But silk is versatile and it goes beyond optics.

And she's an optometrist in St. Petersburg, and she plays with optics.

This is taken through a fiber optics microscope. It's down inside the nest.

India has put together a connectivity mission in Africa, using fiber optics and dedicated satellite.

In the beginning you see the ants just kind of engaging with the fiber optics microscope.

So, we modified the optics of the camera in order to mimic the baby's visual acuity.

And this animation here shows you one example of the techniques that we use, called adaptive optics.

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I came up with a solution to this problem, and I came up with a solution based on adaptive optics for this.

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This is Symphony Space on 90th Street and Broadway, and the type is interwoven into the stainless steel and backlit with fiber optics.

Design I love its design.

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This technology works by introducing a mirror into the telescope optics system that's continuously changing to counteract what the atmosphere is doing to you.

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And finally, I'll give you one last example of free perhaps the most powerful of all. I mentioned fiber optics their abundance tends to make things free.

Business capital includes private companies factories, machines, transport equipment, and information systems. Infrastructure includes roads, railways, power and water systems, fiber optics, pipelines, and airports and seaports.

We did a design competition, selected a design team.

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Solemn design is often important and very effective design.

I would say not just biological design, but all of the design that we think of as human design.

Be aware in life of good design and bad design.

Speaking about the design every city has its own design.

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Coin sized mirrors on the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 and Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacements units have since served as quot contact lenses quot for HST.

Design is the same way. Design has to become that same way.

Now comes the between subjects design, the AB design, the AB testing.

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A woman named Joanna Aizenberg, at Lucent, is now learning to do this in a low temperature process to create these sort of lenses. She's also looking at fiber optics.

Down at the very base of it, there's fiber optics that work better than ours, actually, to move light, but you can tie them in a knot they're incredibly flexible.

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And when evolutionary biologists talk about design, they really mean design by natural selection.