and a wondrous human creation.
is awesome and wondrous .
and there will be wondrous things coming-- but also sit back and go, oh, what does this mean?
Which is kind of wondrous .
We're these wondrous beings who can have all this
It's one of the wondrous -- one of the great aspects of science, and art, and music, and literature, because it forces us to view our own perspective of our place
It is called his "paradoxical" or "wondrous trinity," depending which translation you use.
It's so exciting and wondrous , from one point of view.
But the world is so wondrous that you can take advantage of it and maybe even get a little occasional credit for it without having to still be able to do it.
Latin America is filled with all sorts of strange and wondrous creatures.
Can we leave a legacy that is as wondrous , as profound, and maybe as instructive as the people that built Newgrange left us?
everyday parts of our Lives take on this unfamiliar and newly wondrous uh quality
So that every time I learned something deep and wondrous about the universe, I could turn to my dad and say, do you see that too.
The cables-- it's difficult to overstate how wondrous they are, in that they're the thickness of a garden hose in one direction.
And if I were to describe "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" to myself I could describe it in a way I'd say, "I'd never read a book like that" but then when I sit down and read
And when you arrive, it's wondrous .
But then it was about making this thing fly and making it wondrous .
And the shell of this little fellow shows us how they became the wondrous creatures that they turned into.
So there's a pretty significant lag between when you see these wondrous technologies, and when they're going to show up in the productivity statistics.
resource for travelers like ourselves who were looking for the sorts of wondrous and curious places that expand
They wanted him to figure out how to isolate another strange and wondrous chemical that nobody knew how it worked.
Next one, biomimetic materials that will duplicate the wondrous properties of materials found in the living room.
From where he starts to where he ends, it is such a wondrous arc for a character who really doesn't
Well I didn't show it in this sequence, but I think one of the more wondrous places I got to get to
Junot Diaz, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," says that D&D was my apprenticeship in storytelling.
Revolution, there were some new technologies, some wondrous new technologies that came along that bent the curve of human history, that took us from a relatively
And while parts of it may seem like a eureka moment and a sort of what wondrous luck, like many great discoveries
through time as humans, we feel that sense of being small in the presence of big, wondrous natural environments.
I think between Jessie's sort of amazing use of just the materials that you might have found in the underground and making them really wondrous and magical,
In terms of the other drivers of productivity I think we see, we've been talking about these wondrous things.
If there's any audience institution that ought to be skeptical of a claim that progress is not inevitable and wondrous and irrepressible,
And finally, I had a field day envisioning the beauty of our wondrous state through the eyes of one who
We also spent a lot of time with technologists at the Media Lab and CSAIL, the computer science and the iLab at MIT and elsewhere, and heard about the wondrous things
Rick Kleffel: His first book was the acclaimed short story collection, "Drown" his Pulitzer Prize winning novel was "The Brief, Wondrous
Rick Kleffel: You know, one of the things that I just reread the "Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" Junot Diaz: Rick.
Last time when I was an intern at the Hispanic Googler's Network, I started a book group and the book we read was "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" and I was wondering how
But, all those little blurbs there are Bell Labs innovations that as we move along the time line, kind of coalesce into this wondrous electronic world we have today.
In those early days, I would go through all these stories and Bell Labs guys bringing in military generals, or heads of corporations, to see this wondrous new transistor.