At TED, brilliance is rampant.

My own epiphany as a conservationist came in 1953, while a Harvard graduate student, searching for rare ants found in the mountain forests of Cuba, ants that shine in the sunlight metallic green or metallic blue, according to species, and one species, I discovered, metallic gold.

I swear by the sun and its brilliance,

I swear by the sun and its brilliance,

The bad news is that without wisdom, brilliance isn't enough.

The patient says, Well, if it's metallic and shiny, it doesn't mean it's gold.

Again and again biologists are fascinated with the brilliance of what's discovered.

And this one is evolved to mimic a glossy metallic surface you see on some beetles.

d) firearms made from non metallic material and unidentifiable by detection devices or X ray machines,

Secondly, metallic mine detection technology is a primitive method and merely one of the numerous mine detection technologies. With regard to post war humanitarian demining, the quantity of metallic material in MOTAPM has little substantive effect on reducing the difficulty of demining operations.

Metallic objects albeit very small ones, a few tons at most escaped into orbit around the Earth.

And at TED here in February, their passion and brilliance just took our breath away.

He actually applies metallic industrial paints to his work using porcupine quills to get this rich detailed effect.

Or will some of the metallic objects launched from the Earth spawn new oases, a post human life elsewhere?

Because of that, waste is being put into plastic or metallic barrels, sealed by concrete mixture and buried deep in the ground.

I bet many of you have seen the Apple commercials, kind of poking at the PC for their brilliance and simplicity.

And there is indeed a fire burning over the Earth, taking with it not only plants and animals, but the legacy of humanity's brilliance.

In August 2007, Claron was awarded the Amsterdam Prize for the Arts, winning praise for her brilliance, her amazing and extensively wide repertoire and her vivid stage personality.

The report delivered by General Secretary Xi Jinping is a programmatic document radiating the brilliance of Marxism, which puts forth a series of important thoughts, ideas, judgements and measures.

Zambia born filmmaker Franco Sacchi tours us through Nollywood, Nigeria's booming film industry . Guerrilla filmmaking and brilliance under pressure from crews that can shoot a full length feature in a week.

In the past, metallic money provided an inconvenient and unsatisfactory solution to the question of value. It was inconvenient because gold was awkward for everyday transactions, and silver had too little value for major transfers.

Woods, who dragged himself through two matches on Saturday, showed occasional bursts of brilliance but he has now lost 19 of his 29 matches in fourballs and foursomes and seven in a row.

With all the intensity and brilliance for which he is known, Alan Kay envisions better techniques for teaching kids by using computers to illustrate experience in ways mathematically and scientifically that only computers can.

And we have had examples over and over and over again you've just heard one in the last 15 minutes of people who have not only had that commitment, but had the charisma, the brilliance and I think in this room it's easy to use the word brilliant, my God the brilliance to succeed at least at the beginning of their quest, and who no doubt will continue to succeed, as long as more and more of us enlist ourselves in their cause.

BERKELEY The party platform adopted at the Republican National Convention includes a number of remarkable planks. To a monetary economist, for example, the party s proposal to restore some kind of metallic monetary standard is so outlandish as to be an almost irresistible target.

(i) To endeavor to develop advanced mine detection technology and equipment (such as non metallic mine detectors and detectors adopting the working principle of infrared thermovision or soil dielectric coefficient), so to improve the efficiency of detecting MOTAPM through various ways and means.

This is an amazing group of people who are doing so much, using so much of their talent, their brilliance, their energy, their money, to make the world a better place, to fight to fight wrongs, to solve problems.

And then intense magnetic fields directed some of the energy of that gravitational collapse. And some of the matter, back out in the form of tremendous jets which illuminated lobes with the brilliance of I think it's a trillion suns.

This tradition went back well before paper, or fiat, currencies. For many centuries, even while metallic money circulated, the task of defining units of account livres tournois, marks, gulden, florins, or dollars remained a task of the state (or of those with political power).

(b) cobalt crusts means hydroxide oxide deposits of cobalt rich iron manganese (ferromanganese) crust formed from direct precipitation of minerals from seawater onto hard substrates containing minor but significant concentrations of cobalt, titanium, nickel, platinum, molybdenum, tellurium, cerium, other metallic and rare earth elements

But are we to assume that the same brilliance and creativity and adaptability that got us up to the top of that energy mountain in the first place is somehow mysteriously going to evaporate when we have to design a creative way back down the other side?

It could have looked like shop windows on Fifth Avenue at Christmas, but because of the way that Andrew connected with the McQueen team, he was channeling the rawness and the brilliance of McQueen, and the show was quite transcendant, and it became a phenomenon in its own right.

Whatever the ultimate economic effects of China s first modest step towards floating its currency, one has to admire its strategic brilliance. The genius of China s mini move (allowing the Yuan to rise 2 against the dollar) is that no one can tell when or what is going to happen next.

Le Bon believed that crowds need strong leaders, to distance them from their natural madness and transform them into civilizations of splendor, vigor, and brilliance. Mussolini and Hitler both took inspiration from his book, and incorporated his ideas into Fascist and Nazi ideology and those ideas did not die with those regimes.

The drivers of both the tractor and the metallic silver luxury car were 45 year old women, but any similarity between them ended there the former was a peasant, the latter the wife of a wealthy businessman. After a confrontation between the two, the wealthy wife drove her BMW into the growing crowd of spectators on the roadside, killing the peasant woman and injuring 12 others.

No organization in the world embodies as many dreams, yet provides so many frustrations, as the United Nations. For most of its history, the Security Council has been the prisoner of great power maneuvering the General Assembly a theater of empty rhetoric the Economic and Social Council a largely dysfunctional irrelevance and the Secretariat, for all the dedication and brilliance of a host of individuals, alarmingly inefficient.

Have you not regarded that Allah drives the clouds, then He composes them, then He piles them up, whereat you see the rain issuing from its midst? And He sends down hail from the sky, out of the mountains that are in it, and He strikes with it whomever He wishes, and turns it away from whomever He wishes. The brilliance of its lightening almost takes away the sight.

Have you not regarded that Allah drives the clouds, then He composes them, then He piles them up, whereat you see the rain issuing from its midst? And He sends down hail from the sky, out of the mountains that are in it, and He strikes with it whomever He wishes, and turns it away from whomever He wishes. The brilliance of its lightening almost takes away the sight.

But it appeared to me that all these years that I'd been working on exploitation exploitation by landlords, by moneylenders, by traders gave me an insight that probably I was also an exploiter, because there was no line in my income tax return which showed this income accrued because of the brilliance of the people those people who have shared their knowledge and good faith and trust with me and nothing ever went back to them.

God is the light of the heavens and the earth. His light may be compared to a niche containing a lamp, the lamp inside a crystal of star like brilliance lit from a blessed olive tree, neither of the east nor of the west. The luminous oil is as if ready to burn without even touching it. Light upon light God guides to His light whom He will. God draws such comparisons for mankind God has full knowledge of everything.

God is the light of the heavens and the earth. His light may be compared to a niche containing a lamp, the lamp inside a crystal of star like brilliance lit from a blessed olive tree, neither of the east nor of the west. The luminous oil is as if ready to burn without even touching it. Light upon light God guides to His light whom He will. God draws such comparisons for mankind God has full knowledge of everything.