The profound convolutions on the surface of a dried cherry.

She had long, curly black hair, a blue jean jacket.

They created a ruler that bends, what we would call these days a tape measure a flexible rule, a rule that bends.

He suggested that dimensions might come in two varieties there might be big, easy to see dimensions, but there might also be tiny, curled up dimensions, curled up so small, even though they're all around us, that we don't see them.

In the 10th century, little squiggles were used just to indicate the general shape of the tune.

It's just a curve without inflection.

It's called Abegg Variations, by Robert Schumann, a German 19th century composer.

David Macaulay relives the winding and sometimes surreal journey toward the completion of Rome Antics, his illustrated homage to the historic city.

And it describes how he feels when composing is going well.

At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay. At her feet he bowed, he fell. Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.

At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay. At her feet he bowed, he fell. Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.

At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down at her feet he bowed, he fell where he bowed, there he fell down dead.

At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down at her feet he bowed, he fell where he bowed, there he fell down dead.

A curve's a curve, a plane's a plane, and the two won't mix.

And we want to play a little piece for you by one of the most important composers of America.

The flowers bloomed at tips of higher branches, and the flowers that were in full bloom were more than 10 cm wide. The delicate pale yellow filaments were evenly spread out, and the green buds, when burst, curled backwards on both sides. The fine and dense stamens resembled silver threads with gold stars at their tips.

Today's hit single is not last year's hit single.

Chongqing is a hilly city with winding streets.

There was rolled up turkey cold cuts, rolled up ham cold cuts, rolled up roast beef cold cuts and little cubes of cheese.

That's Clair de Lune.

So he wants fine motor control flex at the wrist, flex at the elbow, abduct and flex at the shoulder.

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River Suzhou is Shanghai's mother river twisting and turning, it stretches across and flows through the city center.

One of my heroes is songwriter, Ally Willis, who just wrote The Color Purple and has been an R and rhythm and blues writer, and this is what she said about where songwriting's going.

Whereas nature tends to be small, and curved, and it bends and twists, and has legs instead, and appendages, and has many muscles and many, many sensors.

But if you take a lens, like that, this line is ack, ack, ack, ack, ack. Like that.

There's a piece by a composer, an American composer called John Cage.

Don't worry about tunes. Take a tune, sing high when they sing low, sing fast when they sing slow, and you've got a new tune.

How do I compose?

I baked cookies.

It's all the anthems and dance crazes and ballads and marches.

This is when those big forms arose the symphonies, the sonatas, the concertos.

And the thing about this piece that's so special if you see it behind me it's not notated in any way.

And, as I said, the way the shape twists the directional along which way the shape is twisting as it moves over this curved surface is what the elementary particles are, themselves.

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Will we play a tune?

The learning curve was very long.

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