But by and large, this is a feedback loop that's so nifty and too rare.

IIS 3 users can use a nifty tool from Steven Genusa to configure their script maps.

So this is really what's enabling us to deal with the explosion of data in medicine, together with some really nifty work in terms of algorithms compressing data, extracting the relevant information that people are doing research on.

So, all you guys have heard about DNA, all the stuff that DNA does, but some of the stuff we're discovering is kind of nifty because this turns out to be the single most abundant species on the planet.

Tim Brown says the design profession is preoccupied with creating nifty, fashionable objects even as pressing questions like clean water access show it has a bigger role to play. He calls for a shift to local, collaborative, participatory design thinking.

Because I got a phone call from our chief chemist and he said, look, I ve just found this such a beautiful reaction, that even if this compound doesn t smell of coumarin, I want to do it, it s just such a nifty, one step I mean, chemists have weird minds one step, 90 percent yield, you know, and you get this lovely crystalline compound. Let us try it.