The rituals survive despite seeming irrational because they are coded in parts of our brains, which are designed by evolution not to think about reasons.
The particular gene seems to code for a protein involved in making red blood cells and regulating the body's aerobic and anaerobic metabolism.So much for the science.
And like it, they did — lines stretched to the yellow mini-city installation piece that seemed to be in a different ZIP code from the Outdoor stage.
When the iPhone appeared I did not switch, because mandatory App Store signing to execute code seemed like a major step in the war on general computation.
Lawrence H. Summers, the former Treasury secretary and former president of Harvard, pressed this point at a seminar at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where top officials from Russia, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait said such a code seemed unnecessary in light of their track records of abstaining from political interference.
If you've scanned a QR code before, the idea will seem similar: see a code in, say, a magazine, open a scanner (built into the Amazon app), line up your camera with the code, and… something happens.
Code, in a nutshell, is computer language.
These youth also seemed to develop a deeper interest in coding potentially due to this greater level of exposure.
Conversion from noncoding to coding seems too unlikely an event to happen in a single evolutionary step.
They were polite with me, and their conversation was as dully transactional as any in my house, yet in their clipped, swallowed voices they seemed to talk in code above my head.
