And as I mentioned before, they are the closest thing that's living to the animal that jumped from sponges, which is a loose assemblage of individual cells, into a huge advancement evolutionarily of bilateral symmetry and a central nervous system and one-end leads-- a lot of inventions along with the emergence of this animal.
And this little diagram in particular is showing you the change in plant life across what is called the Cretaceous Paleogene boundary. So the bottom being a diverse assemblage of different kinds of pollen types, those pollen types representing a forest, a very diverse forests. A moment there in the middle section, where the forests are devastated, and what proliferates are ferns.
And mouse lemurs are classic, I think, cases of cryptic species. And so here's just a random assemblage of six mouse lemur species. And can you tell them apart?
He was then the first Secretary of State. He said that this is the greatest assemblage of talent ever to be in the White House since Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
They were watching the television. So many core technological inventions came from there and from the assemblage of amazing talent that Taylor brought together.
It can reveal details never fully visible to those who experience them on a daily basis. And this giving prominence to objects and apparently kind of random assemblage is one major way in flash's usefulness is invoked for so-called visual anthropology.
are here, so-- yeah. Every moment on the assembly line is itself assemblage .
that spiraled majestically up from the floor. Only senior employees knew how to build and maintain these symmetrical assemblages . Regular sales clerks like me were not allowed to touch them.
a book on spirituality? Yes. It's a weird kind of assemblage of ideas coming together. And it's a super important question.
And in each of our programs we teach these. We model these. We have a really large assemblage of innovators and tools and strategies to facilitate this to raise peacebuilding leaders.
Why do you think Microsoft was dominating the software and the personal computing space at that time and really for many, many, many years after? - At the time, it was the single most potent assemblage of smart people that I've ever been a part of. And I've been in academia and I've been in industry to a certain extent, and
So we actually know that they twinkle, in a sense, because of the reflection of the starlight off of tiny mirrors of dust. So Galileo was deceived by dust into thinking that the Sun was just a star like any other star in the vast assemblage of stars we call the Milky Way galaxy.
And in the beginning, a lot of my work was definitely influenced by Dia de los Muertos altars and how women would use these altars as a platform to discuss social issues in the community as a way to have a voice and gathering assemblage work. And so from that, and using my own experiences, I use it as a way to talk about people who I want to praise
the spacecraft and larger infrastructures of the vast Apollo enterprise. And in fact as I said this turned out not to be the case. The spacesuit that was successfully launched onto the moon was this 21 layered soft, almost couture sewn assemblage . This fundamental question is the question I'll try and answer a little bit in the talk and which the book of course goes into at much greater length.
had to sew to one-sixty-fourth of an inch tolerance 21 layers of thin, gossamer thin fabric, each slightly larger to the next, it was like a giant Russian doll, all without the aids of any pins or fasteners that could potentially puncture the suit if they were left in this massive assemblage . They did it on Singer sewing machines. The only modification was one of them was given a very long arm as you can see to allow the whole suit to be moved around underneath it and sewn together.
And as I mentioned, the structure of that is thinking with experts, thinking with peers and thinking with groups. So that final chapter about thinking with groups looks at, how is it that we achieve something like group mind, where there's an assemblage of people that somehow manages to achieve a kind of collective intelligence or collective consciousness so that they're more than the sum of their parts and they're thinking
And interestingly, some of the most effective ways to induce that sense of groupiness, which, believe it or not, actually is a term scientists use to describe this process of going from being an assemblage of individuals to a group an entity unto itself. You use the word groupiness I love it.
We needed that. But what it did was perpetuate the idea that your body is made up of an assemblage of parts,
SPD 143 named for the, the SPD stood for the very same specialty products division that had been set up by Spanel at Playtex to do government research. And the great innovation of the suit was these rubber pieces here which combined the tomato worm bellows that had been invented for the Tintin suits with the sophisticated assemblage , internal assemblage of nylon tricot, a fabric used for bras that allowed these convolutes as they were called to both be flexible and also under an enormously high pressure. These convolutes formed the