So they went out and they modeled a computer model of a sand dune.

Some of those grains may then accumulate on a massive scale, into a sand dune.

But, by now, you're probably asking, how am I planning to solidify a sand dune?

This is how it's shifting.

Jack Horner Shape shifting dinosaurs

They had to move this village in 1987 as a huge dune threatened to swallow it.

So, we pushed the piles down through the dune, and we create an initial bacterial surface.

And here comes dune scape, coming up out of the courtyard, and there it is fully built.

First of all, I was embarrassed because I had not read the novel Dune at that time.

This is shifting and reflecting functions.

Lewis Pugh's mind shifting Everest swim

So to test this crazy idea, we developed a small dune buggy prototype vehicle to test the feasibility.

They took photographs, they fed the photographs into their computer program, and that computer program shaped a sand dune and then took that sand dune shape and turned it into at their instructions, using standard software with slight modifications a set of instructions for pieces of wood.

She was sitting with someone who I presume was her mother, and they were talking about the novel, Dune.

Other activities are taking place in areas such as sand dune fixation, forest management and the promotion of agroforestry.

The tectonic plates of world politics were shifting.

So it suggests that the momentum is shifting.

Let me show you the weight shifting mobile.

(c) Nomads, pastoralists, hunter gatherers and shifting cultivators

In a desert plain in Tanzania, in the shadow of the volcano Ol Donyo Lengai, there's a dune made of volcanic ash.

Fabian Hemmert The shape shifting future of the mobile phone

The emergency phase is rapidly shifting to recovery and rehabilitation.

At TEDxBerlin, Fabian Hemmert demos one future of the mobile phone a shape shifting and weight shifting handset that displays information nonvisually, offering a delightfully intuitive way to communicate.

So we talk in terms of what we call task shifting.

But a multiple polarity of power means shifting and changing alliances.

My second point is, and I know I don't have to talk to an audience like this about such a thing, but power is not just shifting vertically, it's also shifting horizontally.

We're watching the rising of the stars and the shifting of the tides.

This problem of shifting comparisons can bedevil our attempts to make rational decisions.

I need not remind you that this was David Lynch's version of Dune, in which all of the characters were sexy and deformed at the same time.

According to the reports, soil conservation continues to be given high priority by the organizations in their efforts to preserve the environment, alongside sand dune fixation strategies.

So I want everyone to understand the critical importance of shifting charity into enterprise.

The title of my talk Shape shifting Dinosaurs The Cause of a Premature Extinction.

If you look at the Triceratops, you can see it's changing, it's shape shifting.

They have conditioned constructive engagement on Kosovo issues on a shifting series of prerequisites.

It's what's technically known as a barchan, and the entire dune walks across the desert in a westerly direction at a speed of about 17 meters per year.

It took us about 10 minutes to climb up to the top of that dune, which goes to show why they had to move to a safer location.

If you want to stop a sand dune from moving, what you need to make sure to do is to stop the grains from avalanching over its crest.

So we're shifting to an experience economy, where experiences are becoming the predominant economic offering.

On the contrary, for the Provisional Institutions it should mean shifting into a higher gear.

However, like all new innovative ideas, time is a prime requirement for shifting the paradigm.

Moran said The focus remains on rebalancing, shifting focus or whatever you want to describe it.

Secondly, shifting from a linear, wasteful, polluting way of using resources to a closed loop model.

The problem of shifting comparisons is even more difficult when these choices are arrayed over time.

I went to see the movie Dune, and a girl talked to me. Now, on its face this is impossible on its face, I realize but it is absolutely true.

So Protei is now an international network of innovation for selling technology using this shape shifting hull.