the Silicon cells which are the blue lines oh it's actually a different material in them typically I mean uh amorphous silicon is actually silicon just in a different format but the uh cabide and Sig cells are the other sort of leading um thin film panels and those
spilled on it and no one can adequately articulate what it entails it is generally agreed that the term is hazy and amorphous an exclusive gift for the suffering Russians does it have anything to do with bitter cold communist timetables police and grandmothers the
Here they're less ordered, and they can move and change shape more freely. These are called the amorphous regions. Together, they work like a network of tiny rigid blocks connected by elastic cords, which I have in front of me.
The blocks don't stretch much, but each one connects to several cords, which spreads the pull across the network. So the amorphous regions let the silk stretch while the nanocrystals help it withstand a much larger pull. Together, they allow the silk to absorb a tremendous amount of energy before breaking, which makes it so tough.
I mean it's very difficult to say because wokeism itself is not a movement with a party leader. It's a amorphous belief that has worked its way through institutions now for almost 40 or 50 years. I mean, it's effectively a religion and part of the reason why it's difficult to find is it means done different things
How did that impact your career? And they're very amorphous and out here.
that we feel uh this kind of mistrust I mean think of all the obvious reasons people have to be fearful today you know September 11th in the amorphous war on terror that follows it Without End the the global economic collapse of 2008 and its subsequent and continuing era of of precarity and austerity the ever accelerating drive toward consumerism
And while he's away, his reputation and the movement actually grows, because now there is a symbol of oppression. There's not something amorphous like, who took the net? We're good on time, so I'm going to read one last section.
When you looked for images of the internet, this was the one that comes up again and again and again-- this image by of this amorphous blob that you're not really meant to be able to find yourself on it. It kind of reminds me of the Apollo blue marble picture of the earth that I think is similarly sort of meant to
theory of something that I thought of as being not a natural subject for mathematical analysis this vague amorphous thing called information now as I hardly need tell you we live in a world where information is not just
In other sections, the spidroins don't fold as neatly. That's how you get the amorphous regions which give the silk its stretch. Exactly how the proteins assemble inside the spinning duct is still being studied.
And you can do six episodes, you can do 12. It's a little bit amorphous . And you usually get more time to spend.
It's not an additive process, I've found. than that next thing that is amorphous and not fully formed and shaped yet.
And then finally, she concludes that she wishes that the internet looked like Matt Damon, or like lines of light written by an invisible hand in the night sky. So we're back to the amorphous blob. There's sort of no escaping that glowing amorphous blob.
So that's the promise. And because it's kind of amorphous .
of public intellectual. I'm not sure which of those terms you more prefer or perhaps you have some other way of describing what it is that you do. They both sound wrong. And historians absolutely wrong. Public intellectuals amorphous enough so we can have fun with it. But just your local neighborhood friendly podcaster with the Spider-Man guy say? At the present moment, the sensibility that a lot of people have is that something is a skew. There is intense political division. There is high even at the moment despite the fact that most Americans, it seems,
So we're back to the amorphous blob. There's sort of no escaping that glowing amorphous blob. But there was one guy who had the internet number.
Uh and you know if you stop and think about what it means to be happy nobody really knows, you know, it's like very amorphous and it's very big picture. It's that's why I call it overall life contentment. And if you stop and you say well what would make me happier today it's often very hard uh to answer. So I
And that takes an emotional connection. The country is a big, amorphous thing.
turning society into a sack of potatoes, amorphous class of individuals, who can't work together,
A pretty serious pivotal moment, but a little amorphous too.
I was thinking maybe grad school, but that felt very amorphous .
By her mid-teens, she'd traded her bean-pole adolescent androgyny for a sexlessly amorphous obesity.
Because this is where the fiber comes out of the ground. This is the kind of connection between the network, between what ostensibly is this amorphous blob, and the Virginia clay. And that's quite distinct.
germinating. That's maybe a good way to put it. I would suggest that what we have now is the logical end result, but being a continuum, we're not at the end. We're getting farther down the road. This is all stuff that to me, we were talking about, and this gets to what you were saying earlier, in an amorphous sense. That we're on our way to something. I'm not going to talk about what to do once we get there, because I don't know what it's going to look like when we get there. But I feel like we've been on this path for a long time and I could suggest that if we zoom out even farther,
And if we can't figure out who the who is, then we feel like there's just this amorphous horrible heavy blanket on us
hump of starting. But most people start because one, starting feels like this very amorphous thing.
Well, whenever I approach something that I don't know how to do it, it always feels amorphous . It's like this big thing and I don't know where to start.
Like how do like how do I grab onto a piece of it? And so having gone and attacked like these amorphous things
Margaret Mead, before she died, said her greatest worry was that as we drifted toward this blandly amorphous generic world not only would
So my villain was Blindness, not with a lowercase b as in the condition of sightlessness, but Blindness with a capital B, this amorphous bogeyman
physics. That's an intentional connection to get us to think about things that otherwise exist as amorphous because sometimes, if black folks are
This is Simon Cooper. And so when you're standing there and you're watching them work at this cable with a hacksaw, the amorphous blob seems a really long way away.
even in the laboratory for us, we have no idea what intelligence is. Like I said, we don't even know how you know how to write your name. Its ephemeral, it's amorphous ;