Notwithstanding Georgia's pro-gun conservatism, the proliferation of mass shootings has nudged many suburban women with conservative fiscal tendencies to embrace stricter gun laws.
Taiwan will witness something few could have predicted later this month, when 60 lesbian couples will take part in a mass wedding, as a nudge to its government to legalise gay marriage.
The process could help nudge nanotechnology towards industrial mass production.Tobias Kraus, of IBM's Research Laboratories in Zurich, Switzerland, and his colleagues have come up with a technique based on screen printing, which uses a stencil and paint to create an image.
I came to this work as a way to thread together my love for literature and my desire to nudge the culture of mass incarceration toward a less punitive, more humanizing system.
This plugs the brand and nudges people to trade up, from homebrew to mass-produced beer and finally to premium brands.Some fret that brewers' sexy ads promote alcohol abuse.
Netflix and Amazon understand this paradigm shift and are gently nudging people in this direction, even as the masses still cling to their lighter cable subscriptions, and the cord cutters to their TV antennas.
It may be part of the nudge we need to compel the masses from their desk-chairs and to start reclaiming the web we want.
In a current set of experiments at a research reactor 8 kilometers from the main compound, physicists slowly nudge radioactive materials together, edging toward a critical mass--the point at which a chain reaction begins.
But with the slightest nudge he agreed when his self-abnegating housemates suggested a mass walkout.
Drawing his finger across the screen, he nudged the lever bars to indicate attributes like body mass, aggressiveness, windpipe length, wetness, screechiness, harshness.
