Sentences with phrase «poking with»

As oceanographer Wally Broecker said: The climate system is an angry beast and we are poking it with sticks.]

Wally Broecker once said: the climate system is like an angry beast, and we are poking it with sticks.

«The climate system is an angry beast and we are poking it with sticks» - Wallace Broecker The belly of Broecker's climate beast is surely the global carbon cycle.

Our climate system is an angry beast and we are poking it with a sharp stick.

So just because CH4 doesn't all go into the atmosphere or doesn't seem to be the light - sleeping irracible dragon we made it out to be (which we are compulsively poking with our CO2 emission - caused warming), doesn't mean it isn't dangerous.

News Snatch: Taking an irrelevant and light hearted look at the more obscure stories from the world of gaming, poking them with a big stick and hoping to god they don't bite back.

At first, Leonidas wasn't exactly a model patient (we'd get snippy too if people were constantly poking us with needles), but he showed that he's a scrapper.

Now you can forget about poking yourself with a needle and take this oral capsule!

I added about 3 inches of water to the pot and steamed for about 20 minutes, then tested it after 20 minutes by poking it with a fork in several places to make sure it was all tender.

Roast sweet potatoes whole by poking them with a fork and cooking for 45 to 60 minutes in a 400 °F oven.

Individual female adult wasps (n = 50) of the sequenced strain (AsymC) were infected by poking with a 0.1 mm dissecting pin dipped in a bacterial culture containing an equal mixture (as measured by OD600) of Serratia marsecens and Enterococcus faecalis.

By placing the mice on hot glass and poking them with a blunt needle, they found that the mice responded to temperature and mild pain in the same way as mice who still had the protein.

For a few days my sons were always bringing in bigger, juicier specimens of the rust, poking them with sticks, marveling at them.

When you put stress on it, such as by pressing down on it or poking it with the fork, it responded by becoming harder, changing to a solid state.

Justin Williams's skill at encasing living brain tissue in polymer and «poking it with a sharp object» (25 June, p...

• A touch of monkey business affected our article on technology for animals: orang - utans become sexually active at 8 years, and it is human visitors — not other apes — that juveniles enjoy poking with sticks (29 November, p 44).

Depending on the variety, potatoes and winter squash might take longer, but checking for tenderness by poking with a fork is the best way to test for doneness.

Some of this onslaught of advice starts seeping into your psyche and poking you with the feeling that you do, indeed a problem, and you should definitely fix it.

Tiny bodies that nestled so comfortably on my lap become impossibly long and boney, poking me with elbows and hip bones.

Remove the cling film from the pan and make indents all over the surface by poking with your index finger.

Make indents all over the surface by poking with your index finger.

Check if the buns are ready to be put in the oven by poking them with the finger.

It's always best to check ribs for doneness by squeezing the meat or poking with a toothpick to make sure they're as tender as you like no matter how you're cooking them.

The pork tenderloin is slow cooked in a crock - pot with taco seasoning, Ro - tel and chopped onions until it's so tender simply poking it with a fork causes it to fall apart.

You can test if your dough has risen enough by poking it with a finger.

Test their tenderness by poking them with a fork.

I don't happen to believe like some do that they're gonna be in this little torture chamber with little people poking them with knives and things forever and putting hot coals on.

This has all the earmarks of a hornets nest and you are poking it with a big stick.

let's poke it with a stick

Some times the best way to wake up a sleeping giant is to poke it with a stick and Bethke has done just that.

You learn to peek behind the story and poke with a stick.

If a voodoo princess makes a voodoo doll replica of me and pokes it with pins to cause pain to me am I going to feel it?

«He / she is now going to pick and poke me with sharpened pencils and toothpicks yelling at me saying DIE DIE DIE.»

Maybe because you poked her with chopsticks?»

The dough is ready when it is almost doubled, and if it holds an indentation when gently poked with your finger.

It should roughly double in size, and it should not spring back when you poke it with your finger.

Poke with a toothpick and slightly mix to help evenly distribute the liquid and hydrate the cake.

I forgot about them for about an hour as they roasted and then removed them when they looked perfectly bronzed and a poke with a fork confirmed their tenderness.

Potatoes should show a slight resistance when poked with a paring knife or a cake tester.

Bake in 4 - 5 muffin paper cups (depending on how big they are) at 160 C for about 25 - 30 minutes or until, when poked with a knife, your knife comes out clean.

Remove them to a pan, brush with more half - and - half, and bake at 425F until they spring back when poked with your finger, about fifteen minutes.

Place under medium heat and cook for 20 - 25 minutes or until carrots are soft when you poke them with a fork.

Carefully transfer dough to prepared baking sheet about 1/2 ″ apart and then poke with a fork.

And then I poked them with a chopstick.

Because poke cakes aren't anything dirty at all: they're simply cakes which have been poked with a skewer of some sort so that they can be more receptive to delicious soaking liquids (tres leches cake would be a famous poke cake, btw.

Poke with a fork to prevent them from fluffing up.

Bake with the flesh side down for 30 - 40 minutes or until tender when poked with a fork.

Steam until beets are soft and poked with a fork.

Bake for 35 - 40 minutes or until flesh is easily poked with a fork.

, and poke with a fork.