Gazing at this human figure with wings, perched on the edge of a boat, I imagined her taking flight each night after the Louvre closed.
Dubbed "the portrait of a soul" and "the face that launched 1, 000 therapists, " "The Scream" depicts a distorted human figure -- hands flat against its sunken face, eyes and mouth wide open -- in the foreground of a nightmarish landscape.
One potential remedy is to create a face-to-virtual-face interaction with a helpful, friendly looking, online sales assistant in the hope that, seeing a human-like figure who responds in a human manner, the customer will forge a relationship with the online business.
This was the story of a man who wanted to completely figure out and embody what it means to be human, and just as completely figure out what computing in service of the fully-human should look like.
Social gaming company Zynga has tapped into human psychology to figure out what triggers encourage people to play their games over and over again.
And it's striking that the most media-observed figure in human history, the Princess of Wales, chose for her most daring and decisive media act a long, formal interview with Panorama, which 20 million people watched.
The program could save Medicare beneficiaries 15 to 35 percent, according to White House officials, though a statement from the Department of Health and Human Services put the figure slightly lower, at 10 to 25 percent.
The unglamorous work of caregiving may give human beings the chance to figure out just how those darned brooms work.
Rami Abdel Rahman, from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the figure included only those whose names had been documented.
"Stephane Hessel was a towering figure in the human rights world, " U.N.
It includes DeCode Genetics (nasdaq: DCGN - news - people), the company that made news with its plan to use the genealogy of the people of Iceland as a tool for genetic research, and Exelixis (nasdaq: EXEL - news - people), which uses model systems like fruit flies to figure out what genes do in human beings.
I've spent my whole career trying to figure out what morality is and how human beings came to be moral creatures.
Human beings spend a lot of time trying to figure out what will make them happy, but not nearly enough time trying to hang on to the happiness they already have.
In the same issue of Science that included the Greenland research, scientists from NASA and Australia said that more detailed observations are needed to figure out what that will mean for human populations.
In an age of sanitization and professionalization, Bert Le Clos is not just a marker for our hopes that something of the Games remains after the IOC-media-corporato-bureaucracy has taken its cut, but also a lone figure that stands for authentic, unvarnished human experience.
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based activist group, had put the figure at 44, 000.
BBC: Syria: Deadly air strike 'hits Damascus petrol station'
Masterminding that human bazaar was Sheikh Hussein al-Zubayi, a small-time religious figure at a Baghdad University mosque.
"Before, we used to record about 30 human deaths because of wildlife attacks annually but in the past few years the figure appears to have risen significantly, " said Forest Ministry spokesman Krishna Acharya who, until recently, headed Nepal's Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation.
Emissions of nitrous oxide -- 40% of which are estimated to come from human activity -- reached 324.2 ppb, up one ppb on the 2010 figure and 120% higher than pre-industrial times.
When human brains come across uncertainty, they tend to pay attention to information more because they want to figure it out, which leads to longer and more in-depth processing.
The collection of ordered human genes uncovered jointly by Celera Genomics cra (nyse: cra - news - people) and the federal government's Human Genome Project has the potential to make drug discovery faster and easier by allowing scientists to more quickly figure out what chemicals inside the body a drug has to stop, boost or replace.
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Figure out where your quality customers come from so you can increase your marketing investment (financial and human capital) accordingly.
As we shift from the web 2.0 era into the age of curation, we must figure out what to do with this newfound appreciation of quality over quantity when it comes to our human-generated data.
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