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The rivalry has intensified when Indians closer Chris Perez used WWE star John Cena's signature " You can't see me " hand gesture towards KC outfielder Jarrod Dyson after striking him out in a game on May 28, 2012.
Dyson has lived in Princeton, New Jersey, for over fifty years.
Dyson has six children, two of them ( Esther and George ) with his first wife, mathematician Verena Huber-Dyson, and the other four with his second wife, Imme Dyson, a masters runner who married him in 1958.
Although Dyson has won numerous scientific awards, he has never won a Nobel Prize, which has led Nobel physics laureate Steven Weinberg to state that the Nobel committee has " fleeced " Dyson.
Dyson recognized the formula as the pair correlation function of the Gaussian unitary ensemble, which has been extensively studied by physicists.
Dyson has published a number of collections of speculations and observations about technology, science, and the future.
The general concept of such an energy-transferring shell had been advanced decades earlier by author Olaf Stapledon in his 1937 novel Star Maker, a source that Dyson has credited publicly.
Dyson has also proposed the creation of a Dyson tree, a genetically-engineered plant capable of growing on a comet.
Dyson has been interested in space travel since he was a child, reading such science fiction classics as Olaf Stapledon's Star Maker.
Dyson also has proposed the use of bioengineered space colonies to colonize the Kuiper Belt on the outer edge of our Solar System.
Dyson also has some credits in pure mathematics.
Dyson has suggested a kind of cosmic metaphysics of mind.
Dyson agrees that anthropogenic global warming exists, and has written that " ne of the main causes of warming is the increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere resulting from our burning of fossil fuels such as oil and coal and natural gas.
Since originally taking interest in climate studies in the 1970s, Dyson has suggested that carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere could be controlled by planting fast-growing trees.
Dyson is well-aware that his " heresy " on global warming has been strongly criticized.

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" I have the sense that when consensus is forming like ice hardening on a lake, Dyson will do his best to chip at the ice ," physics Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg said of him.
Oppenheimer rewarded Dyson with a lifetime appointment at the Institute for Advanced Study, " for proving me wrong ," Oppenheimer said.
He showed his formula to the mathematician Atle Selberg who said it looked like something in mathematical physics and he should show it to Dyson, which he did.
When a general said in a meeting " We should throw in a nuke once in a while to keep the other side guessing ," Dyson became alarmed and obtained permission to write an objective report discussing the pros and cons of using such weapons from a purely military point of view.
* The anthropic fine tuning of the universe: He quotes with approval Freeman Dyson, who said " the more I examine the universe and the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were coming " and suggests there is a wide consensus amongst physicists that either there are a very large number of other universes in the Multiverse or that " there is just one universe which is the way it is in its anthropic fruitfulness because it is the expression of the purposive design of a Creator, who has endowed it with the finely tuned potentialty for life.
Freeman Dyson said of Taylor, " Very few people have Ted's imagination.
Carroll Dyson, a retired pilot and Henderson County resident interviewed by the Houston Press, said in 2009 that the lake attracted " white flight " from metropolitan areas.
Dyson said, " I'm flying!
Mrs. Dyson, whose memory was certainly eccentric — she could not, she said, remember the year in which she had been married — was obliged to admit that she had been in the habit of going to Peace's house, that she had been alone with him to public-houses and places of entertainment, and that she and Peace had been photographed together during the summer fair at Sheffield.
Confronted with a little girl and a man, whom Mr. Lockwood suggested she had employed to carry notes to Peace, Mrs. Dyson said that these were merely receipts for pictures which he had framed for her.
The Judge ruled that both the card and the letters were inadmissible, as irrelevant to the issue ; Mr. Lockwood had, he said, very properly cross-examined Mrs. Dyson on these letters to test her credibility, but he was bound by her answers and could not contradict her by introducing them as evidence in the case.
He said that Mr. Lockwood had been perfectly justified in his attempt to discredit the evidence of Mrs. Dyson, but the case did not rest on her evidence alone.
In March 2011, the founder and current managing director of Dyson ( Sir James Dyson ) gave an interview to the Sunday Times newspaper in the UK ; he said that foreign students take the science and technology knowledge home with them after completing their studies.
Dyson said some overseas students continue to pose a threat even after leaving the UK.
David Willetts, the government minister responsible for British universities, said he will thoroughly investigate the statement provided by James Dyson.
However, Phillips ' faculty advisor Freeman Dyson, a renowned physicist, and professor Harold Feiveson, who held the seminar, said Phillips ' design was not functional.

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* J. D. Dyson, Determination of the Phase Center and Phase Patterns of Antennas ,” in Radio Antennas for Aircraft and Aerospace Vehicles, W. T. Blackband ( ed.
Titans coach Jeff Fisher had not assumed that the Kicking Team would make such a critical error, he was concerned that as Dyson closed on the Bill s end-zone, he would be tackled by the Bill s defensive backs near the goal line ; but, after time had expired, as Dyson had used it up, during the long ” run to the end-zone.
* Robert H. Dyson, Early Work on the Acropolis at Susa.

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Because it is only a partial Dyson sphere, it can be viewed as an intermediary between Type I and Type II.
Well-known recipients include Nobel laureates Robert Andrews Millikan, Edward M. Purcell, Richard Feynman, Isidor I. Rabi, Norman F. Ramsey, Hans Bethe, and Carl Wieman ; as well as Arnold Sommerfeld, George Uhlenbeck, Jerrold Zacharias, Philip Morrison, Melba Phillips, Victor Weisskopf, Gerald Holton, John A. Wheeler, Frank Oppenheimer, Robert Resnick, Carl Sagan, Freeman Dyson, Daniel Kleppner, and Lawrence Krauss, and Anthony French, David Hestenes, Robert Karplus, Robert Pohl, and Francis Sears.

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Dyson's eternal intelligence concept ( the Dyson Scenario ) states that intelligent beings would be able to think an infinite number of thoughts in an open universe.

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Basic's list of authors includes Christopher Andrew, Anthony Appiah, Isaac Asimov, Robert Axelrod, Susan R. Barry, Daniel Bell, John Bradshaw, Allan Brandt, Richard Brookhiser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, William F. Buckley, Stephen Carter, Iris Chang, George Chauncey, Stephanie Coontz, Dinesh D Souza, Devra Davis, Richard Dawkins, Hernando de Soto, Jared Diamond, Michael Eric Dyson, Thomas B. Edsall, Richard Evans, Graham Farmelo, Niall Ferguson, Richard Feynman, Richard Florida, Robin Lane Fox, Sigmund Freud, Howard Gardner, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Clifford Geertz, George Gilder, Barry Glassner, Robert Harms, Judith L. Herman, Christopher Hitchens, Douglas Hofstadter, Samuel P. Huntington, Jacqueline Jones, June Jordan, Leszek Kołakowski, Lawrence Krauss, Irving Kristol, George Lakoff, Edward Larson, Christopher Lasch, Mary Lefkowitz, Lawrence Lessig, Claude Levi-Strauss, Bernard Lewis, Robert Jay Lifton, Jeff Madrick, Nelson Mandela, Benoit Mandelbrot, Ernst Mayr, Walter A. McDougall, John McWhorter, Dana Milbank, Alice Miller, Walter Mosley, Charles Murray, Richard John Neuhaus, Donald Norman, Robert Nozick, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., James T. Patterson, Orlando Patterson, Jean Piaget, Steven Pinker, Karl Popper, Samantha Power, Diane Ravitch, Eugene Rogan, Juliet Schor, Brent Scowcroft, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Lee Smolin, Timothy Snyder, Thomas Sowell, Ian Stewart, Cass Sunstein, Beverly Daniel Tatum, Lester Thurow, Sherry Turkle, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Michael Walzer, Elizabeth Warren, George Weigel, Steven Weinberg, Cornel West, Frank Wilczek, A. N.
A key feature was Dyson s cartoons, which made a contribution to the paper s political tone.
As Titans ' coach Jeff Fisher pointed out, the original objective of the play was not to achieve a direct score ( a touchdown ); it was to have the receiver ( Dyson ) advance the ball into the range of Del Greco, the Titans placekicker.
To do this, Dyson would have to advance the ball to a down-field spot well within the kicker s range.
Fisher later stated that as the play continued with Dyson getting closer to the Bills end zone, he was concerned that Dyson would be tackled without scoring with no time remaining.
Their total concentration on Wycheck s right sideline run, left not only the left side-line of the field undefended ( all the way to the end-zone ); it also meant, that all of the defensive-backs on the kicking team, were completely out of position to make any serious attempt to over-haul and catch, a starting NFL wide-receiver ( e. g., Dyson ).
They were not only too far away from him, their closing intercept angle on him ( because they were on the other side of the field ), was simply too wide for them to close the gap, between themselves and Dyson, before he reached Buffalo s end-zone.
As Dyson himself later commented, if he, a starting NFL wide receiver, could not outrun a place kicker, he didn t belong in the NFL.
Dyson s founder, James Dyson, famously created 5, 127 prototypes of his first machine, the vacuum cleaner, in a workshop behind his house, before developing one that he considered worked perfectly, the DC01.
Manufacturing companies like Hoover didn t want to license the design, probably because the vacuum bag market was worth $ 500m so the Dyson was a threat to their profits.
Even though market research showed that people wouldn t be happy with a transparent container for the dust, Dyson and his team decided to make a transparent container anyway and this turned out to be a popular and enduring feature which has been heavily copied.
The ruling rejected Dyson s claim that the Vax Mach Zen had infringed one of its registered designs.
Hannah Dyson's Ordeal is a video reconstruction of 1842 surgery, before anaesthetics were in use: visitors watch as a surgeon, his assistant and a group of trainee doctors prepare for Hannah Dyson s operation-the amputation of her leg after it was crushed in a mill accident.
Dyson was a visiting lecturer and research associate at Western Washington University's Fairhaven College and was Director s Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, in 2002-03.
In the early days of European settlement, a timber miller named James Dyson worked in the area, and thus it became known as Dyson s Swamp.
He s recently adapted Franz Kafka s The Trial with Jeremy Dyson for the BBC.

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