| 单词 | inanimate |
| 例句 | “But I’m not an inanimate object,” I argued. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Somewhat surprisingly, the same principles apply to inanimate matter, as we shall see. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In fact, that has been used for people as well as animals and inanimate things for some eight hundred years, and it’s standard English. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The rhythmic sounds might be the recapitulation of something else—an earliest memory, a score for the transformation of inanimate, random matter in chaos into the improbable, ordered dance of living forms. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of pronouns that distinguished between male and female, Sasha’s language had pronouns that distinguished between animate and inanimate objects. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Dad was a perpetual optimist, confident that brains someday would triumph over inanimate steel; bolstered in the belief that he entered the fray with clean hands and a pure heart. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z If I didn’t know he was inanimate, I would swear I caught Freddie giving me side eye the other day. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Except for Mary Ann, who couldn’t laugh because she was inanimate. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z But I liked his physiognomy even less than before: it struck me as being at the same time unsettled and inanimate. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z By morning light, the books are all hunched together again with their spines turned out, fossilized, inanimate. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The uproar is only my own shriek, and chasms are, like all things vast, inanimate. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Over time he had acquired the ability to blend into the background of wherever he was—into bookshelves, gardens, curtains, doorways, streets—to appear inanimate, almost invisible to the untrained eye. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I can send them into others’ work, even enliven some inanimate objects, and once that’s done, the results are brilliant. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z He was dribbling a basketball through the chairs, weaving skillfully through the inanimate defenders, the fantasy of crowd-choked arenas lighting up his mind’s eye and his ear filled with the applause of phantom thousands. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It stuck to people, animals, and inanimate objects like peanut butter. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z On the other hand, I supposed his first choice was actually an inanimate injection-molded plastic figurine. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s nothing wrong with using the possessive whose for inanimate objects. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Apparently, the thinking goes, inanimate things aren’t as possessive as living ones. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Not only her eyes and all her senses but also inanimate things seemed to exist because of him, backdrops to his presence. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z It was annoyance that he had been so mightily inconvenienced, that he had been handled by the maid as cavalierly as an inanimate object—a serving bowl, say, or a teapot. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Both sets of terms, like their Greek originals, included the whole study of nature, animate and inanimate—thus Boyle’s Physiological Essays of 1661 are about natural science as a whole. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z You're not seriously getting sentimental about inanimate objects now too, are you? The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z The residue of the human spirit smeared on inanimate objects was all he could withstand of humanity. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, late Saturday afternoon, for some unknowable reason a light went on in the reptilian core of Beck’s inanimate brain and he floated back to consciousness. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z “Sugah, you have the personality of a jack hammer. You can make inanimate objects nervous. Please relax.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z These and other inanimate things she saw and experienced. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z But throughout the mad dance of inanimate objects the continuity of Desdemona’s shifting body remains at center. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He’d captured the afternoon light streaming into the room, the way the shadows fell on the chair and gave it depth and made it appear as if it was something more than an inanimate object. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z The difference was that sun was considered animate, a being, and day was considered inanimate, a thing. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I thought he should continue to act, in public, as if I were a large vase or a window: part of the background, inanimate or transparent. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z In the less than two decades of their use, the synthetic pesticides have been so thoroughly distributed throughout the animate and inanimate world that they occur virtually everywhere. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I mean, I know they’re inanimate objects—I’m not an idiot—but I imagine them all melancholic, waiting for my sister to come back. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He pushed her down to the water, and once again he felt as if this inanimate thing was joyously coming alive as she met her own element. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Somewhere in all this, it was thought, there also resided a mysterious élan vital, the force that brought inanimate objects to life. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Vulture then gleefully offered up a slide show of "15 inanimate objects with more chemistry" than the two leads. 'Fifty Shades of Grey': Five things to expect from the erotic drama 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Not only that, he can decode “memories” of past events stored in rocks and other inanimate objects. The Future of Movies Collides With the Past at the New York Film Festival 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z It's a simple concept - inanimate objects moved infinitesimally and photographed a frame at a time to create an illusion of motion. 'Frankenweenie' joins reanimation of stop-motion 2012-10-04T14:46:17Z With perfectly delivered witticisms, he infused inanimate concepts with such verve and style that to this day his books, lectures and interview transcripts seem to pulsate outward from the page. Review | ‘Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said’ explores the full spectrum of sources that shaped the scholar’s ideas 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z Not far into the book, Ike is on his way back to Nigeria with only one plan in mind: to steal what he thinks is an inanimate object and bring it back to New York. Books of The Times: ‘Foreign Gods, Inc.,’ by Okey Ndibe 2013-12-29T22:31:18Z It was a window into the forces that shaped the world, our inanimate planet at its most alive. In Congo, a climb to the mouth of hell The least interesting section is “Cycles of Nature,” where Munch’s ideas — that the animate and inanimate are united in a single continuum whether by spirit or material — turn brainy, dissolving into narrative and didacticism. A Less Anxious Edvard Munch 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z And so, as a result, something of the inanimate realm clung to them still; a state of unfeeling, the sense that flies were less beings than things. There Is So Much You Don’t Know About Being a Fly 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z The practice is known as civil forfeiture, and Oliver took the policy to its absurdist conclusion with a mock Law and Order episode in which Jeff Goldblum tries to interrogate inanimate objects. How the 'John Oliver Effect' Is Having a Real-Life Impact 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Later, a newly introduced psycho killer danced with the corpse of his latest victim, another woman reduced to a piece of inanimate set dressing. Critic’s Notebook: ‘The Following,’ on Fox, Returns With More Gore 2014-01-26T22:13:19Z Originating in Jewish folklore, they are kneaded, like Adam, out of mud or other inanimate matter, and enlivened by words – often holy writ, either written on their foreheads or placed within their mouths. Why golems are precious 2010-08-27T08:56:00Z As a tale of an inanimate object outliving its usefulness but yearning to feel warmth again, it’s no match for the poignancy of “Toy Story 3.” | 'Clifford Chase's Winkie': A Teddy Bear on the Hot Seat, With Hysteria Swirling All Around 2011-03-13T21:45:10Z But this year's numbers provide some of the best evidence, if you're a studio executive, for keeping it inanimate. 'Inside Out': Is box office facing a wealth-gap problem? 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z As far as inanimate objects being friends goes," Vedder said, "I think that is right on the list. Eddie Vedder's 'immediate gratification': A Martin ukulele 2011-05-25T21:56:04Z Occasional chapters told from the perspective of inanimate objects, ranging from an envelope full of money to Zan’s bedroom sheets, threaten to bring a distracting, cartoonish shade to the story. The Explosive Y.A. Novels Fans Have Been Waiting For 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z The most important of these rules is the distinction that our world makes between animate and inanimate objects. A Wildly Inventive Fantasy Series That Began on the Web and Became a Best-Seller 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z He comes with his own linguistic flourishes: “maje” means “major”, his castmates are “booby” and “boobers” and most inanimate objects, places and even sometimes beards are referred to as “she” and “her”. Yass queens! Queer Eye’s Fab Five on how they are changing men – one makeover at a time 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z He interspersed these clips with industrial footage of inanimate objects being “trained” — chairs, washing machines, cars and toilet seats taking a beating in quality-control tests. Harun Farocki, Filmmaker of Modern Life, Dies at 70 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z “Is this a person I’m comfortable sitting next to for two hours while pleasuring inanimate objects?” is not a question I ever thought I’d need to ask myself. Vivid vulvas and colossal carrots: what I learned from my night at a sex workshop 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z “As a playwright, I found it quite difficult to write for an inanimate object,” Ms. Benawra said. In ‘Talking Statues,’ Sing London Gives Artwork a Voice 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z The programme looked at how, for almost a thousand years, "animals, insects, inanimate objects and even corpses were put on trial in Europe". Radio review: Animals on Trial 2011-03-17T08:00:04Z Though inanimate objects, the amplifiers are clearly the personalities of the work. Dance Review: No Moving to Speak of, but Plenty of Speaking 2010-12-17T22:40:02Z As she stands watching her inanimate inamorata, you can hear the tiny tinkling sound of scales falling from the eyes of the poor, dear, dim girl. World Of Lather: a month in soap 2012-08-17T23:05:00Z Mr. Twist, a master puppeteer, revives this symbolist theater work, in which he dunks various inanimate objects into an enormous aquarium, conjuring wonder and strong emotions from the interplay of light, texture and color. 17 Plays and Musicals to Go to in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z “There are two genders in the language—animate and inanimate,” Leavitt explained, “and roots with entire ideas wrapped in them, such as shape and direction. And humor.” The Passamaquoddy Reclaim Their Culture Through Digital Repatriation 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z If there's been a trend in non-fiction books and TV lately, it's for what we might call the biography of the inanimate – and what this stuff tells us about ourselves. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 26-30 November 2012-11-26T07:00:00Z There’s a widespread obsession with adjudicating fault in the various dysfunctional relationships that modern society has developed with inanimate stuff. Do guns or people kill people? 2013-03-06T13:12:00Z Paul Outerbridge Jr., known for his elegantly spare commercial photographs of inanimate objects, also worked with live models and overheated color in a more visibly contrived manner. Review: ‘Grand Illusions’ Showcases Deceptive Photography 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z People anthropomorphize everything from dogs to inanimate objects to ill-defined concepts — doesn’t it feel like some rainstorms are particularly angry? The voices we make when we pretend our dogs can talk As they lie on their sides, an arm wrapped under a waist, a leg angled, part of the body covered by feathers and sticks, their limbs look inanimate, part of the natural detritus around them. Dance Review: Poetry of Stillness, in a Moment Stretched to Infinity 2011-03-31T00:00:16Z Our football had been renamed after the deluded dog and, like Wilson in Cast Away, become our beloved inanimate pet. ‘Feasting on fantasy’: my month of extreme immersion in Disney+ 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z After gigs like that I tend to go backstage and beat an inanimate object with a shoe. The worst gig we ever played: musicians on their on-stage lows 2011-08-04T22:00:01Z Not only are there abundant accounts of priests exorcising individuals from this time period, but also of animals, inanimate objects and even land. Exorcisms have been part of Christianity for centuries 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z “It’s so rare to have something that we think of normally as inanimate animated in such a spectacular way.” Richard Powers Speaks For the Trees 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Skilled puppeteers can breath life in to inanimate objects through gesture and body language; it is possible to make a character out of a tap even though it doesn't have a face. Polly Dunbar's top 10 books that would make great puppet shows 2013-04-18T13:24:46Z Yet I encourage all readers to make the effort if only to understand what it takes for musicians to bring an inanimate object to life. Review | In ‘Counterpoint,’ a memoirist reflects on love, loss and Bach 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z He wanted to hurt an inanimate object with a blunt instrument until the urge to kill his whole family subsided. Grace Dent's World of Lather 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z His best-known and most striking work includes stark black-and-white images, desert landscapes, nudes, and inanimate objects like trees, rocks and shells, which in his photographs often look like sculpture. Edward Weston Photos to Be Auctioned 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z The motion-capture technology was state of the art, and watching it was almost uncanny – as if inanimate creations had been given a soul. Geek out!: Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson and the lure of Comic-Con 2011 2011-07-25T20:30:00Z I don’t want to keep a corpse in my house, but I’d take a one-night stand with something that was sculpted to pass as an inanimate human. Intimacy in Isolation 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z “Everything Is Alive” is interviews with inanimate objects, like a soda can who dreams someone will drink him one day, or a baseball hat who was once left on the subway. I Watched ‘Fleabag.’ I Watched ‘Insecure.’ What’s Next? 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z It is this kind of story I wish there were more of in “Rams”—moments when inanimate objects inspire passionate emotion and artifacts of the recent past become heirlooms. What We’ve Learned from Dieter Rams, and What We’ve Ignored 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z But Mr. Twist, a recipient of the so-called MacArthur “genius grant,” has the Pygmalion gift of coaxing inanimate matter into supple and seductive life. Review: Head Tripping the Light Fantastic in ‘Symphonie Fantastique’ 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z For Jackson, inanimate objects—like the bizarre marsupial—bear the suggestion of sentience and the strange promise of communication. Shelley Jackson, Author and Advocate of the Monstrous 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z I took these inanimate objects and filmed them flying off into all these different worlds. KidSuper Wants to Bring Back Warhol’s Factory 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z Animals and inanimate objects are also a threat. Video game 'Alan Wake' traces writer's dark journey 2010-07-07T02:07:00Z It is far too early for conversations about the conscious state of inanimate objects. John Lloyd makes Edinburgh debut 2013-07-26T07:03:01Z She imbues inanimate structures with energy and personality. World class: Remembering legendary travel writer Jan Morris 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z They marry the animate and inanimate, soft and sharp, graceful and coarse. A napping cat or something more ominous? Curious sculptures at Wilding Cran 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z The virus itself deserves scorn and mockery, being the source of all this misery, although it is an elusive target, being inanimate and invisible. It’s OK to Find Humor in Some of This 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z Or we can use a beam of light to activate a set of neurons involved in aggression, turning an otherwise calm mouse into a prizefighter who indiscriminately attacks other rodents — or even inanimate objects. Science-fiction turns real: Genetically engineering animals for war 2013-03-23T19:00:00Z Watching footage produced using motion capture is an occasionally thrilling, often unnerving experience, as if inanimate creations have suddenly been given a soul. Tintin brings out Steven Spielberg's motional side 2011-07-25T11:20:28Z They benefit fully from everything his comic-strip experience taught him about outlines, body language, stereotype and the enlivening of inanimate form. Art Review: A Modernist Who Thrived at the Margins of Painting 2011-07-21T23:27:13Z They also embody inanimate objects, donning antennae to depict a motel TV, for instance; it’s a device that adds humor while fittingly evoking a haunted landscape. Review | ‘Mother Road’ is often a slog despite burnished production at Arena Stage 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z In Ms. Clarke’s rendering, those socially suppressed feelings churn with such intensity that it makes sense they should endow the inanimate with life. In Revelatory Revivals, Women Sing Through the Pain 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Regardless of the reason, however, Cooper said he formed a bond with his inanimate counterpart. Bradley Cooper Jokes About American Sniper's' Fake Baby 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z No one is responsible for their own actions so we blame either the inanimate object or society as a whole. Review: ‘On the Exhale’ Addresses Grief and the Attraction of an Assault Rifle 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Wood’s displays were apparently not all inanimate, as suggested by the inclusion of what Mr. Belanger calls “an arresting help-wanted ad” for “Persons who are Curiosities in Themselves, or have charge of such.” Art Review: ‘Rooms of Wonder’ at the Grolier Club 2013-01-17T22:27:38Z We animate the inanimate through our memories, associations and desires. T Magazine: Editor’s Letter 2013-08-23T23:30:18Z The inanimate marvel is Parnassus Books, the independent bookstore Ms. Patchett opened in Nashville in 2011 with a business partner, Karen Hayes, who did much of the heavy lifting. Books of The Times: ‘This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage,’ by Ann Patchett 2013-12-22T22:09:28Z To celebrate, the theater will kick off its season with a play about an enthusiastic response to an inanimate object. What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z The magic with which Pelly brings to life first the inanimate objects in the house, then the world of nature in the garden beyond, is breathtaking. Ravel Double Bill – review 2012-08-06T17:17:20Z Superfans of certain celebrities address petitions on sites like Change.org to Madame Tussauds, pleading for the institution to turn their favorite stars into inanimate blocks of carved wax. The Politics of Waxing 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z But I picked “Bob & Nancy” because it’s about a marionette theater, and thus it toys with ideas of animating the inanimate — rich ground for a show in touch with the spirit realm. The Best TV Episodes of 2021 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z My films would just be shots of inanimate objects that wouldn't find my presence offensive. Novelist Tania James talks rogue elephants, India and conservation 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z For example, the first poem in “Pigeon” begins, “Oligotrophic: of lakes and rivers. The heat / an inanimate slur, wool gathering, hanging / like a bad suit.” A Canadian Poet Channels a 7th-Century Scottish Hermit 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z If the atmosphere of this exhibition is more wan than winsome, it speaks to the collective exhaustion that pervades even our inanimate objects, all destined to be discarded, forgotten and replaced. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z Gazing at my green T-shirt, Talley murmurs scornfully, “Sea foam, I suppose,” before turning back to the inanimate but far more enticing mannequins. Op-Ed Columnist: It Goes With Everything, Even Bad Hair 2012-10-01T03:01:10Z The concept of the new podcast “Everything Is Alive”—interviews with inanimate objects—annoyed me when I first heard it, just as well-intentioned elementary-school creative-writing assignments did. “Everything Is Alive” and the Joy of Interviewing Inanimate Objects 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z As they pause in crouching, leaning positions for long moments, the juxtapositions of limbs and bodily alignments take on a sculptural, inanimate beauty. Dance Review: An Uphill Battle, All in the Name of Art 2011-04-15T23:02:56Z It seemed to me that the market for these inanimate bodies was a reflection of a similar kind of sexual entitlement and blithe objectification of women. What I learned about male desire in a sex doll factory 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z A description that denies Weinstein’s responsibility so apocalyptically, he is reduced to both symptom and inanimate object. Harvey Weinstein appears to think that his time is not up | chitra ramaswamy 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z Some scholars have approached Magritte’s doors to nowhere, his draped heads and exposed bodies, his blurring of the animate and inanimate, live and dead, from a psychoanalytic standpoint. Review | René Magritte was an enigma. A new biography tries to make sense of the genius. 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z “It’s also about crossing borders — animate, inanimate — a way to add life to the space in an oddly sensuous way.” Inside Art: Adding Green Space to MoMA With Tropical Terrariums 2010-12-02T22:21:00Z Inanimate objects in Quay films are never inanimate—they’re seconds, or centuries, away from quivering. Quay Brothers at MoMA: Bending Realities for People and Puppets 2012-08-10T12:16:29Z Few inanimate objects are safe around the detective. Luther, Chris Ryan's Strike Back and Jamie Does? Venice 2010-05-08T23:07:00Z The French have form when it comes to giving inanimate objects inner life. The President's Hat by Antoine Laurain – review 2013-03-19T12:09:05Z Keep in mind that there is bad mulch, like one that contains the funky artillery fungus that messes up the siding of your home and other inanimate objects. How much mulch is too much mulch? 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z Jesse Armstrong writes Greg in such a way that he becomes a concept as well as a character, an inanimate noun and a verb. Cousin Greg was the feckless joke of "Succession." Now he's the idiot who abets democracy's fall 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z More and more these days, the role of Jack’s cow is being assigned, amusingly, to an actor; in the original production, Milky was inanimate. Review | ‘Into the Woods’ is one of Sondheim’s most popular musicals. A delightful revival at Ford’s Theatre reminds you why. 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z He was also quite entertaining as an inept gay bodyguard in the otherwise inanimate Be Cool. The Rock's defection to kids movies breaks my heart 2010-05-27T22:00:00Z It's highly moralistic, rather sentimental, and it's animating an inanimate object. Hans Christian Andersen's first fairytale found 2012-12-13T12:01:07Z It’s the architectural analogue of an unshakable childhood fantasy: That nothing is truly inanimate, that anything — even, as in Sendak’s book, the walls of an ordinary house — might, at any moment, come miraculously to life. In Nova Scotia, Homes as Wild as the Landscape Around Them 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z Speaking by telephone from Sheffield, England, Mr. Etchells, who appears in “On the Thousandth Night …,” discussed inanimate objects, epic performances and why most Forced Entertainment shows — the Skirball ones, too — are built to fail. Their Latest Risk: Household Objects Playing Shakespeare 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z First mentioned in ancient Jewish texts, a golem is an artificial being made from mud or other inanimate material that's brought to life through the power of Hebrew letters. Berlin's Jewish Museum opens show on mystic golem creature 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z The third and by far the most interesting element is a massive fish tank containing a curious assortment of objects, animate and inanimate. Review: Pierre Huyghe Mixes Stones and Water for Roof Garden at the Met 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z When Slappy reveals an ability to grant life to other inanimate objects, Wardenclyffe’s electrical towers and department store costume sections become the source of supernatural spectacle. Review: ‘Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween’ Is Toothless Terror 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z She was so starved for sex, she wrote, in very explicit terms, that “inanimate objects are starting to look good.” Music: Sinead O?Connor?s ?How About I Be Me (and You Be You)?? 2012-02-10T12:58:00Z So, for that matter, did Patrick Stewart’s one-man presentation of Dickens’s “Christmas Carol,” in which he played not only every part but also a few inanimate objects. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: When Page Meets Stage 2010-10-13T22:20:00Z With this realisation, each component dropped to the floor, inanimate. A letter to... the family I nearly destroyed 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z Some of the photos arrange inanimate subjects such as books and bamboo so the resulting pictures resemble nonrepresentational paintings. Review | In the galleries: Zenith celebrates 40 years with two exhibitions in two spaces 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z They were mainly abstractions parading as pictures of inanimate objects: a flower pot, a mountain, a pile of dog feces. Dieter Roth’s Works Live On as a Family Business 2013-01-17T13:00:00Z It’s an inanimate object that you don’t have to have in your life anywhere near you!” The Rise of Alcohol-Free Booze 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z But he wasn’t puppeteering her just yet; she was still inanimate. She’ll Have You at Moo: Milky White and the Power of Puppetry 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z Restored to an inanimate state and stashed in an attic after his rescue mission, the golem revives generations later in an Argentine household, where many complications ensue. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z He tosses around words like “thrashing” and, to refer to inanimate things, “bad boys.” Books of The Times: New! Improved! Shape Up Your Life 2011-01-06T18:00:07Z Photograph: AL Kennedy I don't really bond with inanimate objects. AL Kennedy: My desktop 2013-04-30T10:40:24Z Above all, he sees the Darwinian syllogism of evolution by natural selection as a "universal acid" that applies to animate and inanimate alike, to species and societies, to technologies and philosophies. Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel C Dennett – review 2013-05-15T06:00:03Z The third and final section grew increasingly strange, as she teased out the erotic properties of inanimate objects: a lamp, a desk, an imagined marble statue. Review: ‘69 positions’ Explores the Sexual Politics in Performance 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z That is not to imply we spend our days either fiddling with Bunsen burners and test tubes or composing odes and flinging gobs of paint at inanimate objects. Side by Side With Sondheim: Alan Cumming Reviews a New Book About ‘Sunday in the Park’ 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z I decorated it, furnished it and even put wallpaper up, so I sort of started interior design at quite a young age for some small, inanimate clients! Top 10 tips for interior design 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z The results are still lifes the way that José Clemente Orozco’s 1940s paintings of disassembled dive bombers are: studies in the purposeful malice of supposedly inanimate things. Art in Review: LEE LOZANO: ?Tools? 2011-02-10T23:26:08Z Her installation Psi-Girls takes footage of commercial films dealing with girls with terrifying psychokinetic powers – causing model trains to crash, tumblers to move, inanimate objects to fly and things to burst into flames. Susan Hiller: Voices from the sky 2011-01-31T21:30:01Z Another star, though inanimate, is the show’s setting. In ‘The First,’ on Hulu, the Future Is Not That Dark 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z The other thing that struck me was how silent the captured slave girls are, handed from one king to another like inanimate objects. Pat Barker on Trauma and Myth 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z I know it's an inanimate object and it doesn't have a heart. BBC Television Centre says final farewell with Madness and sadness 2013-03-22T18:35:16Z Abutting the wall was a jumble of stones—the remains of the world’s first power mill with an inanimate energy source, and thus, arguably, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. A Party in a Lunatic Asylum 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z The one thing is inanimate, the other animate, and yet they seem somehow, surrealistically, kindred. Art Review: Captured: A New York Minute, or One in Havana 2011-06-09T23:00:29Z And in the quasi-operatic “Caroline, or Change,” she breathes life not only into the Black and Jewish characters but also into several inanimate objects, from a beatific moon to an angry, mournful city bus. Jeanine Tesori’s Gift: Conjuring the Storytelling Potency of Music 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z In the Ojibwe language, nouns are animate or inanimate; the word for stone, asin, is animate. Louise Erdrich on the Power of Stones 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z Not because the idea of a relationship with inanimate things was new to me. In praise of flat places: On queerness, landscapes and understanding our desires 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z Safer to place faith in inanimate objects – in Magdaleen's case, an old Swiss sewing machine. Edinburgh fringe theatre roundup 2012-08-11T23:05:48Z The book includes some sections told from the perspective of inanimate objects, and much of the original novel depends on wordplay in Hindi. Hindi Novel Wins International Booker Prize for the First Time 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z In each, a lone actor sits at a table and re-tells one of the playwright’s complex dramas using inanimate kitchen objects. Essential Arts & Culture: China and Taiwan's music diplomacy, Ghost Ship fallout and Gary's Busey-isms 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z As both inanimate robots become more fearless in their flying, they become more expressive — hardly a surprise — forming something of a bond with Mr. Del Rosario. Dance Review: Alone With Schubert and 2 Flying M.I.T. Robots 2011-07-19T20:54:16Z People claim to lose feeling in their bodies, to find themselves turning into inanimate objects, to gradually and irreversibly lose their grip on reality. ‘We’re All Going to the World’s Fair’ Review: Is It Horror, or Just Ennui? 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z Nothing from the inanimate world enlivens Woodruff’s painting as much as the garments. Art Review: Hale Woodruff’s Talladega Murals, in ‘Rising Up,’ at N.Y.U. 2013-08-15T21:36:28Z “People look at songs as being inanimate objects; I don’t,” he said. This Man Is Betting $1.7 Billion on the Rights to Your Favorite Songs 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z Those films helped them develop their artistic skills and their obsession with bringing life to inanimate objects, all of which led to "Toy Story." Scarecrow suggests | Like 'Toy Story 3'? Find out more about John Lasseter, the man behind the toys 2010-06-17T20:15:00Z The joke of “Toy Story” is that Woody and his buddies only pretend to be inanimate when people are around. At Shanghai Disney Resort, Mulan, Mickey and Dumplings 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z But the major contributory factors are human and old-fashioned – the wisdom, handed down through centuries, required to make something beautiful and functional from an otherwise inanimate assemblage of metal and stones. Still ticking: The improbable survival of the luxury watch business | Simon Garfield 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z Inherent to all these metaphors was the implication that women were the inanimate objects that were acted upon; we were the roses and the bicycles and the sheets of white tissue paper. How the religious right's purity culture enables predatory behavior 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z The surrealists’ female muse was “sometimes literally depicted like an inanimate object or dehumanized to be acted upon,” she notes in her statement. Review | In the galleries: A satire on images of women and the objects they advertise 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z "Sometimes the dancers stay on stage and play inanimate objects in the scene," Eveleth said. 8 ways to do Improv Fest 2011-04-21T18:33:00Z Music is an infinite living organism, yet an amazing number of audience-targeted festivals leave you with the feeling that it is purely inanimate. The Basilica Soundscape Festival Features an Eclectic Lineup 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z I typically photographed them fishing alone or flying serenely along the Potomac River as though they were inanimate parts of the scenic summer landscape. Birds are the other stars of Orlando’s Gatorland 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z That includes death, of course, and the sense that we’re alone in a nonsensical universe where everything, animate and inanimate, is out to get us. ‘The Old Woman,’ With Willem Dafoe and Mikhail Baryshnikov 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z In literature, fantasies about the consequences of animating inanimate objects go back through “Frankenstein” all the way to Pygmalion and Prometheus. ‘M3GAN’ Makes Us Ask (Again): Who’s Afraid of Dancing Robots? 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z At some level, we can’t quite believe she is an inanimate object, mere oil and pigment on a warped panel of poplar wood. Perspective | What Mona Lisa with her feet up says about art after coronavirus 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z In “The Mirror, the Bucket, and the Old Thigh Bone,” a princess falls in love with a figure in a cloak, which turns out to be an inanimate reflection of herself. If You Thought ‘Cat Person’ Was Dark, Wait Until You Read the Rest of the Book 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z This fondness for the inanimate seems to have found its way into the lives of his characters early on in his career. | Orhan Pamuk 2012-10-04T15:00:21Z There were “weird” puppets and “pretty” puppets and “scary” puppets, and the assembly gave the three-room apartment a sense of being super-populated with inanimate beings awaiting a sorcerer. Everything Here Is Tabboo! 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z These concern how dead, inanimate matter may behave as if it were alive. The Slowness of Literature and the Shadow of Knowledge 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Like the excitable Luxo Jr. desk lamp, the "Rubber" tire is inanimate yet very much alive, with character to spare. 'Rubber': When tires go bad 2011-04-07T19:25:04Z They sing of the oneness of things, animate and inanimate, past and present, living and dead. Readers recommend: songs about breathing – results 2013-05-02T13:00:06Z “Trying to explain to a non-doll collector this emotional attachment to an inanimate object, people don’t get it,” she says in one of her YouTube videos. 'People don't get it': inside the world of hyper-realistic baby doll collecting 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z They were always writing stories about children and animals and inanimate objects. Simon Rich: By the Book 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z “Jane dreamed up many innovative techniques — before the age of computers — to bring inanimate objects to life,” said Christopher Cerf, her collaborator on “Sesame Street” and on another PBS program, “Between the Lions.” Jane Aaron, Filmmaker Whose Animation Sprouted on ‘Sesame Street,’ Dies at 67 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z You can search for terms, for instance–episodes involving the inanimate carbon rod, or Hans Moleman, or gambling. Time Is a Round Donut: The Graze-Watching Possibilities of Simpsons World 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z “She always responded to inanimate objects as if they were people,” her high school art teacher, Victor D’Amico, observed. How Diane Arbus Became ‘Arbus’ 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z And here, because the actors on the tabletop are inanimate objects, they’re perfect screens. Their Latest Risk: Household Objects Playing Shakespeare 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z It may be an inanimate object, but it served an important role. Perspective | Ask Amy: My husband of 50 years had an emotional affair. How do I move forward? 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z Remarks like this are troubling because while Barbie is an inanimate object, the doll has a had cultural significance and impact on the way young girls view themselves. Why Margot Robbie is being criticized for her "mid" looks, despite embodying perfect Barbie doll 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z Songwriters are keen on using inanimate objects as thinly veiled metaphors for emotion, not least because only dove, glove and .gov rhyme with love. Swim Deep, Gabrielle Aplin, Jai McDowall: this week's new tracks 2013-05-03T12:00:00Z "Live things and inanimate things, made and not made," reads Huyghe's description of his materials. Documenta 13: Mysteries in the mountain of mud 2012-06-11T17:53:51Z But crowds are expected, as can be seen from the inanimate objects in “Trash Line” and “Anticipation.” In the galleries: Bodies that are more than flesh and bone 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z “I have no separation from animate and inanimate objects,” she said. Two Galleries Share Yoko Ono Show, and a Hometown Return to New York 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Now let me ask about an inanimate character that played a major role in this season, which is the Arconia's secret passageways. "Only Murders in the Building" boss on that killer party, other possible suspects and next season 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z He plans to explore “object theater,” creating narratives with inanimate objects and giving them soundtracks, and he looks forward to enjoying albums without obsessing over how certain sounds were achieved. Seattle music’s champion of weird, Doug Haire, ends KEXP’s ‘Sonarchy’ 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z In the latter song’s video, Sheran plays with Martha’s inanimate head for the camera like a frolicking incarnation of Caravaggio’s “David with the Head of Goliath,” with a T-shirt instead of a tunic. The Snapchat Story of iLoveMakonnen 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z To bring things — even inanimate things — to life, and to make a new living thing in the process. Review | Vincent van Gogh’s early work was mediocre. This exhibition shows how he became great. 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Perhaps the most fascinating writing focuses on early space flight, positing that the venture “. . . conquered an inanimate heaven,/ depositing in those altitudes/the seed/ of our kind.” Newly discovered works by Pablo Neruda and other best poetry this month 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z Strange Love examines some odd cases, including men who indulge in polygamy or take inanimate objects as their wives, and a couple who describe their open relationship as "negotiated infidelity". Tonight's TV highlights 2010-08-05T07:00:00Z The failings of Dean and Soane show that they misjudged the power of form and imagined a too direct connection between the inanimate and the animate. The inescapable power of architecture 2012-08-11T23:05:42Z The resulting pictures show inanimate objects caught up in restless movement: some circle, some gather, some dip. The Animal Restlessness in Artificial Objects 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z The most striking part of the tableau wasn’t that the bride, groom and officiant were inhuman, but that they were inanimate: made of plastic, measuring roughly six inches high from hoof to wither. Giddy Up, Girlfriend! 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z A partner in close proximity is so much less adorable than their pedestal occupying, inanimate, one-dimensional counterpart. My father is a womaniser. I’m terrified I’ll become one, too 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z That’s not a complaint; half the fun of is seeing just how awful this trio can be to each other, innocent bystanders and even inanimate objects. Bachelorette: Something Borrowed, Something New 2012-09-06T12:00:27Z This labyrinth of dance and words, called “Co-natural,” is the brainchild of Alexandra Pirici, an acclaimed Romanian choreographer and artist who is exploring the relationship between inanimate bodies and real ones. When One Dancer Is a Ghost in the Room 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z Proper parents should therefore bring children’s headphones to apply to childish ears, whether the content is animated, live-action or, as Miss Manners would term such dubious entertainment as videos of purchased goods being unpacked, inanimate. Perspective | Miss Manners: Is it okay for children to watch videos in restaurants with the volume on? 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Such is the paradox of puppets, inanimate objects that are a portal to the imagination and a direct line to the heart. Zvi Sahar’s 'Salt of the Earth' at BAM 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z “He must see something in inanimate objects,” Kent says. Whim W’Him takes step toward being full-time dance company 2014-05-07T20:19:44Z They cannot, and will not, differentiate between the trivial, the inanimate, and the socially acceptable. In praise of flat places: On queerness, landscapes and understanding our desires 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z Maybe you holler in the shower a little, or kick something inanimate—I don’t know. Where Punk Rock Begins 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Rivera Garza, who lives in Texas and teaches at the University of Houston, looks at these inanimate objects and identifies with them. Review | In ‘Grieving,’ MacArthur ‘genius’ Cristina Rivera Garza reflects on the collective suffering of her home country 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z “But what made it lose value? It’s an inanimate object. It didn’t do anything wrong.” The ‘Kanye West of Furniture’ Is Now Nesting in the ’Burbs 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z For stretches, one officer stands there like an inanimate object that refuses to hear the bystanders beseeching on Floyd’s behalf. The Videos That Rocked America. The Song That Knows Our Rage. 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z Witnesses, even an inanimate one, seem to disturb her — and with good reason, given the racially divisive laws benefiting her. Athol Fugard builds on his distinguished corpus with 'The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek' 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z ‘People say there’s no such thing as loving an inanimate object,” says James, solemnly. The Sex Robots Are Coming: seedy, sordid – but mainly just sad 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z This almost biblical epiphany sounds like a scene from one of Mr. Lynch’s movies in which inanimate objects like curtains and radiators seem imbued with supernatural consciousness. Exploring David Lynch’s Paintings and Drawings 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Greg: Here’s to Muffin, and all the other stuffed or inanimate friends who help their keepers to cope with life’s challenges. Perspective | Ask Amy: A boy and his bears belong together 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z But I found both of these novels somewhat cold and inanimate. Sylvia Nasar: By the Book 2012-08-10T14:14:08Z From the fine-tuning of his first move — a leg lift perfectly synchronized with a bowling-pin lift — you know you're in for a curious melding of the animate with the inanimate. Review: Trey McIntyre Project is physical and precise; witty and intricate 2010-03-19T16:44:00Z His new awareness is helped along by inanimate objects that hector him about his lack of mindfulness, from a Native American spoon to an angry marker voiced by J.B. Here Are 20 Shows to Watch This Fall 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z Painting didn’t pay the bills, and so she ran a boardinghouse where her tenants ranged from “inanimate, mincing ninnies” to “door slammers.” Vancouver Island, Through an Artist’s Eyes 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z These airborne elements most often flutter around old books, although many other things, animate and inanimate, are depicted in “The Next Chapter,” the Dallas artist’s show at P Street Gallerie. In the galleries: Brick by brick, a dark history emerges 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z The “Toy Story” cycle is a humanist epic about inanimate objects. ‘Soul’ Review: Pixar’s New Feature Gets Musical, and Metaphysical 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z Waymo vehicles also sometimes struggle to steer clear of irregularly shaped inanimate objects. Waymo's driverless taxi launch in Santa Monica is met with excitement and tension 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z “So much of the conversation about this special session has centered around guns, but inanimate objects are not the problem,” said Sen. Ferrell Haile, the Republican sponsoring this legislation. Gun control unlikely in GOP-led special session following Tennessee school shooting 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z They suffered from hallucinations, such as seeing inanimate objects move or experiencing the sensation of another’s touch despite being alone. Why Just One Sleepless Night Makes People Emotionally Fragile 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z It can change color to blend into its surroundings or disguise itself as inanimate objects like a stick or seaweed. These Clever Fish Have Mastered the Fake Out 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z I’ve never really liked that because humans are not inanimate objects. How Old Can Humans Get? 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z A campaign might shrug off missteps by blaming an inanimate object notorious for making up complete lies. 6 ways AI can make political campaigns more deceptive than ever 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z “These inanimate objects are testaments to what we, as a society, can do and how it takes a community to steward history forward,” Siegel says. Go inside the Museum of Neon Art's storage facility for a rare glimpse of vivid treasures 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z Chia Pet’s competitors over the years have included other inanimate objects marketed as pets — most notably Pet Rock, a ventilated box containing a rock on a bed of straw, and Tamagotchi, the hand-held digital pet. Joseph Pedott, 91, Dies; Made Chia Pets an ‘as Seen on TV’ Sensation 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z “When those little things called hormones start kicking in, you get excited by even inanimate objects. It wasn’t that I sought to bed her. I just wanted to spend time with her,” Williams wrote. 'Brady Bunch' star shuts down rumor that her TV mother hooked up with her TV brother 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z Lavoisier and other physical scientists began to connect the animate and inanimate worlds through physics and chemistry. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z It was chattel slavery, in which one person is owned by another as a piece of property like an inanimate object. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Yet these inanimate fungi have incredible ways of communicating that researchers are only beginning to understand. Mushrooms can "talk" to each other — and they get extra chatty after a rain, study suggests 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z Such is the draw of “Blood In Blood Out” that the film made stars out of inanimate objects. Disney neglected it. Critics panned it. 'Blood In Blood Out' became an L.A. classic anyway 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z The system has a way of merging animals like dogs and cats with inanimate objects like balls and cellphones. Instant Videos Could Represent the Next Leap in A.I. Technology 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z I have five clues that you can look for to spot AI-generated images, including by zeroing in on hands, background images and inanimate objects that often don’t look quite right. How to spot the Trump and Pope AI fakes 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Otherwise inanimate characters are instilled with a beating heart by the hands of countless craftspeople who work for months to create stories that leap off the screen. MoPOP’s ‘Hidden Worlds’ pulls back the curtain on Laika’s stop-motion films 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z By one estimate, as many as 328,000 birds die each year flying into wind farms, but other things — inanimate and living — pose a far greater threat. Fact-Checking Trump’s Speech at CPAC 2023-03-04T05:00:00Z In addition, this primal applies not only to human groups but to everything, including plants, other animals and inanimate objects. Many Differences Between Liberals and Conservatives May Boil Down to One Belief 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Instead, he fired his AR-15 style rifle in the air and at inanimate objects including a self-checkout and a drink cooler. Shooting at Nebraska Target highlights gaps in gun laws 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z If only these officers had seen him as a man when they were beating him, instead of as some inanimate object, some detritus. Perspective | How could they? That’s not a question for the head, but the heart. 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z They played H-O-R-S-E with footballs and inanimate objects, rifling passes off goal posts, tackling dummies and specified seats. After almost a decade ‘in the shadows,’ Geno Smith has found the spotlight 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z We tackle every day in practice, but we tackle inanimate objects, not people. Opinion | Here’s one way to make football safer 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z “I’m compulsively impolitic and tactless. … I can’t write about people, which is why I write about inanimate objects,” he told Interview magazine in 2014. Peter Schjeldahl, revered art critic for the New Yorker, dies at 80 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z The dad/mom jokes are silly but set the tone here: one of genuine, proud sentiment for this inanimate laboratory on wheels — a prodigy child with many mothers and fathers. Review | ‘Good Night Oppy’: A feel-good film about a little robot that could 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z Play with inanimate objects is widely observed in animals, although most examples come from mammals and birds, with no record of the behavior in insects until now. Ball-Rolling Bumble Bees Just Wanna Have Fun 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Bellatine has an even more uncanny gift: the ability to bring inanimate objects to life with the touch of her hands. Review | ‘Thistlefoot’ ambitiously reimagines the legend of Baba Yaga 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z There are some broadcasters whose mood is contingent on their teams’ success, striking fear in inanimate objects with every defeat. End of M’s playoff drought never in doubt for always-positive Rick Rizzs 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z “Inactivated” doesn’t mean they’re dead, per se, just that they are inanimate, or nonviable. Making sense of probiotics, prebiotics and postbiotics 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z The richness, it seems, was the result of three minds circling an idea until it took shape in inanimate form. ‘Into the Woods’ has a magical cow. Meet the man who mooves her. 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z Even in inanimate objects, there is a continuous motion in the vibrations of atoms and molecules. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z They considered this energy to be a sacred source fueling all life, actions, and desires as well as the motion and power of inanimate objects. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Also consider telling your story from an outside observer’s perspective, or even from the perspective of an inanimate object—for example, the pen used to sign a contract. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z But Justice Rebecca Bradley, writing for the majority, said that under state law ballots must be returned to a clerk's office or another designated site, not an "inanimate object" such as an unstaffed box. Wisconsin Supreme Court outlaws ballot drop boxes for elections 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z While “Hadestown” remains tethered to the myths it’s inspired by and the characters’ otherworldly abilities — Orpheus’ music enchants inanimate objects and Persephone’s travel patterns determine the seasons — Eurydice stays closer to real life, Green said. Tony Award-winning ‘Hadestown’ comes to Seattle 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z According to HuffPost, Long pushed back and argued that "guns aren't the issue. He criticized proponents of gun control for 'trying to blame an inanimate object for all of these tragedies.'" “Guns aren’t the issue”: GOP congressman blames mass shootings on abortion 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z My poetry was met with silence, as one might expect from an inanimate object, but it didn’t deter my affection in the least. How a shiny new induction cooktop melted her heart — and why gas is so passé 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z Personification: giving an inanimate or nonhuman object human characteristics to make it seem alive and relatable. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z A desire to project agency and intelligence onto inanimate matter, though, is deeply human, says Beth Singler, a digital anthropologist at the University of Cambridge. A visit to the human factory 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z The novel's most crushing scene, only a few lines long and told in passing, involves a young child deep into pandemic lockdown having a conversation with an inanimate object, trying to make friends. Grayscale Lives in a Future Pandemic, Surveilling Memory, Saving Coral Reefs, and More 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z One category surveyed was "inanimate natural objects"; researchers found that 8 percent of users did not believe such objects were conscious prior to their experience, while after taking psychedelics, 26 percent did. Psychedelics permanently alter your understanding of what has "consciousness," study says 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z The idea that a seemingly inanimate fungi could communicate through electricity is sending shocks through human communicative channels as well. It's not a bad trip: Mushrooms may be "talking" to each other, new study finds 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z They are precise and curiously inanimate, like drawings for stage design. Review | A master of propaganda, artist Jacques Louis David helped sell Frenchmen on the Revolution 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Science—and experience—show that we most definitely see faces in inanimate objects, but new research finds that more often than not, we perceive those illusory faces as male. Does This Look Like a Face to You? 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Americans: Think of all the times you press, press, press that button hoping to shave a few seconds off an already dicey arrival time at work, and you end up cursing an inanimate object. BEIJING SNAPSHOT: ‘Close door’ — so much more than a button 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z Interestingly, those attributing such cognitive abilities to inanimate objects were in the minority, but a majority demonstrated attribution of consciousness to non-human beings. Psychedelics permanently alter your understanding of what has "consciousness," study says 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z Now she’s content never to leave her almost entirely Kimi-run apartment, outsourcing menial tasks to an inanimate hub that records her every data point and keeps her under 24-7 digital surveillance. Review: Steven Soderbergh's HBO Max thriller 'Kimi' is 'Parallax View' for the pandemic era 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z So, we get a sense of parallel worlds, both seeking escapism in things like anthropomorphic furniture and the animation of inanimate objects. Review | The dark side of Disney’s unexpected love affair with frothy French rococo 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z “Essentially creating a bouquet that adds dimension and life to inanimate objects,” she says. Mantel magic: 7 tips to make your hearth into a wintry respite | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z “PnD makes normally inanimate objects mobile. It’s this ability that makes changing practically any space possible. It’s a way to configure spaces on demand.” Hyundai imagines a world in which it has turned everything into a robot 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z China has stressed the possibility of the virus being transmitted on inanimate objects, particularly frozen food. Beijing Olympic athletes and their garbage face restrictions 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z “Ladies and gentle-birds,” the emcee begins, “and plants, humans and sometimes inanimate objects that talk — what a weird world!” The 75 best TV shows on Netflix right now, according to our experts 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z The way that the sound bounces off of the other objects in the room can tell us whether the person is standing next to a living thing versus an inanimate object. COVID Expanded the Boundaries of Personal Space—Maybe for Good 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z In the UK, dogs are legally seen as inanimate objects akin to cars, houses or other personal items. Spain grants joint custody of dog in rare ruling 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z Johannsson has a way of imbuing everything — animate and inanimate, even an empty doorway — with a kind of living, breathing spirit. Review | The movie ‘Lamb’ is weird, even by A24 standards, but also haunting and beautiful 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z In his grief, Benny starts hearing voices from inanimate objects. Review: Objects and ideas come to life in Ruth Ozeki's mad, floating literary world 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Just as the live drums infused the party with a ceremonial energy, the party infused the inanimate world with dance. Dancing Through New York in a Summer of Joy and Grief 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z Benny hears the voice of his deceased father, and then becomes attuned to the voices of inanimate things that seem to embody his confused feelings. In ‘The Book of Form and Emptiness,’ a grieving musician hears the voice of a dead parent 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Port focuses first on the hardscaping — the inanimate materials — to reflect the way her clients use their space. Year-round yards: Start planning now for a cozy winter garden that hits all the senses | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Other animals have also evolved to masquerade themselves as inedible or inanimate objects for predator protection — larvae of early thorn moths appear like twigs and dead-leaf butterflies look like, well, dead leaves. Looks Like Bird Dung. But It’s Really a Predatory Spider. 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Smart needs no inanimate objects to rivet us to the screen, but she continues to wow us with her unusual prop manipulation. The Emmys honor the big moments. We call out the smaller, more distinctive scenes. 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z And usually, they’re starting off with perhaps animals, or inanimate objects, or compliant partners. Former FBI profiler Mark Safarik on which murderer he would interview: The crimes are ‘so heinous’ 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z If only the empty seats that filled International Stadium weren’t inanimate and could savor athletic artistry. After close calls and penalty kicks, U.S. women’s soccer advances to Olympic semifinals 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z Does that mean inanimate objects are also self-aware? Panpsychism, the idea that inanimate objects have consciousness, gains steam in science communities 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z Arm says this will create a new “internet of everything,” with chips integrated into “more than a trillion inanimate objects over the next decade.” Arm’s cheap and flexible plastic microchip could create an ‘internet of everything’ 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z “I have this feeling,” Ismail Muhammad writes, “that what Purifoy was searching for with his assemblages was the social life of junk — not only inanimate objects but also all of us castoff people.” Take a kaleidoscopic journey inside the second issue of Image in 16 images 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z Yet these dazzling creatures are, well, creatures — not inanimate plants. Corals use sound to "talk" to each other, new research says 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z She believes her guilt is partly due to a reflexive attachment to inanimate objects. Fear and self-loathing in Animal Crossing: New Horizons 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z Hitler's face is so recognisable many people claim to "see" it in inanimate objects. Amazon changes app logo that 'resembles Adolf Hitler' 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z There is something inherently delightful when you breathe life into an inanimate object. It's one of Hollywood's hardest roles to get. And he's in charge of auditions 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z The U.K. strain is not believed to travel farther in air or to stay longer on inanimate objects, but it attaches better to human cells to get inside and multiply. Why uncovered faces are oh-so risky as California reopens and coronavirus variants spread 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z A house is more than inanimate wood and nails. Perspective | This might be Washington’s oldest house, but it came from New England 2020-11-28T05:00:00Z “Fumigation is meant for inanimate objects and surfaces, and it should never be used on people,” the study said. Idaho Lt. Governor promotes ‘walk-thru disinfectant cubes’ 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z The way he moved with objects — transforming the inanimate into something alive and kinetic — influenced her own later performance pieces. An Artist’s Continuing Exploration of the Human Form 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z Contentious affairs intrude, for the simple reason that ballplayers aren’t inanimate X’s and O’s. Perspective | Elite athletes know better than anyone how to win. They can also show us how to lose. 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z Equipment managers sprayed inanimate objects with a disinfectant from a Ghostbusters-style backpack. At Cal, a Covid Survivor Keeps Watch Over Football’s Return 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z They notice a furry “pouffe” nesting in the living room, but assume it’s inanimate, When alien forces descend from the night sky, they assume it’s a meteor shower. Review: NYC hipsters bake bread, eat quinoa, fight aliens 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z Whether in the form of organisms and their biophysical games with inanimate environments, or the back and forth of feedbacks in the dynamics of a well-heated, chemically rich rocky planet. It's the End of the World ... Somewhere 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z The incident triggers Keef’s political awakening — spurred by visions involving inanimate objects that talk to him about gentrification, colonization and more — which is chronicled in the eight-episode first season. A cartoonist saw his industry 'implode.' So he turned to TV to tell his story 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Others felt like “aliens that didn’t belong here or inanimate objects or garbage”. 'Callous treatment': international students stranded in Australia struggle to survive 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z How dare I be sad about an inanimate object? My old car was a reminder of a time when I felt young and invincible | Emma Withers 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Panpsychists contend that all creatures and even inanimate matter—even a single proton!—possess consciousness. How Do I Know I'm Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe? 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z All those years of peoples’ lives, embodied in a physical location, should never be dismissed as mere inanimate “property.” Opinion | When it comes to denouncing violence, the issue isn’t lives vs. property 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z “What would be a way to show a cartoonist becoming woke? What if inanimate objects became animated and started telling him about the world? We just went from that.” A cartoonist saw his industry 'implode.' So he turned to TV to tell his story 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z “We further demonstrate that aerosolized fomites can be generated from inanimate objects, such as by manually rubbing a paper tissue contaminated with influenza virus,” the researchers stated in another report. Influenza virus spread by guinea pigs through dust particles, study shows 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Today most physicists concur that inanimate objects can knock quantum systems out of superposition through a process known as decoherence. This Twist on Schrödinger’s Cat Paradox Has Major Implications for Quantum Theory 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z AI-powered person detection uses machine learning models to train an algorithm to differentiate between the movement of an inanimate object or animal and that of a human being. Wyze will try pay-what-you-want model for its AI-powered person detection 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z He and his enablers are passionately dedicated to the protection of statues — inanimate stone objects with no pulse, family or central nervous system. Statues versus protesters: Trump and the GOP favor the dead over the living 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z Mr Depp replied: "I would rather express my anger by hitting an inanimate object than... the person I love." Depp accuses Heard of misleading psychiatrist 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Yet there is a powerful paradox here: at the very moment that the statue is treated as a body and subjected to ritual violence, its status as a merely inanimate object is most strikingly revealed. Why People Are Toppling Monuments to Racism 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z The distinction between damaging or destroying human beings and inanimate objects matters. As the George Floyd protests continue, let's be clear where the violence is coming from | Rebecca Solnit 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z Some on social media found the prospect of dining among inanimate companions … well, a tad creepy. Mannequins, shower curtains, carhops and pulleys: Restaurants get creative to keep diners distant 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Many species of otters are known to toss pebbles around, often while lying on their backs, in what appears to be an example of animals playing with inanimate objects. Tummy rumbles? Otters juggle pebbles probably when peckish 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z But in this Covid-19 spring, with people confined in their homes and neighborhoods, the inanimate faces are back in irrepressible number. Faces, Faces Everywhere 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z “The partner might be inanimate in this case, but I still enjoy it.” Tango in the age of coronavirus: How a Zoom party connects dancers across the globe 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z Used in the right way and on the right targets — that is, inanimate, non-living shared surfaces — such cleaners do their job fine, Carroll said. Coronavirus and disinfectant: Why you shouldn't ingest it 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z “There’s a lesser possibility of it spreading from the inanimate environment to people, but we’ll be looking particularly at how it could have passed from person to person through the hospital community,” he said. 'We can save lives': Tasmania’s isolated north-west succumbs to Australia’s strictest coronavirus rules 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z Their stout silhouettes, familiar from Anderson’s Midwestern childhood, became a point of departure for him, too, as did the Bechers’ ability to imbue inanimate objects with personality. The Designer Making Surprisingly Humanoid Sculptural Ceramics 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z It’s where fans can fill the sidewalks for days of bars and restaurants and games without once plunking into any car seat, but now it had gone inanimate. Perspective | In Indianapolis, America’s sportiest downtown, Selection Sunday felt really, really sad 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z Outside, on an inanimate surface, the virus will gradually lose the ability to be an infectious agent. Coronavirus can stay infectious for days on surfaces. But it’s still okay to check your mail. 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Art critics, by our very nature, are prone to taking violently against inanimate objects. A $20,000 artwork accidentally destroyed by a critic? That's nothing! 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z The beautiful nymph is the love and inspiration for the demigod Orpheus, a singer of such persuasion that no creature or even inanimate object could resist, fiction’s first superstar. Review: At L.A. Opera, Matthew Aucoin's 'Eurydice' almost has it all 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z It’s an adorable puzzle / adventure game filled with 100 different characters, each based on an easily recognizable inanimate object. Katamari creator Keita Takahashi on why his games are both silly and serious 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z The team examined MDMA’s influence on sociability by placing individual mice into an enclosure with two interconnected chambers on either side—one holding another animal and the other containing an inanimate object. MDMA Could Be Tailored to Make It More Suitable for Treating Mental Illness 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z The Chevy Suburban has become the first inanimate object to receive a brass and terrazzo star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Hollywood Walk of Fame's star for a car takes product placement to new level 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z The Chevy Suburban just became the first inanimate object to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Newsletter: Golden Globe nominations and more in the week ahead 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z This is the component that breathes Frankenstein-like life into the machine’s inanimate assembly of earthly materials. The environmental impact of a PlayStation 4 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z At once cuddly and bullying, ridiculous and dark, frightening and fun, this inanimate toy is a bunny who is negative in more ways than one. Review: Nayland Blake turns bunnies and shoes into meditations on sex, power and prejudice 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z Arranged one behind the other in the right half of the composition, the objects are hard, brittle, inanimate. Perspective | This cute little mutt will melt your heart 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Certainly an inanimate piece of office furniture would offer better insight than some of the outings this week. A week in UK politics: great gaffes, absent interviewees and marital malaise 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z But there’s a safety net in the controlled environment of the burn building, where fires set to straw and wood pallets are contained and the rescues are of inanimate objects. How Massachusetts firefighters prepare for the job 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z But what of living organisms, which display structures and functions far more complex than any inanimate material of nature or industry? Why Carbon? 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z “For an inanimate object, it’s beautiful,” Rice said. Babe Ruth’s bat used for 500th homer hits auction block 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Death is another major act of collage, in which the formerly animate is subsumed by the inanimate – in humans via the shroud, coffin, fire or six feet of soil, and strains of “My Way”. How to write a Booker contender – by Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie and others 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z Nothing says "football guy" like destroying a high-priced, inanimate object, am I right? This Coach O story from his time at Tennessee with Lane Kiffin is the most Coach O story ever - Golf Digest 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z Guns of all types are essentially harmless inanimate objects without ammunition. Restrict ammunition sales to legally registered gun owners with matching firearms 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z Nothing like flipping off inanimate objects, am I right? Emiliano Grillo misses birdie putt that would have got him to the weekend, reacts accordingly - Golf Digest 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z Young, old, rich, poor and even inanimate — all are welcome. At Haunted Mansion 50th anniversary bash, Disneyland stays weird 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z But this phrasing has always troubled me, as if we are beholden to an inanimate application designed to produce similar situations again and again. How the Trail of American White Supremacy Led to El Paso 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z But concocting, constructing and bringing to life an inanimate object to stir emotions and imagination is complex, profound business. Aurora Valentinetti’s distinguished lifetime of bringing puppets to moppets 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z There’s some truth to that, given that firearms are inanimate objects. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z Before the rise of online shopping, photographing inanimate objects wouldn’t have been a logical growth opportunity for a global payments business with a market value of $33 billion. Square launches robot photography service for online sellers 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z “If the legal rights of inanimate corporations are recognized, why not the legal rights of a species of nature, which is very much alive,” said the group’s lawyer Enrique Viale. Give endangered jaguars legal rights, Argentina campaigners ask court 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z It also felt strangely load-lifting for a person who can get overly sentimental about inanimate objects. Ridgecrest earthquake shattered California’s cool 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z He didn’t seem as though he has been punching a lot of inanimate objects lately. A ‘step back’ might be fine for a franchise, but it’s hard for individual players to grasp 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z As everyone today knows, Mary Shelley’s gothic novel features a man using science to give life to inanimate flesh. What if John Keats had lived past 25? Paul Kerschen’s ‘The Warm South’ revives the poet 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z His father, Nobuyuki Suzuki, was a practicing Buddhist who believed that all inanimate objects, including baseball gloves and bats, are animated with a spirit. Ichiro, always a master of timing, gets it right again with his retirement 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z “It’s not an inanimate object,” explains the architect. 'We never thought it would happen': Thomas Heatherwick's $200m gamble 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z To a physicist’s eye, hordes of animals often resemble inanimate physical systems in uncanny ways. How a school of fish is like a rubber band 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z It’s something almost beyond explanation: a feeling we have towards other human beings and animals – and sometimes, inanimate objects, weirdly enough. Could robots make us better humans? 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z In photo after photo, his human subjects are buoyed by their inanimate backdrop. A View of Historic Harlem That’s Not on the Walking Tour 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z The car is a dark conglomerate of metal, glass, and plastic, as inanimate and insensible as a stone. “Asleep at the Wheel” 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z During the government shutdown, much remained the same among the millions of inanimate objects in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution. Heedless of government shutdown, zoo’s naked mole-rat pups became bigger 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z Tolmie heeded the call, vowing to restore Mac to his former glory, even holding at news conference at which he channeled the voice of the absolutely massive but sadly inanimate moose. Norway says its moose statue is tallest. What a load of bull, Canada retorts. 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z They tend to view a robot as moving and a computer as inanimate. Make robot motions natural 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z “The paradox of great paintings is that they are inanimate objects that have lives of their own,” he said. The French Burglar Who Pulled Off His Generation’s Biggest Art Heist 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Don’t forget that the puppet is inanimate; in the end, the relationship is all you, talking to yourself. How to Converse With a Hand Puppet 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z The psychologist Harry Harlow’s experiments with rhesus monkeys in the late 1950s showed that baby monkeys would overwhelmingly choose to attach themselves to soft, inanimate caretakers rather than milk-producing wire frames. Letter of Recommendation: Stuffed Animals 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z It’s hard to empathize with someone invisible: rather than a feeling person with a family and loved ones, online, a faceless individual becomes an inanimate punching bag of ideologies. Why comments sections must die 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z My wife, a self-described Luddite, initially teased me for talking to an inanimate object. The Essentials for Covering Silicon Valley: Burner Phones and Doorbells 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z You are the ultimate golem, a creature made from inanimate stuff, rising from the cosmic swamp. The Scariest Thing in the Universe 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z He said he planned to fire only at inanimate objects to draw police gunfire. ‘I wanted them to kill me.’ Man charged in police station attack that left detective dead testifies. 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z “I like to imagine that they start talking when no one is in the room. I’m a great believer in the life of inanimate objects.” Baltimore museum’s John Waters exhibit is weird, as expected 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z “It’s the aura of a three-foot high silver object that is inanimate, but has a life of its own,” Pritchard said. Capitals raise their first Stanley Cup banner in a red-rocking scene of revelry 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z “Sorry” is sometimes a reflex — people here say it to inanimate objects that they bump into — and the word is put to a wider variety of uses than in the United States. British Rail Companies Have a Message: We’re Sorry. Very Sorry. Apologies. 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z For instance, the team outfitted that same soft cylinder with a tiny camera, giving the once inanimate tube the ability to see and to inch around on its own. Watch robotic ‘skins’ give life to inanimate toys 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Prejudiced by our human sense of a hierarchy of the animate termites over inanimate mushrooms, we would be inclined to believe that the termites control the fungus. A giant crawling brain: the jaw-dropping world of termites 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z We played games, we played inanimate objects, we played adults. “Audition” 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z It all began when Twitter user @rod_inanimate pointed out that some people described in Zito's latest book as "lifelong Democrats" and "former Obama voters" were actually elected Republicans and party officials. The Intellectual Dark Web conservatives fear 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z In “Our Stuff, Ourselves,” Francine Russo reports on research showing a connection between low emotional security and greater attachment to inanimate objects, including a 2015 study involving young children and their favorite possession. Readers Respond to the May 2018 Issue 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z In a surreal development, this week’s episode will center on sentient inanimate objects, but it’s all part of a plan they say will ultimately bring the odd menagerie of “Animals” together. For creators of HBO's unpredictable 'Animals,' the goal is to draw you in 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Every July 1st, the European transfer window officially opens, allowing teams to wheel and deal players like the inanimate commodities they obviously aren’t. Decoding the various (and very British) oddities of the Premier League - Golf Digest 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z Hentz, 41, is from Missouri, once a violent slave state, but calls the flag just an “inanimate object,” adding: “Stop letting it control you.” Pride and prejudice? The Americans who fly the Confederate flag 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Skelhorn and his colleagues previously found that some animals masquerade as inanimate, inedible objects, to look less appealing to potential predators. How Prey Animals' Prior Experiences Make Them Gullible to Masquerading Predators 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z “We’ve told stories about inanimate things coming to life for thousands of years, and these narratives influence how we interpret what is going on now,” Bell says. 'The discourse is unhinged': how the media gets AI alarmingly wrong 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z The Mariners first baseman used to terrorize inanimate objects if he were to perform below his standards. Ryon Healy still grinding, but he’s running out of time to keep his spot with Mariners 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z In addition to leopards, cheetahs and lions have also been observed using inanimate objects in play. Leopard Plays With Prey’s Own Bones 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z In one experiment, he found that they would quickly cling to “cloth mothers,” inanimate figures with a soft exterior. A Troubling Prognosis for Migrant Children in Detention: ‘The Earlier They’re Out, the Better’ 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z Curtiss defamiliarizes the familiar, blurs the boundaries between animate and inanimate, between sinister and seductive. Naked body parts, hair as sculpture: The strange, sinister, seductive art of Julie Curtiss 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z But where Rodin made inanimate pieces multi-dimensional, “Rodin” remains a stultifying block. The biopic 'Rodin' about the famous French sculptor lacks shape and drama 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Some criticize this contention by claiming that inanimate objects, such as detectors, can also perform measurements, in the sense described above. Coming to Grips with the Implications of Quantum Mechanics 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z To give up on the idea that human action is correctable and blame an inanimate object for the existence of violent actions is to give up on humanity itself. Opinion | Why do school shootings keep happening? 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z “Rehearsals were really fun, developing how you would be this inanimate object. But once you started performing, it was the same old thing every day. I thought, ‘This acting business is for the birds.’ Longtime costume designer leaves university, but not theater 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z Photographer Mark Fairhurst began his career photographing inanimate objects, from jewellery to plugs which were used in advertising. In pictures: Brief encounters through the lens 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z Some interpretations of panpsychism imply even that inanimate aggregations of matter are conscious: a recently published essay claimed, “The idea that everything from spoons to stones are conscious is gaining academic credibility.” Sentient Robots, Conscious Spoons and Other Cheerful Follies 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z The claim is thus that the dynamics of all inanimate matter in the universe correspond to transpersonal mentation, just as an individual’s brain activity—which is also made of matter—corresponds to personal mentation. Coming to Grips with the Implications of Quantum Mechanics 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z “After what happened in Florida, I just thought, this is ridiculous, I’m attaching myself to this inanimate object that its sole purpose is to kill humans,” Meyer told the AP. Some owners are destroying their guns after Florida shooting 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z How about that bump into an inanimate object that generates that knee-jerk "sorry" - a harmless reflex - no harm done! One Apology Too Many 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z “An inanimate object is not committing these crimes.” ‘It’s One of the Greatest Rifles’: Fans of the AR-15 Explain the Gun’s Appeal 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z The notion that inanimate objects are subject to their own experience may sound absurd; and it is. Sentient Robots, Conscious Spoons and Other Cheerful Follies 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z The problem is that the partitioning of the world into discrete inanimate objects is merely nominal. Coming to Grips with the Implications of Quantum Mechanics 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z Of course it’s better to not salt the earth; of course we still try to make use of the tools and even the systems that have inanimately played their part in human tragedy. Why Aren’t Businesses Doing More to Save American Manufacturing? 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z I've apologized to inanimate objects, operating kind of on auto pilot. One Apology Too Many 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z He then spent several hours in a training module, where he operated on an inanimate object. Dr. Scott Killmer a master of his trade 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z I thus submit that consciousness is indeed the intrinsic nature of the physical world, but subatomic particles and other inanimate objects are not conscious subjects. Sentient Robots, Conscious Spoons and Other Cheerful Follies 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z The inanimate world is a single physical system governed by QM. Coming to Grips with the Implications of Quantum Mechanics 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z But this was not just anyone ducking under an inanimate object. Time for Eden Hazard to show he can produce his best on the big occasion | Jacob Steinberg 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z The physical world of an observing organism may arise from an interaction—an interference pattern—between the organism’s thoughts and the thoughts underlying the inanimate universe that surrounds it. Thinking Outside the Quantum Box 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z If there’s one thing that unites them, they say, it’s a surreal sense of humour, “like, realising that some inanimate object looks like a face; I don’t know, something like that,” Goldwasser suggests, slightly mystifyingly. The surreal success of MGMT: 'I assumed it would all go away. Like it was all a dream' 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z This way, as a living nervous system is the extrinsic appearance of an organism’s inner experiences, so the inanimate universe as a whole is the extrinsic appearance of universal inner experiences. Sentient Robots, Conscious Spoons and Other Cheerful Follies 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Still, the animation in “Bilal” offers impressive inanimate beauty in its desert vistas, ancient architecture and richly colored and textured clothing. Review | ‘Bilal’ review: Ancient story of a real-life Muslim hero is pretty but feels like theology class 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Both distinguish between an animate direct object and an inanimate one. The painful origins of many creole languages 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Taking the original’s cue, “2049” explores what defines beings as human via an android slave class treated as inanimate property, but which may be truly sentient. How do you follow up a sci-fi classic without cloning it? If it's 'Blade Runner,' you rewrite its DNA 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z “Black Museum” features a remarkably wide range of nightmarish elements, from physical mutilation to human minds locked in inanimate objects. In "Black Museum," Black Mirror finally finds a single person to blame for technology 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z If biology is the extrinsic appearance of conscious subjects other than the inanimate universe itself, then the quest for artificial sentient entities boils down to abiogenesis: the artificial creation of biology from inanimate matter. Sentient Robots, Conscious Spoons and Other Cheerful Follies 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z “Being treated as an inanimate object as part of a lease is problematic,” Lintz said. Pet brokers are leasing puppies — and people are feeling scammed 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z Bramwell and his friend David Robinson spent a year sending inanimate objects to each other through the post. The strangest things sent in the post 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z Even the inanimate objects don’t behave as expected. Kate Wallich + The YC cast a spell in ‘Dream Dances’ 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z When I stay in hotels, I find myself asking inanimate objects to tell me the weather and play NPR and add carrots to my shopping list. When Using 5 Messaging Apps Is Not Enough 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z Gun-control laws are euphemisms promoted by control freaks who endeavor to control people's behavior, since guns are inanimate objects not subject to laws. California Shooting Leaves at Least 4 Dead 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z Holmes draws conclusions by coolly observing inanimate objects. 2017 crime-fiction roundup: Let’s begin with 4 notable thrillers 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z But Friday, the Queen Mary launched an overhauled tour, adding new spooky sound effects, ghostly apparitions and inanimate objects rolling and shifting of their own volition. Queen Mary's new ghost tour adds high-tech special effects 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z At random, one of the screens would show the face of one of the four celebrities, while the other either remained blank, displayed an inanimate object, or showed the face of an unfamiliar person. Is it ... Baa-rack Obama? Sheep able to recognise celebrities, say neuroscientists 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z “I basically took the inanimate object of a costume and became a big fuzzy Harpo Marx,” Giannoulas said in a telephone interview. Puppetry museum opens exhibit celebrating mascots 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z Her voice is nearly impossible to distinguish from that of the inanimate butler she's portraying, except for a subtle break as she says the word tie, which reminds me she's human. Google Wants to Give Your Computer a Personality 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Remember, though, the priority of any legislative package is to identify people who pose risks, not inanimate objects. Excerpts from recent Minnesota editorials 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z He once described his work to The New Yorker as a means of addressing the question, ‘‘Can something that is not an inanimate object be considered valuable?’’ What It’s Like to Live With Art That Doesn’t Love You Back 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z More importantly, Amazon Restaurants works with Alexa, which means we may be able to yell at an inanimate object, and food from Shake Shack will magically arrive minutes later. Amazon may soon deliver Shake Shack to your house 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z His torso is tucked behind custom-sewn upholstery armor, like the pads protecting a Yankees catcher but in meticulously chosen black and stone leather hues to mirror Ford Motor’s usually inanimate seats. Ford’s push for driverless vehicles includes a man pretending to be a car seat 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z In detecting the differences in temperatures emitted by living objects and inanimate objects, however, the thermal camera would help avoid this scenario. Israeli start-up building thermal cameras for self-driving cars 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z In addition, Samsung doesn’t require a face to be in the frame to trigger the effect, so I was able to use it on inanimate subjects, such as flowers or cups of coffee. Samsung Galaxy Note 8 review: one for the fans 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z And that could totally explain why he boxed like he was petrified of an inanimate object. McGregor-Mayweather is Both the Best and Most Embarrassing Sports Spectacle of the Year - Golf Digest 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z While filming from 10,000 feet in the sky it’s “hard to distinguish one inanimate heat source from another,” the report says. Drone warfare is broken, buggy and losing us the war on terror 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z As far as we know, human beings have not tried to marry inanimate objects. Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z In detecting the differences in temperatures emitted by living objects and inanimate objects, however, the thermal camera would help avoid this scenario. Israeli start-up building thermal cameras for self-driving cars 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z Half were shown masks that were pictures of inanimate objects; the other half saw masks that were scrambled versions of the image they had just seen. FMRI Testing Holds Promise in Preventing Child Sexual Abuse 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z From department store mannequins, to the Dos Equis “most interesting man in the world,” to a frighteningly inanimate Seahawks fan, stories are legion of troopers pulling over drivers with dummy passengers, designed to fool observers. How many HOV-lane cheaters are there, and how many get caught? 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z Holmes is a genius at observing inanimate objects, making giant leaps of deduction from tiny clues. Indie bookstores and old houses: new crime-fiction titles 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Either way, Canadians should finally be able to yell at an inanimate object like their American neighbors within a few weeks. Google Home is now available for preorder in Canada 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z “A lot of it is trying to capture energy and emotion,” he said, which he can do with animals in ways that he can’t with inanimate objects. Grant Garmezy on finding his niche in sculpted glass 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z In his adult life, Sendak’s rapport with particular inanimate objects has not been limited to the toys in Brooklyn. Maurice Sendak’s Wild Things 1966-01-14T05:00:00Z Long before Stephen Ireland came up with the idea, Kaiser was committing grannycide: his grandmother was regularly killed off to help him avoid his inanimate nemesis, the football. The forgotten story of ... Carlos Kaiser, football's greatest conman | Rob Smyth 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z It was an inanimate object, just bits of black, lightweight metal shaped like the bend in the arm he never had. Wyoming father, son touched by gifts from the heart 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z Then Vegas Vic — like many inanimate objects these days — found Twitter. A neon Vegas icon turns up on Twitter, with a far-right persona that prompts alarm 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Reports of statues and other inanimate objects appearing to weep periodically surface in various religions. Czar bust in Crimea reportedly appears to shed tears 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z Seattle’s historic Pioneer Square neighborhood, where I live, is full of characters, but there is no more interesting neighbor than this most animating of inanimate objects. On the eve of the Alaskan Way Viaduct’s demolition, a look back at what we love – and love to hate – about it 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Being forced to throw to inanimate object that can’t react to something being slightly offline has been an adjustment for pitchers. Coming soon: Pitching coaches/general manager vs. pitchers in a fundamentals showdown 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z “Pow! ” he yelled, and his previous worldliness changed to boyish giddiness at the infliction of violence on an inanimate object. Europe’s Child-Refugee Crisis 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z You talk about consumerism – do you think the acquisition of inanimate objects is a defence against mortality? Michael Kinsley: ‘I would like to give living for ever a try’ 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Instead of being replaced wholesale, most people in high-skill positions will likely find themselves working alongside their inanimate colleagues, not unlike the way we use computers instead of typewriters and calculators. Actors, teachers, therapists – think your job is safe from robots? Think again 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Q: How do you make an inanimate object come alive? Terry Fator, ‘America’s Got Talent’ winner, third-highest-paid comic in America 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z In the study, the mice were seen to pursue almost anything in their path, including insects, robot insects and even inanimate objects such as bottle caps and wooden sticks. Scientists use light to trigger Walking Dead-style killer instinct in mice 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Murray railed at himself and everything else, inanimate objects and those breathing heavily on his behalf throughout the packed arena, in good moments and bad. Andy Murray suffers for his art in marathon win over Milos Raonic 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z Offputting though spitting is, it was difficult not to see the funny side of the melodrama and utter ludicrousness of Janowicz taking out his frustration on an inanimate object that way. The Joy of Six: tennis tantrums 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z A sculpture, for example, is seen by many as an inanimate object of beauty in itself, detached from the piece’s subject or purpose. A Sculptor Reaps the Rewards of Art Deals Brokered in the Bedroom 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z These kinds of images, in which the inanimate is suddenly animate, generate an open-ended visual conspiracy. Strangely Enough 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z This time, working-class people spent a tenth of a second longer looking at faces than did upper-middle-class people—a difference that did not apply when the same people looked at inanimate objects. Social attitudes to faces 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Such vein-popping exhortations towards an inanimate object are not the actions of a rational person. The price that's paid for the Ryder Cup becoming bigger than golf - Golf Digest 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z The jointed sections drift apart and back a few millimeters a day, a reminder of how the natural world still inhabits even the most inanimate objects. Villa Alem: A Castle in the Sky 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Having extensively shot portraits of sometimes vexing humans, Leutwyler enjoyed the simplicity of working with inanimate subjects. Henry Leutwyler Documents Iconic Possessions in His Upcoming Book 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Did you know that inanimate objects could be found "guilty" in a court of law and ultimately become the property of the state? Presumed Guilty 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z As we face the bold new world of every inanimate object coming online, ask yourself this: do you need this now, or can it wait? The Internet of Things has a dirty little secret: it's not really yours 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z The GOP’s only chance might be to toss him overboard at the convention and nominate an inanimate carbon rod. The math is with Hillary: She surging in the polls — and many Republicans are in denial 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z But I personally cherished the dull live streams, capturing the continued existence of an inanimate object. What's better than a webcam dedicated to the world’s longest burning lightbulb? Its website 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z In one essay, Ghirri writes about Daguerre’s ability to “awaken the inanimate world through light.” Luigi Ghirri’s Brilliant Photographic Puzzles 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z To monitor behaviour, the researchers put the pups through tests that measured how long they spent interacting with strangers and with inanimate objects. Gut feelings 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z And one day we may, perhaps, be able to move inanimate objects. 'Star Trek' Is Right About Almost Everything Feelings are handled like third parties or inanimate objects. The Future of Indie Rock Is Female 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z Even inanimate objects conspire to hinder their success. What does a baseball team do when its season is over with 100 games to go? 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z And these engines are innumerable; they’re everywhere in the animate realm, but also in the inanimate. What's the Meaning of Life? Physics. 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z Emmet’s statue may be a hunk of inanimate bronze, but in Washington, bronze is never totally inanimate. On Massachusetts Avenue NW, an old statue gets a new look 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Why deprive an inanimate object of what so many humans were clearly after? Iggy Pop was a man with a plan (but no shirt) at the Greek Theatre 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z But even inanimate objects are subject to the ordeals of travel. Carry-on Bags: Which Is Best for You? 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Use a white branch and you’ll turn into a pot, a basket, or any other inanimate object from the environment, allowing you to hide under your foe’s nose. What you need to know before playing Dark Souls III 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z According to your book, physics describes the actions or tendencies of every living thing—and inanimate ones as well. What's the Meaning of Life? Physics. 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z Yet “bioarchaeologists,” people who specialize in the analysis of human remains, often defy the stereotype of emotionally aloof scientists who treat skeletons as inanimate artifacts, no different than clay shards or stone tablets. When Is It Okay To Dig Up The Dead? Watch them struggling out of their shells—albumen-coated miracles, translucent and greasy—and you’ll never again classify eggs as inanimate objects. Inside France’s National Food Festival 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Like 99 percent of things that are not inanimate objects in this game, Gundyr wants to kill me. Dark Souls 3 hands-on: finding joy in a world that wants you dead 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z "By day, these chairs are inanimate objects. By night, they park!" Nissan’s self-parking office chair is here to make your Monday better 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z That’s what I keep searching for - how do you take an inanimate object, a pile of junk, and turn it into something that has life and inspires people?” South Dakota sculptor plows his own furrow 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z Using industry-standard software, the college's art/animation students work in teams on principles of animation with both animate and inanimate objects. Community Colleges Power Up Video Game Programs 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Yet he was fascinated with inanimate objects, such as spinning pot lids. All the Colors on the Spectrum 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z Since they are inanimate paintings, firearms, clothing, ceramics and the like, they need respites from handling, traveling or being exposed to light. Deep below the museum 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Getting caught up in someone's conversation with their inanimate assistant is just like that, only worse. Real talk: There’s a serious problem with voice control that we’re all ignoring 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z I’m protective of my own gear, because I tend to humanize inanimate objects. Chicago Symphony Orchestra Percussionist Cynthia Yeh’s Favorite Gear 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z "We've completely underestimated plants. We look at them as inanimate objects, completely unaware of the amazing, complex biology that allows that plant to survive." Do we underestimate the power of plants and trees? - BBC News 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z The list of the world’s collectibles is long, but it doesn’t end with inanimate objects. Big Illegal Market For Little Critters 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z To be extra specific, movies need props, or the inanimate things that populate any set. Let's think about why props matter in movies 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z The devices and the eerie common way that patients described them appeared to derive from the Industrial Revolution and humans’ unsteady relationship with the inanimate. What the Volkswagen scandal means for the future of connected devices 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z The problem with the “inanimate object” argument is that guns were invented for one purpose: to kill. Editorials from around Pennsylvania 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z “Letting anyone shoot at people to protect the inanimate consumer goods of a giant corporation is more important than a human life?” Woman in Michigan Charged After Shooting at Fleeing Shoplifters 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z If they were inanimate this wouldn’t be an issue, but they are totally aware of their situation. Seven scientific facts to ruin childhood | Dean Burnett 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Still, there's something unsettling about inanimate objects moving with life-like motion. DARPA helicopter with insect legs preps for full-on robotic invasion 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z A series of studies had shown that both children and adults eagerly ascribe humanlike intentions and actions to inanimate objects like rocks and the sun. Feature: Why big societies need big gods 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z The problem with the “inanimate object” argument is that guns were invented for one purpose: to kill. Editorials from around Pennsylvania 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Ethnically diverse dolls, inanimate but not soulless, throng the ground floor of a fastidiously dusted house on a quiet residential block. Two Good Reasons to Visit St. Albans, Queens 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z People turning into safari animals and inanimate objects transmogrifying into living, real people. My Lariam dreams - BBC News 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z By bringing art to this industrial stone valley, it breathed life into these inanimate objects: abandoned limestones. Europe's Most Unusual Outdoor Arts Festival 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Systemizing is the best way of “understanding and predicting the law-governed inanimate universe.” How the New Economy Hurts Men and Helps Women 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z That weight exerts pressure on the Earth’s surface, as well as on everything on the Earth: human skin and inanimate objects. Al Roker: The Tragic History of Early Weather Forecasting 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Textbook accounts of the origin of life have their roots in Darwin’s speculation that in some “warm little pond” inanimate matter, perhaps energized by a lucky lightning strike, formed complex molecules that eventually began self-replicating. Book Review: Taking on ‘The Vital Question’ About Life 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z “Hitting the snout of the shark with a hard object like your fist or an inanimate object will startle the shark,” says Burgess. How to Survive a Shark Attack 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z These inanimate objects remind us that we move with the times. If we really want DVD and bookshops to survive, why don’t we shop at them more? 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z “This is not like any industry where we are dealing with inanimate objects. We are dealing with human lives.” Widespread Understaffing of Nurses Increases Risk to Patients 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Faces twist and morph as walls melt, blurring the lines between animate and inanimate, organic and inorganic. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is terrifying through the eyes of a computer 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z If you see a shark, Burgess and company recommend a “proactive” response, “ideally with an inanimate object” you can use to thwack the shark on the nose. A record year for shark attacks: Six ways to not become chum 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z In June, we found out that Molly is also a really skilled destroyer of inanimate objects. Stephen King Has a Corgi and You Need to Drop Everything and Look at Her 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Women fire at paper plates, other inanimate objects, even pumpkins. Group helps train women in how to safely handle firearms 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z “The President wants to blame an inanimate object - the gun,” the organization said in a statement. Sympathy, calls for more gun control after church slayings 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Watching every possible flip and twitch and potential movement the different species made in their environment allowed Landeis to translate those details to into his inanimate carvings, he said. Sterling carver finds his niche 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z Others call for America to extend the “responsibility to protect” not just to human victims of genocide, but to inanimate objects of “cultural genocide”. Save our stones 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z He recounted patients being ordered to speak with inanimate objects, including ashtrays. A clash over Scientology as vote looms on a proposed church-backed drug rehab near Camp David 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z The mathematician, moonlighting as an alchemist, turned things both animate and inanimate into different substances. Go Ask Alice 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z It's even putting data sensors into inanimate objects such as parking meters and water pipes to build smarter cities. Not Your Ma's Bell: AT&T evolves beyond phones 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z The house, after all, has the reliability of inanimate objects, “the reassuring madness of patterned wallpaper under the daily shift of light.” Anne Enright’s Family Agonies 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z There is something marvellous about transformational stories involving unwanted inanimate objects. Come on Labour, the people need closure. Give us that bloody Edstone | Marina Hyde 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z These inanimate objects of our affection are certainly easier to care for than are the real ones. In Future, Robopets Won't Be Far-Fetched 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Luminescent bits of matter, like inanimate fireflies, filled the air. The Galaxy-Sized Video Game 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z He was impressed by the range of emotions the inanimate objects could demonstrate to become lifelike. Puppets help teach messages to children at Hastings church 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z Most of us are probably guilty of anthropomorphizing inanimate objects, at least to some degree. London Startup Brings Emotional Intelligence To The Connected Home 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z The two men don’t stay inanimate for long. See How Virtual Reality Could Be the Future of Photography 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Depending on the object, they were asked to decide if it was big or small, animate or inanimate. Real Time Travel Happens Daily 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z Or perhaps there’s just something about seeing inanimate objects and tangible materials become life like that inspires us. Kirby and the Rainbow Curse Molds Young Minds 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z But why are we so moved by the stars and planets and moon knowing they are inanimate bodies following the laws of gravity? Rare And Mysterious Planetary Allignment Occurs Tonight 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z |
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