Once settled down in the comfiest corner they just meld from one break to the next, gate-crashing those of other labs if necessary (especially if they have birthday cake) and dishing out wisdom to anyone who'll listen.
In contrast to Gaul, where the Franks merged with an intact Gallo-Roman society to create Latin-based French culture, the new Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in Britain, although melded from indigenous and immigrant populations, represented no such cultural continuity; they drew their cultural inspiration, and their dominant language, almost entirely from across the North Sea.
Here, the artist's work is transitioning from averaging to postulating, from compiling existing data to combining and melding data from divergent sources (like DNA from a human, a wild boar and a bear) to generate a rotating, morphing skull that is disarmingly real.
Watching Lewis in Wonderland, a biographical drama melding scenes from Lewis Carroll's life with dotty vignettes from Alice in Wonderland, you really do feel that you have discovered some strange burrow beneath the earth, even though you can hear lorries rumbling outside.
"Pulchra Es" ("You Are Beautiful," from the "Song of Songs") and "Duo Seraphim" ("Two Seraphim," melding lines from Isaiah and John) are dialogues that would not have been out of place on the opera stage.
Since the arrival of Europeans and Africans in the South in the early 17th century, black women have labored in kitchens controlled by white women, melding foods from three continents into a distinctive regional cuisine.
Mr. Maal has made a career of melding styles from across Senegal and across the world; the first time he had listeners clap along, the rhythm was an Afro-Cuban clave.
House Democratic leaders met for several hours on Tuesday to continue the dicey work of melding bills from three committees into a consensus package that could win a House majority.
The chaos of their characters' lives, and the compelling intensity with which they are portrayed, is matched by Lincoln Barrett's extraordinary, dense soundscape, melding audio from porn films, video games, news clips, music, radio and microwave pings.
Underpinned by a noxious flood of subbass, the track elaborates an ambiance of heated dread by melding gestures from the producer's drum and bass background with a techno template.
