What do you learn from turning your body and mind into measurable machines?
Mr. Graham shows me a ballet step with fins, the legs moving outward in opposite directions, the feet flat, slowing the ascending diver, turning the body from side to side to see the reef.
It could effectively making all extant user interfaces obsolete, turning the human body into the ultimate remote.
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The Wiimote has been put to dozens of quirky uses, from corporate training programs in Second Life to turning the human body into a musical instrument.
Still, what is clear is that the human body is turning out to be much more complex than anticipated.
In global finance, the Bank for International Settlements should be transformed from a discussion forum for central bankers into a policy co-ordinating body, turning it into the world's central bank with a mandate to keep inflation stable and low worldwide.
Asthma and other allergies are thought by many experts to be rising in frequency because infantile immune systems, unchallenged by infection, are turning against the cells of the body they are supposed to protect.
Existing diabetes drugs, such as Actos from Eli Lilly (nyse: LLY - news - people ) and Avandia from GlaxoSmithkline (nyse: GSX - news - people ), resensitize the body to insulin by turning on the PPAR gamma receptor.
The disease is normally caused by the body's own immune system turning on the adrenal gland, but cancer and tuberculosis can also trigger the condition.
Above it, there's a muscular maelstrom of activity in which four men lift from the cross the body of Jesus, which is already turning green in death.
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The medical examiner said proper procedures to identify the body were followed after the body first arrived, and went on to describe how a body deteriorates in phases after death, turning dark brown, for example, with parts becoming enlarged.
But Liao says the body ups production of cholesterol to compensate, turning on the HMG CoA pathway.
Apart from a better understanding of the frescoes, the visitor's 100-foot climb offers an unexpected bonus, to be claimed by turning away from the paintings and looking out on the body of the church a view that will be impossible once the scaffolding comes down this fall.
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For example, making vaccines more effective and turning off the immune system when it goes wrong and attacks the body in autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, he said.
"However if the body, when it's developing, is not guided into turning into a male, then it will always be female, " he told CNN.
Tolkien, he reported, would write long lists of words on the blackboard, obscuring them with his body as he droned on, then would absent-mindedly erase them without turning around.
Hong Kong in July surprised itself by turning out in record numbers to vote for a new Legislative Council to replace the appointed body formed when the British colony returned to China.
Then the specialized software spent about 30 seconds turning the raw data in to useable measurements for inseam, waist, chest and just about any other body part that could be of import to a tailor.
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