Mira Nair

The dignity of everyday life - the beauty of it, the attitude of it - is what I live around. And it is never on screen, and it is certainly never associated with Africa. If we see Africa at all, it is always used as a backdrop: a big blob of a continent rather than a specific street or a country or a place.

Indian Director

Chris Hadfield

It was remarkable to see from space how predictable people are. Our homes and towns are almost all in places with moderate temperatures, and they generally have the same shape - a thinly occupied outer blob of suburb surrounding a densely populated core, all based around a ready source of water.

Canadian Astronaut

Rupert Everett

I think we've been dulled by capitalism. We're just blobs now - we're so worried about how we can keep paying the lease on the car, the mortgage, the lease on the toaster and all that. You can't really think about much else. If you lose that, you lose the whole lot.

English Actor

Simon Conway Morris

I don't think an alien will be a blob. If aliens are out there they should have evolved just like us. They should have eyes and be walking on two legs. In short if there is any life out there then it is likely to be very similar to us.

British Scientist

Garth Brooks

I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.

American Singer

Kevin Jorgeson

I'm practical, very data-driven, and process-oriented. If I look at a radar and see a giant green blob coming toward me, I'm thinking it's probably going to snow.

American Athlete

Clifford D. Simak

If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet.

American Writer

Paul Bloom

Almost nobody believes anymore that infants are insensate blobs. It seems both mad and evil to deny experience and feeling to a laughing, gurgling creature.

Canadian Psychologist

Arthur Smith

I see my large nose, like half an avocado. I broke it falling downstairs when I was six, and it now resembles a large blob of play-dough.

English Comedian

Alvin Leung

With caviar, you place a blob of it on sour cream or on a lettuce leaf and everyone is happy. I'm trying to get away from that.

English Chef

Refers to a small, manageable amount, often used in creative or cooking contexts.

Quantity Implication

Used when describing something that lacks a definite shape, not for objects with clear edges.

Shape Specific

Has a critical or insulting tone when referring to a person, suggesting poor lifestyle choices.

Negative Connotation

Use with caution as it can reinforce negative stereotypes and be hurtful when describing people.

Avoid Stereotyping

Communicates a lack of detail or blurriness when referring to something seen from a distance.

Visual Vagueness

Used to convey an object’s general presence rather than to describe it precisely.

Context Contextual

Refers to digital data in computing, not used for general file types.

Tech Specific

Indicates an abstract digital concept; there is no tangible 'blob' in computing.

Not Physical

 We usually don't notice the dust on our skin because we can't see a thin layer of dust on top of our skin color. But, if you're invisible, people would see a human-shaped blob of dust walking around with extremely dirty soles. Gross! What do you think the world looks like if you are invisible? Well, the answer is nothing.

If superpowers were...

 Just with blobs of chemicals, again. So the way this works is, you have a simple system of five chemicals here, a simple system here. When they hybridize, you then form something that's different than before, it's more complex than before, and you get the emergence of another kind of lifelike behavior which

Martin Hanczyc: The line...

 Your neurons are firing like mad trying to make meaning out of this so that you see something other than black and white blobs. Your brain is sifting through a lifetime of experience, making thousands of guesses at the same time, weighing the probabilities, trying to answer the question,

You aren't at the mercy...

 because what this is really good for is multidimensional data. The key is Our visual systems are good at detecting blobs and edges, but they're really bad at what our world has become, which is screens with lots and lots of data. We have to crawl that with our attentional systems.

Can we create new senses...

 A third used oxygen gas to break down materials like sugar and release its energy into a form useful for life activities. The blob cells would occasionally absorb the little photosynthetic bacteria. These bacteria then lived inside the blob and divided like they always had,

How we think complex...

 As we more confidently localize where these gamma ray blobs are forming, we can better understand how jets are being accelerated, and ultimately reveal the dynamic processes by which some of the most fascinating objects in our universe are formed.

Jedidah Isler: How I...

 By the time it completes its orbit and returns, the blob will have consumed the entire world, if even a single portion that will wake up remains. How can you cut the blob entirely into acute triangles and stop it from destroying the planet?

Can you solve the...

 it will see something like this. Every one of these little blobs is a galaxy roughly the size of our Milky Way -- a hundred billion stars in each of those blobs. There are approximately a hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.

Sean Carroll: Distant...

 difficult to see them using the infrared camera they're big or you can just see them poke an eye behind the termite man they are that hot oranjee blob is of course husana never I can only presume it's still the Impala we are losing

Safari Live - Day 380 PIPE...

 years ago complex chemical molecules began to clump together to form microscopic blobs cells these were the seeds from which the Tree of Life developed they were able to split

Blob