This sense of the term "junk DNA" was used by Jacob (1977) in his famous paper "Evolution and Tinkering": "[N]atural selection does not work as an engineer … It works like a tinkerer a tinkerer who does not know exactly what he is going to produce but uses whatever he finds around him whether it be pieces of string, fragments of wood, or old cardboards … The tinkerer … manages with odds and ends.
"MOBILE MADNESS," a workshop tomorrow and Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. at the Staten Island Children's Museum, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Livingston, where youngsters will make artworks in motion out of clay, strings, pieces of wood and paint.
Over the last six years, an upstart Idaho company has transformed the theme park landscape with a string of exciting wood-steel hybrid roller coasters that have wowed ride enthusiasts around the globe.
Dominic Frasca played unique acoustic guitars: a 10-string guitar with a mixture of steel and nylon strings and a six-string guitar with slats of wood near the sound hole for percussion.
Weinfield concedes that modern string instruments easily overcome old ones with their steel-string power, but she argues that viols remain alluring precisely because they hark back to a preindustrial age: "Their delicate bodies are made with thin slabs of wood, strung with gut strings and frets, and are played da gamba, or on the leg".
From its free end hangs a length of string (Wood uses an old conveyor belt, one of his few concessions to modernity), which is wrapped once around a spiked chuck, known as a mandrel, and attached at its other end to a foot treadle.
Connect tops of stakes with taught string or light strips of wood.
This can be a length of wood, string, or cloth, or a line on a sheet of paper.
Using a clove hitch, a method of attaching a string to a piece of wood, and square lashings, method of attaching two logs together, attach the transversal between two trees as shown in the pictures that will follow.
Diddley bows (ultra-basic, one-string-nailed-to-a-plank-of-wood contraptions that can be made easily by children) are a common training instrument for young blues musicians, and the tradition of making guitars from cigar boxes still thrives in hobbyist blues circles.
