I'm fascinated by the patterns formed by Numberplay comment volume over the course of a week.
Romano Guardini had already foreseen this: "The gadgets and technics forced upon him by the patterns of machine production and of abstract planning mass man accepts quite simply; they are the forms of life itself.
COMPUTERS are becoming sophisticated enough to identify people by the patterns of their voices, fingerprints and irises, but they cannot yet distinguish individuals by the subtle quirks in the way they move.
Their first volumes -- Generations," "13th Gen" and "The Fourth Turning" -- sketched their theory that the course of history is determined by the patterns of generational change, and they reprise that argument here.
In 1969, the Italian conceptual artist Alghiero Boetti (1940-1994) designed a world map, with each country represented by the patterns of its national flag as if that were its essential identity.
Homology is not "evidence" for common ancestry: common ancestry is inferred based on many sources of information, and reinforced by the patterns of similarity and dissimilarity of anatomical structures.
On the preschool and elementary school levels, arts educators say that reading and math readiness is aided by the rhymes and rhythms of songs, as well as by the patterns and sequences of movement.
These three verbs share the root wr-t(t)- (parenthetical letters reflect an optional feature) and are differentiated by the patterns -i-, -o-, -i-en, which indicate tense.
One of the main factors affecting fertility, and an important contributor to the fertility differences among societies in which conscious fertility control is uncommon, is defined by the patterns of marriage and marital disruption.
"No matter how small a piece is, it's important," said Ms. Collatupa, who has learned to distinguish pre-Hispanic textiles by the way they feel — smoother and softer with age — and by the patterns in the weaving.
Imagis Technologies, a producer of software for security systems that identify people by the patterns of their facial features, said the Pembroke Group, an investment firm it has retained for financial advice, might formally offer to take Imagis private in a buyout valued at more than $50 million.
