An elegant music organizer

She looks very elegant.

An elegant GTK MPD client

Nature does something much more elegant.

DNA is a very elegant molecule.

And they've become elegant and slender they don't really have thighs they just have one elegant calve on top of another.

It's this elegant little land, twist and roll.

Well, it's a very elegant shade of pink.

I found that longer steps were much more elegant.

And they said, Well, one is elegant, the other one's glamorous.

It just seems like it's not sexy and elegant, it's hidden.

But a lot of their approaches, though elegant, take a long time.

Within 40 years, physicists discovered the whole explanation, expressed, as usual, in elegant symbols.

Pretty elegant. Nothing like a crash to end a joke. That completes my oeuvre.

I've got just a couple examples. Physically, a really cool, elegant, thinking coming along lately.

And in particular, there's one rather strange one, in the most elegant unified theories we have.

Well, makers of things they make things more beautiful, more elegant, more comfortable than just the craftsmen do.

The universe is much bigger than our prophet said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?' Instead they say, 'No, no, no!

Darwinian natural selection is so stunningly elegant because it solves the problem of explaining complexity in terms of nothing but simplicity.

So that engineers use this time to come up with a cool patch for code, come up with an elegant hack.

One of the most elegant dancers of his generation, known for his long steps, and his tempo changes and his pivots.

So we asked the goose to do it again, and hoped she would do somehow, a more elegant or pretty job.

To figure out the elegant recipes that would take the small subset of the periodic table, and create miracle materials like that cell, is the task of green chemistry.

William Ury, author of Getting to Yes, offers an elegant, simple way to create agreement in even the most difficult situations from family conflict to, perhaps, the Middle East.

And it was great, because at the beginning was this apology fest you know, scientists would tell designers, you know, I don't know what style is, I'm not really elegant.

But here, I only want to make the point that the elegance of Darwinism is corrosive to religion precisely because it is so elegant, so parsimonious, so powerful, so economically powerful.

The best available answer is that they were literally the earliest known works of art, practical tools transformed into captivating aesthetic objects, contemplated both for their elegant shape and their virtuoso craftsmanship.

So, just to wrap up, I wanted to say that it feels to me that design is about solving problems and providing elegant solutions, and information design is about solving information problems.

Designer Yves Behar digs up his creative roots to discuss some of the iconic objects he's created . Then he turns to the witty, surprising, elegant objects he's working on now including the 100 laptop.

Hacker and writer Joshua Klein is fascinated by crows. After a long amateur study of corvid behavior, he's come up with an elegant machine that may form a new bond between animal and human.

The way the Dutch government handled the affair was not elegant, to say the least. But I m not sure how many governments do pay for the protection of private citizens who live permanently abroad.

Armed with a sense of humor and laypeople's terms, Nobel winner Murray Gell Mann drops some knowledge on TEDsters about particle physics, asking questions like, Are elegant equations more likely to be right than inelegant ones?

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.

There's all these elegant work in the tissue culture dishes, that if you give this cancer drug, you can do this effect to the cell, but the doses in those dishes are nowhere near the doses that happen in the body.

And that is that despite all the resources at my disposal, and despite all our kind of apparent sophistication, I know I could never have designed something as elegant and as totally in tune with the local conditions as this. OK?

But by now it is clear that this is a worthless piece of paper. No imposed constitution, however elegant it may be, will be very helpful to Coalition forces when confronted with the type of mayhem seen in towns like Fallujah or Najjaf.

Kimura s theory was simple and elegant, but the classification of mutations into the distinct classes beneficial, neutral, or harmful seemed too simple to me. My own work showed that borderline mutations, those with very small positive or negative effects, could be very important in driving evolutionary changes.

But it would be a mistake to underestimate her seriousness. I call her Martha Stewart meets Che Guevara, because, when not renovating the elegant public spaces of her hotel, she is suing Israeli generals for war crimes that she claims were committed against civilians in Gaza.

Patenting a new drug helps finance its immense cost to develop but that same patent can put advanced treatments out of reach for sick people in developing nations, at deadly cost. Ellen 't Hoen talks about an elegant, working solution to the problem the Medicines Patent Pool. i i

This may seem elegant in theory, but it is completely unworkable in practice. In any real crisis, the authorities real fear is that the fall in one asset price (the equity value of big banks) will cause other asset price declines leading to a broader contraction of credit.

Inspired by an abalone shell, Angela Belcher programs viruses to make elegant nanoscale structures that humans can use. Selecting for high performing genes through directed evolution, she's produced viruses that can construct powerful new batteries, clean hydrogen fuels and record breaking solar cells. At TEDxCaltech, she shows us how it's done.

It does this through an elaborate and elegant system of checks and balances, stimulators and inhibitors of angiogenesis, such that, when we need a brief burst of blood vessels, the body can do this by releasing stimulators, proteins called angiogenic factors that act as natural fertilizer and stimulate new blood vessels to sprout.

And with so much polymer, what we really need is technical nutrition, and to use something as elegant as a tree imagine this design assignment Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, accrues solar energy as fuel, makes complex sugars and food, creates microclimates, changes colors with the seasons and self replicates.

Previously, Russia s admission to the WTO had been blocked by Georgia, which lifted its veto last year after a feat of elegant diplomacy that established a border control mechanism without recognizing the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia either as part of Georgia or as independent countries. That solution, while complicated, is a good outcome for the region.

Unfortunately this sanitized vision of the economy led most economists to ignore all the things that could go wrong. So now economists will have to accept the importance of irrational and often unpredictable behavior, face up to the often idiosyncratic imperfections of markets and accept that an elegant economic theory of everything is a long way off.