The MIT Media Lab's John Maeda lives at the intersection of technology and art, a place that can get very complicated. Here he talks about paring down to basics.

So when the British came to terms with this harsh reality, they played out the lamentable end game of their management of the negotiations with small minded cheese paring and logic chopping offers, all designed primarily to safeguard narrow British interests, mainly at the expense of the new member states.

When she heard their slanderings, she sent for them and prepared a banquet, and gave each of them a knife (for paring fruit), and called (to Joseph) Come out before them. When they saw him, the women were so wonderstruck they cut their hands, and exclaimed O Lord preserve us! He is no mortal but an honourable angel.

When she heard their slanderings, she sent for them and prepared a banquet, and gave each of them a knife (for paring fruit), and called (to Joseph) Come out before them. When they saw him, the women were so wonderstruck they cut their hands, and exclaimed O Lord preserve us! He is no mortal but an honourable angel.