MILES, where the wild thyme grows.

Clarke, R. (1989), Industrial Economies, Basil Blackwell, Oxford.

Pray, silence for the Right Honourable Basil Willett MP.

Mikey Brett, Craig, Leo, Zem Joaquin and Basil and me.

Basil Jones But actually we're going to start this evolution with a hyena.

Mr. Basil Yousif, Adviser at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department of Human Rights

AK So in 1981, I persuaded Basil and some friends of mine to form a puppet company.

The Security Council unequivocally condemns the 14 February 2005 terrorist bombing in Beirut, Lebanon, that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and others and caused serious injury to dozens of people, including former Minister Basil Fleihan.

At 1205 hours Israeli and Lahad militia forces fired a number of artillery shells from their positions in Shuray ah, Ksarat al Arus, Tall Ya qub, Tall Sujud and Jabal Balat at Mazra at Uqmata, Wadi Basil and areas along the Nab al Tasah.

I also wish to express our thanks to the Security Council for its concern at and close follow up of the terrorist crime that took place on 14 February 2005, which resulted in the martyrdom of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, parliament member Basil Fleihan and several others.

In short, when we're thinking like academics, we regard people as elaborate and complicated machines, like computers or cars, but when we revert to being human we behave more like Basil Fawlty, who, we remember, thrashed his car to teach it a lesson when it wouldn't start on gourmet night.

Personification and the imputing of intentional purpose is such a brilliantly successful way to model humans, it's hardly surprising the same modeling software often seizes control when we're trying to think about entities for which it's not appropriate, like Basil Fawlty with his car or like millions of deluded people with the universe as a whole.

Puppets always have to try to be alive, says Adrian Kohler of the Handspring Puppet Company, a gloriously ambitious troupe of human and wooden actors. Beginning with the tale of a hyena's subtle paw, puppeteers Kohler and Basil Jones build to the story of their latest astonishment the wonderfully life like Joey, the War Horse, who trots convincingly onto the TED stage.