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unusual facts about senses



AdoCbl riboswitch

The first is a two component regulatory system that senses the presence of ethanolamine and the second mechanism is a AdoCbl riboswitch that senses the presence of AdoCbl, a cofactor needed for the breakdown of ethanolamine.

Annie's Song

Denver "wrote this song in July 1973 in about ten-and-a-half minutes one day on a ski lift" to the top of Ajax Mountain in Aspen, Colorado, as the physical exhilaration of having "just skied down a very difficult run" and the feeling of total immersion in the beauty of the colors and sounds that filled all senses inspired him to think about his wife.

Assault on the Senses

In the Sept. 2007 (issue 1633) edition of Comics Buyer's Guide, columnist Beau Smith reviewed a copy of Assault on the Senses with positive reviews pointing out, "there is a very cool tint of homage to the Silver Age of comics in this story, and if you're a master of comic trivia like Mark Waid or Peter David you may just figure it out."

Cambridge Platonists

Universal, ideal forms (à la Plato) inform matter, and the physical senses are unreliable guides to their reality.

Catherine Shuvalova

According to Varvara Golovina, to strengthen its position Shuvalova was trying to flatter the prince Zubov, becoming the "main confidante of his senses.

Charles David Badham

Badham was an early member of the Société entomologique de France and published a pamphlet whilst in France claiming that insects lacked intelligence or senses, being governed entirely by blind instinct.

Chéri Samba

In 2007, curator Robert Storr invited Samba to participate in the 52nd International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, entitled “Think with the Senses—Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense”, and described by The Huffington Post as 'certainly "the exhibition" of this new Century'.

Concept

Concepts and Senses in Visual Art: Through the example of analysis of some works by Bruegel the Elder.

Corporate sustainable profitability

The book involves big, Swedish business profiles like Antonia AX:son Johnson, Micael Dahlén and Alice Bah Kuhnke, that engage in "good business", in both senses of the term.

Critique of the Kantian philosophy

#* Locke's primary qualities result from the mind's activity, just as his secondary qualities result from receptivity at any of the five senses.

Eyewitness

Witness, someone who has knowledge about a crime or dramatic event through first-hand experience via any of the senses

Fact–value distinction

Other thinkers reject an absolutist fact-value distinction by contending that our senses are impregnated with prior conceptualizations, making it impossible to have any observation that is totally value-free, which is how Hume and the later positivists conceived of facts.

Five wits

This definition of the origins of human senses was an exceedingly popular one throughout the Middle Ages in Europe, not least because of its rough agreement with chapter 30 of the Second Book of Enoch.

(For more on this, see Definition of sense.) But the idea of five senses/wits from Aristotelian, medieval, and 16th century thought still lingers so strongly in modern thinking that a sense beyond the natural ones is still called a "sixth sense".

Garden of Five Senses

The Garden of Five Senses is a park spread over 20 acres, in Saidul Ajaib village, opposite Saket, near the Mehrauli heritage area in Delhi, India.

History of topos theory

The idea of a Grothendieck topology (also known as a site) has been characterised by John Tate as a bold pun on the two senses of Riemann surface.

Honor Plantagenet, Viscountess Lisle

Elis Gruffydd however reported that she lost her senses whilst imprisoned in Francis Hall's house at Calais and that he never heard if she ever completely recovered them.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Other books include Coming to Our Senses (Hyperion, 2005), The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness, co-authored with J. Mark G. Williams, John D. Teasdale and Zindel V. Segal (Guilford, 2007), and The Mind's Own Physician: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama on the Healing Power of Meditation, co-authored with Richard Davidson (New Harbinger, 2012) (based on the 13th Mind and Life Institute Dialogue in 2005).

Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society

He then quotes Mark Akenside (1744), William Wordsworth (1805) and Jane Austen (1816) on their uses of the word 'culture' to make clear the fact that "culture was developing in English towards some of its modern senses before the decisive effects of a new social and intellectual movement".

Let It Enfold You

It was announced on April 4, 2012 that Senses Fail would release a greatest hits album entitled Follow Your Bliss: The Best Of Senses Fail which features "You're Cute When You Scream", " Rum Is For Drinking, Not For Burning", "Lady In a Blue Dress", "Bite to Break the Skin", and "Buried a Lie".

Mark Zug

He discovered his passion for painting to bring to life things not available to the senses - dinosaurs, superheroes, Jules-Vernean submarines, imaginary cars, races of ancient astronauts, starships inspired by then-fresh Star Trek etc.

Mihai Nadin

Based on the fact that play is serious work for the very young, Nadin initiated a program in Toy Design at SUNY - Fashion Institute of Technology to train designers to develop the minds of the very young through all the senses.

Mind reading

Telepathy, the transfer of information between individuals by means other than the five senses

Mystery of the Senses

Each episode covers one of the traditional five senses: hearing, sight, smell, taste, and touch.

Notes From New York

The week consisted of day long sessions, workshopping various Musical Numbers including Die Vampire Die (Title of Show), Come to Your Senses (Tick, Tick... Boom!), Nothing In Common (Wearing Someone Else's Clothes: Jason Robert Brown), You Shall Go To The Ball (SOHO Cinders) and two pieces devised by Taking Notes' resident MD new British Musical Theatre composer Michael Bruce, entitled A Little Less Ordinary and Looking Back (Ed: The Musical).

Prashna Upanishad

The way all sun rays go back into sun at the time of sunset, so are all the senses of man go back into their master the Mind.

Rachel Sarah Herz

It was at this time that she began writing The Scent of Desire: Discovering Our Enigmatic Sense of Smell (William Morrow/Harper Collins Publishers) as well as working on other means to educate and stimulate the general public about the chemical senses.

Richard Heslop

The film won first prize at the Huesca short film festival in Spain and was shown at Edinburgh Film Festival and ICA "Synchronization of the Senses Festival."

Russ Lorenson

Never one to do things by halves, he moved to San Francisco to be close to the Silicon Valley scene, began working in start-ups and found himself flying high in all senses of the word.

Sha.

“ and works on multisensory projects, which aim for new synaesthetic fields of perception through a connection of all senses.

Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 2nd Baronet, of Isell

In April 1705 Lawson’s widow petitioned the crown against this final bequest and in August the Treasury, following a report from the attorney-general that ‘the codicil containing the bequest is so worded that it carries a presumption with it that the testator was not in his senses when he dictated it’, awarded the £600 to Lawson’s widow.

Spiritualizing the Senses

Spiritualizing the Senses is an album by jazz pianist Horace Silver, his second released on the Silverto label, featuring performances by Silver with Eddie Harris, Bobby Shew, Ralph Moore, Bob Maize, and Carl Burnett.

Tanya Gyani

She states "In France, I went to the Domaine de Boisbuchet for a course in Exhibition Design conducted by the Vitra Design Museum and Centre Georges Pompidou, which I recommend to anybody even remotely interested in heightening their creative senses because both the location and course structure is highly conducive to conceptualizing and exploring new ideas."

Thank You, Fog

The book contains poems written mostly in 1972 and 1973; after Auden's death in September 1973 it was prepared for publication by his literary executor Edward Mendelson, who also included an "antimasque" titled "The Entertainment of the Senses", written in 1973 by Auden and Chester Kallman as an interpolation in a planned production of James Shirley's masque Cupid and Death (1653); the antimasque was commissioned by the composer John Gardner.

The Hundred Secret Senses

The Hundred Secret Senses is a 1995 novel by Amy Tan, focusing on the relationship between Chinese-born Kwan and her younger, Chinese American sister Olivia, who serves as the book's primary narrator.

Tordoff

Michael Tordoff, psychobiologist working at the Monell Chemical Senses Center

Uppalawanna

The chief nun (Malini Fonseka) senses this, warning Upallavanna with her namesake's story.

Urban oasis

This, combined with live music, creates a public cultural event that brings people into a central urban area after dark while engaging the senses and emotions of those who stroll the paths and bridges of Waterplace Park.

X-Factor Investigations

Rahne later joins the mutant group X-Force to hunt down Cable using their hyper-keen senses.

Zimmer massacre

When she came to her senses she looked about upon a scene of blood and horror, and burst into a paroxysm of weeping.


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