(Anderson) THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS Pop geeks supreme, They Might Be Giants — John Flansburgh and John Linnell — have been devising smart, snappy, nasal-voiced songs for three decades.
If you've seen our World-Changing Ideas series, you'll know we're not afraid to push the boundaries of current knowledge – whether it is devising smart organs that respond to the way we live, or conceiving a day where everyone owns a flying car.
When will candidates start devising smart, compassionate solutions, not the same old militaristic pathways that, this century alone, have cost over one million human lives, trillions of dollars, and driven a global surge of violence?
Mr. Wilber, a 53-year-old scientist based here at the United States Olympic Training Center, has spent most of the past two years vying with his counterparts from other nations to devise smarter, safer ways for athletes to face Beijing's noxious air.
Once a consummate corporate control freak, he even recast himself as a patron of the DIY design phenomenon by enabling just about anyone to devise smart, funny, useful or shamelessly silly applications to download on to Apple's devices.
Unlike others in the environmental movement, he and his colleagues at the Environmental Defense Fund don't want to shut down fracking; rather, their goal is to work with the states where most of the shale gas lies and help devise smart regulations that would make fracking environmentally safer.
If this means that the debt-to-GDP ratio will be higher than 120% in 2020, we devise smart ways to rationalise, re-profile, or restructure the debt – keeping in mind the aim of maximising the effective present value that will be returned to Greece's creditors.
For now, we can devise smart ways of disguising the capability gap.
Our mission it to transform that, by going from doing surveys and looking at that data, to looking at all the data schools collect and helping them devise smart ways to use that data and their available tools".
We often make assumptions about the needs on the ground and devise smart but prescriptive programs.
