Sentences with phrase «than curiosities in»

When hydrates were first discovered at the beginning of the 19th century, their weird structure made them little more than curiosities in a chemist's lab: cage - like structures of frozen water...

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As The Economist noted in a recent feature, it may become no more than a novelty or a historical curiosity.

The Curiosity landed in Mars» Gale Crater in 2012 and was able to dig out rock samples more than a dozen times between 2013 and 2016 when the drill mechanism stopped working.

(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 timIn 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 timin 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?

We note, with a more than a little bit of curiosity, that the last secular bull market in U.S. stocks began in 1982 — just when the first Boomers turned 35.

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».

Your background and experience in a variety of asset classes appear to have given you an open minded perspective toward unconventional asset classes and conditioned you to approach them with intelligent curiosity rather than rejecting them out of hand.

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.

I had in my heart and tongue the Name of Allah when ever I had fears, troubles or depression of any kind but from Jan 05 1995 when had lost my father and second brother in a car accident, it was the time I really felt am alone at age of 33 to face all the challenges my father has left upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word of it rather than to memorize it, have been did a lot of reciting verses of prayers begging God to look upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult times if I had no faith in God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my heart always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic of what to believe although have read many books abroad in my youth of many beliefs out of curiosity but could not belief in other than that God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief of the Quran he brought upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance of things going to happen A year or more before losing my father in a car accident I had seen him in my dream good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front of him and when was on the top of the stairs weaver smiling good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and what I will hold... so many things like that..

One curiosity with this practice now is that they do it in often very ostentatious manners... buying the equivalent of really lush weaves, so that they end up having «hair» which is potentially nicer than their own.

Just out of curiosity, is there a reason you use the term «atheist who believes in god» rather than «naturalist who believes in god»?

to direct my own assumptions and reactions to other people in a way that fuels my curiosity in them more than in how I am about to be understood.

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.

Despite these wounds, or perhaps because of them, in Morgan's telling Oca and his people become something more than curiosities» Joads who «made good.»

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

Bamba has shown a great deal of curiosity in learning about analytics and the business side of sports, suggesting there will be more to his decision than just how much talent surrounds him on the court.

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.

Seizing an event that figured to be a curiosity, or at best a harbinger of the inevitable world of professional marathoning, Fleming left a solid field after a mile, took on a grueling course that led from the Hollywood Bowl to the Pacific — far hillier than that of any major marathon — and won by more than three minutes in 2:13:14.4.

With that in mind, I'm going to explain why you should watch 7» 1 Dutch pitcher Loek Van Mil with a sense of wonder and curiosity during the World Baseball Classic — even though he's not much taller than Chris Young standing on a pizza box.

Listen, I get that he's meant to be a backup, but considering all the question marks in Roma's defense, shouldn't their acquisitions be based on more than pure curiosity?

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.

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.

Offering a variety sooner, such as serving 4 - 5 new foods during a 2 day span, rather than later may just give baby a willingness and curiosity to try anything and everything put in front of him.

Offering a larger variety sooner, such as serving 4 new foods during a 2 or 4 day span, rather than later may just give baby the willingness and curiosity to try anything and everything put in front of him.

Unless the child is more like a teenager, the interest in breastfeeding has more to do with curiosity than sexual confusion.

I really love her emphasis on instilling curiosity and wonder in your children, rather than aiming to teach to a test.

In fact, kids and curiosity go together as well as, or better than, peanut butter and grape jam.

Out of curiosity, De Vries tested the daughters of one subject and observed that even though they were not color - blind — they seemed to distinguish red and green as well as anyone — they needed more red in their test light than normal people to make the match precise.

Curiosity has traveled more than 16 km over more than 1,700 sols (martian days) as it has traveled from the bottom of Gale crater part way up Mount Sharp in the center of the crater.

In those last dinosaur days, any skygazing T. rex might have tilted its head in curiosity as a strange, new star grew dozens of times brighter than the suIn those last dinosaur days, any skygazing T. rex might have tilted its head in curiosity as a strange, new star grew dozens of times brighter than the suin curiosity as a strange, new star grew dozens of times brighter than the sun.

Return to Mars: Roving with Curiosity At the Exploratorium in San Francisco After a journey of more than eight months, the Mars rover Curiosity touched down August 6, fully equipped to investigate whether our now - harsh planetary neighbor could have once supported life.

In another 2017 study published in Advances in Political Psychology, «Science Curiosity and Political Information Processing,» Landrum and her colleagues found that liberal Democrats were far less likely than strong Republicans to voluntarily read a «surprising climate - skeptical story,» whereas a «surprising climate - concerned story» was far more likely to be read by those on the left than on the righIn another 2017 study published in Advances in Political Psychology, «Science Curiosity and Political Information Processing,» Landrum and her colleagues found that liberal Democrats were far less likely than strong Republicans to voluntarily read a «surprising climate - skeptical story,» whereas a «surprising climate - concerned story» was far more likely to be read by those on the left than on the righin Advances in Political Psychology, «Science Curiosity and Political Information Processing,» Landrum and her colleagues found that liberal Democrats were far less likely than strong Republicans to voluntarily read a «surprising climate - skeptical story,» whereas a «surprising climate - concerned story» was far more likely to be read by those on the left than on the righin Political Psychology, «Science Curiosity and Political Information Processing,» Landrum and her colleagues found that liberal Democrats were far less likely than strong Republicans to voluntarily read a «surprising climate - skeptical story,» whereas a «surprising climate - concerned story» was far more likely to be read by those on the left than on the right.

The researchers checked ripple textures preserved in sandstone more than 3 billion years old at sites investigated by Curiosity and by NASA's Opportunity Mars rover.

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.

After inspiring millions of people worldwide with its successful landing in a crater on the Red Planet on Aug. 5, 2012, PDT (Aug. 6, 2012, EDT), Curiosity has provided more than 190 gigabits of data; returned more than 36,700 full images and 35,000 thumbnail images; fired more than 75,000 laser shots to investigate the composition of targets; collected and analyzed sample material from two rocks; and driven more than one mile (1.6 kilometers).

FIVE YEARS ON MARS Curiosity has done a lot more than take selfies in front of Gale crater, and with its mission extended through next fall, there's still more science to come.

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.

During my visit, many people expressed curiosity about jobs where the focus falls squarely on educating undergraduates, and where research is performed in a very different environment than they're used to.

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

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.

The unexpected prevalence of damage in the farmers» foot bones is more than just an historical curiosity; researchers believe their findings provide new insights into how some micro-injuries happen.

Chemicals found in Martian rocks by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover suggest the Red Planet once had more oxygen in its atmosphere than it does now.

As NASA prepares to launch its new Curiosity Mars rover, we look back at some of the highlights — and the misfires — in more than 50 years of Mars missions

There had to be more curiosity and inquisitiveness than aggression, and the evidence of that lies in facial architecture.»

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.

The answer, I think, lies in human nature, or in the nature of some humans: Curiosity and exploration are in everyone, but they are more prominent in some than in others.

«Our experiment is more than a curiosity precisely because our plasma resonances are widely tunable,» says Sandia researcher Greg Dyer, co-primary investigator of a recently published online paper in Nature Photonics, expected in print in November.