Sentences with phrase «change lead into gold»

«It was said to change lead into gold, but a lot less efficiently than the Philosophers» Stone itself.

If I ever solve that whole time travel thing (right after I figure out changing lead into gold) I think my first trip back will be to find the woman who invented shift dresses!

Alicja Kwade is an artifex of cosmic memory, an alchemical artist who rather than changing lead into gold keeps asking fundamental questions about our origin, our place in the universe, our future, and deconstructing what we think of as our most familiar reality, uncovering mysterious, previously unknown details, measure by measure.

Not exact matches

Specifically, a sudden expansion of financial liquidity in the world's leading banking centers — whether an increase in British gold reserves in the 1820s or the massive transformation in the 1980s of illiquid mortgage loans into very liquid mortgage securities, or some other structural change in the financial markets — has been the catalyst behind every period of globalization.

It is as if Saccharomyces cerevisiae has found the philosopher's stone but instead of changing lead to gold, it turns noncoding DNA into a gene that codes for a partially structured protein.

No longer are trophies just sub-divided into Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze categories, but now they'll be ranked according to how few people have managed to unlock it, leading to a dynamic and ever - changing economy of ultra-rare and ultra-desirable awards.

During that time he led the creation of the CDM Gold Standard, a tool for channeling carbon market investments into sustainable clean energy projects, and participated in the European Climate Change Programme working group responsible for the design of the EU ETS.