Imagine a coil. For those of you that are engineers, there's a capacitor attached to it too.

Jodi Lomask, and her wonderful troupe Capacitor, joined me in the canopy in my rainforest site in Costa Rica.

(e) Developing new materials and advanced technologies for their production, including foam aluminium and new ceramic materials.

And those a little bit up the scale eat off of a sort of a low fired ceramic dish.

And there on the smaller scale, the scale of an earring or a ceramic pot or a musical instrument, was a materiality and a soulfulness.

I was a ceramic designer for about 10 years, and just loved utilitarian form simple things that we use every day, little compositions of color and surface on form.

UNIDO's projects in this field are exemplified by the assistance being given to the hand tool, ceramic and glass industries in India by introducing energy efficient technologies and processes, undertaking energy audits, improving quality standards and establishing market linkages.

The variance of 1,456,500 under this heading is attributable primarily to reduced requirements for the short and long term rental of commercial river barges, as the cargo movement requirements in the east of the country could not be supported by river transport, offset in part by increased requirements for military accoutrements as well as personal protection gear, including, in particular, ceramic plated anti fragmentation jackets.

And on a Wednesday afternoon, I was walking down the corridor of my high school kind of minding my own business. And there was this artist teaching, who made a great big old ceramic vessel, and I happened to be looking in the door of the art room and if you've ever seen clay done, it's magic and I'd never seen anything like that before in my life.

Each mirror, there are four of them, is made of a single piece of glass, a monolithic piece of high tech ceramic, that has been ground down and polished to such accuracy that the only way to understand what that is is to imagine a city like Paris, with all its buildings and the Eiffel Tower, if you grind down Paris to that kind of accuracy, you would be left with bumps that are one millimeter high.