It is essentially a modified hot-air popcorn popper, with an added nifty chamber which collects the chaff from the coffee beans as they roast. |
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Each year I wait until no-one is expecting it before letting off a party popper at the dinner table. |
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It was a picture of a pint of black liquid shaped to resemble a party popper and a message saying simply St Patrick's Day March 16th underneath. |
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The blouse I wore was crisp and white, cuffed, predictably, below my elbows, and unbuttoned only down to the second popper. |
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In many respects the modern shootist has many things in common with the brush popper of the past. |
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The extremely practical and funky knee length side zips with popper storm flaps allow ankles to be aired and calves exposed. |
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It's also possible that an Apatosaurus tail had a highly flexible extension, equivalent to a bullwhip's popper. |
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I saw only one plastic party popper stranded on the sand after last night, but then, most of the fireworks were in people's backyards. |
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As she walked into the kitchen he was just in the process of heaping handfuls of the kernels into the corn popper that was already heated up. |
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Some severely infected seeds look scorched, as if someone mistook them for popcorn and threw them in a popper. |
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Last night our popcorn popper blew up right in front of me in a explosion of blue flashes, sparks and a noise like grinding gears. |
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Caught by rush of tide pouring through the channel, line and popper were swept along, with me frantically untangling the mess of fly-line. |
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And this little popper can't do anything but blow a few gusts of air around. |
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Then it's not a bad idea to put on a surface popper and troll that through the surface film. |
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He caught several fish, learnt a lot about the fish, the flies and when to use surface fished popper, floating flies or sunk flies. |
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She laughed evilly and showed a party popper that had been hidden in her hand. |
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Fans want to see old-style, string-backed, leather-palmed driving gloves that fasten at the wrist with a silver popper. |
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Easily persuaded, I went in to make some delicious air-popped popcorn in our vintage 1980s air popper. |
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So I stowed the fly rod and began firing long casts along the tidal flat, briskly retrieving the popper like a fleeing needlefish. |
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If everyone chips in, they can get a movie, popcorn, popper and sodas for far less than it would cost to go to the theatre. |
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Plus, the popcorn popper will still be there to save them even more money next time around! |
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The popper buttons underneath the stomach make this dress easy to put on and take off. |
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He had stocked up on several bags of chips, a few chocolate-covered candy bars, and two bags of instant popcorn, not caring that he didn't have a popper. |
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Whilst he is hardly conscious off stage, Tom, not averse to the odd popper or pill thrill, tries to grab Sarah and, I do not kid you, dies in the attempt. |
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It features a litte bear stitchery, hooped arms, soft rib cuffs, popper opening with nickel-free fasteners and a concealed backside zipper. |
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The shot must be fired from the shooting location in the course of fire furthest from the popper being calibrated. |
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A funky and simple way to carry around your Walkman® phone with its stereo headphones, the IPC-40 has a popper fastening for easy access. |
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Enter a pre-historic world full of rolling stones and thunderous cheer for a modern marble popper. |
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As she walked into the kitchen The Captain was just in the process of heaping handfuls of the kernels into the corn popper that was already heated up. |
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Incredibly soft long sleeved bodysuit with hoops, little print and popper opening for easy dressing and nappy changing. |
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The popper involves one can of Sofia and a big shot of Patron Silver Tequila. |
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I tried to extricate myself from the situation by explaining that I'm not a great pill popper or user of lotions, unctions and potions. |
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For initial calibration, each popper must be set to fall when hit within the calibration zone with a single shot fired from a Production Division handgun. |
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Popcorn can be made in an air popper or in a pot with a little bit of oil. |
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A popper would glug, glug, glug as it pushed water out of its path on the retrieve and then erupt in a splash of teeth and gill rakers flaring like a bad monster movie. |
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So far I've been on the party popper, black feather and milk bottle tours. |
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I suppose a party popper might, at a pinch, startle a police horse. |
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Maybe it was just a party popper exploding When Happy Birthday the Gods sang Or was that really the birth of the universe Many billions of years ago? |
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Surely, in these egalitarian times, even this single far-flung worker shouldn't be denied his fun day and at least get a party popper in the post? |
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Police believe a party popper may be behind a bomb scare west of Brisbane. |
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Thus for Popper the logic of science is exclusively the deductive logic of empirical refutation. |
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Popper consistently has opposed the appeal to inductive arguments to justify hypotheses. |
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By juxtaposing Popper against Nietzsche, I would outline an abductive system which connects individual perspectivism with scientific reality. |
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According to the eminent modern philosopher Karl Popper, the defining characteristic of science is that its assertions are falsifiable. |
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Karl Popper long ago argued that empirical observations can never truly confirm a theory, they can only falsify or fail to falsify it. |
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Like William James, Popper was an indeterminist who saw history as a series of unforeseeable events. |
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In his writings Karl Popper questioned the positivism and teleological historicism of the modern age. |
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Some versions even have Popper and Wittgenstein duelling with a pair of pokers. |
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Since his undergraduate days Hawking has been a keen follower of the philosopher Karl Popper. |
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The truth is that, the milieu in which Popper grew up was militantly secular. |
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The masterwork of the great philosopher of science, Karl Popper, was titled Conjectures and Refutations. |
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Popper may have exterminated some beneficial insects together with harmful ones. |
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Popper defined the sharpest demarcation between science and metaphysics, defining testability as the criterion of demarcation. |
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Things improved after Popper challenged the leader of the roughnecks to a boxing match. |
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It's not so much that Popper disagreed with Carnap and other inductivists as that he restated their views in a bizarre and cumbersome terminology. |
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In fact it is difficult to imagine anyone more divorced from the spirit of the Jazz Age than the priggish, puritanical, non-smoking, non-drinking young Popper. |
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But I think Popper may have wanted to find out criteria of demarcation between science and such pseudosciences as astrology and Freudian psychoanalysis. |
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The simplest mathematical formulation that Popper gives of this concept can be found in the tenth chapter of Conjectures and Refutations. |
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Popper writes of learning in 1935 of the consequences of Tarski's theory, to his intense joy. |
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The new Ground Strike Belly Dancer and Prairie Popper Targets are spring mounted to a steel stand that can be pushed into the ground for use. |
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Popper also wrote extensively against the famous Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. |
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Popper criticised Compton's idea of amplified quantum events affecting the decision. |
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The failure of democratic parties to prevent fascism from taking over Austrian politics in the 1920s and 1930s traumatised Popper. |
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Julius Popper, a Romanian explorer, was one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the region. |
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Popper and his wife chose not to have children because of the circumstances of war in the early years of their marriage. |
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The remaining parts of the estate were mostly transferred to The Karl Popper Charitable Trust. |
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In 1919, Popper became attracted by Marxism and subsequently joined the Association of Socialist School Students. |
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Popper and John Eccles speculated on the problem of free will for many years, generally agreeing on an interactionist dualist theory of mind. |
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Hume's problem of induction was also of fundamental importance to the philosophy of Karl Popper. |
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Berkeley's Razor is a rule of reasoning proposed by the philosopher Karl Popper in his study of Berkeley's key scientific work De Motu. |
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Philips, Karl Popper, Lionel Robbins, Susan Strange, Bob Ward and Charles Webster. |
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In his early years Popper was impressed by Marxism, whether of Communists or socialists. |
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Writers of philosophy include Ernst Mach, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Karl Popper and the members of the Vienna circle. |
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In effect, Popper agreed with some of the points of both creationists and naturalists, but also disagreed with both views on crucial aspects. |
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For Popper, theories are accepted or rejected via a sort of selection process. |
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Popper never invented this criterion to give justifiable use of words like science. |
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In this context, passages written by Popper are frequently quoted in which he speaks about such issues himself. |
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In fact, Popper says at the beginning of Logic of Scientific Discovery that it is not his aim to define science, and that science can in fact be defined quite arbitrarily. |
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The Stir Crazy Deluxe, right, and the Air Crazy Popper both come in bold colors, and come with features designed to add ease and convenience to popcorn making. |
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The film opens in 1976 with young, rosycheeked Tommy Popper communicating with his explorer father in Antarctica using a CB radio and the handles Tippytoes and Bald Eagle. |
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Granted rights by the Argentine government to exploit any gold deposits he found in Tierra del Fuego, Popper has been identified as a central figure in the Selk'nam Genocide. |
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In addition to physicists, Austria was the birthplace of two of the most noteworthy philosophers of the 20th century, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper. |
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Accounts vary as to what happened next, but Wittgenstein apparently started waving a hot poker, demanding that Popper give him an example of a moral rule. |
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Charles Taylor accuses Popper of exploiting his worldwide fame as an epistemologist to diminish the importance of philosophers of the 20th century continental tradition. |
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Popper also had long and mutually influential friendships with art historian Ernst Gombrich, biologist Peter Medawar, and neuroscientist John Carew Eccles. |
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When he gave the second Arthur Holly Compton Memorial Lecture in 1965, Popper revisited the idea of quantum indeterminacy as a source of human freedom. |
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Popper postulates that such purely behavioural changes are less likely to be lethal for the organism compared to drastic changes of the phenotype. |
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For Popper, metaphysical and historical indeterminism go hand in hand. |
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Popper considered historicism to be the theory that history develops inexorably and necessarily according to knowable general laws towards a determinate end. |
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Popper argued strongly against the latter, holding that scientific theories are abstract in nature, and can be tested only indirectly, by reference to their implications. |
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Although it's known that Popper worked as an office boy at the communist headquarters, whether or not he ever became a communist member is unclear. |
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Karl's father Simon Siegmund Carl Popper was a lawyer from Bohemia and a doctor of law at the Vienna University, and mother Jenny Schiff was of Silesian and Hungarian descent. |
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