"Mosquitoes are attracted to a blend of human odorants that they detect with the receptors on their heads," said Doug Norris, a microbiology professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.
But there is a far greater richness to New York Harbor, a marvelously complex blend of human history and the changes it has wrought, its diverse present-day functions, and the experiment in ecology it represents.
By Elif Batuman September 16, 2015 Homo naledi's hands demonstrate the species' unique blend of human and nonhuman features: a humanlike wrist, palm, and thumb, but long, curved fingers, which are suitable for climbing trees.
His Wotan, magnificently sung, and acted with a blend of human pride, anger, tenderness and godlike anguish, became the yardstick by which all other exponents of the role would be measured.
The peculiar blend of human kindness and cynicism, humour, and resignation displayed in Saʿdī's works, together with a tendency to avoid the hard dilemma, make him, to many, the most widely admired writer in the world of Iranian culture.
For instance, in 2017, the business expense management app Expensify admitted that it had been using humans to transcribe at least some of the receipts it claimed to process using its "smartscan technology", while Facebook was more open about the fact that a short-lived personal assistant, M, was an explicit blend of human and automatic responses.
The central character is one Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), a paraplegic marine who is assigned to a mining colony on the alien world of Pandora, where he joins a band of nerdy scientists trying to establish friendly relations with the locals; this they hope to achieve by fusing their brains with specially developed beings (the "avatars" of the title) that are a blend of human and alien DNA.
"The process has this interesting blend of human and machine labor," he said.
It has evolved from an initial human-only in-app gig curation to a blend of human and algorithmic recommendation to try to crack the new (live) music discovery problem at scale.
