with an entire deck of cards can be overwhelming for your preschooler, so playing with a limited number of cards will work better.

A piece of meat should be about the size of a deck of cards, so see how that chicken breast measures up.

The game includes a large deck of cards.

Grab a deck of cards and you have lots of additional entertainment options.

Recently my husband and I grabbed a deck of cards and played for two hours.

Wandering through the corridors and chambers of the Palace of Westminster we received some very important information: how the Elizabeth of York came to represent the Queen in a deck of cards, the location of Queen's secret toilet, how it was discovered that King Henry VIII played tennis in the Westminster Hall, and why the House of Commons Speaker's chair has an ornate canopy.

They're about the size of deck of cards and a little heavier and are activated by a double tap on large button on the front.

To get the gist of the PBR argument, consider a simple card game between you and a dealer involving two decks of cards.

That's fine with a deck of cards, but the quantum version doesn't play so nicely.

He can memorize the order of 10 decks of playing cards in less than an hour, or one deck of cards in less than a minute.

She and her team had volunteers play a simple gambling game with pictures of four decks of cards on a computer screen (pdf).

All one has to do is convert something unmemorable — like a string of numbers, a deck of cards, a shopping list, or Paradise Lost — into a series of engrossing visual images and then mentally arrange them within an imagined space, a memory palace.

In front of a stunned audience at the next year's U.S.A. Memory Championship, held in New York City, Foer memorized the order of a shuffled deck of cards in 1 minute 40 seconds, then a U.S. record, and went on to win the event.

All of a sudden, Ellen DeGeneres wanted to talk to me, and Good Morning America and the Today show were calling to ask if I'd memorize a deck of cards on the air.

The subcutaneous defibrillator is about the size of a deck of cards and is implanted just beneath the skin below the armpit.

They say: «At the time of this writing several manufacturers offer hand - held ultrasound machines slightly larger than a deck of cards, with technology and screens modelled after modern smartphones.»

Furthermore, large segments of chromosome 11 and several other chromosomes were reshuffled like a deck of cards, drastically altering the arrangement of the genes.

Think of the human genome as a very large deck of cards, each card bearing a gene variant.

Pevzner likens the genome of the common ancestor of mice and men to a deck of cards.

«These genes are like decks of cards constantly being shuffled,» explains William Hamilton, a first author from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

This finding is consistent with the strategies used by the world's top memory champions, who create stories rich with meaning to remember random information, such as the order of a deck of cards.

The sound wave then act as a sort of knife, slicing the «deck of cards» that is graphite into layer after layer of graphene.

Graphite, the form of carbon found in pencil lead, is essentially made from sheets of graphene stacked together like a deck of cards.

A piece of graphite is simply a stack of graphene layers loosely stuck to each other, like a deck of cards.

Graphite is essentially made from sheets of graphene stacked together like a deck of cards, and sliding it in the right way can separate the layers.