That has pushed banks and a growing number of hedge funds to hire more energy traders and brainy quantitative minds to back their bets on energy prices.
If she was almost aggressively brainy, Mr. Pilafian united mind and body by dancing precisely structured, yet exuberant, dance phrases and assigning each of them a number.
What really excites Schmidt, and where he's putting some of brainy Google's best minds, are the smallest things of all: virtual golf games, flight simulators and hotties in a security box.
After two days of committee meetings, teaching — which includes student ensembles and his graduate seminar, called "Theorizing Improvisation," which has readings from sociology, cognitive science, anthropology, and cultural studies — and dealing with brainy kids who have avid minds, he is worn out.
His music tastes include heavy metal, especially groups like Threshold, a English band that displays a talent for brainy lyrics that stimulate the mind even as it punishes eardrums.
Regarding Crookes, the magician Harry Houdini wrote: There is not the slightest doubt in my mind that this brainy man was hoodwinked, and that his confidence was betrayed by the so-called mediums that he tested.
Luckily, the minds of Ken and Greg Aspeslagh were brainy enough to figure out some hacks that enable video conferencing on the iPhone.
A mash-up of meditation and neuroscience, it aims to help Google's brainy overachievers learn to calm their minds on demand and build inner joy while succeeding at work.
Ryman's is a kind of mute art that, generating reverent and brainy chatter, puts uninitiated citizens in mind of the emperor's new clothes.
Liebling, who started out "Abbott" and eventually insisted on "Joe," was the sort of brainy child who did not seem to mind that he was neither handsome nor athletic.
The despair of her traditional parents, Mulan is a brainy tomboy who's unafraid of speaking her mind yet worries about not being appreciated.
