Sapien

Homo-Sapien is a bad construction project, with too few engineers, or too many.

Subjective Age, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Abe Sapien is not a psychic in the comic book series; psychic powers are an sf trope I've never cared for, and I didn't like it when they made Abe a psychic (or an empath or whatever they're calling it) in the first movie, but the use of his powers in Hellboy II is minimal but well placed.

Movie Review: Hellboy II: The Golden Army 2008

In the movie, Abe Sapien is this fastidious fishman, but in the comics (and the animated versions), he's very much the badass, running the BPRD with his wits and tough attitude.

...um, Hellboy? Witches? Conan? wendigomountain 2008

Abe Sapien is especially fascinating, a combination of costume and computer-generated imagery that is even more realistic-looking than Hellboy himself.

Simple Tricks and Nonsense: Movie Review: Hellboy 2004

FDA approved the valve, called Sapien, for patients too sick for valve replacement surgery.

Edwards Lifesciences's Less-Invasive Heart Valve Approved by FDA Anjali Athavaley 2011

The Edwards device, called Sapien, is implanted into the heart using a catheter.

Forbes.com: News Matthew Herper 2011

The panel earlier voted 7-3 that the Irvine, California-based company's valve, called Sapien, is safe and 9-1 that it is effective.

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Edwards, based in Irvine, California, expects U.S. sales of the valve, called Sapien, to reach as much as $25 million in the first three months after its debut and $150 million to $250 million in the first full year, Mike Mussallem, chairman and chief executive officer, said Oct. 19 on an earnings call.

BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

The device, called Sapien and made by Edwards Lifesciences of Irvine, Calif., caused more strokes than the traditional surgery to replace an aortic valve, but less bleeding.

Forbes.com: News Matthew Herper 2011

We must write the script for the next chapter of the Homo Sapien Story as we transition to what Leary called Homo-Universalis and Homo-Cyberneticus.

Jason Silva: The Performing Philosophers Jason Silva 2011