Word: darwinian
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...only a matter of months before these Darwinian marvels learn to use a can opener, a skill that will lift them to a higher stage of mouse evolution - and to the more civilized pleasures of canned Mexicorn, Bush's baked beans, and solid white, water-packed tuna. In a generation or two, smart young mice will have a system of pulleys that will open the refrigerator door in the middle of the night. God knows how a new infusion of butter, protein-rich cheese, yogurt, red-leaf lettuce, and V-8 juice will invigorate the breed and enlarge its cerebral...
...have people gleefully trying to scrawl graffiti all over it (such as Code Red's inane scribble "hacked by Chinese!!!"). It's human nature. The good thing is that in the long run this makes the system stronger through the act of resistance. That's also human (or rather, Darwinian) nature...
...This Darwinian action has been repeating in tech land for decades. Yet through it all tech's risks have yielded ample rewards. The key, as ever, is a long-term approach, limiting tech holdings to a comfortable percentage of your portfolio and staying well diversified within the sector. In most cases, that means investing through mutual funds...
...also size. Selling dozens of models in every price range, the reasoning went, was the only way a car company could afford the huge investments necessary to incorporate the latest technologies. That meant that if you were a small independent, you would have to merge--or face the Darwinian consequences. So Daimler coupled with Chrysler, Renault bought Nissan, Ford scooped up Volvo, and everybody mused that it was just a matter of time before the biggies gobbled up BMW and Honda, and maybe even Porsche. Yet here we are in 2001, and among the most successful players in the auto...
...just us, the way we really are, once you strip away all the law-abiding, paycheck-loving, 9-to-5 trimmings that make our American civilization tick. People have been killing people since Cain and Abel—or since homo sapiens and Neanderthals, if you like the Darwinian creation myth better. And they aren’t about to stop just because it makes modern liberals distinctly uncomfortable...