Any object with a simply connected surface can be smoothed out to look like a sphere.
But in the Briton's version, the vehicle is a sphere covered in venetian blinds.
This was a strange shift from political blogging, a sphere in which point-counterpoint is simply taken for granted.
Shirkey says it highlights that the Internet is a private sphere, not a public sphere, that tolerates public speech.
Whether the simplified shape is a sphere or a torus is determined by the behaviour of one-dimensional curves on its surface.
The company's engineers are confident that their modified chip-design software will allow previously flat circuits to be wrapped around the surface of a sphere.
In such a sphere, you could be working on the same project and switch through any number of devices, before you switch to work on another task sphere.
Which means that you might just as well set sail in search of an eighth continent as try to find a sphere of human activity unchartered in the blogosphere.
It says that if in this space any closed-curve object, such as a rubber band, can be shrunk to a point, then the space is topologically equivalent to a sphere.
He has usurped the prerogative of Jehovah himself, claiming it as his right to assign for her a sphere of action, when that belongs to her conscience and her God.
The Internet has become the public space of the 21st century, a sphere of activity for all kinds of activities, open to all people of all backgrounds and all beliefs.
The projection provided a solution to a puzzle that had troubled mapmakers since the world was recognized as a sphere: How does one represent the curved surface of the globe on a flat chart?
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You model objects in Amorphium by starting with a primitive shape such as a sphere or cylinder, or some text, then simply use the mouse to grab the shape and pull, push, or twist it into a new look.
Richard Hamilton of Columbia University had previously realised the usefulness of this heat-flow model but became unstuck when he found that, under this transformation, the object may stretch out to form singularities spikes that could not be easily manipulated into a sphere.
All in all, I think protecting a sphere where people can exercise their choice making powers is a laudable and important public policy goal, because protecting choice can be a good way to build it, and because sometimes even bad choices are better than none.
These key post-Cold War allies also saw it as a tangible expression of the U.S. commitment to their security in the face of assiduous Russian efforts to reassert a sphere of influence that would turn the clock back, reestablishing in some form their unhappy status under the Kremlin's thumb.
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Prof Mark described a working sphere as a set of interrelated events with a common goal, communicating with a particular group of people, with specific resources, in its own time framework.
On Dec. 6, Alaska's State Museum in Juneau debuted an exhibit of the five recently returned fragments of the moon, which in 1969 were encased together in a lucite sphere and mounted to a wooden podium for presentation to Alaska by then-President Richard Nixon.
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Now another floated up, a blue sphere, and hovered over a landscape of delicate ruined cities and fossil seas.
While the U.S. was struggling through the Depression and encouraging the kind of representational art tinged with social themes propagated by the Works Progress Administration, the Park Avenue cubists insisted art should exist apart from politics, in a protected sphere where individuals could assert a private vision.
Any civilisation that has built a Dyson sphere will have to have been around for a long time, of course and in the very long run its star will start to change in unpleasant ways, ballooning to form a red giant.
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The soldier credited with turning around the war in Iraq will soon be working in a wider sphere.
All of this happened smoothly, in real time, and in a full sphere of vision.
And we must recognize that there is a growing sphere where our interests and our values converge.
Representational culture of this kind persisted into the 18th century, but a public sphere developed alongside it.
By clicking repeatedly on a particular sphere or square, you can drill down to the exact site you want.
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