Word: thingness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...takes a few minutes to get the hang of it. You tend to oversteer, since you can't quite believe this thing is going to pick up your movements, so you exaggerate them. But soon you start to trust it, because it does actually work. I couldn't detect any significant latency. And there's definitely an extra edge to playing a game with nothing between you and the screen but your clenched, white-knuckled fists. I'm a hard-core gamer, so I'm not the person Project Natal is targeting. I love my controller...
...almost half the increase in the leading indicators was from the stock market. So people look at the leading indicators and say, "I gotta buy stocks." And yet the stock market is one of the 10 leading indicators, so it almost becomes a self-perpetuating development. Here's another thing to know about the index of leading indicators: in the past, the upturn in this index precedes the economy's upturn by as much as 12 months. So maybe it's telling us the recession ends 12 months from now. It could be earlier. But equity markets, historically, tend...
...meant a tremendous amount to me and my wife,” Sloan said. “It was reassuring to see him, when all of sudden, I’m in the hospital, an alien in a strange land. That’s the kind of thing he does all the time—that’s the kind of person...
...very open, loves to mix it up in terms of thoughts and ideas, and I think one thing that people have sometimes misunderstood is the true secret of his success,” Sloan said. “It’s comical to him when people discuss some elaborate calculus behind his actions because that’s just not who he is. The irony of it all is that he’s been very successful because he genuinely cares about the public...
...successfully charted the evolution of multiple species of lizards in real time. By conducting rigorous biological and behavioral analyses of animals on tiny islands that are repeatedly devastated by hurricanes, Losos has produced some of the only empirical scientific evidence documenting evolution.“Darwin got one thing particularly wrong,” Losos said. “He said that evolution had to occur very slowly.”In fact, Losos has proven that evolution can occur very rapidly and that lizards will adapt to different environments at observable speeds. Thus, according to his research, evolutionary biology...