Sam Kean

A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.

American Writer

Guy Fieri

If you are AC/DC, you don't get credit for slow songs. And if you are doing a show about food with a blond dude with crazy blond hair and tattoos who drives a hot rod, of course everyone is going to think everything you eat is deep-fried.

American Businessman

Niko Kovac

You have seen it: You can put something into the world, and all of a sudden, everybody believes that. Like throwing a fishing rod and the fish bite into.

Croatian Athlete

Adam Draper

When we announced that we were going to support Bitcoin companies, we became a great lightning rod for activity and fun.

Penny Lancaster

Rod and I are living a very charmed and fortunate life, and I wouldn't change it for the world.

English Model

Bennett Miller

Kubrick has a divining rod for the concealed, alienating secrets of characters.

American Director

Bebe Buell

Rod Stewart helped me to realize what I didn't want in a boyfriend.

American Model

James Russell Lowell

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

American Poet

Tom Braidwood

Canadian Actor

William Billings

American Composer

A 'rod' is often considered for practical functions, like supporting structures.

Physical Object

'Rod' doesn't imply a specific length or thickness, it varies by context.

Custom Size

'Rod' is frequently used with materials and activities, like fishing or curtain rods.

Common Usage

As a unit of measure, understand 'rod' is historical and not used in modern contexts.

Old Measurement

A 'rod' is longer than a yardstick, consisting of 5.5 yards. Helpful for historical texts.

Length Clarification

'Rod' refers to cells responsible for black and white vision, important in low light.

Human Biology

Don't confuse 'rod' with the cells for color vision, those are 'cones'.

Not Color Vision

To 'spare the rod' refers to avoiding physical punishment, it's a historical idiom.

Outdated Punishment

'Rod' can be used metaphorically to talk about strict discipline or correction.

Disciplinary Metaphor

In machinery, a 'rod' often connects moving parts, crucial for operation.

Mechanical Role

'Rod' in engineering is usually made of strong materials like steel for support and connection.

Industrial Material

 so I didn't want them to put me under anesthesia, or whatever you call it. And so they sewed my face up. And then they had to straighten out my nose, and they took these rods and shoved them up my nose and went up through my brains and felt like it was coming out the top of my head, and everybody said that it should have killed me,

Anna Deavere Smith: Four...

 you could actually just drain the core into what's called a sub-critical setting, basically a tank underneath the reactor that has some neutrons absorbers. And this is really important, because the reaction stops. In this kind of reactor, you can't do that. The fuel, like I said, is ceramic inside zirconium fuel rods,

Taylor Wilson: My...

 feet your bow you have to tape the fiberglass rod otherwise it will crack and split if the economy collapsed you could use this bow to hunt small game kitty cats dogs rats pigeons squirrels doves and all that no bow would be great for security because it's quiet you wouldn't know where the shot came from

Apocalyptic Weaponry PIPE...

 to print in plastic or to print in metal so you have a very different networking structure very different hierarchical structure with the new technology coming in and then you add the third thing which is robots so the stuff that rod Brooks is doing is incredibly important because it's the first uncaged

Rethinking manufacturing...

 That means that you have as many protein molecules in your body as there are stars in the known universe. Now each different cell type in your body makes a different kind of protein, a different set of proteins, like the rods and cones in my eye that are detecting light right now

How mRNA Medicine Will...

 locations of these enlightened districts I think will fail to surprise you we're not talking about Connecticut and the rationale for this behavior is explicitly religious the creator of the universe himself has told us not to spare the rod less we spoil the child

Science can answer moral...

 internal rod they understandably developed sense organs around their front end a related group had bodies that were divided into segments with little projections on either side that helped them to move around on the seafloor some of these segmented

Explaining the Tree of...

 but seen from farther away, it still appears seamless. When stimulated, the rods and cones send signals to the optic nerve and back to the brain. Then, all of that visual information is processed to create the picture you see of the world.

How Your Eyes Make Sense...

 even though the rod was the same temperature each time. Finally, social factors like the availability of family support can affect perception of pain. All of this means that a multi-pronged approach to pain treatment

The mysterious science...

 We're not talking about Connecticut. And the rationale for this behavior is explicitly religious. The creator of the universe himself has told us not to spare the rod, lest we spoil the child --