Sentences with phrase «than an experiment in»

Stasha declares early on her determination to «be more than an experiment in this world.»

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Alibaba is already collecting and analyzing shopping data to experiment with new retail concepts far more advanced than those in the West.

Last December, Reuters reported that more than 20 bodies donated to an Arizona broker were used in U.S. Army blast experiments - without the consent of the deceased or next of kin.

As Mitra got similar results again and again (to date, Hole In The Wall experiments have been conducted in more than a hundred communities in India, Southeast Asia and Africa), he began to wonder about what else kids with digital resources could teach themselveIn The Wall experiments have been conducted in more than a hundred communities in India, Southeast Asia and Africa), he began to wonder about what else kids with digital resources could teach themselvein more than a hundred communities in India, Southeast Asia and Africa), he began to wonder about what else kids with digital resources could teach themselvein India, Southeast Asia and Africa), he began to wonder about what else kids with digital resources could teach themselves.

«Rather than journal about the day's completed tasks or process tomorrow's to - do list in one's mind, the current experiment suggests that individuals spend five minutes near bedtime thoroughly writing a to - do list,» they conclude.

So far, the experiment has paid off, as more than 1,000 startups have graduated from the program, with many remaining in Santiago and many more going on to raise additional capitalfor growth.

Meanwhile in February the U.S. - government funded National Ignition Facility (NIF) in California, known for housing the world's most powerful laser, reported experiments indicating they were close to achieving «net gain,» where more total energy comes out than was put in — a goal that has eluded scientists for six decades.

In one experiment, people who were randomly assigned to give up Facebook for a week ended that time happier, less lonely, and less depressed than those who continued to use Facebook.

Moira Burke, who is studying 1,200 Facebook users in an ongoing experiment, has found that personal messages are more satisfying to receivers than the one - click communication of likes.

«In four separate experiments, participants more accurately guessed the pictured emotion based on body language — alone or combined with facial expressions — than on facial context alone.»

Musk's current problems are less dire than those he faced in 2008, but Tesla and SpaceX are no longer experiments.

The résumé worked, he says — in his own informal experiment, he found the relevant résumé netted him significantly more interviews than the traditional version.

It also falls in line with local barista wisdom: The experiment was prompted by an off - the - cuff conversation with a barista who claimed that coffee consumed from a white mug tastes more bitter than when drunk from a clear, glass mug.

While Fredette's job isn't always glamorous (it involves frequent meetings with the company's marketing and consumer research departments), more than 50 % of his time is spent in the kitchen, where he experiments with flavor pairings, makes ingredients, develops recipes, mixes test batches, and yes — eats a lot of ice cream.

Bushnell, wrote Kent, «made sure that the men around him agreed with his philosophy» and «held meetings in hot tubs, drank heavily, experimented with drugs... Sometimes Atari board meetings seemed more like fraternity parties than business meetings.»

And so, in 1917, while working in the Friends» Ambulance Unit on the Western Front, Richardson decided to experiment with the idea of making a numerical forecast - one based on scientific laws rather than past trends.

In the experiments, more than 140 undergraduate students were asked to pick a final candidate to hire.

Kolondra also said Opera is not talking with its mobile - operator partners about instituting the feature in its (far more widely used) mobile versions — many operators are controversially experimenting with blocking ads at the network level rather than in the browser, partly as a way of getting publishers and ad networks to give them a slice of their revenue.

So they pulled out all the stops by experimenting with an in - store cafe, free Wi - Fi, monthly book swaps, a children's play area, entertainment, more than 200 in - store author readings a year and community forums on topics of interest to customers.

The end result of these experiments is to achieve «ignition» which means inducing more energy out of the process than what was put in.

Charged with testing the technology in the real world is none other than an Alberta company, Western Hydrogen of Calgary, which will experiment with it in using crude from the oil patch.

In one experiment, researchers gave participants memorable trivia, such as «an ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain,» then showed them computer folders with mundane names where the trivia was stored.

For more than decade, she's experimented with creating meat - free alternatives to the animal protein - heavy foods she grew up eating in Guam.

A recent study published in the Journal of Consumer Research found that people who were asked to think about the past were willing to pay more for products than those who were asked to think about new or future memories; another experiment showed an increased willingness to give more money to others after recalling a nostalgic event.

In five separate experiments, customers valued digital goods lesser than their physical counterparts.

Y Combinator is certainly not the first to study basic income, and since it's just starting a pilot, we don't yet know how its work will lead to new or different findings than those uncovered by experiments in other places and times, such as those in Canada, the U.S., and India.

In another experiment, rather than prime participants for particular roles, testosterone levels were used as a marker of which study subjects were inclined towards dominating power structures and which less interested in leadinIn another experiment, rather than prime participants for particular roles, testosterone levels were used as a marker of which study subjects were inclined towards dominating power structures and which less interested in leadinin leading.

More than 100,000 people participated in the experiment in 156 cities around the world.

For example, Stanford conducted an experiment with Ctrip, a Chinese travel website company, and found that employees who worked from home were 13 percent more productive than employees who worked in the office.

Not only did the Zero Lower Bound turn out to be not so debilitating as all that — rather than work their will via interest rates, central banks took to injecting money directly into the economy via large - scale asset purchases — but it does not even seem to be the lower bound: central banks, notably in Europe, have successfully experimented with negative interest rates.

The first year of America's experiment in electing a president who had no idea what he's doing went a lot better than I expected.

General Electric engineer James Wright experimented until he came up with a combination of boric acid and silicone oil that resulted in a goo 25 percent bouncier than real rubber.

The results of one previous Tuft & Needle experiment resulted in more than you might think.

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».

Do keep in mind this is still merely an experiment more than anything else.

Another experiment demonstrated a more direct form of price discrimination: Computers with addresses in greater Boston were shown lower prices than those in more - remote parts of Massachusetts on identical goods.

The probability of a randomly selected mutation in a randomly selected gene having precisely that effect is quite low, so just as with the stones in the field, a positive finding is more likely than not to be spurious — unless the experiment is unbelievably successful at sorting the wheat from the chaff.

Two of the most vaunted physics results of the past few years — the announced discovery of both cosmic inflation and gravitational waves at the BICEP2 experiment in Antarctica, and the supposed discovery of superluminal neutrinos at the Swiss - Italian border — have now been retracted, with far less fanfare than when they were first published.

He may have no eyebrows, but I would believe that was due to excessive plucking he did himself in preparation for the notorious drag balls the Vatican is world renowned for, rather than the results of some botched medical experiment, intended or not.

If the prayer group in the experiment suddenly, in controvention of known medical timelines, demonstrated that they were as they were prior to the diesease, surgery, injury etc, and subsequent testing provides no evidence of anything other than a straight up non medical intervention based change in their biology, THEN the results might be remarkable.

Recent analysis of the widely followed voucher experiment in Milwaukee shows that low - income minority students who attended private schools scored substantially better in reading and math after four years than those who remained in public schools.

«Guns don't kill people...» but the presence of a gun in a person's immediate environment has, in psychological experiments, caused frustrated people to have bloodier, more violent fantasies than the presence of a fishing rod.

Again, this sort of ruggedness may have it's place, and could be a great experience or experiment, but it is not «better» than living in town.

He's still a believer and a christian, so perhaps his telling the truth is indicative of reality rather than a consequence of his experiment, but I can see why a christian would leap to judgment in such a case as this.

«What greater expression of faith in the American experiment than this, what greater form of patriotism is there than the belief that America is not yet finished, that we are strong enough to be self - critical, that each successive generation can look upon our imperfections and decide that it is in our power to remake this nation to more closely align with our highest ideals?»

The majority of ethnic Poles felt the impact of a Polish form of Stalinism from 1948 until 1956» one for the most part looser and less bloody than those visited upon most of Eastern Europe, but this was an irrelevance to them, not having volunteered to be subjects in a comparative politics «experiment.»

I do also recognize a hierarchy of living beings in that I regard human life as more valuable than animal life and would not oppose essential medical experiments on animals, although I am not persuaded that all experiments are essential.

Engaging in this kind of thought experiment is great, because it forces us to think about the physicality of the coming kingdom and helps us picture a world full of human creations rather than one of fluffy clouds and winged babies babies flying around.

And we may suspect that Rousseau's claim that the experiment could not be «tried innocently» unless it were known in advance that orangutans were themselves human may be less sincere than his playful willingness to contemplate — in the name, of course, of research — acts of bestiality that would deny any distinct place in the creation to humanity.

Although less widespread and successful than the consumer and producer co-operatives, these Full Co-operatives have existed in many places as an outgrowth of consumer or producer co-operatives or as separate communal experiments.