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...think they almost get gleeful, they get so excited. Instead of writing these trite papers or looking at a microscope, they see it in some beautiful form. It’s almost this mirror of their inspiration back at them.”Much of his work features round, globular shapes that evoke lava lamp goo given a Salvador Dalí treatment—a look and feel that Knep describes as “organic.” He often mimics the shapes of cell organelles or other microscopic biological structures, as in “Drift?...
...face in the fireplace. The movie strikes black gold with Alistair ?Mad-Eye? Moody, Hogwarts? new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. Played by Brendan Gleeson with a swagger and spume not seen since Robert Newton?s Long John Silver (another charming dastard), Mad-Eye has a globular left orb that stares skeptically, maniacally, at all it surveys. He seems both amiable and deranged, as when he gestures to a steamer trunk whose contents are frantically rattling and says, ?I won?t even tell you what?s in there.? (We?ll find out later...
...worm or man--often share structural characteristics that are reflected in the genes that encode them. Structural biologist Stephen Burley of Rockefeller University estimates that the maximum number of distinct shapes may be as few as 5,000. The NIGMS hopes to construct a lexicon of shapes--barrels, doughnuts, globular spheres, molecular zippers and so on--that when mixed and matched will spell the shape of any gene's product. About 1,000 of these structures--and the genes that code for them--have already been cataloged...
...million years ago, for example, our predecessors had brains barely half as large as ours today. So it would seem to follow that in another couple of million years, our brains will be twice again as large, housed in the huge globular heads familiar from innumerable sci-fi images. Conversely, our immediate forebears were robustly boned and, we think, more heavily muscled than we are today. What could be more natural than to conclude that supported by increasingly complex labor-saving technologies, our bodies will in future be frailer and shorn of such frivolities as the little...
...Olga Orozco"; David E. Benjamin '96 for "Report From Iron Mountain: A Look at Modern American History"; Manjul Bhargava '96 for "On P-orderings and polynomial functions on arbitrary subsets of Dedekind-type rings"; Joshua S. Bloom '96 for "Studies of Gamma-Ray Bursts as Standard Candles and Globular Cluster X-ray Binaries as Dynamical Probes"; and Cliff W. Chiang '96 for "'If answerable Style I Can Obtain...': An Analysis and Account of Illustrating Paradise Lost...