(1) The nerd may have been more in evidence early on - not least when he was doing his doctorate and ignored the advice of his Nobel prize-winning supervisor, Nikolaas Tinbergen, and opted for a stats fest, "a classic piece of Popperian science", instead of a fluffier study of animal behaviour - but it's still around.
(2) Last, and this is just a hunch as a career-long only-digital nerd: perhaps after more than a decade of digital influx, people are yearning a bit more for the physical, the tangible object, the easy-to-understand.
(3) On 5th Gear, from 2007, he talked about internet nerds reinventing themselves through social media, and offered an intentionally redneck perspective on the battle of the sexes in the deliberately gauche I'm Still a Guy.
(4) But isn't there a bit of him that wants to gloat; to tell all the kids who thought he was a nerd that he's now this babe magnet, this sex god, this… And now he really is flushed and flustered.
(5) This target audience includes not just those young people taking part in state-sponsored sports and defence training or patriotic youth groups, but also nerds who love western videogames and superheroes.
(6) "I'm a nerd who likes to keep his private life private," he said.
(7) Whereas Crow tended to rely on his rhetoric and his street-fighter smarts, Whelan is more of a data nerd – part barrow boy, part actuary.
(8) By the time kids are filling out Ucas forms or heading off to find a living, "computer stuff" has usually been relegated to the otherworldly realm of nerds.
(9) There was already a perception that Ed Miliband was too geeky, too much of an unworldly politics nerd, to have a realistic chance of power.
(10) Worldly-wise but digi-ignorant, the Vaughn-Wilson jock explosion throw in their lot with the socially maladjusted nerdly-wise virgins and soon enough, with the help of code-writing lessons for the oldies and lap dances for the virgin-geeks, they all learn to get along.
(11) And it would be nothing short of condescending for screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and director David Fincher to have concocted some fictional spunky-girl nerd character or a wise female comp sci professor in an attempt to make their film more female-friendly.
(12) "Adam had this typical nerd look: belts, tucked-in shirt.
(13) There are duelling nerds in sports jackets and a panicky associate producer (inevitably and infuriatingly female) who is smarter than her ditzy persona would have you believe.
(14) 2.16pm BST Moyes music I'm something of a music nerd, so do keep the suggestions for Dave's iPod coming.
(15) "Really in those early days the web was just for nerds like me, if you wanted some tech advice or needed to find out how to do something.
(16) And for those who think interplanetary exploration is just nonsense for space nerds, the same lessons could surely be applied closer to home.
(17) So then I grew up and I stopped taking nerd-drugs, and about the same time, Starbucks opened in the UK, whereupon I took to getting double espressos, except they were never big enough.
(18) The open source community are geeks and nerds and they created the current inequality in technology.'
(19) June 18, 2014 2.13pm BST Paul Doyle has spent the last few hours in a dark corner of the office, nerding it up on Mexico goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa.
(20) His conclusion is a call to arms: "We need some angry nerds" – people capable of breaking out of the walled gardens.
Studious
Definition:
(a.) Given to study; devoted to the acquisition of knowledge from books; as, a studious scholar.
(a.) Given to thought, or to the examination of subjects by contemplation; contemplative.
(a.) Earnest in endeavors; aiming sedulously; attentive; observant; diligent; -- usually followed by an infinitive or by of; as, be studious to please; studious to find new friends and allies.
(a.) Planned with study; deliberate; studied.
(a.) Favorable to study; suitable for thought and contemplation; as, the studious shade.
Example Sentences:
(1) V&A museum project boosted by billionaire's donation Read more The studious reproduction of museum exhibits has long been a fundamental part of art education – a means of honing drawing skills and offering deeper ways of looking.
(2) This was an easier job than it might have been because Moore studiously cultivated a bad-boy image via any outlet available to him.
(3) Though the FBI’s request studiously avoids asking Apple to directly decrypt Farook’s data or hand over his key, the debate is the same: can law enforcement compel tech companies to provide the means to access consumers’ data?
(4) Cameron studiously avoided discussing the morality of the Great War, or the long Conservative historiography, including Alan Clark, Niall Ferguson and Andrew Roberts, that has condemned the war as a catastrophic failure by a political and military elite – the conscripted lions notoriously led by the callous and unthinking donkeys dining behind the trenches.
(5) Because the reality is if it were not for the food banks and faith groups plugging the gaps left by the state, we would have had people starving.” In its formal response, the government studiously avoided any references to benefit delays and low pay.
(6) Fifty Shades Of Grey is about a shy, studious, 21-year-old virgin who, in exchange for being repeatedly beaten on the clitoris with a hairbrush, gets an iPad and a go on Christian Grey 's helicopter.
(7) On the poop deck of a party boat puttering slowly out into the Adriatic stands a gently balding and teetotal Canadian in studious specs and sandals.
(8) "The point here, which the government is studiously missing is that the best defence for Britain lies, not in action on the domestic front, but on the international one.
(9) Linehan wrote the script with the memory of the film ringing in his head rather than studiously watching it again and again.
(10) First, the TV White House has studiously avoided taking sides in the clash.
(11) We had been studiously avoiding coverage of Madonna's latest trip to Malawi, but such is the deliciousness of the excoriating 11-point press release put out yesterday by Joyce Banda that we couldn't resist wading in.
(12) Felipe has spent most of his last days as prince studiously working on his first speech to the nation as king, according to reports.
(13) A studious man in his 60s, Ramsey has spent decades collecting more than 27,000 samples of narcotics, which he has meticulously catalogued, labelled and hidden away in huge sliding drawers.
(14) Vieira is a more studious figure than Gullit of course, and comes steeped in the ways of the CFG project.
(15) A studious, intellectually inclined teenager, he was a devoted fan of the recently inaugurated Third Programme.
(16) They met as undergraduates in the humanities department at Columbia University and the studiousness remains.
(17) The issue of sanctions was just one where Trump – who made reference to his Scottish mother – and May studiously avoided overt disagreement.
(18) Fears and hopes of how a Corbyn victory will change British politics Read more To the relief of the southern middle classes, the chancellor announces, with a sideways glance at Corbyn, whose expression is studiously neutral, that there is to be no increase in the top rate of taxation.
(19) National anthems to be sung, crowd posturing to be done, huddles to be had, NFL field markings to be studiously ignored (I mean, really?
(20) He studiously ignored reporters as his hands became smeared with blue ink from the pictures and stickers thrust his way to sign.