Sentences with phrase «push lever»

When we push the lever down on our toaster or turn the ignition of our car, we really have no idea of the power of what Bucky Fuller called «Energy slaves», when he calculated in 1944 that every American uses the energy equivalent of 39 people to do their bidding.

Using operant conditioning, Skinner trained rats to push a lever that released food pellets.

In a simple Skinner box experiment, a rat can be trained to push a lever to obtain food when a green light turns on, or to push a lever very quickly to avoid a shock when a red light appears.

There's also a manual shift program but, interestingly, the Mercedes - Benz CLS 63 AMG's shift lever lacks a manual shift mode gate — you know, the type where you push the lever forward to upshift and so on.

So when the need for extra traction ends, we push the lever, and return to rear - wheel - drive.

Four - wheel - drive engagement was very sure and one of the better of the group, but it couldn't ace the category because some people weren't expecting to be required to push the lever down and into place and because it blocked the cup holder once in low range.

Push the lever down...

In other words, push lever by extending ankles as far as possible.

to habit (just push that lever).

Next, push the lever with your foot.

These devices tend to wear out easily, and it probably won't take long before your toddler has figured out how to push the lever out of the way.

Lift the rear handle and push the lever down with your foot and then fold.

Just follow three steps to fold the stroller: Lift the handle, push the lever with the foot, fold down and go.

Set it up and simple push a lever up and down.

Fold the stroller in three simple steps: - Lift the rear handle and then Push the lever with your foot and it Folds down for easy storage.

Posing for a snapshot with Royce, James waited until a split second before the photographer pushed his lever to blurt out «Damn the Absolute!»

That means I'm free to do other things in the kitchen rather than continuously pushing the lever on my toaster.

So here's my tip: if you're using a toaster, slice the sweet potato as thin as possible, because thick pieces will take forever to cook (like, pushing the lever down 4 - 6 times).

For more mobile babies who can crawl and pull to a standing position, usually around 10 months of age, they will love standing at an activity table and activating the buttons, pushing levers and hearing different songs and sounds.

You can flip the seat around easily by pushing the levers on the sides and swinging it around to put it in place.

[Alexander Johnson and Michela Gallagher, «Greater effort boosts the affective taste properties of food»] Mice were trained to push levers to get either of two rewards.

Exposure to THC in adolescence makes rats hungrier for heroin, which they access by pushing a lever.

The rats weren't pushing the lever because they could use some more grain.

After you inserted the electrode, you gave the rat the chance to turn it on or off itself by pushing a lever.

They were rewarded when they pushed one lever, and continued to receive a reward pushing the lever up to 20 times.

In the model, the team used the technique to identify, label, and manipulate a population of neurons in the motor cortex that fired when a mouse pushed a lever to receive a reward in response to a stimulus.

A tiny computer chip placed in this rat's brain recorded activity there every time the animal pushed the lever correctly.

Initially, rats were trained to receive water by pushing a lever.

They were pushing these levers because having restricted bouts of access to sweet foods rewired their brains.

They weren't pushing these levers because they were hungry.

Solving puzzles and beating up Lego bad guys is fun for them, and the whole «Lego - izing» of any universe, in this case one filled with DC super heroes and villains, adds to this as it can quite fun playing together as you get your character to press buttons, push levers, break and build virtual Lego structures, and knock down baddies all the while trying to reach the end of a level.

The Scoobies arrive at their abattoir and promptly get naked enough to swim in the lake while, far beneath them in a secret underground bunker, pocket - shirts Sitterson (Richard Jenkins) and Hadley (Bradley Whitford) push levers, pull switches, and reveal that the whole movie is about the manipulation of an annual blood ritual sacrifice meant to appease Ancient Gods living in the abyss.

With your ongoing support, MarylandCAN will continue pushing the lever as we move forward.

Instead, the many think tanks, PR shops, and lobbyists promoting these privately managed schools pushed every lever they have not only to condemn the moratorium but also to discredit the NAACP and these other groups.

Then pushing the lever forward or backward switches to a sequential - shifting mode.

The low beams came on just fine, when I pushed the lever forward to engage the high beams, the low beams went out and all I had were weak fog light.

If necessary, the driver can change to manual gearshift by briefly pushing the lever up or down.

A button is incorporated in the shift lever to select «Park», and sequential - shift mode is accessed by pushing the lever across to the left.

Pushing the lever up or pulling it down shifts the gears manually.

You take control of your little plastic people and proceed to destroy absolutely everything in the name of collecting Studs, and complete simple puzzles that normally involve pushing levers or building objects out of the remains of the destruction you've wrought.

Or we could quit pushing that lever the wrong way: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/blue-whale-poop/

This involves opening the lever and loosening the front - wheel quick - release cam, pushing the lever toward the brake disc rotor, and measuring the distance between the cam lever and the rotor.

Finally, with email, you want to be checking it periodically on your own time, not like a mouse pushing a lever for a food pellet (or a junkie perpetually looking for the next fix).

Not exact matches

«The fares that determine drivers» livelihood are just levers to push and pull to maximize profit.»

Its members do not push or pull one another like levers, pulleys, or cogwheels.

I pushed the flap lever all the way down, but it still wasn't going to be enough to get me down on the tiny mud - and - grass strip.

You lift the rear handle, push the foot lever down and fold!

You have to pull up on both sides while pushing the foot lever down with one foot, which means everyone has to be «settled» and in their car seats before you can put it away.

First, push the safety button and pull levers on both sides of the frame up.

On this car seat, you loosen the harness by lifting a flap, pushing on the lever beneath, and pulling out on the harness straps.