Sentences with phrase «tiny life span»

He argued that while each human being has a very tiny life span, or finite appearance in the whole of space - time of the universe, humanity is also an eternal intelligible essence.

«It's a supply - on - demand business,» says Cherim, noting the critters» tiny life span.

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In the light of that experience, we have read history again, noting the rise and fall of nations and cultures in cycles which in the perspective seem as short and are apparently as final and futile as the life - span of a man, evil manifesting itself continually in the same hideous forms, good winning its victories but also suffering its defeats, as century follows century and our tiny planet is hurled on its precarious way among the stars.

Instead, as suggested by the trickle - up theory of salmon restoration, the plankton tends to get eaten by tiny animals, which are then eaten by larger animals until, ultimately, all or most of the CO2 sucked up by the tiny plants during their photosynthetic life spans finds its way back to the atmosphere in relatively short order.

IBM developed a technique for making carbon nanotubes emit light, paving the way for new fiber optics; Harvard scientists figured out how to deposit tiny wires on glass or plastic, opening the door for the development of supercheap computers; and at the University of Central Florida, neuroscientist Beverly Rzigalinski discovered a nanomolecular fountain of youth effect: When Rzigalinski applied cerium oxide nanoparticles to rat neurons in a petri dish, the particles seemed to strip out the free radicals that make tissues age and kept the neurons alive and functioning up to six times their normal life span.

Other foraminifera proved genetically identical to peers in the Arctic Ocean, suggesting a certain cosmopolitanism in these tiny creatures that have a globe - spanning range and can live in the deep sea wherever it may be found.

Clams, for example, add a tiny layer of carbonate to their shells virtually every day of their lives, which typically span two to nine years.

Experiments with mice, fruit flies, yeast cells, and tiny worms called nematodes, or roundworms, have pointed to environmental modifications that can extend life span dramatically.

Some of the pieces here are mere vignettes, tiny moments of observation or connection that span only a page or two, while others resemble longer journalistic pieces in which, inevitably, Crosley herself is the hapless protagonist even as she investigates the capriciousness of modern life.

As if within her, beneath the span of her own days, there are other hunts going on continuously, giant elk in flight from the pursuit of hunters other than herself, and the birth of other mountains being plotted and planned — other mountains rising, then, and still more mountains vanishing into distant seas — and that even more improbable than her encountering that one giant elk, on her first hunt, was the path, the wandering line, that brought her to her father in the first place, that delivered her to him and had made him hers and she his — the improbability and yet the certainty that would place the two of them in each other's lives, tiny against the backdrop of the world and tinier still against the mountains of time.

With a life span ranging from only a few weeks to a few months, these tiny insects can do a lot of damage.

In a short span of time, Scott and his partner's enthusiasm for tiny house living has been so authentic that they have inspired many around them to downsize the clutter in their lives as well.

Your computer is probably covered with tiny dust particles, which can severely shorten its life span.