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  • Dubbed the Sea-Urchin Chair, it was hand-made built by Oooms Studio and Dutch designer Rachel van Outvorst, who used 8000 cable ties to come up with that unique shape.

    Do You Want a Chair with a Map ? 2008

  • W-E formed the Sea-Urchin Collective, a race of psychic beings bent on the complete subjugation and domination of everything in existence and eliminating all semblance of individual thought.

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  • Fish these regions are coequal in extent, while in the Sea-Urchin the ab-oral region is very contracted, and the oral region with the parts belonging to it occupies the greater part of its surface.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 Various

  • [Footnote: When reference is made to the whole structure, including the internal organs as well as the solid parts of the surface, the terms _actinal_ and _ab-actinal_ are preferable to oral and ab-oral.] [Illustration: Sea-Urchin seen from the oral side, showing the zones with the spines and suckers; for the ab-oral side, on the summit of which the zones unite, see February Number, p. 216.]

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 Various

  • For I shall hardly be able to allude to the formula of the Radiates, for instance, -- the abstract idea that includes all the structural possibilities of that division of the Animal Kingdom, -- without recalling to my readers a Polyp or a Jelly-Fish, a Sea-Urchin or a

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 Various

  • Assuming, as we premised, that the central area of the ab-oral region, forming the space between the plates at the summit of the zones in the Sea-Urchin, is elastic, it has stretched with the spreading out of the zones, following the indentation between the rays, and now forms the whole upper surface of the body.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 Various

  • The plates forming it, which in the Star-Fish or the Sea-Urchin are movable, are soldered together so as to be perfectly immovable in the Crinoid.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 Various

  • All the internal organs of the animal lie between the oral and ab-oral regions, just as they did in the Sea-Urchin, only that in the Star -

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 Various

  • Star-Fish, and unite them at the tips so as to form a spherical outline, and we have a Sea-Urchin; stretch out the Sea-Urchin to form

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 Various

  • Let us take first the Sea-Urchin and examine in detail all parts of its external structure.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 Various

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