"There are three types of biomimicry - one is copying form and shape, another is copying a process, like photosynthesis in a leaf, and the third is mimicking at an ecosystem's level, like building a nature-inspired city," says Ms Benyus.
When it comes to geometry one example is to have students take pictures of patterns in the world like the veins in a leaf.
Like zooming in on a leaf under a microscope, Lamar unveils a lattice of overlapping narratives, complemented by sly production that informs and undercuts his songs' troubled protagonists.
However, as soon a flowering shoot approaches the water level, wax crystals are generated and the new leaves outside of the water exhibit a contact angle of 162° like in a lotus leaf [7].
One time, I saw David Bowie in SoHo: like a leaf in the wind.
Multiple universes of a different sort pop up in the most recent versions of string theory, which holds that the world can be envisioned as a 3-dimensional membrane (or "brane" in the jargon) floating in 10-dimensional space, like a leaf in a fish tank.
After filling in the relevant forms, shaking like a leaf and in a half-strangled whisper, I somehow managed to get the words out to say that there was something else.
Our universe can be envisioned as such a brane floating in higher-dimensional space like a leaf in a fish tank, perhaps with other brane universes nearby.
If it is objects in nature, like a leaf, then I actually gather leaves.
More than once I've languished in a dead lull, spinning like a leaf in an eddy.
In this new cosmology, our world is a three-dimensional island, or brane floating in a five-dimensional space, like a leaf in a fish tank.
