Sentences with phrase «terra incognita»
The unknowability of the Commandments lies in the epistemological terra incognita of modern and postmodern thought, which denies a human capacity to know anything with certainty in ethics or morality.
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«This is terra incognita for planetary scientists,» says Leigh Fletcher, a planetary scientist at the University of Leicester in England.
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Even though the biosphere is primarily microbial, most of the microbial world is still terra incognita.
We're walking into terra incognita by targeting epigenomic elements, like enhancers.
Even now, the world of soil bacteria is still largely terra incognita.
Despite its scientific promise, machine learning in medicine remains terra incognita in many ways.
The nouns and verbs in this holy terra incognita are in a softer, lower timbre — patience, humility, self - denial or turning the other cheek.
The life of the local church was therefore terra incognita to me.
Not so the kingdom of love and attachment, which has been a vast terra incognita until recently.
Unlike Kepler, which surveyed a large number of stars in sparse detail to compile an exoplanetary census, TESS and CHEOPS will focus on bright, sunlike stars close to Earth, enabling researchers to explore the midorbit terra incognita.
Before Wells collected the samples, the region was pretty much terra incognita, genetically speaking.
But these mountains, known as the Gamburtsevs, are arguably Earth's last great terra incognita, and so exploring them has been a top scientific priority.
Love relationships are a real terra incognita, even for those men who have a girlfriend.
A more thought - provoking and brilliantly paced horror film with so palpable a physicality as Green Room is rare, and on such a modest budget, this tale of terra incognita cruelty is remarkable.
We help students gain a deeper insight into a topic that seems terra incognita (lat.
DeGraff thoughtfully suits his ravishing illustrations to the nature of each work, whether it's Robinson Crusoe filling in his own terra incognita, or Waiting for Godot's absolute absence of There.
It's also is a bit like Dark Souls in that you're gradually pushing forward into scary terra incognita, unlocking shortcuts to new areas, frequently punished by a permadeath system that means you can't get too attached to your skill upgrades.
«Par nature» by Vincent Lamouroux occupies more than 600 square - meters, is an artificial terra incognita, a mineral and botanical landscape that is...
Many of these alternatives, however, see the risk shift from the client to the firm — somewhat terra incognita still for many.
«This is terra incognita for planetary scientists,» says Leigh Fletcher.
These regions, notes Graham, are «virtual terra incognita».
Scientifically speaking, Zika virus is still largely terra incognita.
It's the first high - resolution picture of the bacterial - viral dynamic in the human ecosystem, in a huge part of our own ecology that remains terra incognita.»
The further the climate system is pushed into terra incognita, the less trust one can put into these probabilistic analyses and climate models.
Given the deep downward trajectory of print advertising and of Michael Ferro's headlines plans for revolutionizing Tribune, the 2017 landscape is terra incognita.
Will I then leave terra firma for terra incognita?
Of broader significance, Gary Graves of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History observed: «The avian microbiome is terra incognita but it is not unreasonable to suppose that the relationship between birds and their microbes has been as important in avian evolution as the development of powered flight and song.»
«In south Somalia to this day you can't figure out where a town is, and there are huge swathes of the Congo that are terra incognita,» Gayton says.
«In terms of tracing and understanding the spiral structure, essentially half of the Milky Way is terra incognita.»
On Sept. 8, NASA's OSIRIS - REx spacecraft is scheduled to launch for terra incognita: the unknown surface of the near - Earth asteroid Bennu.
Sometimes a particular atom can be identified from context, but usually it's terra incognita.
Until this work, scientists have tended to assume that mapping the remaining patches of terra incognita in the human genome would require future improvements in sequencing technology.
«A terra incognita,» Falcke says, which is hard to reach with other techniques.
But rather than filling in the terra incognita of our planet, he's plotting the lay of the cosmic land, sketching oceans of empty space and the shorelines of vast superclusters of galaxies.
Having sharpened his drill in the Arctic, the ecologist looked south to «terra incognita.»
«It's truly the terra incognita of cooking,» This says: full of potential for brilliant, thrilling innovation, or for dreadful mischief if explored without discernment.
The inner earth has been terra incognita, until now.
WILLISTON, N.D. — In the spring of 1805 Lewis and Clark and their expedition paddled up the Missouri River's middle valley, terra incognita to Americans then and still largely unknown to Americans today.
«The human brain has been terra incognita for as long as we've known it,» says Olaf Sporns, a professor of neuroscience at Indiana University.
The terra incognita ferociousness on shrewd display in Jeremy Saulnier's Blue Ruin is a revelation.
Ideally, a good game curriculum will help the nonmathematical student grapple with numbers and the linguistically challenged to navigate the terra incognita of the subjunctive.