MR: I wanted to talk about "Conduit" as well, which is more like the Umphrey's McGee sound that we're all used to.
In late-night chats over Cognac, European central bankers and American hedge fund managers swapped stories about collapsing "conduits," "special investment vehicles" and "SIV-lites" — entities that banks and private equity funds use to bundle and sell loans as securities.
Far more typical of Thucydides's pessimism, though, is his unnerving account of the city's meltdown during a plague epidemic, when (in the wonderful translation by another arch-pessimist, Thomas Hobbes) "dying men lay tumbling upon one another in the streets and men half-dead about every conduit through desire of water".
The constructs were able to administer NGF release and to maintain persistent NGF gradients longitudinally distributed inside the PLGA/CH conduit for about 6 weeks or even longer.
Artists often talk about feeling like conduits for other forces that their bodies are seized by spirits from elsewhere, that the work originates elsewhere.
In the wake of SXSW Interactive, I've been thinking about how these information conduits relate to one another.
Two examples from Chekhov's writings about Sakhalin Island serve as conduits or portals to a deeper point.
A person who can neither see nor hear is shut off from two enormous conduits of information about the world.
Caught between childhood and adulthood, between social acceptance and social exclusion, the four leads are the perfect conduits for gags about the pain of growing up, fitting in and dealing with the world.
Victorian engineer Joseph Bazalgette's much-vaunted London sewage system, built in the 1860s and 70s, was a huge improvement on the previous patchwork of rivers, gullies and conduits but, on about 50 days a year when rain is heavy, raw sewage is still discharged into the Thames.
