She had a broad fascination for science, foci including her encyclopedic knowledge of plants and wildlife.
But, since past is prologue, the broader fascination lies with the story of CIA backing for the Afghan mujahideen before, during and after the anti-Soviet war - the agency's golden opportunity to give Moscow its own Vietnam quagmire.
I'll describe the Uncanny in plain language, trace its origins back to Descartes and medieval automata, and show how it relates to our contemporary human fear and fascination with a broad variety of technologies from AI to cosmetics to robots to Siri to Google Glass to zombies.
The broader background is modernism's fascination with all things perceived as primitive.
Undoubtedly this technique originally arose in the broader scientific community through a fascination with understanding synchronisation in networks of interacting heterogeneous oscillators, and can be traced back to the work of Huygens on "an odd kind of sympathy" between coupled pendulum clocks [1].
This fascination with American culture, in the broadest sense of that term, is part of what Joseph Nye, dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, calls America's "soft power".
Apatow decided to take the chance, hoping to marry Wiig's sharp sense of character and fascination with minute human details to the broad, bawdy set pieces and fail-safe physical comedy he is known for.
I'd spent some time looking at the space, and thought TBD was the best designed site, avoiding Eons age restrictions and fascination with death and building something a bit broader than Gather.
And Mendelssohn's fascination with Baroque music — captured in this Bachian, if broad-boned, Prelude and Fugue — made his appearance here seem thematically apt, if peripheral.
The fascination with Iraq has not gone away, enabling educators to stimulate even broader interest in international affairs, many teachers say.
Merriam-Webster's Peter Sokolowski gamely tried to explain our fascination with the meaning of "science":It is a word that is connected to broad cultural dichotomies: observation and intuition, evidence and tradition.
