Sentences with phrase «thing our human activity»

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If this idea sounds familiar — OK, even vaguely familiar — that's because De Brouwer was inspired by the Star Trek Tricorder, a handheld device that could examine living things and offer data on activity imperceptible to the human eye.

It was in this ardent zone of growth and universal recasting that all that makes man what he is today was discovered — or at least must have been rediscovered, for even those things which had long been known elsewhere achieved their definitive human value only when they were incorporated into the system of European ideas and activities.

In arguing against the possibility of attaining to a neutral standpoint on matters of concern to religious persons, one begins with the axiom that all human activity — and so, by extension, all scholarly activity, all religious activity, and all interaction among serious religious persons — both implies and evinces a commitment to some particular metaphysic, some view as to the way things are and as to how human activity should proceed in that context.

To claim that some one of the class of particular human interests is necessarily exemplified in all human activity, even, perhaps, that what we might call a distinctively «soteriological» or «existential» feature consisting in a desire for self - fulfillment or authenticity is necessarily exemplified in all such particular interests is one thing, the characterization of any and all such features and interests as «ideological» another.

For example, if the coordinated form of human activity involved is more complex than driving on a particular side of the road, so that in order to achieve the desired goal, different individuals need to be doing different things at different times, then the authority directing them may need some specialized knowledge in order to arrange things properly to achieve the desired end.

When technological reason has organized all human activities and found absolutely the most efficient way to do everything, then people will indeed have become things.

Next, although science may come closer to universality than any other human activity, there are distinct local variations, as scientists adapt to local constraints and approach science with ways of thinking that are influenced by local culture, and these different ways of doing science can teach us things.

One thing the new report doesn't include is hazard due to induced seismicity — earthquakes related to human activities, such as reintroducing wastewater into injection wells.

Presenting at a recent conference of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping in Toronto, Canada, the researchers hypothesized that the frontal lobes may be a «mastermind» that directs brain activity and allows us to do two things at once.

Some researchers have suggested that the small population is due to recent human activity, but the new analysis suggests «it's a long - term thing,» Scally says.

It's also not appropriate to think that human activity, putting CO2 into the atmosphere, doesn't make the Earth warmer, all things being equal.

Monkeys typically find other monkeys impossible to ignore, and this experiment was no exception: the monkeys often failed at the reward task because they looked at the faces, especially if the faces depicted emotion.When humans are torn between paying attention to two different things, it triggers a «conflict» circuit in a brain region called the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) which is part of a larger brain structure controlling rational thought and emotions.Using a tiny sensor implanted in the dACCs of the monkeys, Platt's group was able to measure the electrical activity of single neurons.

Humans who indulge in these activities often do it partly for the thrill of breaking taboos, or because they delight in doing things they believe to be morally wrong.

While carbon dioxide is the main greenhouse gas resulting from human activity, it's not the only thing causing the atmosphere to warm.

It's a great exercise that mimics a very basic human movement of picking things up, ducking, and variations are used in sports and physical activities all the time.

New York's guide to theater, restaurants, bars, movies, shopping, fashion, events, activities, things to do, music, art, books, clubs, tours, dance Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a

It is used in dating things such as bone, cloth, wood and plant fibers that were created in the relatively recent past by human activities.

Watch the first ten minutes of the evening news any night — you know the ones with all the nasty, horrible things human beings do to each other that grab us to find out what the weather will be like in three days — and you will not even account for half of the sadistic, deranged, and depraved activities and people that the two central characters of Running Scared encounter in one night.

The lesson begins with an activity aimed at exploring how as humans we are conditioned into making judgements / assumptions about things which distort reality.

The activities that follow ask students to reflect on the basic human behavior of applying categories to the people and things we meet and to think about the circumstances in which «single stories» about others can be harmful or even dangerous.

British humor may be an acquired taste for some, but one thing that's always funny are animals doing human activities.

Mernet Larsen's Things People Do range from the mundane to the quixotic, forming an unlikely index of human activity: reading, sitting, spearfishing, falling, operating a chainsaw.

Using the outlines of recognisable things as shorthand emblems for social activity or exchange, Marten explores what it means to be a human body preoccupied with the status of toothpaste, the floppiness of pasta or the eroticism of rubbish.

I'm thinking of things like the last IPCC report saying that they were 90 % confident that the warming of the 20th century was mostly caused by human activity.

It took the climate about 50 million years to cool after the PETM all things considered... except human activity.

I have my reasons for believing that human activity is harming the planet to a great extent, but I couldn't prove it to a skeptic, so I rely on the seatbelt analogy: even if I never get into an accident, it was well worth the effort to click it on - the adult thing to do.

In terms of the interconnectedness of our human activity, that's the single most affecting thing I've seen....

Human activities account for 60 percent of methane emissions, but other contributors include plumes from frozen ocean floors, microbes, abandoned wells and even beavers of all things.

People have no sense of the scale and how SMALL the contribution of human activity is on the grand scale of things.

The thing that is pertinent is whether humans are altering the climate, how and how much our activities will alter it, and what we might do about it or adapt to it.

«No one seriously claims to know whether the past warming was caused by human activities; whether further warming will occur and, if it does, whether it will result from human activities, and whether such warming in some general sense would be a bad thing.»

The bottom right map shows results from models in which things like greenhouse gases, sea surface temperatures, and sea ice were allowed to change as they have in the real world due to human activities.

They concluded, among other things, that «Many lines of evidence demonstrate that human activities, especially emissions of greenhouse (heat - trapping) gases, are primarily responsible for recent observed climate change.»

Besides which, humans also do things that have the effect of cooling the planet, although both our warming & cooling activities have negligible effect worldwide, although more pronounced locally.

The first effort was launched by the New York Times in a meeting with Trump where they attempted to persuade him, among other things, that recent storms have been unusually strong because of alleged climate change and that there was connectivity between human activity and climate change.

Many things contribute to it including human activities.

Why does Heartland president Joe Bast frequently say things like: «Most scientists do not believe human activities threaten to disrupt the Earth's climate.»

Some think that warming is a good thing even though it might indeed be caused at least partially by human activities.

«natural causes can only produce — volcanoes popping off and things like that and coming out of the ocean — only produce about one gigaton per year, so there's just no question that human activity is producing a massively large proportion of the carbon dioxide.»

«The one thing that's affecting shark attacks more than anything else is human activity,» said Dr George Burgess of Florida University, a shark expert who maintains the database.

And natural causes can only produce — volcanoes popping off and things like that and coming out of the ocean — only produce about one gigaton per year, so there's just no question that human activity is producing a massively large proportion of the carbon dioxide.

Regardless of the unbounded ethical duties derived from imperfect obligations, if the climate change causing activities of some people are violating the human rights of others by interfering with life, health, or basic security, among other things, protected by human rights, a case can be made that those who can make reductions in GHG emissions targets that are nevertheless interfering with the rights of others should take steps to prevent human rights violations even if they are complying with just allocations.

I can make any number of vague statements about what bad things might or might not come to pass as a result of human activity.

Competition is the normal way of things in science as in most human activities.

They even have the gall to say that, even if human activities are not warming the planet, we should consider anything done, however mistakenly, to be a good thing.

Skyscrapers, power transmission lines, vehicles and other existing human artifacts / activities are much more lethal to birds than are wind turbines — at least, since small turbines sited on migration routes have become a thing of the past.

Even if CO2 WERE the only thing affecting temperatures, human activities certainly aren't the only source of carbon emissions on this planet.

The gut has been gaining increasing attention lately as we discover how important a role its organisms play in functions indispensable to human health — things like vitamin production, digestion, and immune system activity.

Perhaps the most important issue in all this is, as the Royal Society pointed out in their assessment of geoengineering, the first and foremost thing we have to do to stop climate change is radically limit greenhouse gas emissions resulting from human activity — stopping burning fossil fuels and stopping deforestation are at the top of list for how to do that.

Imagine a world in which all the things we make, use, and consume provide nutrition for nature and industry — a world in which growth is good and human activity generates a delightful, restorative ecological footprint.