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When I looked back at much of the English-language literature I'd grown up with, for example, I began to see how narrow a lot of it was, compared to the richness that the world has to offer.
Still, recent advancements in neuroimaging and cognitive psychology narrow down the field of prospects.
While women prefer low-pitched voices with a narrow formant spacing that suggest a larger body size.
In a now famous experiment, she asked H.M. to trace a third star in the narrow space between the outlines of two concentric ones while he could only see his paper and pencil through a mirror.
The poet Emily Dickinson wrote, "I measure every Grief I meet With narrow, probing Eyes - I wonder if it weighs like MIne - Or has an Easier size."
If we shoot electrons one at a time at a set of two narrow slits cut in a barrier, each electron on the far side is detected at a single place at a specific instant, like a particle.
Now, patent cases tend to be: Company A sues Company B over some really narrow, obscure technical issue.
But his downfall would come only two years later from across the narrow sea of the English Channel.
Inside this board are narrow tunnels through which tiny balls will fall down randomly, going right or left, or left, etc.
What I'm saying is, when we treat grades and scores and accolades and awards as the purpose of childhood, all in furtherance of some hoped-for admission to a tiny number of colleges or entrance to a small number of careers, that that's too narrow a definition of success for our kids.
We have already built narrow intelligence into our machines, and many of these machines perform at a level of superhuman intelligence already.
And the low-power double bind means that we have a narrow range, and we lack power.
We have a narrow range, and our double bind is very large.
But this emphasis today on forcing biological research to specialize and to produce practical outcomes is actually restricting our ability to interrogate life to unacceptably narrow confines and unsatisfying depths.
We are measuring an astonishingly narrow sliver of life, and hoping that those numbers will save all of our lives.
How narrow do you ask?
But they learn that mistakes are undesirable inadvertently when teachers or parents are eager to hear just correct answers and reject mistakes rather than welcome and examine them to learn from them, or when we look for narrow responses rather than encourage more exploratory thinking that we can all learn from.
These are two-way roads, very narrow rights of way, and he shows this well-known philosopher, who said, "Broad is the road that leads to destruction ... narrow is the road that leads to life."
What if I told you that our definition of "good person" is so narrow, it's scientifically impossible to meet?
That the only source of viable movies is a very narrow groups of writers who have already found their way to living and working in Hollywood, who already have the best representation in the business, and are writing a very narrow band of stories.
That our onscreen heroes have to conform to a very narrow idea about beauty that we consider conventional.
We define masculinity in a very narrow way, masculinity becomes this hard, small cage and we put boys inside the cage.
People who disagree the most productively start by finding common ground, no matter how narrow it is.
If we narrow in on our neighborhoods experiencing the most poverty, those where 82 percent of the student body is considered economically disadvantaged, the number rises to 23 percent of the neighborhood.
They were using vacuum tubes, very narrow, sloppy techniques to get actually binary behavior out of these radio vacuum tubes.
A face that's too baby-like might mean that the girl is not yet fertile, so men find women attractive who have large eyes, full lips and narrow chins as indicators of youth, and high cheekbones as an indicator of maturity.
Now, a total eclipse is visible only along a narrow path, about a hundred miles wide, and that's where the moon's shadow falls.
We've created narrow job definitions like cashier, loan processor or taxi driver and then asked people to form entire careers around these singular tasks.
But on Monday, they're back to being Junior HR Specialist and Systems Analyst 3. (Laughter) You know, these narrow job titles not only sound boring, but they're actually a subtle encouragement for people to make narrow and boring job contributions.
It's our role as glaciologists and scientists to narrow these uncertainties.
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