Sentence examples for ambitious brain from inspiring English sources

The fiction of Richard Powers sometimes resembles a dying satyr above the waist is a mind full of serious thought, philosophical reflection, deep exploration of music and science; below, a pair of spindly legs strain to support the great weight of the ambitious brain.

The fiction of Richard Powers sometimes resembles a dying satyr — above the waist is a mind full of serious thought, philosophical reflection, deep exploration of music and science; below, a pair of spindly legs strain to support the great weight of the ambitious brain.

HBP is one of two very ambitious brain research projects now going on; the other, a U.S. government initiative called BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies), has "a much better approach," says Peter Dayan, a computational neuroscientist at University College London who has been critical of HBP from the start and has signed the open letter.

A once-living example of the most complicated object in the universe is mounted in a case at the beginning of the ambitious exhibition "Brain: The Inside Story," which opens on Saturday at the American Museum of Natural History.

An equally ambitious "big brain" idea is in the works in the United States: The Obama administration is expected to propose its own project, with up to $3 billion allocated over a decade to develop technologies to track the electrical activity of every neuron in the brain.

His ambitious Human Brain Project (HBP) won one of two ceiling-shattering grants from the EC to the tune of a billion euros, ending a two-year contest against several other grandiose projects.

In April this year President Obama announced a hugely ambitious science project, the "Brain" Initiative (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies).

Other companies like Facebook are also working on less ambitious forms of brain-to-computer connection that could allow people to type with their mind or "brain click" on something without a manual input device.

It was breathtakingly ambitious, requiring both brains and brawn in prodigious quantities; the planning was meticulous (the dozen or so students involved were split into sub-teams, including one comprising two pretty females to distract curious passers-by); and it created a spectacularly surreal sight that could be seen across town.

"I'm ambitious for my own brain, to feel interested and engaged and to enjoy good company," she says.

Rather than choosing a small, manageable project, she had set her sights on tackling an ambitious, unifying hypothesis linking the brain and the immune system to explain both normal brain development and disease.