He drew a bead on a stag at bay.

Every colored bead, every colored string, represents a weather element.

Lister, have you ever been hit over the head with a welding mallet?

Sorry, this was my mother, by the way, in her bead shop in London.

( laughs ) ( register dings ) Now, Bead, I'm gonna give you a dollar to stay here tonight with Tad.

Every single bead, every single colored band, represents a weather element that can also be read as a musical note.

let's say the welding failed, and this thing goes boom and out shoot the control rods, that's there to keep them from doing bad things like punching a hole in the top.

And it turns out that ants will respond to the right rate of contact with a glass bead with hydrocarbon extract on it, as they would to contact with real ants.

It was a place where we were growing algae and welding plastic and building tools and making a lot of mistakes, or, as Edison said, we were finding the 10,000 ways that the system wouldn't work.

And he actually took the mammoth ivory and practiced until he could get quite good at making the beads, and even when he was good at it, it took an hour per bead.