Cloning, fetal-tissue and genetic research, bio-engineering, the obsession with youth and the merchandising of beauty and health: such phenomena form the platform from which the Frankensteinian horrors in "Oryx and Crake" spring.
"Building Big" uses this accident to lure viewers into tonight's program, which also contains the saga of the Brooklyn Bridge, told in 1972 in "The Great Bridge," David McCullough's epic account of an engineering family's obsession.
To be sure, design and product engineering became his obsession.
Her obsession with engineering outfits involving latex bodysuits and plastic armor grew from there.
It was the age invention, the turn-of-the-nineteenth century, when two engineering brothers changed their obsession from manufacturing bicycles to designing flying machines.
It's difficult, for instance, not to read the sculpture What My Dad Gave Me (2008), a towering, 65-foot Erector Set skyscraper, as an homage to a towering father figure from whom Burden inherited an obsession for engineering, precision, and hard work.
He left last year, and alongside ambisonic audio engineering, building WineGlass became his obsession.
Times are a-changing for the maker of Baby Boomer favorites like the Civic, Accord and CR-V; the company has long been known for its obsession with solving engineering problems on its own.
"It's purely hobby, and pure obsession," said Robert Prather, an electrical engineering major at Prairie View A&M University who started building a 777 at his home in Houston when he was 17.
Gmail is where my obsession with email started as an engineering intern back in 2004, and I'm thrilled to be coming back to a place with so many familiar faces.
