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  • The golden "sensu" will go on sale from June 26, and will be adorned with a gold leaf containing 94% pure gold.

    Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion 2009

  • (wind bells), "sensu" (fans), and a golden beer tankard, each crafted from generous amounts of the company's trademark precious metals.

    Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion 2009

  • This is only the second time I've tried to do "zombies," sensu Romero et al., for the digest, and we'll see how it goes.

    Now, that was unexpected... nineweaving 2009

  • Since I've chosen a first-person narrative for "Bradbury Weather," I've also chosen to create an epistolary narrative, sensu lato.

    "So, you can make me cum. That doesn't make you Jesus." greygirlbeast 2009

  • The Dmanisi hominids are among the most primitive individuals so far attributed to H. erectus or to any species that is indisputably Homo, and it can be argued that this population is closely related to Homo habilis sensu stricto as known from Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, Koobi Fora in northern Kenya, and possibly Hadar in Ethiopia.

    The Panda's Thumb: Transitional Fossils Archives 2010

  • The Dmanisi hominids are among the most primitive individuals so far attributed to H. erectus or to any species that is indisputably Homo, and it can be argued that this population is closely related to Homo habilis sensu stricto as known from Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, Koobi Fora in northern Kenya, and possibly Hadar in Ethiopia.

    The Panda's Thumb: Jim Foley Archives 2010

  • What is worse, the usurping of the scientific method, and of justified scientific scepticism, by political policies and political propaganda could well damage science sensu lato - never mind just climate science - in the public eye for decades.

    By the waters of denial they sit and weep... 2010

  • The páramo sensu strictu has a predominance of scrublands and low shrubs and the superpáramo has grasses in cushions with scant coverage.

    Santa Marta páramo 2008

  • What is worse, the usurping of the scientific method, and of justified scientific scepticism, by political policies and political propaganda could well damage science sensu lato - never mind just climate science - in the public eye for decades.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2010

  • Rather than looking at a handful of traits or casually declaring australopiths to be apes, the present study has supported the separate classification of humans genus Homo sensu lato and as many as three groups containing australopith taxa, based on a suite of characters selected from conventional paleoanthropology studies.

    Creationist vs. creationist on Homo habilis - The Panda's Thumb 2010

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