This sort of news – seemingly definitive and seemingly catastrophic – is akin to learning that the Great Firewall exists at all.
Seemingly simple but infinitely complex, Cornells device is akin to an ordinary sand timer, yet it encapsulates vast worlds and complex ideas.
In reality, any attempt to even discuss the problem is met with, in my experience and seemingly that of others too, a wall of silence akin to people sticking their fingers in their ears and humming loudly.
Cosmetic dentistry procedures — teeth whitening and straightening, veneers, bonding — have become commonplace in the U.S. and, seemingly, mandatory in Southern California, where image enhancement is something akin to religion.
Participant 13 expressed ambivalence about self-blame, seemingly unwilling to rationally blame herself but feeling something akin to it: I don't know if I was blaming…I wasn't blaming myself but I still felt in some way a bit useless about it.
The whole seemingly endless discussion about purported risks of GM crops is akin to the famous Monty Python sketch in which John Cleese is trying to return a dead parrot to shopkeeper Michael Palin, who, despite the evidence, insists that the bird is well, alive and "pining for the fjords".
It's akin to analyzing DNA to find out that two seemingly unrelated species are actually close cousins.
His work is akin to being on a socio-historical waltzer, as seemingly disparate concepts and historical incidents are dazzlingly threaded together by portentous archive clips.
Our seemingly separate human minds are dissociated personalities of this universal mind, akin to the multiple personalities of a person with Dissociative Identity Disorder.
In the only previous report of gap detection in ferrets, Kelly et al. (1996) tested two animals on a battery of stimuli akin to the conditions used here, with one case seemingly displaying a frequency-dependent enhancement for bandpassed noise stimuli centered at frequencies above 8 kHz, whereas the other animal yielded consistent thresholds across all tested frequencies.
