Name: Margaret Wertheim: The...
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Description: that are the first signs of corals of being sick. And if the bleaching doesn't go away -- if the temperatures don't go down -- reefs start to die. A great deal of this has been happening in the Great Barrier Reef, particularly in coral reefs all over the world. This is our invocation in crochet of a bleached reef.

Pankaj Mishra

Political elites look increasingly interchangeable: Blair, Brown, and Cameron have all tried to provide cover for the surrender of sovereignty to foreign investors with invocations of 'British' values, and, more opportunistically, anti-immigrant rhetoric.

Indian Novelist

Florence Welch

I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as well - you know, the wind and the rain and the thunder. It's almost as if there's a sense of invocation in performance.

English Musician

Timothy Morton

The trouble with ecological invocations of Nature is that they're like calling for a medieval tool, perhaps a portcullis or an arrow slit, to fix a modern problem.

English Philosopher

Margaret MacMillan

George W. Bush, judging by his repeated invocations, thinks that time will eventually prove that he was right. He is not alone in putting his faith in the future.

Canadian Historian

David Ignatius

Politicians need to rethink their reflexive invocations of the Second Amendment and the idea that the gun lobby is too powerful to challenge.

American Journalist

Invocation in a religious context often implies humility and a request for divine help.

Spiritual Requests

Religious or solemn events sometimes start with an invocation to set a respectful tone.

Ceremonial Beginnings

An invocation can address entities other than gods, like muses or spiritual forces.

Not Just Deities

Use invocation to introduce a respected source or famous quote to bolster your argument.

Supporting Arguments

Invoking historical figures or events can lend gravitas and credibility to your statements.

Historical Weight

When invoking ideas or people, ensure they are relevant to the topic to avoid confusion.

Preserving Relevance

In computing, an invocation is precise and must be correctly configured to work.

Technical Precision

An invocation in programming tells the computer to run a specific set of instructions.

Code Execution

Functions or methods can be invoked many times within a program for repeated tasks.

Repeated Usage

 that are the first signs of corals of being sick. And if the bleaching doesn't go away -- if the temperatures don't go down -- reefs start to die. A great deal of this has been happening in the Great Barrier Reef, particularly in coral reefs all over the world. This is our invocation in crochet of a bleached reef.

Margaret Wertheim: The...

 world this is our invocation in crochet of a bleached reef we have an organization together called the Institute for figuring which is a little organization we started to promote to do projects about the aesthetic and poetic dimensions of Science and Mathematics and I went and put a little announcement

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