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I grew up watching the 'Muppets.' In New Zealand, the 'Muppets' were as big as anywhere else I think. It was a pretty global phenomenon. Bret McKenzie

Big Think Else Pretty New Global Were Up Grew New Zealand Anywhere Anywhere Else Zealand Muppet Watching Phenomenon

A mutation can create an alternative form of a phenomenon - a phenotype or trait - and we can learn a lot by seeing this alternative state. Once I saw a mouse with no eyelids. It simply had a membrane over the eyes. I found it fascinating that there is a single gene required for eyelids to develop. Bruce Beutler

Eyes Single State Once Saw Mutation Seeing Gene Develop Had Simply Over Learn Alternative Lot Trait Mouse Form Create Required Fascinating Found Phenomenon

In 'The Founders,' his new book about top charter schools, Richard Whitmire traces both the 'revolution' these schools brought about in many American cities as well as a parallel phenomenon, 'the charter pushback campaigns.' Campbell Brown

Book Revolution Top Cities Parallel Brought About Charter Charter Schools Both New New Book Schools Traces Well His Campaigns American American Cities Richard Many Founders Phenomenon

The development of science is basically a social phenomenon, dependent on hard work and mutual support of many scientists and on the societies in which they live. Charles H. Townes

Work Hard Work Science Live Mutual Support Development Scientists Dependent Which Social Hard Many Societies Basically Phenomenon

Even if major funding is obtained for cold fusion, conceivably the phenomenon could suffer from problems as intractable as those of hot fusion. It may never work reliably or generate enough energy to be commercially viable. Charles Platt

It's just amazing to do something that's part of a pop culture phenomenon. Chaske Spencer

Culture Amazing Something Part Just Pop Pop Culture Phenomenon

I have to accept the fact that the time I was on, 'Project Runway' was already becoming a pop culture phenomenon. Chris March

Time Culture Project Runway Fact Accept Becoming Pop Pop Culture Phenomenon

Owning pets is as close to a universal phenomenon as, I think, anything. Chris Meledandri

Think Close Owning Anything Pets Universal Phenomenon

This phenomenon with Betty White is so wonderfully amazing. In a world where ageism runs rampant, out of left field, all of a sudden, the country decides to celebrate Betty White, and she becomes cool at 90. That's remarkable. Chris Meledandri

For me, 'Lamb' started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I touched on in 'Coyote Blue' and 'Island of the Sequined Love Nun,' but it ended up being an exploration of the true meaning of sacrifice, loyalty, and friendship. Christopher Moore

Love Friendship Faith Loyalty Me Responsibility Sacrifice Nun Further Out Touched True True Meaning Messiah Island Up Coyote Ended Blue Being Lamb Meaning Meaning Of Exploration Started Phenomenon

Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon. Compay Segundo

Music You Youth Thought Looking Looking Back Back About Only Had Towards Cuba Rock Rock Music Traditional Traditional Music Forgotten Grandparents Who Europe Now Phenomenon Imagine

My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us. Dan Stevens

Me Remember Before Young Stage Too Took Pantomime Says Kids Tells Running Small Onstage He Part Invite Sort Up Very Interact Being Where Us Asked Show English Even Dad Phenomenon

One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing. Dave Van Ronk

Memories Old Three Nuns Seven Classroom Knew Around Years Discovered Verses Eight Banner Spangled Sent Full Whole Star Actually Thing Earliest Earliest Memories Phenomenon

I intend to apply the perspective of astrobiology, which is a deep-time way of looking at life on Earth, towards the question of the Anthropocene. What does the human phenomenon on Earth look like viewed from an interplanetary perspective? David Grinspoon

Life Perspective Looking Earth Way Towards Like Look Does Question Intend Human Which Viewed Apply Phenomenon

The business of return migration is a phenomenon that historians have indeed begun to look at, but it is rather an ignored and underplayed story and one that we need to know more about. David Levering Lewis

Business Indeed About Rather More Know Look Return Historians Begun Story Migration Ignored Need Phenomenon

I think there has never ever been a career like John Williams'. That whole 'Jaws' phenomenon - there's nobody that knows how to use music like Spielberg, and John is just the perfect analog to Spielberg. David Newman

Food trends have been around as long as people have had the ability to choose between different things to eat, but the modern, interconnected media has made food trends a viral phenomenon. Once upon a time, it was just a few newspapers and a few select gourmet magazines that were writing about food. Today, it's every single publication. David Sax

Today Time Food People Writing Made Long Single Few Every Viral Once Trends Ability Eat Magazines About Select Had Between Around Gourmet Were Been Modern Just Different Interconnected Newspapers Choose Different Things Media Publication Things Phenomenon

I do not think it feasible to examine the phenomenon of hatefulness without being hateful. David Shields

Think Hateful Examine Feasible Without Being Phenomenon

By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar. David Whyte

Face Society Definition Reluctant Poetry Head-On Mainstream Qualities Just Dynamics Interesting Radar Works Necessity Below Phenomenon

It's a phenomenon how 'Grease' is so popular; it really is. Didi Conn

How Really Popular Grease Phenomenon

One motivation for the 'Soul Train' awards was the grumbling that all of us in the industry have heard about the way black music tends to be viewed as a secondary phenomenon by the other awards shows. Don Cornelius

Music Soul Black Other Secondary Way Black Music About Tends Industry Motivation Heard Train Us Viewed Shows Awards Grumbling Phenomenon

It's a natural phenomenon that when you hit as a little kid, as a teenybopper, we'll call it, everybody who used to like you back in that period of time grows up and they leave you back there. Donny Osmond

Time You Natural Everybody Back Kid Like Period Call Leave Up Hit Little Little Kid Used Who Grows Phenomenon

Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution. E. O. Wilson

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