Graham Collins, 29, an artist from Sunset Park, Brooklyn, and his mother, Diana Collins, 61, were just two of the human distractions.
If you've ever wanted to watch badgers frolic or bats bomb around undisturbed by the usual human distractions, take a night hike into some of the darker corners of Britain.
The dogs were exposed to a sequence of 11 stimuli designed to assess the dogs' reactions to meeting a stranger, obedience commands, body sensitivity, scavenging, and "animal" and human distractions.
An autonomous overtaking system can make, by avoiding the possibility of human driver distraction, overtaking a safe maneuver.
We humans like distractions and easy indulgence.
QUICK SNIFFS Aromatherapy in purse-friendly roller-ball tubes comes from the new company 21 Drops (21Drops.com), which offers 21 blends that address various states of the human condition (congestion, distraction and depression, to name a few).
Intermittent administration of parathyroid hormone (PTH) has an anabolic effect on bone, as confirmed in human osteoporosis studies, distraction osteogenesis, and fracture healing.
For many of us, work is a distraction from human frailty.
Perhaps, then, the approach to this most ultimate of human need is a distraction from what matters most.
Hence perhaps the need for deadline-day thrills, invented human drama, plus endless distractions.
