My purpose in going to Niagara was to think about nature, and I ended up obsessed with human things.
Social media's ubiquity means that we are losing that most precious of human things -- our sense of self .
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Many things human beings do are like that, of course: catching fly balls, manufacturing microchips, delivering overnight packages.
Nothing can truly prepare you to take the plunge into entrepreneurship, but the awesome responsibility of creating a tiny human certainly puts things in perspective.
We are stuck in an economy that does not fulfill real human needs for things like love, community, social justice, happiness, relevant education, and a healthy environment.
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Her own experience of history lessons had left her with a dislike of lists and memorising facts - and she says that she wants history to show "the human side of things".
Something wonderful was just over the horizon and every card-carrying human being had to have an informed opinion on all those things that distinguish human beings from animals.
Initial focus areas include cloud infrastructure, mobile privacy, Internet of Things, human interface, and mobile health.
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But more than that the movie talks about the complicated nature of things like human beings governing themselves.
"Human organisms are not things you hang ornaments on like a Christmas tree, " says Thomas Murray, Hastings' director.
Firms were run by things called human resources, which, like other resources, were to be exploited and then thrown aside.
But, by taking over the simple part of many jobs, they improve the productivity of skilled human beings doing complicated things.
The challenge of the Anthropocene is to use human ingenuity to set things up so that the planet can accomplish its 21st-century task.
The team will be monitoring the reserve at night with special infra-red and thermal imaging cameras, exploring the undergrowth with macro cameras and capturing things the human can't see with special slow motion cameras.
Like many things driven by human nature, venture-backed biotech boardrooms often swing between the emotions of fear and greed.
With luck, something similar will soon happen in biology in the wake of such things as the Human Genome Project.
One of the lessons from these crisis situations is the power of the three human response factors to get things done quickly.
But to see the clip of the "Oprah" performance is--he does things with the human spine that even Dr. Detroit could not manipulate.
Here at the foot of the Acropolis you are reminded that human beings do remarkably similar things from one historical epoch to the next.
Being human, he recognised that things can be valued because they look good to eat and that people can be valued because you love them or admire them.
In the original research, he said, he and fellow researchers found a rich human capability to adapt to things like manipulating several virtual limbs at once, using various parts of their real body.
Amid all of this messy thinking we miss the simple truth behind our material wealth: It has been achieved through the accumulation, by us and inherited from our forefathers, of a stock of highly configured and embedded tools that make human effort more effective and things possible that never were before.
"The idea is that you're going to identify the things that make us human, " says John Hawks.
Beings that were barely human manufactured and bought and sold things, and cities covered the continents with luminous color.
But studies by leading universities, from MIT to Stanford, are finding that the human brain simply cannot do multiple things at once.
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Is it just a quirky paradox of the human condition that we eagerly consume things that give off all the signals of putrefaction?
Scribbling insults on a virtual cube may not sound like it but it is one of the very things that makes us human.
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