Search Details

Word: symbolsã (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...with different backgrounds help each other out.” In the introductory meeting, Lingford and Viel led a game of Pictionary in which students were asked to draw basic scientific words, such as gravity and dilution. They found that while some concepts could be easily represented using identifiable symbols??such as an apple falling that illustrated gravity—others, like dilution, were difficult to express in one drawing. Students have since been introduced to basic software, as well as sound recording and mixing techniques. For the most part, however, work is self-directed. For the first...

Author: By Sally K. Scopa, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Scientific Animation Spurs Artistic Creation | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

Hauser also said that while humans generate digital symbols??such as for numbers—to represent what they perceive, animals do not do so spontaneously...

Author: By Bora Fezga, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hauser Defines the ‘Humanique’ | 3/3/2008 | See Source »

...washed out by numbers and blanketed by stereotyped “evil.” Zinn wrote, “What if all those Americans who declare their support for Bush’s ‘war on terrorism’ could see, instead of those elusive symbols??Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda—the real human beings who have died under our bombs? I do believe they would have second thoughts...

Author: By J. hale Russell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Howard Zinn | 2/8/2002 | See Source »

Some have complained recently about the presence of Christmas trees as “religious symbols?? in the Houses. In response to this anguish over the existence of a tree with lights on it, several Harvard commentators have said that the Christmas tree has mostly become a secular item. Even where it is not purely secular, they say, it has no overtones specific to any one faith...

Author: By Marguerite K. Cauble, | Title: Sanctifying Christmas Trees | 12/10/2001 | See Source »

| 1 |