Sentences with phrase «pigeon droppings»

And inside a nearby restaurant, waiters are serving pizza, blissfully unaware of the message on the wall saying the food looks like pigeon droppings.

In her landmark book, she documented a litany of evils observed after DDT and other organochlorine insecticides were sprayed on landscapes, rivers, and lawns: dead birds and paralyzed birds, pigeons dropping from the sky, bird nests without eggs and eggs that did not hatch, dead fish and fish swimming in circles, cancers in humans, and a buildup of DDT in the fat of animals and people.

For example pigeon droppings (representing one causal series) invariably make their way earthward because of the deterministic laws of gravitational attraction.

A spokesman for the project says that removing lead, asbestos and pigeon droppings at the site has taken longer than expected, delaying the planned opening which was scheduled for later this summer.

17 In 1965 astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson scrubbed their Bell Labs radio antenna to rid it of pigeon droppings, which they suspected were causing the instrument's annoying steady hiss.

This glow was discovered accidentally 1964 by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, who initially mistook it for interference caused by pigeon droppings on their antenna.

Pigeon droppings removed from the pillars filled more than 40 bags, Wiener tells Education World.

Flagged by Copyscape, a closer look indicated no actual plagiarism but snippets of appreciably similar phrases and sentences from multiple sources smattered here and there like pigeon droppings.

Agreeing that science is cool again implies that it can easily lose that designation in the future, either arbitrarily or after science's next public blunder — say, when a pigeon drops a challah into the particle accelerator at CERN, or after an inaccurately forecast pandemic (Lemur Flu 2018!).

Overexposure to pigeon droppings or feathers can result in bird fancier's lung, a form of hypersensitivity that causes inflammation in the lungs, but this is possible with excessive contact to any bird.

Pigeon droppings were so valued as a fertilizer during the 16 - 18th centuries that armed men guarded the coops!

offers a straightforward tanks versus mechanized monsters concept rife with potential, only to squander it by dumbfounding controls and a progression scheme that abuses «been there, done that» like a pigeon dropping poop.

Over the course of a year, the pigeons dropped by with their answers, and the editors then strung together the questions and answers in a continuous narrative that reads something like the transcript of a large meeting, providing a portrait of common ground and fissures in the field of curating now.