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Yet these are all phenomena of electromagnetic radiation.
The tidal phenomena which followed this convulsion are particularly interesting.
While the results of rain-on-snow events are clear, many of the details about why and how the phenomena form remain an enigma.
Most crises result from abstraction of economic phenomena from reality.
Geologists have long puzzled over anecdotal reports of strange atmospheric phenomena in the days before big earthquakes.
As a next step ask students to think of different natural phenomena that could be modelled by their little dance.
They explain violent celestial phenomena that no other body can.
Add in methods for controlling hurricanes, tornadoes, and other destructive natural phenomena.
Of all the weather phenomena in the world, the unpredictable, violent and telegenic tornado commands special attention.
But it represented a fixed and settled habit of mind, and is only one example of a long series of similar phenomena.
Sometimes, this brings brilliant contributions to the comprehension of the historical phenomena.
In fact, there is not a single area of modern science that can actually account for observed phenomena.
Such phenomena have never been investigated in animal species other than our own.
Movie phenomena are supposed to occur once in a blue moon, or a new one.
The proposed building, when it has been erected will offer to contemplation some rather remarkable phenomena.
Rather, he said, start with such an unbiased description of phenomena.
In the second place, he wished to relate economic principles and phenomena to his own social ideals and social philosophy.
One of the phenomena predicted by this principle is called quantum tunnelling.
If scientists don't know, how to explain new phenomena, they introduce a new theory.
To a scientist, nothing is more troubling--or exciting--than a diversity of phenomena without a unifying cause.
Many phenomena influence obliquity over a planet's history.
We also need to provide sound, proven explanations for phenomena that are only potentially evolutionary in origin.
What shocked me was the herd phenomena of ordinary people who followed them blindly.
But only one was observed with modern-day astronomical equipment, limiting the amount of data scientists have about the phenomena.
Some anomalies can be explained by variations of both phenomena.
The execution of witches, for example, was impossible to justify once mankind took a scientific approach to natural phenomena.
Theories such as these, which give a realistic description of quantum phenomena, are called hidden variables theories.
Metaphors are often used in science to understand difficult and counterintuitive phenomena.
Actually they are fundamentally different phenomena.
When those phenomena disappear, then you can worry about being judged on your merits.
Dark flow was named in a nod to dark energy and dark matter-two other unexplained astrophysical phenomena.
But this leads to two other phenomena, which physicists have hitherto been unable to explain.
They point to the frivolity of phenomena such as overseas stag weekends.
Certainly, there is no more important intellectual task than the explanation of these oppressive human phenomena.
But that approximate description seems extremely valid and useful, including all of the phenomena in the observable universe.
Part of her phenomena is a tendency to anthropomorphize things and give them feelings.
All of these things are now cultural phenomena.
And even if they admit that, they will still inquire into the order of the phenomena, into the form of the miracle.
Other phenomena, such as rocket launches, can set the stage for night-shining clouds.
There is also the enticing prospect of discovering wholly new phenomena.
Their basic conjecture is that life is an emergent phenomena that occurs in systems that are far out of equilibrium.
Physicists often simplify or idealize phenomena to make them more amenable to an initial mathematical treatment.
Those materials exhibit phenomena that are simple to describe yet cannot be explained by any known metal physics.
It sheds new light on a misunderstood phenomena.
These phenomena persist solely because someone has found them to be useful in separating fools from their money.
The atmospheric phenomena can be seen globally in any season-and even on other worlds.
Moreover, previous attempts to show a link have come up with a much weaker correlation between the two phenomena.
Satellites soon to launch will measure surface winds and other phenomena.
So therefore you can't predict human affairs in the same way as you can natural phenomena.
Eleven additional particles suffice to describe all the esoteric phenomena studied by particle physicists.
Each annual phenomena is reminiscence and prompting.
But the study explained the effect with graphs, and stories only described a phenomena for which words aren't enough.
In this light the familiar phenomena of our daily experience acquire an historical interest and dignity.
Those engineers may be compared with the mainstream economists, who don't understand the real kinetics of macroeconomic phenomena.
These are all phenomena that make people consciously unhappy.
These are all natural, physical phenomena, and they all apply potential selection pressures.
But no new freestanding scientific principles are needed to understand these phenomena.
Some phenomena have an irreducible complexity that will defeat any big-idea effort at simplification.
Newton founded this law upon a great variety of different natural phenomena.
The risks of letting any method, rather than the phenomena themselves, dictate research questions are obvious.
It takes considerable electromagnetic field strength to extract sufficient electrons for this phenomena.
To study these bizarre phenomena, physicists keep pushing for ever-lower temperatures.
If these phenomena are real, it would be good looking for the material or energy basis of them.
Two political phenomena are shaping this election.
But historically, social sciences tried to apply the scientific method to the study of social phenomena.
By measuring the jets, the researchers were able to find many of the stars that had created the phenomena.
Normally, patents are not granted for naturally occurring phenomena or laws of nature.
The poorest build and live in areas that become mortal traps when weather or geological phenomena strike.
Many of the examples chosen will involve economic phenomena.
Dark energy and dark matter describe proposed solutions to as yet unresolved gravitational phenomena.
Kids of all ages can experience scientific phenomena through these curiosity-inspiring, hands-on exhibits.
There was nothing cruel about crouching in a shelter and letting phenomena slide by: it was ecstasy.
Each of these phenomena would be bad enough on its own, but all appear to be linked, usually synergistically.
The characteristics of the next wave of consumerism are already discernible in intangible social media phenomena.
While these similarity transformations capture some basic properties of plasmas, not all plasma phenomena scale in this way.
Here are five phenomena that captivated the media for a spell, then turned out to be less than huge.
Just watching objective phenomena is like a cat playing with a string.
One: human beings come into the world with a predisposition to believe in supernatural phenomena.
Two phenomena appear to be pushing the evolving art.
It may well be that this is not scientific but it allows us to think more clearly about those complex phenomena.
That's to be expected if the anecdotal evidence is anything to go by but they find some more interesting phenomena too.
Power and violence, though they are distinct phenomena, usually appear together.
Underlying this interesting story is that at one time it was possible to look up at the sky and see such phenomena.
But they are essential to create computer models of complex phenomena.
But no single scheme seems sufficient to cover all the observed phenomena.
But these phenomena can also take place on less exalted levels.
But a pipeline of new molecular drugs targeting so-called epigenetic phenomena could change that.
Similar researches on other aspects of mental phenomena also reveal a definite correlation to brain activity.
The phenomena that attended it were both singular and impressive.
They all, in various ways, showed the various phenomena of the temperament.
Half cannot draw inferences from what they read, or give any scientific explanation for familiar phenomena.
At a slightly higher level, bees and ants demonstrate this phenomena.
The collisions are expected to create new, never-before-known particles and other phenomena.
One of the defining phenomena of our age is migration.
His goal, he says, is to apply scientific methods to learn about such phenomena.
The collected results reveal personal obsessions and material phenomena.
From white dwarfs to space junk, our solar system is filled with mysterious and often mind-blowing phenomena.
Economists differ on how much non-monetary phenomena, such as closer trade integration, affect the inflation process.
Their goal: to construct a more detailed and accurate picture of how atomic-scale interactions shape big-world phenomena.
Such phenomena include alternative splicing, in which a single gene can give rise to two or more different proteins.
Each one of these phenomena is physically impossible.
The result is a plethora of fresh ways of studying phenomena, each conditioned by a different cultural history and narrative.
Emotions are incredibly important psychological phenomena.
Amid the increasing frequency of insider trading phenomena, an alternative approach should be considered.
All of these phenomena are merely materialized representations of power, not globalisation.
There have frequently been phenomena that seemed utterly mysterious but that eventually received an explanation.
Research reported today has traced two familiar mental phenomena to specific locations in the brain.
Sometimes it reduces intricate phenomena to simplistic soundbites.
Dunlap does what a good essayist should do: he makes his reader see familiar phenomena in a new light.
Our solar system is filled with mysterious and often mind-blowing phenomena.
Scientists have been looking for a unification theory that will explain a number of phenomena.
They don't care why these phenomena exist in the fashion that they do.
And he uncovered countless intriguing phenomena of language itself.

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