In 2002 MIT professors started a not-for-profit called BioBricks that has collected 2, 000 biological components, including gene sequences that sense light, produce light, send messages between cells and switch cell functions on and off.
The colors make the space exuberant, the bamboo makes it warm, and together they make the building as much an exercise in sensuous comfort as in structural bravado although the swaggering structure is there, too, replete with glass and natural light and a sense of grand space everywhere.
The precedent of Churchill's funeral sheds some light on the extraordinary sense of mission that drove Margaret Thatcher's political career.
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At the 96th Street station, Ms. Sze, a Chelsea artist who recently completed a sculpture for the High Line, will use ceramic tiles to play with travelers' sense of light, space and perspective.
Since most are on paper, which allows oil paint more physical autonomy than absorptive canvas, the results are distinguished by fresh color and light, a palpable sense of immediacy and spontaneity, and a suggestion of transient moments captured and prolonged.
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James Turrell's light installations toy with your sense of space and dimension, and Yayoi Kusama makes your reflection part of the art when you step inside her mirror-clad, polka dot mannequin room.
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It's about taking information that is lacking in context, lacking in meaning and figuring out a way to transform it so that it makes sense in the light of all the other things that you have floating around in your mind.
The price cuts and speed bumps of the 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro make a lot of sense in the light of reviews, which praised the laptop's high-resolution 2, 560 x 1, 600 display, but lamented that it didn't have the same kind of power to drive those pixels as its larger 15-inch sibling.
But overall the sense of sweetness and light is overwhelming in this airy confection.
One Twitter user echoed that sense of defiance in light of the threats.
The city wants to build more that "have substantial access to light and air to create a sense of openness, " the housing department said.
The need for Arab leaders to speed up reforms, scrap trade barriers and seek new ways of boosting sluggish industries has clearly taken on a heightened sense of urgency in light of the uprisings that swept through the region during the Arab Spring.
In light of these breakthroughs, how much sense does advertising at Times Square still make?
In that light, the ban on pseudonyms makes sense.
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Does it make sense to ban the old light bulb in a world where we are encouraged to store Terrabytes of pointless photographs forever on fire-hot Web-servers forever spinning in a Google server farm?
In this high-tech era when money moves at the speed of light, it makes less and less sense for banks to sit on a customer's deposit for days, collecting interest on the "float" while the depositor waits to draw on his deposit.
Roland says that working for the European Commission for two years gave him an insight into the down sides of European integration, but it also made me see the light in "a very missionary kind of sense".
And if it was the former, why did the Health Minister claim it was the latter - and put an independent academic in a very difficult position when his emails to government officials came to light, emails which make a bit more sense if the brief was to argue a case, not weigh up the available evidence.
In good hands they imbue business operations with a sense of control and transparency, shedding light on weakness like a company-wide MRI.
The director, Bruno Dumont, works in Cinemascope, and the enormous, sharply focussed images breathe air and light and a richly suggestive stillness, a palpable sense of something powerful beneath the skin.
And because sensors beneath the fibers can sense when any given blade's light is obscured, referees can track the footsteps of a player to determine if he was in-bounds or not.
That moment they light the fuse under your ass it's a sense of total freedom because I knew then nobody could get me out and no phone call could modify what I was doing there.
The one thing that makes no sense to me are the waves of enthusiasm around Light Squared.
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It's appropriate that, in light of the subject matter, Lewis sounds liberated in every sense of the word.
In light of the relative longevity of the regime it probably made sense to have made some deal with Egypt.
He says the purpose of pursuing suspects now is to create a sense that justice is being done and to shed light on historical events.
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With all the phones attached to various cords we weren't able to get a good sense of their ergonomics, but they were all surprisingly light.
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According to Andrew Light of Salomon Smith Barney, an investment bank, it made sense to focus on profitable point-to-point business and full-fare economy traffic, rather than boost market share with transfer passengers flying on cheap tickets.
In light of these secular issues affecting Windows as a desktop product, it perhaps makes sense to lead with mobile.
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