Sentences with phrase «than a curiosity for»

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He and his younger brother Leopold possessed more curiosity than good sense for daring to try the dangerous contraption.

Clearly, the bankers advising the Fed understand the bull case for bitcoin, though they argue that it is still too small a phenomenon to pose any sort of risk to the U.S. economy, calling it «more a curiosity than a threat.»

If you're creating content primarily for yourself, rather than for your audience and its needs and curiosities, then people will ignore it — and worse, they might ignore your better content later.

(Barron's) • In Search of the Perfect Recession Indicator (Philosophical Economics) • A Fireside Chat With Charlie Munger (MoneyBeat) • Complexity theory and financial regulation (Science) • Five Pieces of Conventional Wisdom That Make Smart Investors Look Dumb (CFA Institute) • This Lawyer Is Hollywood's Complete Divorce Solution (Bloomberg) • Curiosity update, sols 1218 - 1249: Digging in the sand at Mar's Bagnold Dunes (Planetary Society) • The Plot to Take Down a Fox News Analyst (NYT) • Ask the aged: Who better to answer questions about the purpose of life than someone who has been living theirs for a long time?

Isaacson noted Da Vinci's «willingness to challenge received wisdom would lead him to craft an empirical approach for understanding nature that foreshadowed the scientific method developed more than century later... His method was rooted in experiment, curiosity, and the ability to marvel at phenomena that the rest of us rarely pause to ponder after we've outgrown our wonder years».

To those in the West who have heard of it, this annual 24 - hour sale, held on an unusual Chinese holiday called Singles Day and hosted by ecommerce giant Alibaba Group (my employer), is a source of curiosity if for no other reason than its sheer scale.

Interest in this is more than mere curiosity, for the lack of this understanding can be seen at the heart of the enormous number of global conflicts which have increasingly catastrophic implications.

1) We're highly evolved primates 2) We have overactive imaginations 3) Our greatest evolutionary asset, our large and highly-folded brains, are also responsible for an insatiable curiosity 4) As a species, and a survival tactic, we make things up to comfort ourselves in difficult times 5) As a complex societal species, we create commonalities and «traditions» with others in our clan / tribe / community 6) These «traditions» result in security, trust, and strong relationships that make the collective more able to survive than the individual 7) These common beliefs also act as a means of numbing the brain to questions and concerns without legitimate or tangible answers 8) Religion is simply a survival mechanism 9) When we die, we simple «are not alive» anymore.

Such a «gnostic» idea, tempting though it has been since very early in the history of Christianity, trivializes the idea of revelation, making it appeal more to our sense of curiosity than to our need for transformation and hope.

question «may arise more from a need to find an excuse for moral shortcomings than from a genuine desire to satisfy philosophical curiosity.»

More than just a cookbook, Cooking for Geeks applies your curiosity to discovery, inspiration, and invention in the kitchen.

There isn't a Cubs player who cared about 1945, at least as anything more than a curiosity, and that's why they're playing for 2016.

He mentioned his association with the CBS affiliate in Birmingham to a night supervisor, and for no better reason than curiosity let himself be induced to audition.

So if you have any reason to believe your child may be shaking their head for a reason other than curiosity, fatigue or boredom, it's best to contact your doctor, just for your own peace of mind.

Paul Tough writes about education, parenting, poverty, and politics for various publications in the U.S.. His book How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, was translated into 27 languages and spent more than a year on the New York Times best - seller list.

A healthy curiosity For our camp staff, working at camp is much more than just a job.

My biggest encouragement is for parents to offer activities that require belly - down or sidelying positioning to be enjoyable - trying to capitalize on your baby's curiosity to keep him in Tummy Time rather than forcing him to stay there against his will.

Perhaps it was a foolish curiosity about the plutocracy that tempted him on board the Queen K. Those are kinder explanations than the suggestion that he could have his head turned by the whiff of 50 grand for party funds, a trivial sum to the Tories and just a tank or two of fuel for his billionaire host's boat.

One encouraging mitigating factor was «science curiosity,» or the «motivation to seek out and consume scientific information for personal pleasure,» which «seems to counteract rather than aggravate the signature characteristics of politically motivated reasoning.»

«Windjana has more magnetite than previous samples we've analyzed,» said David Blake, principal investigator for Curiosity's Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin) instrument at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California.

Curiosity, which is the size of a car, traveled 764 yards (699 meters) in the past four weeks since leaving a group of science targets where it worked for more than six months.

It may be that matter never would have survived the universe's primordial fireworks had it not been for the behavior of neutrinos, tiny particles that were once regarded as little more than curiosities.

More than just a geologic curiosity, finding water on Mars has major implications for the search for life, because the presence of H2O greatly increases the odds that living organisms once thrived on the planet, and perhaps still inhabit it today.

Unencumbered by human frailties, Curiosity — like the rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which survived on the Red Planet years longer than expected — will be free to hunt for E.T. «If we find evidence for life on Mars, boy, are we just gonna go wild with speculation about how common it is in the universe,» says Lou Friedman, a former scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and cofounder, with Carl Sagan, of the Planetary Society.

But Volvox is more than just a microscopic curiosity; it's a model for the study of how multicellular organisms evolved.

But scientific studies have gone deeper than pitcher - batter match - ups and discovered some curiosities about the game — and instances where the conventional wisdom the Baseball People have uttered for a century just isn't so.

What Berns lacks in hard data, he more than makes up for with scientific curiosity.

We are a diverse workforce of more than 1,800 people who share an intellectual curiosity and a commitment to harness scientific discoveries to create new treatments for major diseases.

EXOTIC polymers that have been little more than laboratory curiosities should at last be ripe for commercial development, now that researchers have found a way to make them in bulk.

Agency officials expect that the rover could be built for $ 1.5 billion, about $ 1 billion less than what Curiosity cost, in large part because engineers now know what works and what doesn't.

For a long time, this conjecture seemed no more than a historical curiosity — it has no direct applications outside pure mathematics — but it was such a simple question that mathematicians found themselves irresistibly drawn to it.

It is evident that society is willing to pay much more for curiosity - driven research in science than for the analogous thought - and beauty - driven practice of the arts and humanities.

Curiosity had been shooting for a 12 - by -15-mile (20 - by -25-kilometer) ellipse - shaped landing zone — already much smaller than the target area for any previous Mars mission.

«The combination of these technologies, we think, will enable us to grow considerably larger than the [Curiosity]- size payloads,» said Ian Clark of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., principal investigator for the agency's Low - Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project.

After more than a year without the use of the Curiosity Mars rover's drill, engineers have devised a workaround and tested it for the first time on the Red Planet.

Having studied more than 600 vertical feet of rock with signs of lakes and groundwater, Curiosity's international science team concluded that habitable conditions lasted for at leastmillions of years.

For more than 20 years, my insatiable curiosity has driven me to seek the secrets of profoundly connected, passionate, intimate relationships.

When your curiosity and desire to be spectacularly healthy are bigger than your fear, that's the right time for you.

The most cited reasons for first trying e-cigarettes were curiosity (57 percent), good flavors (42 percent), use by friends (33 percent), healthier than cigarettes (26 percent), can be used anywhere (21 percent) and does not smell bad (21 percent).

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Young sugar babies are also enthusiastic and inexperienced in nature which can lead to making rash or bad decisions, but their general openness, curiosity and willingness to try out new experiences more than compensate for any of their flaws.

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Been waiting for it all summer, my curiosity fed by Polish Girl and Fallout, which at the end of the day come out as the best tracks, yet the entire thing is way more cohesive than Psychic Chasms.

More of an interesting thesis than a compelling drama, but it's anchored by Rains» sturdy performance as a man whose open - minded curiosity about his new home disengages his natural wariness, for both better and worse.

And it was an abiding curiosity about 3D that must account for the massive turnout, far more than any particular love for the Lewis Carroll story (which is borderline unrecognisable here, anyway), though the presence of the globally huge Johnny Depp didn't hurt, either.

The picture blames his latent tendencies on an overbearing mother (Dame Judi Dench) who'd cruelly discouraged him as a youngster from exploring his curiosity about cross-dressing by issuing dire warnings like, «I'd rather have a dead son than a daffodil for a son.»

If weird were all The Lobster had going for it, though, it'd be little more than an experimental curiosity.

Bolstered with two fine performances from its healthily talented leads, this truncated art film — while entirely a mouthful to say — will pique your morbid curiosity and satisfy any need for dispiriting drama, though it admittedly aims to leave you more rattled than it does.

The film, which will be released by Amazon Studios and Roadside Attractions, is a blend of the graceful and the garish that reaches for magic but ends up more of a cabinet of curiosities than one of wonder.

Neither movie deserves more than a curiosity rental for all but Jack's most dedicated fans, but at least you'll get to borrow two movies for the price of one.