Sharks are constantly adding hair cells throughout their lives. And birds regenerate hair cells, allowing them to recover from deafness and balance disorders. Though it may have changed some from its 12th century origins in the poems of French troubadors, he says, courtly love is still very much alive today in such films as Life is Beautiful, Shakespeare in Love, and Titanic . But communications and commerce aren't the only parts of our lives affected. Art, it seems, has also found an ally in the computer.
Computers now allow sculpture to move.
And it's even possible to create virtual sculpture - here today and gone tomorrow. The cause of the earlier development, he says, may be related to fatty diets.