Bennett Miller

Silence is absorption, and when you're watching a film and you're that quiet and you're that still, at least from my experience of watching films, that indicates an absorption, where you're really in the moment. You're really present. What you're seeing is vital to you in that moment, and it's tingling, and it's alive, and it matters.

American Director

Paul Bloom

If our moral attitudes are entirely the result of nonrational factors, such as gut feelings and the absorption of cultural norms, they should either be stable or randomly drift over time, like skirt lengths or the widths of ties. They shouldn't show systematic change over human history. But they do.

Canadian Psychologist

Travis Bradberry

Drinking lemon water as soon as you wake up spikes your energy levels physically and mentally. Lemon water gives you steady, natural energy that lasts the length of the day by improving nutrient absorption in your stomach.

American Author

Suzanne Somers

When your body absorbs toxins, it stores them in fat, which is why fiber and probiotics are strategic weapons for weight loss. Fiber keeps your colon healthy and reduces your body's absorption of toxins.

American Actress

John Darnielle

I am permanently a student of people who make great songs, but besides sort of learning by absorption, I just love listening to music, hearing what's going on, hearing new things or new old things.

American Musician

Harold E. Varmus

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

American Scientist

Andrew Weil

We have known for many years that we need vitamin D to facilitate calcium absorption and promote bone mineralization.

Arundhati Bhattacharya

It is important to create credit absorption capacity rather than to just enhance lending targets.

Indian Businesswoman

George Pierce Baker

Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.

American Educator

Wilfrid Laurier

Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion.

Canadian Statesman

Absorption here implies a physical process, involving direct contact between materials.

Physical Presence

When discussing absorption, think of materials like sponge, not solid objects like metal.

Porous Materials

Absorption describes a gradual process - it takes time for substances to be absorbed.

Not Instantaneous

This definition highlights mental involvement and focus when learning or experiencing something.

Mental Engagement

Absorption in this context suggests a deep level of concentration, blocking out distractions.

Deep Focus

Used often in scientific discussions to describe how energy changes form due to material properties.

Scientific Context

Energy absorption might not be visible to the naked eye, unlike material absorption.

Not Always Visible

Refers specifically to how organisms take in substances necessary for growth and maintenance.

Biological Process

Emphasizes the role of absorption in the effectiveness of medicines and nutritional supplements.

Health Relevance

 Fruits, vegetables, whole wheat flour, brown rice, in their natural forms, are rich in fiber. The fiber fills you up before you get too many calories and it slows the absorption, so you don't get that rapid rise in blood sugar. And you get all the disease-protective substances. It's not just what you exclude from your diet,

Dean Ornish: Healing...

 These lines are the characteristic fingerprints of atoms. Each type of atom in the solar atmosphere soaks up light at specific wavelengths, and the amount of absorption depends on how many of these atoms there are. So by observing how much light is missing at these characteristic wavelengths,

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 It's that state of total absorption in an activity. For you, it might be cooking or running or gardening where you lose track of time and you might even lose your sense of self. Flow is the appeal of a Netflix binge because you get transported into a different world and immersed in a story.

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 talking about decommissioned oil wells rather than scrap them as most regulations require we could apply a wave or tidal energy to prevent corrosion and to provide an alkaline boost to counterbalance the ocean acidification caused by carbon absorption it's a great per McTwist my

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 Endorphins help us to calm down in response to stress or danger. Elevated levels of endorphins contribute to the euphoria and relaxation associated with alcohol consumption. Finally, as the liver’s breakdown of alcohol outpaces the brain’s absorption, drunkenness fades away.

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 Living systems are in constant conversation with the natural world, through sets of chemical reactions called metabolism. And this is the conversion of one group of substances into another, either through the production or the absorption of energy.

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 Much like we did just a few minutes ago. Using our devices, we could stimulate the stomach to tackle nausea or influence satiety or the intestine to change the way we digest things like glucose by affecting absorption of nutrients in food.

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 Scratchy, hard stool is, to put it mildly, unpleasant. It also increases bacterial mass. The water and bacteria together increase the bulk of the stool, which helps it move along. Fiber also slows absorption of sugars into the bloodstream

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 a history of conquest, occupation, absorption, assimilation and so on, led to the process by which, over time, this notion of the Han emerged -- of course, nurtured by a growing and very powerful sense of cultural identity.

Understanding the rise...

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