Walter Benjamin

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

German Critic

Mary Harris Jones

Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads.

American Activist

George Herbert

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

British Poet

A spindle is a tool essential in traditional fabric making, used to twist fibers into yarn.

Weaving Instrument

In fairy tales, a spindle often has magical connotations, like in 'Sleeping Beauty'.

Symbol of Stories

In technical contexts, a spindle is a central part that holds wheels or other rotating parts together.

Machinery Part

The spindle is crucial for distributing chromosomes into new cells during mitosis or meiosis.

Cell Division

Spindles in biology are not visible to the naked eye; they're observed under a microscope.

Microscopic Structure

Spindles in architecture add elegance, often found in staircases and furniture.

Architectural Feature

In computing, spindle refers to a part of hard drives where data disks spin.

Computer Storage

 we had to be cleansed at the portal of the Earth. And it was extraordinary to be taken by a priest. And you see that the priest never wears shoes because holy feet -- there must be nothing between the feet and the Earth for a mamo. And this is actually the place where the Great Mother sent the spindle into the world that elevated the mountains and created the homeland

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 encouraging the global community to come along on this journey for understanding. These animals could be the most intelligent beings on this planet. They have a neocortex and spindle cells -- structure that in humans control our higher thoughts, emotions, memory, language and love.

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 a nest I like to start out with the my longer fibers I'll just twist those around to form a little bit of a pocket with the tinder nest you want everything pretty tight so at the spindle and hearth you want something fairly light but most important it's the grain structure if

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 or somewhere here and we'll be able to find them at some point scenic no no fish eagles that I can see was scouting about but they don't see any fish eagles at all what I can see is a spoonful that is sitting looks like a spindle has a

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 limbs in space it comes from inputs throughout the nervous system data is collected by tiny internal receptors called proprioceptive located in the muscle spindles tendons and joints they keep up a continuous flow of information

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 what we've discovered is that there are big, powerful brainwaves that happen during the very deepest stages of sleep that have riding on top of them these spectacular bursts of electrical activity that we call sleep spindles.

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 During Stage 3, multiple brain areas work together to transfer information from short-term memory storage to long-term storage, stabilizing and strengthening long-term memory by coupling sleep spindles with slow waves.

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 and the New Left was against technology because they thought it was a power device. Computers do not spindle, fold, or mutilate. Fight that. And so, the Whole Earth Catalog was kind of a counter-counterculture thing

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 And when that cellular space station is within the electric field, it acts on those highly charged proteins and aligns them. And it prevents them from forming those chains, those mitotic spindles,

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 putting facets on the spindle on the bottom edge and that's going to help create friction up here I've pointed it and I don't want any friction on this

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Symbol of Stories

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