Dr Sobel's team has therefore built a version of the device for video gaming.
How this rock acquired omniscience and why its voice is exactly like Ms Sobel's remain unclear.
The inaugural installation was chosen by Dean Sobel, the museum's director, and David Anfam, its adjunct curator.
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At her best, Ms Sobel blends together anecdote, science and history in a confection of elegant prose.
Dr Sobel and his team then developed a system for measuring changes in air flow caused by sniffing.
Meanwhile, Ms Sobel has broken away from the genre she began and written a different sort of book.
Mr. DAVID SOBEL (Electronic Privacy Information Center): This has now become fairly routine within the Department of Homeland Security.
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Noam Sobel of the Weizmann Institute, in Israel, may have found a way to make this fate slightly more bearable.
Judge Moshe Sobel also ruled that there was no "reasonable suspicion" that the women had broken any laws relating to holy sites.
David Sobel notes that the department wants to be exempt from a Privacy Act requirement that the information collected be relevant and necessary.
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Thirty-three people named books by Daniels (in second place, Dava Sobel, with 13 mentions), especially "The Art of Breguet" (1975) and "Watchmaking" (1981).
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New research may increase the window of prediction from the current seven or eight days to 10 to 12 days before the event, Sobel said.
"As computers have gotten more powerful, the models have gotten better, " said Adam Sobel, a professor of atmospheric science at Columbia University in New York.
Mr. SOBEL: Meaning that any odd piece of information, even if not arguably relevant to some legitimate law enforcement purpose, could find its way into this database.
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Just like pixels on the digital cameras have become smaller and smaller, the grid that these computers use has gotten smaller, allowing for more precise forecasts, Sobel said.
First, Dr Sobel's team rigged up the device to allow people who suffer from locked-in syndrome to communicate, by dictating text onto a computer screen using coded patterns of sniffing.
It is hard to know what to make of the chapter on astrology, superstition that Ms Sobel appears to take seriously, and which shifts the tone of her book from thoughtful to flaky.
"We remain concerned about proposals pending in several countries that would give public agencies greater power to demand access to encrypted keys or plain text, " David Sobel, EPIC general counsel, said Monday in a phone interview.
"If you attempt to impose ... a credit card and registration model ... there will be a substantial loss of readership, " said David Sobel, general counsel for the Electronic Privacy Information Center, describing part of the plaintiffs' strategy.
Mr. SOBEL: For instance, a citizen who has information about him or herself in this database is not entitled to get access to that information and is not entitled to correct any inaccurate information contained in the database.
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"I will admit that, being on radio for many years, when the forecast is for good weather and it's bad, I certainly will get more grief than if the forecast is for bad weather and it's good, " Dr. Sobel said.
Joe Sobel, a meteorologist for Accuweather, says the company's policy is to not change the percentages outputted by its models, but to modify how it presents those numbers for instance, by emphasizing chances of precipitation, even when they are low, on weekends and holidays, when precipitation can be particularly annoying.
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