The home — supposedly — of Jesus's crown of thorns, a Holy Nail, and a wooden fragment of the True Cross, the church is an exalting early example of flying buttresses, an acme of Gothic architecture.
Dr. Ellen Langer, a professor of psychology at Harvard University, uses the example of flies in a glass jar to demonstrate our tendency to being so committed to seeing things a certain way that we can no longer imagine other possibilities.
One thing you can't say about Spiderman 2, Iron Man 3 or Jurassic Park 4: they're not examples of fly-on-the-wall moviemaking.
The person who has attended the board's meetings said that more management problems would be listed in the final report, involving other examples of "flying with things you shouldn't fly with".
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.08688.024 10.7554/eLiFigure88.025 Figure 3 figure supplement 3. Additional examples of flies responding to a 9-tricosene 'E' pattern.
On 10 December 1823, she found the first complete Plesiosaurus, and in 1828 the first British example of the flying reptiles known as pterosaurs, called a flying dragon when it was displayed at the British Museum, followed by a Squaloraja fish skeleton in 1829.
Aérospatiale joined with British Aerospace to create a technological masterpiece, the beautiful supersonic transport (SST) Concorde airliner, the first example of which flew on March 2 , 1969
"I was quoting the example of us flying nonstop from Singapore all the way to Europe," he said at the aviation conference in Singapore.
"It's another example of statistics flying in the face of common sense," comments John Timpson, chair of retail chain Timpson in response to the idea that a number of his watch repairing staff could be made redundant to automation.
But, on the whole, this is a fascinating example of apparently fly-on-the-wall film-making, made all the more intriguing when you discover it was all planned like a military exercise.
