Sentences with phrase «time puzzling over»

Researchers videotaped the squirrels» foraging trials and found that once the critters got over their frustration, they tried new tactics, such as biting the box, flipping it, dragging, and generally spending time puzzling over how to open the box.

This exposure to multiple complex chemical structures that carry out the processes of life is probably a reason that most molecular biologists do not spend a lot of time puzzling over whether viruses are alive.

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While unlimited time off is only a piece of the culture puzzle, a practice that has grown over 10 years, it is clearly generating strong employee loyalty.

For the time being, though, safety concerns have eclipsed all other factors in the ongoing debate over how to sort out North America's pipeline puzzle.

Even knowledge of the «hard» sciences advances over time; a unified theory of the investment world is similarly beyond our grasp — as is a full understanding of any one strategy, no matter the current pile of historical evidence.the research puzzle For more thoughts on the topic, see this posting on «decaying beliefs.»

It is left vague and unexplored, papered over with assurances that there is more than enough time to work through lingering puzzles.

A puzzle to be pondered — often for years gaining new insights over time.

Studying the Gospel of John with some friends once upon a time, we puzzled initially over the way the disciples believed in Jesus after his turning water to wine.

Reed sits at the fraternity table in a knit cardigan and a candy - striped shirt, working at the New York Times crossword puzzle as black men who long ago joined the brotherhood of heroin nod out over steel trolleys laden with dishes on which spaghetti reds and egg - yolk yellows have dried like the caked layers on an artist's palette.»

Klopp views managing as a puzzle, piecing the team together patiently over a long period of time.

Having written up my rant about time wasting, last night, I puzzled over how it was that Sky managed to hide all aspects of goal keeper impropriety in the Palace match yesterday.

Adding on to my last post... He has too many toys and seems to love getting them all out and not even play with them.He loves jigsaw puzzles and often does his favourite ones over and over again, but now tells me they are boring now.He seems to be looking for things to do all the time, and i have to keep giving him little jobs to do, otherwise he says he is bored.He has friends he plays with in the neighbourhood, he loves to ride his bike or scooter, but his friends don't play all the time.

Most relate to climate, environmental, and social science, but the new request appears to reflect a much more ambiguous filter: For the first time, it contains several awards in the physical sciences, including one that has led to patented software to detect whether a computer has been taken over by malicious software and another that explores a long - standing mathematical puzzle.»

If actress Uma Thurman and I, both wearing sunglasses, meet for a private conversation over midmorning coffee, the news of our assignation will have saturated the globe and our lunar colonies by the time we — or she, more likely, given certain puzzling trends in my personal finances — has asked for the check.

The tail markings reveal that it is the same humpback whale, which puzzles researchers because the over -6,000-mile trek is two times the typical seasonal journey of a whale, not to mention that it's a female; males whales are the ones who normally travel long distances.

Young animals recover from tissue damage better than adults, and from Charles Darwin's time until now, scientists have puzzled over why this is the case.

They treated the images as though they were parts of a giant geological jigsaw puzzle, with ridges and bands and other features that have been split and separated by crustal movements, and tried to trace how the surface of Europa had transformed over time.

The puzzle has been over the fate of the middleweight stars with between 18 and 30 times the mass of the Sun.

Scientists have puzzled over how the insects, often laden with two or three times their weight in blood, manage to flee undetected.

How such a massive morphological change occurred over a relatively short evolutionary time has long puzzled biologists.

Although many of Olkin's interests shifted over time, two always remained: her love of unusual math puzzles and a keen interest in taking things apart.

«We now appear to be closing in on an explanation as to why the solar corona is over 100 times hotter than the solar surface — the solution to a 55 - year old puzzle,» said Dr. George Withbroe, Director of the Sun - Earth Connection Program at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC.

The extreme self - sacrificial behavior found in suicide bombers and soldiers presents an evolutionary puzzle: how can a trait that calls for an individual to make the ultimate sacrifice, especially in defense of a group of non-kin, persist over evolutionary time?

If you want family time: Work together Try a group activity — whether it's camping, gardening, or hunkering down over a puzzle — that allows you to pursue your passion together.

As much as I'd enjoyed myself, I'd been left with a few things to puzzle over, and potentially a long time to puzzle over them, as we weren't expecting to meet again until I was done with University, in five weeks» time.

There is a mystery at the heart of the movie — it's established in the opening scenes, when we see Orlando visiting a sauna and then puzzling over some missing paperwork — but no crime, other than that of being a sexual minority in an intolerant time and place.

The game offered really fun and creative puzzles, over the top LEGO humor, and a swashbuckling good time.

Solving that puzzle with the breadth of Big Boss» tools, experimenting with new weapons and technology that evolve over time, can be tense, thrilling and so rewarding.

She can be compelling simply reading a seamy novel in Nocturnal Animals or, as in the wonderful Arrival, puzzling over how to decode an alien language while struggling with her own perception of memory and time.

For the first time in over a decade, RE7 felt like what a Resident Evil game should feel like and focused more on puzzles, survival, and horror rather than fancy gunplay.

Characters and puzzle types get introduced, and then by the time you think they're done introducing things and ready to start really, really testing you, well, the game is over.

Challenging, not frustrating — Sometimes puzzle games can be so completely aggravating as you blindly search back and forth over the same stretch of level multiple times, trying to discover the clues needed to solve a puzzle.

Today's Japanese news: RPG Maker Fes Player downloaded over 300 000 times, screenshots for the latest batch of DLC for Puzzle & Dragons X, latest episode of NyaNyaNya!

Every single piece of the non-racing puzzle is wholly lifted from other, better films, leaving little to be interested in for those that have seen similar fare dozens of times over.

There's not really time during Seven Psychopaths to think through how, or if, all its almost - clever narrative puzzles fit together, and after the movie's over, it doesn't quite seem worth worrying about.

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Comprehensive entry level ESOL lesson on Halloween, this well designed PowerPoint takes you through over an hour and half of lesson time, beginning with a word puzzle starter, clear objectives, reading comprehension, vocab activity, questionnaire as well as recap and review activities and questions.

Nina took the time to puzzle over issues that she found intriguing and took steps to analyze video clip content.

The New York Times Crossword Puzzle is legendary and people all over the world are quite enamoured solving them.

When it came time to beg a few colleagues of mine to create the Straw House, Wood House, Brick House, Blow trailers, I was still puzzling over this idea.

They provide an important piece of the publishing puzzle at the moment, and while I believe they influence will diminish over time, we still need it for the time being.

When a little extraneous detail is introduced you can be sure that it is important and that the mathematical, code - obsessed brain of Reacher will puzzle it over and, just in time, add the missing piece to the puzzle.

Readers follow the fictional «Time Traveler» that H. G. Wells sends into future centuries; track the gyrations of time - spanning thought that Borges unfolds in his labyrinthine tales; ponder the temporal cause - effect paradoxes that Bertrand Russell surmounts; and puzzle over the reversibility of time in the physics with which Einstein revolutionized scieTime Traveler» that H. G. Wells sends into future centuries; track the gyrations of time - spanning thought that Borges unfolds in his labyrinthine tales; ponder the temporal cause - effect paradoxes that Bertrand Russell surmounts; and puzzle over the reversibility of time in the physics with which Einstein revolutionized scietime - spanning thought that Borges unfolds in his labyrinthine tales; ponder the temporal cause - effect paradoxes that Bertrand Russell surmounts; and puzzle over the reversibility of time in the physics with which Einstein revolutionized scietime in the physics with which Einstein revolutionized science.

When he inexplicably wakes up twenty years earlier and finds himself a student at OU in Norman again on the day she died, he stumbles over people connected to Kim's disappearance and puzzles over clues he missed the first time around.

It's a bit puzzling that Publishers talk up the various costs of producing eBooks (and claim there are no savings over physical books) and at the same time produce eBooks plagued by poor formatting and numerous errors.

Factoring in taxes and insurance rates into your overall investing strategy is a small piece of the puzzle, but one that can have a real long - term impact on your operating margins over time.

But the ongoing compression in European banking valuations is puzzling — who the hell wants to bet & sweat over sub - 0.5 P / B banks, when the cream of the crop remains on sale at 1.0 times book (or less)?!

Each novel shape contains multiple bully sticks twisted together to create a fun and compelling shape that dogs will puzzle over during chew time.

Bejeweled 2 on PSN will feature both trophy support and PSP remote play, which has sexy puzzle solving time written all over it.