Structures
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Those holes you see there are very filtered-down, watered-down versions of the extremity of the diatomic
structures.
I'm looking at single-surface
structures
and how they stretch and flow.
In Mumbai, in India, those who follow the Parsi religion put their dead in
structures
called "Towers of Silence."
They discovered that there is a distinct pattern of turbulent fluid
structures
close to Kolmogorov's equation hidden in many of Van Gogh's paintings.
In his essay, "Politics and the English Language," he described techniques like using pretentious words to project authority, or making atrocities sound acceptable by burying them in euphemisms and convoluted sentence
structures.
Eventually, the technology advanced to the point where architects could design
structures
so transparent they practically disappear.
And if you blow those up, they have these little
structures
on the end.
That tiny force is sufficient to allow them to do that because it's added up so many times with these small
structures.
They have a lot of information stored in their complex
structures.
So your blood cells, your red blood cells, are coated with sugars, and the chemical
structures
of those sugars determine your blood type.
You have a slightly different enzyme than the A people, so you build a slightly different structure, and those of you that are AB have the enzyme from your mother, the other enzyme from your father, and now you make both of these
structures
in roughly equal proportions.
See, all this time I had been thinking of telomeres as those miniscule molecular
structures
that they are, and the genes that control telomeres.
So if you think about mound-building termites or you think about army ants, they create incredible, complex nest
structures
out of mud and even out of their own bodies.
Load-bearing earth walls that really ground the school, and large bamboo
structures
that bring the lightness in.
Children would climb the structures, skaters would ride the ramp, students having lunch breaks, and it was particularly fascinating to see how many people were touching the wall, and we usually don't go around cities caressing our facades, right?
And in fact, in more and more countries, load-bearing earthen
structures
are not allowed to be built anymore although they're traditional and have lasted for hundreds of years, and not because the material is weak, but because there are no architects and engineers who know how to deal with that material.
Equally important is technological development, like prefabrication developed by my colleague Martin Rauch, who is an Austrian artist and expert in earthen
structures.
If you don't know, "Settlers" is a board game where you're competing against other people to collect resources and use them to build
structures.
Surprisingly, origami and the
structures
that we've developed in origami turn out to have applications in medicine, in science, in space, in the body, consumer electronics and more.
Designing
structures
to be aerodynamic, like China’s sleek Shanghai Tower, can reduce that force by up to a quarter.
So, I'm going to start asking those questions for the DNA
structures
I'm going to talk about next.
Now for the last 25 years, Ned Seeman and a bunch of his descendants have worked very hard and made beautiful three-dimensional
structures
using this kind of reaction of DNA strands coming together.
But they have two types of gill
structures.
Here's pagoda
structures.
I call the material "Green Cake," and people now can use it not only to rebuild old houses, but also to build new complete
structures.
But it's not the intent or the statements people in technology make that matter, it's the
structures
and business models they're building.
These
structures
are organizing how we function and they're controlling what we can and we cannot do.
Seeing these abstract
structures
can also help us switch contexts and see that different people are at the top in different contexts.
We can all use these abstract
structures
to help us pivot between situations in which we are more privileged and less privileged.
The bank systems and
structures
have no means to recognize them as micro-businesses, much less the fact that, you know, her tree doesn't have a forwarding address.
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