Hand me those pliers, will you?

I'll twist their noses off with pliers and bash their chests in with a hammer.

I get a pair of pliers and some coat hangers, and I gather them together in some kind of ropey path.

Musician and activist Bono accepts the 2005 TED Prize with a riveting talk, arguing that aid to Africa isn't just another celebrity cause it's a global emergency.

Juana Ibarra was reportedly subjected, inter alia, to beatings, cigarette burns and rape, and allegedly had her nipples torn off with pliers and water with detergent and salt forced up her nose.

Musical innovator Andrew Bird winds together his trademark violin technique with xylophone, vocals and sophisticated electronic looping. Add in his uncanny ability to whistle anything, and he becomes a riveting one man orchestra.

Of particular concern were cases of ill treatment such as cigarette burns, kalot marasa (simultaneous slaps on both ears which can damage the eardrums), blindfolding during interrogation and, in one case, a finger allegedly crushed with pliers.

After many years of bending gears with a pair of pliers, I made that tool, and then I made this other tool for sort of centering gears very quickly sort of developing my own little world of technology.

Bo may be heading to jail, but he retains some chance of political rehabilitation should things change dramatically in China. His botched but riveting trial may be over, but the Bo Xilai show will go on.

The torture he is alleged to have suffered included having his knees hit with a hammer, having his fingers twisted with an open spanner, having his toenails pulled with pliers, and having a paper pin inserted into his thumbnail.

This would happen if the riveting television images of the ongoing agony of Katrina's victims could ignite among all nations and among all peoples the recognition that we all share the duty to be our brothers' keepers.

BRUSSELS America s riveting presidential election campaign may be garnering all the headlines, but a leadership struggle is also underway in Europe. Right now, all eyes are on the undeclared frontrunners to become the first appointed president of the European Council.

Given this history, the prosecution of Zhou is a watershed event far more significant than the riveting trial of the disgraced former Chongqing Communist Party Secretary Bo Xilai a year ago. It unambiguously demonstrates Xi s personal authority and political resolve.

BRUSSELS America s riveting presidential election campaign may be garnering all the headlines, but a leadership struggle is also underway in Europe. Right now, all eyes are on the undeclared frontrunners to become the first appointed president of the European Council.

And it is a bit of a problem. The way they recycle the boards is that they actually use the coal briquettes, which are used all through China, but they heat up the boards, and with pairs of pliers they pull off all the components.

How can a super thin, three inch disk levitate something 70,000 times its own weight? In a riveting, futuristic demonstration, Boaz Almog shows how a phenomenon known as quantum locking allows a superconductor disk to float over a magnetic rail completely frictionlessly and with zero energy loss.

This motto helped catalyze China into becoming what it is today an increasingly materialistic, money worshipping society that has lost touch with traditional ethics. Nothing captures this moral vacuum more vividly than the recent television drama, Wo Ju ( Crowded Spaces ), which has been riveting Chinese audiences.

Backed by stunning illustrations, David Christian narrates a complete history of the universe, from the Big Bang to the Internet, in a riveting 18 minutes. This is Big History an enlightening, wide angle look at complexity, life and humanity, set against our slim share of the cosmic timeline.

Kevin Slavin argues that we're living in a world designed for and increasingly controlled by algorithms. In this riveting talk from TEDGlobal, he shows how these complex computer programs determine espionage tactics, stock prices, movie scripts, and architecture. And he warns that we are writing code we can't understand, with implications we can't control.