Sentences with phrase «very last human»

Coates imagines himself as the very last human, seeking to convince the landscape surrounding him of the significance of human progress.

In The Last of Its Kind, Coates imagines himself as the very last human, seeking to convince the landscape surrounding him of the significance of human progress.

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Creationists require that every last dinosaur, even those specifically adapted for aquatic life, drowned, died, and were buried, long, long before the very first old, sick, crippled, or young human.

These are the very energies that must be synthesised in a unity of wisdom if any absolute meaning and last goal is to be offered for human striving or affirmed of the human person in a modern culture.

The conviction that this something must be both subject to empirical scientific examination, and workable in the sense of allowing and demanding human effort, was stronger in the last period than in the earlier years, very certainly because of the awesome advances in science, and especially in the arts of war.

I imagine that when the flood was over, Noah and his family, the last remaining seed of the human race, did not want to wander very far from the ark.

Collective pride is man's last effort to deny his contingency; it is the very essence of human sin.

Personal religious experience and inner feeling, therefore, began to take precedence over religious thought and dogma at the very time when traditional Christian doctrines were becoming increasingly out of kilter with the new ideas and advancing human knowledge of the last two centuries.

The idea is absent that sexual conduct can do harm to the health of one «sspirit, of one's humanity; that it can overthrow a person's human balance, turning him or her obsessively in on self, seeing in others no more than sex - objects, incapable of any deep or lasting love or of the respect that is the very hallmark of love.

So, last month, I've had a pleasure of meeting fellow foodie and a very talented, kind and amazing human, Aimee from Wallflower Kitchen, who despite suspicious looks from everyone around us in the cafe, handed me over a brown paper bag with one, beautiful purple sweet potato inside!

Woods appeared more relaxed and human than during his first public apology last month, but he offered very little new information, refusing to discuss the details of his late - night car crash or even say what kind of treatment he has been receiving.

And the in - between moment between a baby being born and arriving in his or her mother's arms for the very first time, a face - to - face, skin - to - skin meeting between mother and the new human she'd been growing inside of her for the better part of the last year.

What does trouble me is BPI's use of a raw material which by its very nature is highly pathogenic, such that we all might be endangered in the case of human error (as when BPI's ammonia system stopped working for sixty seconds in 2009, leading to 26,000 + pounds of infected meat)(http://nyti.ms/56MIYK) or a new strain of E coli — not part of BPI's admirably advanced testing protocol — emerges (as one did in Germany last summer, killing 345 and sickening 3,700 +.)

That's hard to measure with humans, but in rat studies the benefits of mothering last until the animals reach an age equivalent to age 80 in humans, which I find very encouraging.

«You will have communities who don't want to be next to a jail, which we understand on a very human level,» Cuomo said last month on WCBS radio.

However, Cope has called upon all South Africans to resist any attempts «to make South Africa the home of last resort of those leaders who have violated the human rights of the citizens of their very own countries».

«The UK set up after the last war the convention on human rights, because it was perfectly obvious a number of people in Europe weren't doing very well on human rights.

As more states, and even some cities, have inched their wages up at different rates in the last two decades, job loss does happen in places with higher minimum wages among the very people who are the hardest to employ, according to Richard Valentine Burkhauser, a professor in Cornell University's College of Human Ecology and an adjunct scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute in Washington.

Volk: Yeah, so Icille was released into Earth's biosphere at the same time Dave was, from a limestone, from the calcium carbonate of a limestone cliff in the Dordogne valley of southern France about the same time that we have the earliest, very earliest cave art in the human prehistory; but Icille didn't last very long in the biosphere, she got trapped in this ice core.

Greg Fahy of the American Red Cross in Bethesda, Maryland, said last week that he and his colleagues hope to have developed a method for preserving rabbit kidneys — which are very similar in tissue type and structure to human ones — by Christmas.

«Overall, these drug responses in cave fish are very similar to what you see in human patients,» he said last week at the meeting in Fayetteville.

That very likely means that the virus will transmit between humans as well, Fouchier told ScienceInsider last month, adding that the lab strain is «probably one of the most dangerous viruses you can make.»

«Our discovery confirms a very old natural history for the mechanisms underlying this self - preservation emotion, at least to the last common ancestor of flies and humans,» says Claridge - Chang, noting that this ancestral species swam in the oceans around 700 million years ago.

I won't argue that our added gases may contribute to the warming to some very, very small degree, but keep in mind, the ash plume from a good volcanic eruption such as the last big Pinatubo eruption eclipses into insignificants the amount of pollutants added to the atmosphere by human activity.

The human body has evolved very little in the last million...

The human body has evolved very little in the last million years, and is basically constructed for the way humans lived prior to the industrial age.

While the world has changed in innumerable ways in the last 10,000 years (for better and worse), the human genome has changed very little and thus only thrives under similar conditions.

They didn't have any knowledge of nutrition, they weren't able to eat nutritious, calorie dense food whenever they wanted due to the absence of agriculture, and their immune systems were likely weaker than ours (living together in large numbers placed enormous selective pressure on our early agricultural ancestors to develop strong immune systems, keep in mind that early human civilizations did not have indoor plumbing... so they were sometimes exposed to fecal matter both from fellow humans and from livestock and they didn't have the kinds of disinfectants and anti-biotics we have today,) so for them to have serious health complications makes perfect sense, nature can be very harsh and doesn't care how long its been since your last meal or what your calorie and micro nutrient needs are... a lot of people died at very young ages back then simply because they got sick and didn't have proper medical treatment or due to malnutrition or starvation.

The only result of your paper is the last sentenace: «We are in the very infancy of research on intermittent fasting in human subjects and future studies with larger sample sizes, longer durations and of better study design must be completed before any definite conclusions can be made regarding intermittent fasting and human health and the applicability to modern lifestyle.»

With more than 15 years of experience in the matchmaking field, we bring a combined knowledge of human relationships, a healthy dose of intuition and a very personable, hands - on approach that has proven to be successful in assisting our clients in achieving the goal of finding that meaningful and lasting relationship.

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 19 Tweets That Will Hit Home If You're Single During The Holidays Last Christmas I gave you my heart, but the very next day you said what the

Like last year's superb The Edge Of Seventeen with a wonderful Hailee Steinfeld performance, and before that the Oscar - winning Juno, this is a very human and often funny movie that just happens to center around a teenage girl.

It's been a few years since the last sighting of any humans when, one day, a small search party of men — and one woman (Keri Russell, fine but under - written)-- led by Malcolm (Jason Clarke, very good), wanders into the woods, looking for a hydro - electric dam to restore power to the nearby city.

«A very human story... a fine read focusing on the long lasting dysfunction of family.»

In spite of the introduction of some bad breeding practices in the last 15 years or so, the vast majority of APBTs remain very human - friendly.

After our announcement at Paris Games Week last summer, we are very excited to be at E3 to show you more about our next title Detroit: Become Human!

Loading Human takes an episodic approach that many games in the last few generations have utilized, though it definitely follows a very different episode and price structure from that of others in the genre.

The story revolves around the main protagonist, Billy Hatcher (a very convenient last name in this case) a normal human kid who helps save a chicken from being attacked by some crows.

The catalogue essay, written by Jeffrey Deitch, who also organized the exhibition, portentously states: «Our children's generation could very will [sic] be the last generation of» pure» humans.»

Chasson, who last exhibited at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery with his 2014 solo show days of oil and gas, also presents another, very different, series of paintings, focused instead on the landscape rather than specific human figures.

We want to place a human perspective where the machine now lives, which is very much a departure from the idea of progress that has prevailed for the last three centuries.»

Human activities have very likely caused most of the well - documented change in global climate over the last half century.

I won't argue that our added gases may contribute to the warming to some very, very small degree, but keep in mind, the ash plume from a good volcanic eruption such as the last big Pinatubo eruption eclipses into insignificants the amount of pollutants added to the atmosphere by human activity.

The bottom line is that multiple studies indicate with very strong confidence that human activity is the dominant component in the warming of the last 50 to 60 years, and that our best estimates are that pretty much all of the rise is anthropogenic.

My Dot Earth participation over the last eight months is mainly motivated by the deep linkage between the (very real) human concepts / dynamics of morality and the notion of sustainability.

This was expressed bluntly in Mother Jones by Kevin Drum, who wrote that clouds (and Lindzen) aren't «deniers» last hope,» adding, «Human greed and self interest are their last hope, and there's very little chance of that diminishing anytime in the near future.»

Whether there is a divide between weather and climate scientists out in the field, the meteorological society's official 2007 statement on climate change very clearly accepted that people are jogging the system: «[S] trong observational evidence and results from modeling studies indicate that, at least over the last 50 years, human activities are a major contributor to climate change.»

But the evidence shows this can't be true; temperature changes before CO2 in every record of any duration for any time period; CO2 variability does not correlate with temperature at any point in the last 600 million years; atmospheric CO2 levels are currently at the lowest level in that period; in the 20th century most warming occurred before 1940 when human production of CO2 was very small; human production of CO2 increased the most after 1940 but global temperatures declined to 1985; from 2000 global temperatures declined while CO2 levels increased; and any reduction in CO2 threatens plant life, oxygen production, and therefore all life on the planet.

While those who stand in denial of climate change have failed in the last 15 years to produce a single, peer - reviewed scientific journal article that challenges the theory and evidence of human - induced climate change, mainstream media was, until very recently, covering the story (in more than half the cases, according to the academic researchers Boykoff and Boykoff) by quoting one scientist talking about the risks and one purported expert saying that climate change was not happening — or might actually be a good thing.

Modern human civilization has developed and thrived in the last 10,000 years during a very narrow window of temperature and CO2 concentrations, a very small fluctuation around 280 ppm.