They're inanimate, they're not alive.

Inanimate objects that might spontaneously synchronize themselves.

Well, the wind is inanimate the dangerous predator is an intentional agent.

Now comes the very risky part of my talk, which is to demonstrate that inanimate things can synchronize.

It has this bizarre, ongoing philosophical project of dividing all the inanimate objects in the world into the ones that either cause or prevent cancer.

Do they not look at Allah's creation, (even) among (inanimate) things, How their (very) shadows turn round, from the right and the left, prostrating themselves to Allah, and that in the humblest manner?

Do they not look at Allah's creation, (even) among (inanimate) things, How their (very) shadows turn round, from the right and the left, prostrating themselves to Allah, and that in the humblest manner?

Aging is basically a process that happens to inanimate objects like cars, and it also happens to us, despite the fact that we have a lot of clever self repair mechanisms, because those self repair mechanisms are not perfect.

Yet Americans pay these trained professionals the same wages paid to those who park our cars, walk our dogs, flip our burgers, and mix our drinks. The implication is clear American children require no more nuanced attention than animals or inanimate objects.