The notion of fetal learning may conjure up for you attempts to enrich the fetus like playing Mozart through headphones placed on a pregnant belly.

The Impossibility of February is that February's a really wretched month in New York and the images for me conjure up these really awful things.

The multiplication of threats to our common existence, whatever their genesis, represents as foreboding a scenario as any the scourge of war could conjure up.

I found out that advances in science rarely come upstream from an ability to stand at a blackboard and conjure images from unfolding mathematical propositions and equations.

There are tens of thousands of those stories out there, and it's really hard to conjure up much of a sense of well being, because it just keeps getting worse.

In it, the artist produced portraits of strangers from forensic artifacts like cigarette butts and chewing gum, extracting DNA from the detritus to conjure an image of what these folks might look like.

The long term success of the economy, and its capacity to build wealth and jobs, depends on productivity gains, which in turn depend on technical and organizational innovation. Governments cannot just conjure that up by waving a magic wand.

Our self deception becomes a positive illusion why movies are able to take us onto extraordinary adventures why we believe Romeo when he says he loves Juliet and why single notes of music, when played together, become a sonata and conjure up meaning.

Around the world, most people now rightly celebrate the gentle dignity with which Mandela led South Africa out of the political wilderness. Even here, behind prison bars and 24 hour surveillance of the type that he experienced for so long, I can conjure the warmth of his broad smile, merry eyes, and those colorful Hawaiian style shirts that he wore with such panache.