When it's alone it doesn't make any light.

And the moonbeams would shoot out of your fingers and your toes and the ends of your hair.

And by night, artificial light in each one emanates and comes out to the outside.

Naked as the day they were born. Not a stitch on them.

My lady, who would not be proud to wear your colors?

Or if you're fashion forward, some silk LED tattoos.

Edith Widder The weird, wonderful world of bioluminescence

Time could not mar the perfect symmetry of those walls.

And inside, the daylight each one is an optic and it brings light into the center.

But silk is versatile and it goes beyond optics.

Even with her great appeal, the life of a traveling entertainer is never easy.

Tess, Tess!

Tess, Tess?

Tess, Tess?

And as he talked he had that glint in his eye that I first saw back in Holland the glint that says, Let's go cow tipping, even though we never did tip the cow, even though no one tips the cow, even though cows don't sleep standing up.

Edith!

Yellow hair, yellow ribbon.

Tess, Tess Mannering.

Fiorenzo Omenetto shares 20 astonishing new uses for silk, one of nature's most elegant materials in transmitting light, improving sustainability, adding strength and making medical leaps and bounds. On stage, he shows a few intriguing items made of the versatile stuff.

Grace. Grace, are you there?

The frame and radii of this web is made up of one type of silk, while the capture spiral is a composite of two different silks the filament and the sticky droplet.

And then we have silk, Thai silk.

listen to this

This is the silk that's used to make the frame and radii of an orb web, and also the safety trailing dragline.

That's silk. Pure silk.

Estelle.

Hello, Tex , hang up, Hello, Tex . I couldn't get past Hello, Tex .

In the deep, dark ocean, many sea creatures make their own light for hunting, mating and self defense. Bioluminescence expert Edith Widder was one of the first to film this glimmering world. At TED2011, she brings some of her glowing friends onstage, and shows more astonishing footage of glowing undersea life.

He seemed sure it was either Alice or Lois.

Vesper? James Bond 007?

The two reports are uncompromising and clear sighted in their description of the implementation of NEPAD and the conflicts in Africa.

Agnes took her in, and Agnes loved her, and Agnes supported her for the year.

We think that's because the dragline silk, which is used to make the frame and radii for a web, needs to be very strong.

Silk Road Area Development Programme (SRADP) a European currency units.

Stella. Oh, Stella for star, how lovely to have a baby.

My Shiraito,

Rosasharn!

The seams.

Ruth.

Rose.

Raus.

Lucy...

Tex!

Tess?

Tess?