The tall tinker.

Even a peaceful tinker...

The tinker wins! He wins!

Tinker Bell! Corky! Come with me.

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Don't you witchdoctors treat people with tinker toys?

There's no hurry, he'll tinker with a dozen instruments.

And if I had, what interest could a tinker have for me?

How is it that a tinker learned so well the use of arms?

The history of attempts to tinker with the function of the nervous system is long and illustrious.

So we reasoned that now that we can reactivate a memory, what if we do so but then begin to tinker with that memory?

And we've got to get this into schools, or into communities in many, many ways the ability to tinker, to shape and reshape the world around us.

It also affirms the principle that a Member State of the United Nations such as Israel should not tinker with those resolutions to suit its own domestic or international situation.

You can click on every single equation and bring up a little tool to be able to experiment with it, tinker with it, understand it, because we really don't understand until we do.

The test for institution building, however, will come once a constitution has been approved and a new government installed. Regardless of who wins the elections, there will be temptations to tinker with the constitutional text.

So everything we've been talking about today is based on this philosophically charged principle of neuroscience that the mind, with its seemingly mysterious properties, is actually made of physical stuff that we can tinker with.

Now, as we continue to tinker with the oceans, more and more reports are predicting that the kinds of seas that we're creating will be conducive to low energy type of animals, like jellyfish and bacteria.

He had another fan opposed to it that he had like a I mean, the way I would have done this would be, like, a rubber band, and, you know, around a tinker toy kind of fan.

America was built by makers curious, enthusiastic amateur inventors whose tinkering habit sparked whole new industries. At TED MotorCity, MAKE magazine publisher Dale Dougherty says we're all makers at heart, and shows cool new tools to tinker with, like Arduinos, affordable 3D printers, even DIY satellites.

This critique of masculinity also dramatically affected intimate relationships women were encouraged to express their dissatisfaction with men s refusal to share their inner lives. Women complained of not being heard, of men disappearing after work to tinker in the garage or zone out in front of the TV.

We have personal computing, why not personal biotech? That s the question biologist Ellen Jorgensen and her colleagues asked themselves before opening Genspace, a nonprofit DIYbio lab in Brooklyn devoted to citizen science, where amateurs can go and tinker with biotechnology. Far from being a sinister Frankenstein's lab , Genspace offers a long list of fun, creative and practical uses for DIYbio.

And you may not even understand it entirely at first, but the more you tinker with it, and the more you play with the code, you get a better feel for it, and then maybe you come up with this variation that you think is really cool, and then you'll save it as a spin off and say, like, Alright!

Ink that conducts electricity a window that turns from clear to opaque at the flip of a switch a jelly that makes music. All this stuff exists, and Catarina Mota says It's time to play with it. Mota leads us on a tour of surprising and cool new materials, and suggests that the way we'll figure out what they're good for is to experiment, tinker and have fun.